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RICHARD BUSBY (16o6-1695)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 869 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RICHARD See also:BUSBY (16o6-1695)  , See also:English clergyman, and See also:head See also:master of See also:Westminster school, was See also:born at Lutton in See also:Lincoln-See also:shire in 16o6 . He was educated at the school which he after-wards superintended for so See also:long a See also:period, and first signalized himself by gaining a See also:king's scholarship . From Westminster See also:Busby proceeded to See also:Christ See also:Church, See also:Oxford, where he graduated in 1628 . In his See also:thirty-third See also:year he had already become renowned for the obstinate zeal with which he supported the falling See also:dynasty of the Stuarts, and was rewarded for his services with the prebend and rectory of See also:Cudworth, with the See also:chapel of Knowle annexed, in See also:Somersetshire . Next year he became head master of Westminster, where his reputation as a teacher soon became See also:great . He himself once boasted that sixteen of the bishops who then occupied the See also:bench had been birched with his " little See also:rod." No school in See also:England has on the whole produced so many eminent men as Westminster did under the regime of Busby . Among the more illustrious of his pupils may be mentioned See also:South, See also:Dryden, See also:Locke, See also:Prior and See also:Bishop See also:Atterbury . He wrote and edited many See also:works for the use of his scholars . His See also:original See also:treatises (the best of which are his See also:Greek and Latin grammars), as well as those which he edited, have, however, long since fallen into disuse . Busby died in 1695, in his ninetieth year, and was buried in Westminster See also:Abbey, where his effigy is still to be seen .

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