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Trowbridge was the birthplace of Sir Isaac Pitman in 1813, developer of the Pitman system of shorthand writing, [47] who has several memorial plaques. Matthew Hutton (later archbishop of Canterbury) was the town's rector from 1726 to 1730. [48] The poet George Crabbe held the same position from 1814 until his death in 1832. [49]
Some are in Trowbridge Museum while one is in the porch of the present church. The parish church of St James was built outside the castle, around 1200, to serve the growing town. The earlier church was demolished and the site levelled. Alterations and additions were made in the 14th century and these comprise most of the earliest work visible ...
The school's immediate predecessors were the Trowbridge High School for Boys, and the Trowbridge High School for Girls, single-sex grammar schools which were established in 1912 on two sites: on Wingfield Road (boys) and nearby on Gloucester Road (girls). These formed a co-educational grammar school, the Combined High Schools, on 14 April 1969.
Southwick Court is a Grade II* listed moated medieval manor house at the centre of a system of fields and water meadows that lie between the town of Trowbridge and the village of Southwick in Wiltshire, England. It has remained a private residence under a succession of owners for at least 800 years.
Henry Clark (1828–1886) was born in 1828 in Trowbridge. He became a solicitor and was a partner in the Trowbridge firm of Clark and Collins. [11] In 1856 he married Elizabeth Attwood who was the daughter of a clergyman. [12] Henry died in 1886 and his only son Henry Attwood Clark inherited Polebarn House.
St Augustine of Canterbury Catholic Academy, St Helens, England; St. Augustine's College (disambiguation) Father Augustine Tolton Regional Catholic High School, Columbia, Missouri, United States; St Augustine's Catholic College, Trowbridge, England; Saint Augustine Elementary School (disambiguation) St Augustine of Canterbury School ...
Trowbridge was born in Ogden, New York, to Windsor Stone Trowbridge and Rebecca Willey. His birthplace was a log cabin his father constructed through the use of wooden pegs. [1] Trowbridge received an unremarkable education, but had an early interest in literature. He recalled in his autobiography that he wrote his first poem at age 13.
Matthew Hutton (3 January 1693 – 18 March 1758) was a high churchman in the Church of England, serving as Archbishop of York (1747–1757) and Archbishop of Canterbury (1757–1758). Early life and education