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The Frederick Gunn School is a private, coeducational, boarding and day prep school for students in grades 9–12 and postgraduate, located in rural Connecticut, United States. [3] The 220-acre (0.89 km 2 ) campus borders the village green of Washington , a small, historic town in Litchfield Hills .
Frederick William Gunn was born in Washington, Connecticut, on October 4, 1816. [8] The eighth and youngest son of a farmer and admired deputy sheriff, John Northrup (1772–1826), and his wife, Mary (Polly) Ford (1773–1827), Gunn was orphaned at age 10. His parents died "during the prevalence of an epidemic." [9]
The etymology of "Kentucky" or "Kentucke" is uncertain. One suggestion is that it is derived from an Iroquois name meaning "land of tomorrow". [1] According to Native America: A State-by-State Historical Encyclopedia, "Various authors have offered a number of opinions concerning the word's meaning: the Iroquois word kentake meaning 'meadow land', the Wyandotte (or perhaps Cherokee or Iroquois ...
The Bloom Elementary School at 1627 Lucia Ave. in Louisville, Ky. on July 10, 2023. The district's second-oldest school is in Louisville's Tyler Park neighborhood along Lucia Avenue.
Alumni of The Gunnery, a private, nonsectarian, coeducational, college preparatory boarding school in Washington, Connecticut of the New York metropolitan area. Pages in category "The Frederick Gunn School alumni"
Old Wykehamists are former pupils of Winchester College, so called in memory of the school's founder, William of Wykeham. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He was Bishop of Winchester and Lord Chancellor of England. He used the wealth these positions gave him to establish both the school in 1382 and a university college, New College, Oxford , in 1379; both of them ...
John Cook Wilson was born in Nottingham, England, in 1849. [2] He was the son of James Wilson, a Methodist minister. [3] After studying at Derby Grammar School, 1862–67, Cook Wilson went up with a scholarship to Balliol College [4] in 1868, where he read both Classics under H. W. Chandler and Mathematics under H. J. S. Smith.
The family are descendants of Thomas Wykeham, the great-nephew of William of Wykeham (c. 1320–1404) who left his fortune to his great-nephew. The inheritance included Broughton Castle which became the home of the Barons Saye and Sele, after Thomas Wykeham's granddaughter married William Fiennes, 2nd Baron Saye and Sele. [1]