humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

"John Briggs" wrote in message
news:66yCj.25598$ki.15567@newsfe2-gui.ntli.net...
> a.spencer3 wrote:
> > "John Cartmell" wrote in message
> > news:4f7ffe4c12john@cartmell.demon.co.uk...
> >> In article , Peter Farey
> >> wrote:
> >>> And in a small attempt to make this a little more on-topic for some
> >>> of us at least, the houses at our school were named after the
> >>> famous Elizabethans Drake, Grenville, Marlowe, Raleigh, Sidney and
> >>> Spenser. To these have since been added Ben Jonson and (patron of
> >>> the Lord Admiral's Men and hero of the Armada) Charles Howard, Earl
> >>> of Nottingham.
> >>
> >> IIRC ours were:
> >> Drake
> >> Raleigh
> >> Frobisher
> >> Howard
> >> Grenville
> >> ?
> >>
> >> What I find really confusing is that I was in the 6th form when the
> >> school celebrated its 400th year and they are now asking for
> >> donations to help celebrate 500 years next year. No I'm not that
> >> old! ;-) The school was (yet another!) called QEGS but it now seems
> >> that it was founded by Stanley; some of you may remember remarks
> >> that I have made about that family. ;-((
> >
> > Our Founder was Court Embroiderer ... a man ... I always wondered?!
> > My most famous contemporary was probably John Major - can't do any
> > better than that, I'm afraid!
>
> Was he as undistinguished then as he subsequently became?
>
> (Your embroiderer founded the charity - after 200 years the charity
decided
> to build a school, presumbly not having spent any of the money in the
> meantime! John Major hated the school, so it can't have been all bad...)
> --

That's the one!
We all hated it at the time! But in retrospect it had a lot going for it.
John was a superb cricketer at a ridiculously young age, but that was about
all ......................


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