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... Educated at Warfield , Berkshire , under Dr. Faithfull , and at Winchester College , Augustus passed through the military col- lege of the East India Company at Addis- combe , and went to India , receiving a com- mission as second ...
... Educated at Warfield , Berkshire , under Dr. Faithfull , and at Winchester College , Augustus passed through the military col- lege of the East India Company at Addis- combe , and went to India , receiving a com- mission as second ...
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... educated at Blackheath , where one of his schoolfellows was Benjamin Disraeli ( after- wards Earl of Beaconsfield ) . After passing through the military college of the East India Company at Addiscombe , Abbott re- ceived a commission as ...
... educated at Blackheath , where one of his schoolfellows was Benjamin Disraeli ( after- wards Earl of Beaconsfield ) . After passing through the military college of the East India Company at Addiscombe , Abbott re- ceived a commission as ...
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... educated first by Mr. Fisher , a private tutor , to whom he owed much , and afterwards at Harrow School , which he entered between August 1828 and April 1829 ; he was placed in Mr. Phelps's house , where , without achieving any special ...
... educated first by Mr. Fisher , a private tutor , to whom he owed much , and afterwards at Harrow School , which he entered between August 1828 and April 1829 ; he was placed in Mr. Phelps's house , where , without achieving any special ...
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... educated at Harrow - where in 1826 he won the Peel prize with a dissertation pub- lished in the same year as ' Oratio numis- mate Peeliano dignata et in Scholæ Harro- viensis Auditorio recitata die Iun . 1 A.D. mdcccxxvi ' ( London ...
... educated at Harrow - where in 1826 he won the Peel prize with a dissertation pub- lished in the same year as ' Oratio numis- mate Peeliano dignata et in Scholæ Harro- viensis Auditorio recitata die Iun . 1 A.D. mdcccxxvi ' ( London ...
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... educated at a private school at Shrewsbury - the Glastonbury of his auto- biographical writing — and from 1878 to 1880 at Paris . After two years ' experience as as- The value of Adair's work as showing sistant master at Ventnor College ...
... educated at a private school at Shrewsbury - the Glastonbury of his auto- biographical writing — and from 1878 to 1880 at Paris . After two years ' experience as as- The value of Adair's work as showing sistant master at Ventnor College ...
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