See also: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
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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
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's scholarship
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From Westminster See also:Busby proceeded to See also:Christ See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, where he graduated in 1628
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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
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Next year he became head master of Westminster, where his reputation as a teacher soon became See also:great
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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
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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
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He wrote and edited many See also:works for the use of his scholars
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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
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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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