Headmaster Sentence Examples

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  • His father, William George, a Welshman of yeoman stock, had left Pembrokeshire for London at an early age and became a school teacher there, and afterwards in Liverpool and Haverfordwest, and then headmaster of an elementary school at Pwllheli, Carnarvonshire, where he married the daughter of David Lloyd, a neighbouring Baptist minister.

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  • William Westbury, who left New College, "transferring himself to the king's service," in May 1442, and appears in the first extant Eton Audit Roll1444-1445as headmaster, was probably such from May 1442.

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  • The headmaster of this school was Ernst Friedrich Poppo (1794-1866), a celebrated Grecian, and Ranke was entrusted with the teaching of history.

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  • In 1842 he became an undistinguished but useful successor to Arnold as headmaster of Rugby; and a serious illness in 1848, the first of many, led him to welcome the comparative leisure which followed upon his appointment to the deanery of Carlisle in 1849.

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  • It was his good fortune that he did go back, for he was subjected to a wholesome course of ridicule by the other boys, and was flogged by Dr Barnard, the headmaster.

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  • The Strassburg Literary Society feted him, and Johannes Sapidus, headmaster of the Latin school at Schlettstadt, rode with him into Basel.

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  • Agnes, Cambs., but the greater part of his life was given up to teaching, as headmaster of Helston grammar school from 18J5 to 1859 and of King Edward VI.

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  • He was born in London, and after a short stay at a Hungarian school, entered as one of its pupils the Jews' College, of which he was subsequently for a time the headmaster.

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  • Only a priest and the headmaster of a local youth hostel can stop the devilish deeds and save the burg from eternal damnation.

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  • Harry will see to it that Snape's portrait takes its place in the Hogwarts headmaster's office.

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  • The teachers in the background include the headmaster, Mr Baxter, who was once Mayor of Leamington.

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  • Sarah is curious about the Approved School Service and quizzes the deputy headmaster, who is a progressive teacher and hell-bent on reform.

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  • The first headmaster was Charles Bryan who served from 1890 to 1905.

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  • Your old headmaster may need a little help remembering you.

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  • The school headmaster David Ingham said Jessica's classmates were stunned by the tragedy.

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  • Avon Primary School 50th Anniversary in April with Headmaster Mr Duncan Jennings and some pupils holding their souvenir mugs.

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  • The Headmaster's wife taught needlework at Langford for thirty two years.

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  • Following the appointment of Mr McNab in 1995, Mr Robson became deputy head proper until 1998, when he finally became headmaster.

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  • Meanwhile, our Waynflete had become headmaster of Winchester; Mr William Wanneflete being paid 50s.

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  • In 1749, when his headmaster Dr Nichols was already anticipating for him a successful career at the university, his uncle died, leaving him to the care of a distant kinsman,Mr Creswicke, who was afterwards in the direction of the East India Company; and he determined to send his ward to seek his fortune as a "writer" in Bengal.

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  • The headmaster, Bowyer (as he was called, though his name was Boyer), was a severe disciplinarian, but respected by his pupils.

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  • He had just been given a job as a telegram boy, the headmaster told us he would be a future Post Master General.

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  • Visitors begin with a short walk through the hallways and corridors and will see familiar faces like Headmaster Dumbledore and beloved Harry, Ron and Hermione.

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  • Norman Coburn - He played Headmaster Donald Fisher on Home and Away for fifteen years, earning a Guinness World Record as the longest serving actor in an Australian serial.

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  • Lisa Ellis has been teaching English for nine years, but the headmaster where she works found the behavior lewd and was looking into dismissing her from the job.

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  • Headmaster Dumbledore's office, for example, is playfully painted with words, but the sense of his authority, nobility and wisdom are prevalent without being overpowering.

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  • Harry Potter and Hogwarts headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, must try to uncover Lord Voldemort's past.

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  • On the death of Albus Dumbledore, the Hogwarts headmaster, Harry, Ron and Hermione realize that they must begin their quest to destroy the objects in which Voldemort has secreted his soul.

