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Radley College. Radley College is an independent boarding school of about 680 boys. Its foundation in 1847 was to offer a different education from that offered by most Victorian public schools. A strong emphasis was to be put on the aesthetic, and the beauty of the estate and the buildings contribute significantly to the atmosphere.
Dennis Silk sat for the sculptor and former Radley College pupil Alan Thornhill, for a portrait in clay. The correspondence file relating to the Silk portrait bust is held as part of the Thornhill Papers (2006:56) in the archive of the Henry Moore Foundation 's Henry Moore Institute in Leeds , while the terracotta remains in the collection of the artist.
Strategic Vision - Radley College. Radley College is a proudly traditional boarding school for boys aged 13-18 in Oxfordshire. “We wish to surround the boys with an atmosphere breathing greatness and goodness.”. – Robert Singleton, First Warden. “An absolute humdinger of a school.”. – The Good Schools’ Guide.
Simon Wolfson. Simon Adam Wolfson, Baron Wolfson of Aspley Guise (born 27 October 1967), is a British businessman and currently chief executive of the clothing retailer Next plc, as well as a Conservative life peer. He is the son of the former Next chairman, The Baron Wolfson of Sunningdale, who was also a Conservative life peer.
Mackesy grew up in Northumberland and attended Radley College and Queen Elizabeth High School, Hexham. He also briefly attended university twice, but left on both occasions within a week. Mackesy’s paternal grandparents were Major General Pierse Joseph Mackesy and writer Leonora Mackesy (born 1902), who wrote Harlequin romances as Leonora Starr and Dorothy Rivers.
Marlborough College is a public school (English fee-charging boarding and day school) for pupils aged 13 to 18 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England. Founded in 1843 for the sons of Church of England clergy, it is now co-educational. For the academic year 2015/16, Marlborough charged £9,610 per term for day pupils, making it the most expensive ...
Author, historian. Edward FitzGerald "Gerald" Brenan, CBE, MC (7 April 1894 – 19 January 1987) [2] was a British writer and hispanist who spent much of his life in Spain. Brenan is probably best known for The Spanish Labyrinth, a historical work on the background to the Spanish Civil War, and for a mainly autobiographical work South from ...
