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The famous opening line of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's (anonymous) novel, Paul Clifford, published this year, begins: "It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the ...
Sir Arthur Charles (OG 1848–54), Judge of the High Court; André Chevrillon (OG 1876–77), member of the French Academy; Sir William Christie, Astronomer Royal 1881–1910 [6] Sir William Job Collins (OG 1869–76), Member of Parliament, Chairman of London County Council, Surgeon, two term Vice-Chancellor of the University of London (1907-9 ...
March 7, 1839 – Baltimore City College, the third public high school in the United States, is established in Baltimore, Maryland. March 26, 1839 – The first Henley Royal Regatta is held. August 8, 1839 – The Beta Theta Pi fraternity is founded in Oxford, Ohio. November 11, 1839 – The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington ...
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Alexander Bower (fl. 1804–1830), biographer; George Mackay Brown (1921–1996), poet and storyteller; John Brown (1784–1858), minister and theologian; John Brown (1810–1882), physician and essayist; Peter Hume Brown (1849–1918), historian; first Edinburgh University professor of Scottish history; Georgina Bruce (living), horror writer
Although the Royal High School long enjoyed a near monopoly on boys' education among the Edinburgh burgesses and county gentry, roll lists before the mid eighteenth century are incomplete. Consequently, attendance by the mathematician John Napier (1550–1617) and the philosopher David Hume (1711–1776) is unconfirmed and may be legend.
Thomas Aird, The Captive of Fez [3]; Lord Byron, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron, edited by Thomas Moore, biographical [3]; Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey, anonymously published, The Devil's Walk; original version published in the Morning Post, September 6, 1799 as "The Devil's Thoughts" [3]