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  Trinity College - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The University of Trinity College, Toronto, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Toronto, in Toronto, Ontario
Trinity College, Dublin, the sole constituent college of the University of Dublin in Dublin, Ireland
Trinity College, Cambridge, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England
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 Trinity College   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Trinity College, Cambridge (one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom)
Trinity College, Oxford (one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom)
The University of Trinity College, Toronto (one of the constituent colleges of the University of Toronto in Canada)
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 Glenalmond College - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Glenalmond College (formerly known as Trinity College, Glenalmond) is the name of a private boarding school in Perthshire, Scotland for children aged between 12 and 18 years.
Glenalmond College was founded as a independent school by William Ewart Gladstone and J.R. Hope (later Hope-Scott of Abbotsford).
Glenalmond has produced such distinguished alumni as Adair Turner and David Sole.
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 CHARLES WORDSWORTH - LoveToKnow Article on CHARLES WORDSWORTH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
(1806-1892), Scottish bishop, son of Christopher Wordsworth, Master of Trinity, was born in London on the 22nd of August 1806, and educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford.
In 1846, however, he resigned; and then accepted the wardenship of Trinity College, Glenalmond, the new Scottish Episcopal public school and divinity college, where he remained from 1847 to 1854, having great educational success in all respects; though his views on Scottish Church questions brought him into opposition at some important points to W. Gladstone.
WORDSWORTH, CHRISTOPHER (1807-1885), English bishop and man of letters, youngest son of Christopher Wordsworth, Master of Trinity, was born in London on the 3oth of October 1807, and was educated at Winchester and Trinity, Cambridge.
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 McCORMICK, CYRUS BALL - LoveToKnow Article on McCORMICK, CYRUS BALL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He was educated at Trinity College, Glenalmond, for the Scotch Episcopal ministry, and after further study at the university of Naples was ordained in 1859, and entered on a succession of curacies in the Church of England, in London and at Addington, Bucks.
In 1883 he was elected member of the council of the College of Surgeons, and in 1887 a member of the court of examiners; in 1893 he delivered the Bradshaw lecture, and'in 1896 was ejected president, being re-elected to this office in 1807, 1898,1899, and 1900 (the centenary year of the college), an unprecedented record.
In 1852 he was appointed professor of logic and metaphysics in Queen's College, Belfast; and in 1868 was chosen president and professor of philosophy of the college of New Jersey, at Princeton.
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 EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF SCOTLAND - LoveToKnow Article on EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF SCOTLAND   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Theological College was founded in 1810, incorporated with Trinity College, Glenalmond, in 1848, and reestablished at Edinburgh in.
The extruded bishops were slow to organize the episcopalian remnant under a jurisdiction independent of the state, regarding the then arrangements as provisional, and looking forward to a reconstituted national kirk under a legitimate sovereign.
But at length the hopelessness of the Stewart cause and the growth of congregations outside the establishment forced the bishops to dissociate canonical jurisdiction from royal prerogative and to reconstitute for themselves a territorial episcopate.
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 The Scotsman - Obituaries - Arnot Russell
He ensured that many pupils at Trinity College, Glenalmond took their first faltering steps on the ski slopes under the rugged conditions of a sombre and wet sky on Ben Lawers.
He came to Glenalmond in 1950 and was to spend his entire career at the school.
His last decade at Glenalmond was devoted to developing the uses of the new science laboratories and improving the condition of the school’s golf course.
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 AllRefer.com - Christopher Wordsworth (Protestant Christianity, Biography) - Encyclopedia
He was master of Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1820 to 1841.
From 1847 to 1854 he was warden of Trinity College, Glenalmond, Perthshire.
In 1853 he was consecrated bishop of St. Andrews, Dunkeld, and Dunblane.
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 valves.ca - Trinity College   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Trinity College and University is registered in the USA and running its degree program from Spain, providing accreditation for your degrees.
High school tennis is still a couple of months away, but things are going quite well for Trinity Prep senior James Moye, a consensus pick as Central Florida's top returning high school player.
A young Trinity College (Duke University) graduate named J.L. Horne had worked a few months on the city's established paper, The Daily R...
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 d.c. wilson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Sir David Clive Wilson (born February 14, 1935), or the Baron Wilson of Tillyorn, was the second last Commander-in-Chief and Governor of Hong Kong (from 1987 to 1992).
Born in Scotland, Wilson was educated in Trinity College, Glenalmond, Keble College, Oxford, and London University (PhD in contemporary history, (1955-1958), Master of Arts).
