John Colet was the only surviving child of the 22 that his mother bore. Founded St Paul's School in 1509. Churchman and educational pioneer. Born London, son of a Lord Mayor whose wealth he inherited. Member of the Mercers' Company. Dean of St Paul's Cathedral. Friend of Erasmus.
Spitalfield's Life has a drawing of his parents' house, where the Stepney City Farm now is.
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Dean Colet
The Corporation of the City of London Near this spot from 1512 until 1884 st...
Thousands of service men and women trained at the Walthamstow college: 1940 RAF; 1941 army; 1942 navy.
By June 1915, the population of Belgian refugees in Britain rose to 265,000. But we couldn't find anything on the web about the school in Cale Street.
Elizabethan seafarer. With Robert Bell he co-founded the St Mary Rotherhithe Free School, to educate the sons of local seafarers.
In full, the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care. The world's first nursing school to be continuously connected to a fully serving hospital (St Thomas's) and me...
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