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See also:HAWTREY, See also:EDWARD See also:CRAVEN (1789-1862) , See also:English educationalist, was See also:born at Burnham on the 7th of May 1789, the son of the See also:vicar of the See also:parish. He was educated at See also:Eton and See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King's See also:College, See also:Cambridge, and in 1814 was appointed assistant. See also:master at Eton under Dr See also:Keate. In 1834 he became headmaster of the college, and his See also:administration was a vigorous one. New buildings were erected, including the school library and the See also:sanatorium, the college See also:chapel was restored, the Old See also:Christopher See also:Inn was closed, and the See also:custom of " Montem," the collection by See also:street begging of funds for the university expenses of the See also:captain of the school, was suppressed. He is supposed to have suggested the See also:prince See also:consort's See also:modern See also:language prizes, while the See also:prize for English See also:essay he founded himself. In 1852 he became See also:provost of Eton, and in 1854 vicar of Mapledurham. He died on the 27th of See also:January 1862. and was buried in the Eton College chapel. On See also:account of his command of See also:languages See also:ancient and modern, he was known in See also:London as " the English See also:Mezzofanti," and he was a See also:book See also:collector of the finest See also:taste. Among his own books are some excellent See also:translations from the English into See also:Italian, See also:German and See also:Greek. He had a considerable reputation as a writer of English hexameters and as a See also:judge of Homeric See also:translation.
End of Article: HAWTREY, EDWARD CRAVEN (1789-1862)
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