• Samuel Jones (1681/2 – 11 October 1719) was an English Dissenter and educator, known for founding a significant Dissenting academy at Tewkesbury. He was...
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  • Thomas Jones, member of the Texas House of Representatives Samuel Jones (nonconformist) (1628–1697), Welsh clergyman Samuel Jones (academy tutor) (1681/2–1719)...
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    Baron le Despencer (1338) Elizabeth Montague (d.1359), his wife Samuel Jones (academy tutor) The abbey's 17th-century organ – known as the Milton Organ –...
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  • the dissenting academy Independent College, Homerton, then another village north of London. The Tewkesbury Academy, set up by Samuel Jones, had as its students...
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  • Samuel Jones (1628 – September 1697) was a Welsh nonconformist clergyman, who established an academy for educating dissenting ministers. Jones was born...
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  • Jeremiah Jones (1693–1724) was an independent tutor and biblical critic. He was born in Wales in 1693. His father was David Jones of Llangollen, who married...
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  • century. List of dissenting academies (19th century) Category:Dissenting academy tutors This list includes the academies (except where otherwise noted)...
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    hates Jones and favors Blifil, but eventually repents The Rev. Mr Roger Thwackum, tutor to Tom and Master Blifil, a hypocrite who hates Tom Jones, favors...
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  • Tom Jones is a 1963 British period comedy film, an adaptation of Henry Fielding's classic 1749 novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. It is directed...
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  • at Tewkesbury, in Gloucestershire, under the famous regime of Samuel Jones, academy tutor. It is not necessarily the case, as stated in some biographies...
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    Abraham Rees (category Dissenting academy tutors)
    till 1785, his colleagues being Andrew Kippis and Samuel Morton Savage; subsequently he was tutor in Hebrew and mathematics in the New College at Hackney...
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    Gilbert Wakefield (category Dissenting academy tutors)
    controversialist. He moved from being a cleric and academic, into tutoring at dissenting academies, and finally became a professional writer and publicist. In...
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    New College at Hackney (category Dissenting academies)
    Warrington Academy, which had been inactive since 1756 as a teaching institution. Almost simultaneously the Hoxton Academy of the Coward Trust, under Samuel Morton...
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    proficient Sanskritist. Jones kept up a ten-year correspondence on the topic of jyotisa or Hindu astronomy with fellow orientalist Samuel Davis. He learnt the...
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  • attended the dissenting academies. After finishing his education at Leiden, Samuel Jones moved to Gloucester, opening his academy in the Barton Street house...
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  • Covent Garden. The king gave money, and the academy admitted young gentlemen only, on exclusive grounds. The tutors were hand-picked by Kynaston. The new institution...
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    Samuel Johnson (October 14, 1696 – January 6, 1772) was a clergyman, educator, linguist, encyclopedist, historian, and philosopher in colonial America...
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    Tatum O'Neal (category Best Supporting Actress Academy Award winners)
    competitive Academy Award, she turned nine years old during filming in autumn 1972. O'Neal played the role of Addie Loggins, a child con artist being tutored by...
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    Samuel Barclay Beckett (/ˈbɛkɪt/ ; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish writer of novels, plays, short stories, and poems. Writing in both English...
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  • John Eames (category Dissenting academy tutors)
    been ordained. In 1712 Thomas Ridgley, D.D., became theological tutor to the Fund Academy, in Tenter Alley, Moorfields, an institution supported by the...
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    Edith Newbold Wharton (/ˈhwɔːrtən/; née Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's...
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  • Mary Shelley (and Judith was her grandmother). "JONES, SAMUEL ([ 1681? ]- 1719), Dissenting Academy tutor | Dictionary of Welsh Biography". biography.wales...
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    Samuel Alexander Joseph West (born 19 June 1966) is an English actor, theatre director, and narrator. He has directed on stage and radio, and worked as...
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  • Robert Tudur Jones (28 June 1921 – 23 July 1998), better known as R. Tudur Jones, was a Welsh nationalist and one of the country's leading theologians...
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    Brick Academy classical school and graduated from Princeton University in 1804. After teaching in New Jersey, he worked for several years as a tutor in the...
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  • fundraising and house events as well as, the behaviour, attendance and tutor activities of students in their house. Ark Alexandra maintains William Parker's...
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    John Pye-Smith (category Dissenting academy tutors)
    May 1774 – 5 February 1851) was a Congregational minister, theologian and tutor, associated with reconciling geological sciences with the Bible, repealing...
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    (Correspondence, 1.34). Oldenburg eventually became the tutor to Boyle's nephew, the politician Richard Jones, and travelled with him through France from 1657...
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  • Architects' Club; but never became an Associate of the Royal Academy. Hardwick's pupils included Samuel Angell, the Plymouth architect John Foulston (1772–1842)...
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  • Charles Lloyd (minister) (category Dissenting academy tutors)
    teacher. Among his fellow-students was Lewis Loyd, father of Samuel Jones Loyd. Leaving the academy (1788) in poor health, Lloyd went to Hotwells, near Bristol...
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