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WILLIAM JOHNSON CORY (1823-1892)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 211 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:JOHNSON See also:CORY (1823-1892)  , See also:English school-See also:master and author, son of See also:Charles See also:Johnson of See also:Torrington, See also:Devon-See also:shire, was See also:born on the 9th of See also:January 1823 . He was educated at See also:Eton and See also:King's See also:College, See also:Cambridge . At Cambridge he gained the See also:chancellor's See also:medal for an English poem on See also:Plato in 1843, and the See also:Craven Scholarship in 1844 . In 1845, after graduating at the university, he was made an assistant master at Eton, where he remained for some twenty-six years . He has been called " the most brilliant Eton See also:tutor of his See also:day." He had a See also:great See also:influence on his pupils, and he defended the Etonian See also:system against the See also:criticism of See also:Matthew See also:James See also:Higgins . In 1872, having inherited an See also:estate at Halsdon and assumed the name of See also:Cory, he See also:left Eton . He married See also:late in See also:life, and after four years spent in See also:Madeira he settled in 1882 at See also:Hampstead . He died on the 11th of See also:June 1892 . He proved his genuine lyrical See also:power in Ionica (1858), which was republished with some additional poems in 1891 . He also produced Lucretilis (1871), a See also:work on the See also:writing of Latin verses; lophon (1873), on See also:Greek Iambics; and See also:Guide to See also:Modern See also:History from 1815 to 1835 (1882) . Extracts from the Letters and See also:Journals of See also:William Cory, which contains much paradoxical and suggestive criticism, were edited by F.W . Cornish and published by private subscription in 1897 .

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elder See also:brother, Charles See also:Wellington Johnson See also:Furse (1821-190o), who, on the See also:death of his See also:father in 1854, took the name of Furse, was See also:canon and See also:archdeacon of See also:Westminster from 1894 till his death . The artist Charles Wellington Furse, A.R.A . (1868-1904), was a son of Archdeacon Furse .

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