He studied the Chinese language from 1960 to 1962 in Hong Kong while he worked as the Political advisor for the Governor of Hong Kong, named in Chinese as 魏德維, and 1963-1965 in Beijing.
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 Trinity College -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Until 1924, (A university in Durham, North Carolina) Duke University was known as Trinity College.
Today, Duke's undergraduate liberal arts constituent college is named the (additional info and facts about Trinity College of Arts and Sciences) Trinity College of Arts and Sciences.
Until 2004, (additional info and facts about Trinity University) Trinity University (a Catholic women's college in (additional info and facts about Washington, DC) Washington, DC) was known as Trinity College.
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 GENUKI : Theological Colleges in Wales
The new college later moved to Ffriddoedd Road, Bangor [see http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/index.html ] In 1890 the two Bala colleges were reconciled and by the end of 1892 a single Bala/Bangor College was in full operation at Bangor, under the principalship of E. Herber Evans.
The college, as founded by the king, was a collegiate church, with its deans and prebends or canons, on a foundation similar to that of Westminster Abbey.
Carmarthen Presbyterian College; The Presbyterian College, on the Parade, is the continuation of the Academy founded by the Rev. Samuel Jones, M.A., sometime Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, and one of the two thousand ejected minister of 1662; and is maintained and governed by the Presbyterian Board, London, founded in 1689.
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 james hope-scott   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He was born at Great Marlow, Berkshire, the third son of Sir Alexander Hope, and grandson of the second earl of Hopetoun.
He was educated at Eton College and Oxford, where he was a contemporary and friend of William Ewart Gladstone and John Henry Newman.
Between 1840 and 1843 he helped to found Trinity College, Glenalmond.
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 Trinity (disambiguation)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Trinity (electoral district)- federal electoral district in Canada (1933-1987)
Trinity University in Northeast Washington, DC, USA (formerly Trinity College)
Trinity Christian College in the U.S. state of Illinois
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 Browne, John   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He was educated at St. Catherine's College, Cambridge (B.A., 1856), where he was fellow and lecturer in 1863-1865.
He was ordained to the priesthood in 1859, and after being chaplain of St. Catherine's College and theological tutor at Trinity College, Glenalmond, Scotland, was rector of Ashley, Hants, from 1869 to 1875.
He studied at Coward College and University College, London 1839-44 (B.A., London University, 1843); was minister at Lowestoft, Suffolk, 1844; at Wrentham, 1848 till his death.
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 Handbook of Texas Online: GORDON-CUMMING, CHARLES LENOX
He received his early education at Eastbourn and Hastings and later attended Trinity College at Glenalmond.
On September 4, 1901, he married Elizabeth Thomas, a Dallas native who had taught art in the Amarillo schools and was seeking a faculty position at Goodnight College; she was probably the first art instructor in the Panhandle.
College of Liberal Arts and the General Libraries at the University of Texas at Austin.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Bright was ed­u­cat­ed at Un­i­ver­si­ty Coll­ege, Ox­ford (BA 1846, MA 1849).
He was elect­ed to Fel­low in 1847, and sub­se­quent­ly be­came Tu­tor of his Coll­ege.
Tak­ing Ho­ly Or­ders in 1848, he was for some time Tu­tor at Trin­i­ty Coll­ege, Glen­al­mond.
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 AIM25: Senate House Library, University of London: LOCH, Sir Charles Stewart (1849-1923)
He was educated at Trinity College, Glenalmond and Balliol College, Oxford.
From 1873 to 1875 he was a clerk at the Royal College of Surgeons.
Loch was the Tooke Professor of Economic Science and Statistics at King's College, London between 1904 and 1908 and Secretary to the Council of the London Charity Organisation Society 1875 to 1914.
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 Sir James Crichton-Browne (www.whonamedit.com)
He was a superior scholar both at Dumfries Academy and later at Trinity College Glenalmond.
As a medical student read a paper to the Royal Medical Society «The Psychical Diseases of Early Life», and his presidential and final address was on the need to study mental disease: ‘On the Clinical Teaching of Psychology’.
He graduated Licentiate of the Royal College in Edinburgh in 1861 and in 1862 gained his M.D. with a thesis on hallucinations.
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His college vacations were spent either in London with college friends, or with a reading party under Wilkinson, the tutor, at Redcar.
Hannah, then head of Glenalmond College, an accomplished scholar, to whom our Dean was much attached, and upon whom he drew very freely in any questions of more recondite scholarship, another from the Rev. D.T.K. Drummond, and the third from the Premier:-- Rev. Dr.
