An embarrassing and slightly stupid question...
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An embarrassing and slightly stupid question...
I'm sorry, and ashamed, to have to ask this, but could someone clarrify whom the CH houses are named after?
Lamb, Coleridge, Leigh Hunt and Middleton are all fairly obvious but I'm not sure I know who Peele is (he's NOT the police one is he?) or most of the other ones.
Anyone know?
Apologises for the appaling ignorance.
Lamb, Coleridge, Leigh Hunt and Middleton are all fairly obvious but I'm not sure I know who Peele is (he's NOT the police one is he?) or most of the other ones.
Anyone know?
Apologises for the appaling ignorance.
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This is the relevant Barnes I think:Ajarn Philip wrote:George Peele was an Elisabethan dramatist. (The Stukely plays, I think...?)
Barnes - hem hem ...... "daaaaaaa da da daaa da de daaa da, daa da da daaaaaaaa , etc"
Dambusters?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bar ... rnalist%29
Mind you it could be this one.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Barnes
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Com on Phil, have a think, Barnes Wallis was a boy in the Horsham school (just, I think he left in 1904). And anyway, why would the house use his first name rather than Wallis?Ajarn Philip wrote:Barnes - hem hem ...... "daaaaaaa da da daaa da de daaa da, daa da da daaaaaaaa , etc"
Dambusters?
He wasn't 'famous' until the 1940's.
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And MaineAjarn Philip wrote:ooops, how could I forget Maine. An essayist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_James_Sumner_Maine
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Peele
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Peele
Struggling to find Thornton at the moment!
found him! scroll down
http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.go ... _1791-1891
Middleton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Middleton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Peele
Struggling to find Thornton at the moment!
found him! scroll down
http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.go ... _1791-1891
Middleton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Middleton
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One or two corrections needed here:
The Middleton block takes its name not from the Jacobean dramatist but from Thomas Fanshaw Middleton (CH 1779-88, Governor), first Bishop of Calcutta. Details here:
http://chi.gospelcom.net/DAILYF/2003/01 ... 2003.shtml
Perversely, Barnes is named after the scholar Joshua Barnes (CH 1656-71) and not the great editor of The Times Thomas Barnes (CH 1796-1804), surely the more notable of the pair.
And I don't think Sir Henry Maine (CH 1829-40) can really be described as an essayist. The Wikipedia page gets it right: 'comparative jurist and historian', renowned for his Ancient Law.
The Middleton block takes its name not from the Jacobean dramatist but from Thomas Fanshaw Middleton (CH 1779-88, Governor), first Bishop of Calcutta. Details here:
http://chi.gospelcom.net/DAILYF/2003/01 ... 2003.shtml
Perversely, Barnes is named after the scholar Joshua Barnes (CH 1656-71) and not the great editor of The Times Thomas Barnes (CH 1796-1804), surely the more notable of the pair.
And I don't think Sir Henry Maine (CH 1829-40) can really be described as an essayist. The Wikipedia page gets it right: 'comparative jurist and historian', renowned for his Ancient Law.
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I hope you don't have a partner who could take offence to that ...Ajarn Philip wrote:Must dash, it's time for bed, and there's something large and hairy buzzing around the room.
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He posted that at 6.42pm.cj wrote:I hope you don't have a partner who could take offence to that ...Ajarn Philip wrote:Must dash, it's time for bed, and there's something large and hairy buzzing around the room.
Maybe the large hairy thing is his partner though as for what the partner thinks of going to bed at 6.42pm - ask JR 'cause he has got more imagination than me
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6.42pm our time, not his time, remember he is in Thailand, can't remember whether that is same time zone as Malaysia, GMT + 8.sejintenej wrote:He posted that at 6.42pm.cj wrote:I hope you don't have a partner who could take offence to that ...Ajarn Philip wrote:Must dash, it's time for bed, and there's something large and hairy buzzing around the room.
Maybe the large hairy thing is his partner though as for what the partner thinks of going to bed at 6.42pm - ask JR 'cause he has got more imagination than me
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