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  • Snape's Headmaster Portrait Will Hang at Hogwarts - Severus Snape's short tenure as Hogwart's headmaster will not be forgotten.

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  • Albus Dumbledore - In a stunning turn of events, Albus Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts and Harry's mentor dies in the fiery conclusion of the series penultimate novel.

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  • Here he seems to have been so much impressed with Waynflete, that at Michaelmas, 1441, Waynflete ceased to be headmaster of Winchester.

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  • Though reckoned first headmaster of Eton, there is no definite evidence that he was.

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  • If Waynflete was headmaster from October 1441 to May 1442, his duties must have been little more than nominal.

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  • In 1827 he received the rectory of West Tytherley, Hampshire, and two years later he was elected headmaster of Harrow.

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  • From 1834 to 1862 he was headmaster of Clapham grammar school.

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  • With the exception of the year 1836, when he acted as headmaster of a newly established school in Leicester, his life was divided between Cambridge and Ely.

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  • He was ordained curate of Llandingat, Carmarthen, in 1874, and became warden and headmaster of the college, Llandovery, in 1875, holding this position until 1885, when he accepted the living of Carmarthen.

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  • From Rugby he went to be first headmaster of Wellington College, which was opened in January 1859; and in the course of the same year he married his cousin, Mary'Sidgwick.

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  • Mr Hawtrey, afterwards headmaster, commended a copy of his Latin verses, and " sent him up for good "; and this experience first led the young student to associate intellectual work with the ideas of ambition and success.

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  • It was declared in a prefatory note to the volume that the authors were responsible only for their respective articles, but some of these were deemed so destructive that many people banned the whole book, and a noisy demand, led by Samuel Wilberforce, then bishop of Oxford, called on the headmaster of Rugby to dissociate himself from his comrades.

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  • From 1883 to 1901 he was headmaster of Westminster school; and his death, on the 19th of July 1907, deprived classical scholarship in England of one of its most brilliant modern representatives.

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  • Erasmus was at Deventer from 1475 to 1484, and when he left, had learnt from Johannes Sinthius (Syntheim) and Alexander Hegius, who had come as headmaster in 1483, the love of letters which was the ruling passion of his life.

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  • Soon afterwards William George became headmaster of an elementary school in Manchester, but after the birth of his eldest son David his health failed, and he gave up his post and took a small farm near Haverfordwest.

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  • The outer school, with its headmaster's house against the opposite wall of the church, stands outside the convent enclosure, in close proximity to the abbot's house, that he might have a constant eye over them.

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  • In 1849 he obtained his fellowship; and in the same year he was ordained deacon and priest by his old headmaster, Prince Lee, now bishop of Manchester.

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  • In 1863 he went to Clifton College as first headmaster, remaining there for 15 years.

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  • In 1887 he became headmaster of Rugby, and in 1895 was appointed to the bishopric of Hereford.

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  • After graduating B.A., he became assistant and then headmaster of the grammar school of his native town, uniting to these duties those of assistant curate.

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  • The school buildings lie east of the conventual buildings, surrounding Little Dean's Yard, which, like the cloisters, communicates with Dean's Yard, in which are the picturesque houses of the headmaster, canons of the Abbey, and others.

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  • He claims that one of his distinctions at school was that he was once called a cad by the Headmaster.

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  • However, apparently, said cox is going to be reported to the headmaster for bringing the name of the school into disrepute.

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  • George was appointed the headmaster of Liverpool College, a school which took over 800 pupils.

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  • He went on to become the headmaster of the new Dulwich College Shanghai.

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  • In such times of change, says headmaster, the Old Pharosians are guardians of the school's traditions.

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  • Last week his mother went to see the headmaster of the local Primary School to demand action.

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  • He was 74 years of age, a retired headmaster of Deal Warden House School.

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  • During the years of World War 1 the former headmaster of Henry VIII Grammar School was Vicar.

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  • I was born not far from here in Bolton, the daughter of a primary school headmaster and a primary school teacher.

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  • The first recorded headmaster after the foundation of the college, John Melton, had been presented by Wykeham to the mastership of this hospital in 1393 shortly before his retirement.

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