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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.

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?

ooops, how could I forget Maine. An essayist.

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?

This is the relevant Barnes I think:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bar ... rnalist%29

Mind you it could be this one.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Barnes

Ajarn Philip wrote:Barnes - hem hem ...... "daaaaaaa da da daaa da de daaa da, daa da da daaaaaaaa , etc"
Dambusters?

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?

He wasn't 'famous' until the 1940's.

Ajarn Philip wrote:ooops, how could I forget Maine. An essayist.

And Maine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_James_Sumner_Maine

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

there, no-on else knows either

englishangel wrote:there, no-on else knows either

An embarrassing and slightly stupid question surely deserves an embarrassing and slightly stupid answer.

Okay, it's a fair cop. Go easy on me, guv.

Must dash, it's time for bed, and there's something large and hairy buzzing around the room.

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.

Ajarn Philip wrote:Must dash, it's time for bed, and there's something large and hairy buzzing around the room.

I hope you don't have a partner who could take offence to that ...

cj wrote:

Ajarn Philip wrote:Must dash, it's time for bed, and there's something large and hairy buzzing around the room.

I hope you don't have a partner who could take offence to that ...

He posted that at 6.42pm.

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

sejintenej wrote:

cj wrote:

Ajarn Philip wrote:Must dash, it's time for bed, and there's something large and hairy buzzing around the room.

I hope you don't have a partner who could take offence to that ...

He posted that at 6.42pm.

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

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.

i think there was suggestion the grecians houses were called barnes and wallis to honour him!

The future hubby was seriously impressed when watching the dambusters the other weekend (he loves war films) that barnes wallis was a pupil at my school!