He was tutor and vice-master of Trinity, and in his time an outside stranger of any education, even a half-educated Scot, dropping into Cambridge society, found a reception to be remembered.
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 Dictionary of Australian Biography Cl-Cu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In 1882 he gave 3000 guineas to found a scholarship in the Royal College of Music, and for many years he bore the full expense of the Rupertswood battery of horse artillery at Sunbury.
His portraits of Bishop Broughton and Dean Cowper are at St Paul's College, the university, Sydney, and that of the Rev. Robert Forrest in The King's School, Parramatta.
He took a great interest in Prince Alfred College, and was its treasurer for many years, and was for a time chairman of the board of management of the Adelaide hospital.
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 Dictionary of Australian Biography Cl-Cu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Grey pointed out to him that he had splendid prospects if he would remain, but his health had suffered, he still retained his ambition to be a minister of the Gospel, and, moreover, he could not reconcile his conscience with some of the acts of the government.
He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in October 1837, and graduated B.A. in 1812 and M.A. in 1845.
It was said of him that no society or charitable institution ever appealed to him in vain for either financial or personal assistance, if they could show that their aims were worthy.
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 George Lyward - A Memorial Address   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
From the Perse he went (in 1920) to Bishop's College, Cheshunt, to be prepared for ordination, but withdrew only a fortnight before he was due to be ordained.
His mind was soon set on teaching at a Public School, partly because that represented for him a standard of excellence not to be found elsewhere, but one cannot doubt that there were also compensating factors at work, not unrelated to the poverty and humiliation of his early life.
This was the opportunity he had longed for and his happy and uninhibited relationship with that sixth form affected all his future experience with boys of that age group.
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 PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Shown below are just a few of the many school and college crests from the collection, mainly from the ranks of the lesser known: Eton is dealt with elsewhere and some of the better known establishments may receive attention in due course.
Whilst still a curate he established his first public school, Lancing College, in 1848, and others followed until his death in 1891 when the work was taken on by the Woodard Corporation.
This grouping is represented here by the crests of Ardingly College, on the right, founded 1870, and Denstone College founded in 1873.
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 James Kennaway - Canongate Home
James Kennaway (1928 - 68) was born in Aucherarder, Perthshire, where he came from a quiet, middle-class background and went to public school at Trinity College, Glenalmond.
Two years later he went to Trinity College, Oxford, where he took a degree in economics and politics before renewing his ambitions as a writer and working for a publisher in London.
Kennaway married his wife Susan in 1951, and something of their turbulent relationship and his own, wiold, charming, hard-drinking and intense personality can be found in The Kennaway Papers (1981), a book put together by Susan after his death.
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 Telegraph | News
Their friendship meant that Lord Falconer was labelled as one of "Tony cronies" when he was made a life peer when Labour took power in 1997.
But despite the failure of the £800 million Dome, Lord Falconer clung to his job before becoming a minister of state at the Home Office for criminal justice, sentencing and law reform.
Lord Falconer, 51, was educated at Trinity College Cambridge before being called to the Bar in 1974.
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 ipedia.com: Trinity College Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
There are several well-known bodies of this name ; among the most well-known are— Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College, Oxford Trinity College, Dublin Trinity College Trinity College Trinity Col...
There is also Trinity Christian College in Illinois.
Trinity College and University (Malaga, Spain) is widely considered to be a diploma mill.
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 Independent, The (London): Obituary: Brian Richards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Brian, whose mother had died when he was eight, was transferred to Glasgow at the outbreak of the war and sent to school at Trinity College, Glenalmond, in Perthshire, where in 1945 he gained a scholarship at the age of 17 to begin training as an architect.
During this fertile period he took up an appointment as a fifth- year tutor at the Architectural Association and began his serious involvement in ideas for traffic and people movements and for transport design.
It was this highly complex subject area on which he continued to lecture at the AA and the Bartlett School at University College London until quite recently, inspiring successive generations of students.
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 Alexander Penrose Forbes, by William Perry
Next year (1848) he received from his University the degree of D.C.L., an appropriate degree for one who had distinguished himself in civil law; no university, however, offered him the doctorate in Divinity for his later contributions to theology; honours of that kind were confined to the "orthodox", and Tractarians were "heterodox".
A visit to Canterbury for the opening of St. Augustine's College on St. Peter's Day was an event which he took pains to remember.
There lies before me as I write a slim volume bound in red morocco from a design by Butterfield, the architect of the College.
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