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22-412: William Cory may refer to: William Johnson Cory , poet William Wallace Cory , Canadian politician See also [ edit ] William Corry (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

44-839: A foul by bumping Cambridge when Cambridge were in Oxford's water. He was No. 3 in the O.U.B.C. crews that won the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta in 1850 and 1851 when there was no Boat Race on the Tideway in either year. In 1850, he won the University Pairs and Fours, and the Silver Goblets at Henley with J.W. Chitty . In 1851 he rowed again for Brasenose in the Ladies' Challenge Plate , Stewards' Challenge Cup , and Visitors Challenge Cup . He

66-518: A good judge of wine, and the finest after-dinner speaker I ever listened to, with a charm of manner I have never forgotten." Hornby retired in 1884 to take the post of Provost of Eton and was succeeded by another Etonian and Balliol oarsman, Edmond Warre . Hornby had also become a Doctor of Civil Law and a Queen's Chaplain. As chairman of the Governing Body, he presided over the meetings at the time of Warre's resignation, when Edward Lyttelton

88-413: A number of boys. Although he probably did not allow his affections to take any physical form, he permitted intimacies between the boys. This conduct was brought to the notice of the headmaster, James Hornby , who demanded Johnson's resignation." In dismissing Johnson, Hornby commented that it was not for committing acts of “immorality in the ordinary sense of the word”, meaning sodomy in the euphemism of

110-651: A son. He returned to England in September 1882, settling in Hampstead , where he died on 11 June 1892. He was buried at Hampstead on 16 June. Cory is noted for a letter in which he articulates the purpose of education. His words are taken by many as a justification for studying Latin . The full quotation goes: At school you are engaged not so much in acquiring knowledge as in making mental efforts under criticism. A certain amount of knowledge you can indeed with average faculties acquire so as to retain; nor need you regret

132-648: A world of multiple loyalties." Giovanni Costigan wrote in 1972, "In the century that has passed since then, no further light, incredible as it may seem, has been shed upon the subject [of Johnson's dismissal] ... It may finally be remarked that in every reference yet made to this curious episode there seems never to have been a mention of the word 'homosexuality'." Johnson retired to Halsdon and changed his name on 17 October 1872 to Cory (the maiden name of his paternal grandmother) before emigrating for health reasons to Madeira in February 1878, where he married and had

154-421: Is the collection Ionica . Cory became an assistant master at Eton in 1845 just after graduating from King's. He insisted on the centrality of personal ties between teacher and student. The historian G. W. Prothero described him as "the most brilliant Eton tutor of his day". Arthur Coleridge described him as "the wisest master who has ever been at Eton". Among his former pupils are numbered several statesmen of

176-626: The Newcastle Scholarship , he studied at King's College, Cambridge , where he won the Chancellor's Medal for an English poem on Plato in 1843, and the Craven Scholarship in 1844. He was a writer of Latin verse as well as English verse. Although best known for the much-anthologised "Heraclitus", an adaptation of an elegy by Callimachus , ("They told me Heraclitus, they told me you were dead" ), his chief poetical work

198-428: The art of indicating assent or dissent in graduated terms, for the habit of regarding minute points of accuracy, for the art of working out what is possible in a given time, for taste, for discrimination, for mental courage, and for mental soberness. In 1924 an entire book devoted to Cory was printed, entitled Ionicus . The author was Reginald Baliol Brett, 2nd Viscount Esher , to whom Johnson had grown close when Brett

220-442: The era, and an alternative view of Johnson's dismissal is given by William C. Lubenow , who posits that Hornby "turfed out William Johnson and Oscar Browning because they were liberal reformers in a highly authoritarian institution ... [they] attempted to create a community where power and personality, desire and discipline, and love and learning were integrated. They committed the crime of Socrates : they corrupted youth by creating

242-453: The hours you spent on much that is forgotten, for the shadow of lost knowledge at least protects you from many illusions. But you go to a great school not so much for knowledge as for arts and habits; for the habit of attention, for the art of expression, for the art of assuming at a moment's notice a new intellectual position, for the art of entering quickly into another person's thoughts, for the habit of submitting to censure and refutation, for

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264-465: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_Cory&oldid=1055919454 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages William Johnson Cory William Johnson Cory (9 January 1823 – 11 June 1892), born William Johnson ,

286-480: The notice of the headmaster. Although it has been suggested that Johnson was a devoted paederast who numbered among his paramours Reginald Brett , the future Lord Esher, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography maintains that this cannot be proved and that "No one can be quite sure of the exact circumstances of his resignation," adding: "There is no question, however, that he was dangerously fond of

308-551: The period, including Lord Rosebery , Captain Algernon Drummond, Henry Scott Holland , Howard Overing Sturgis , Charles Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax and Arthur Balfour . He wrote the lyrics of the Eton Boating Song , first performed in 1863. Johnson was forced to resign from Eton at Easter 1872 after an "indiscreet letter" that he had written to a pupil was intercepted by the boy's parents and brought to

330-503: The third ( Asquith ) "showed him kindness in his old age". [REDACTED]  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain :  Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature . London: J. M. Dent & Sons – via Wikisource . James John Hornby Hornby was born at Winwick , the third son of Admiral Sir Phipps Hornby and his wife Sophia Maria Burgoyne, eldest daughter of Sir John Burgoyne . He

352-582: Was a member of the Brasenose College crew which was Head of the River at Oxford in 1852. He had also become known as a fine skater and one of the best Alpine climbers of the day. In 1853, Hornby went to Durham University as Principal of Bishop Cosin's Hall until 1864 when he returned to Brasenose as classical lecturer. Students long after recalled with pleasure the animation of his Virgil lectures and his excellent way of teaching Latin prose. He

374-407: Was a schoolboy, . By then Brett was an adviser to the government and one of the most eminent and powerful men of his time. He had begun a correspondence with Cory while he was at Eton and continued it until the time of Cory's death. The dedication mentions three Prime Ministers, two of whom (Rosebery and Balfour) learnt at Eton "the elements of high politics from IONICUS" (Rosebery and Balfour), whereas

396-462: Was also made Senior Proctor. In 1865 Hornby was the first to ascend the northwest ridge of the Silberhorn . In 1867, he was appointed Second Master of Winchester College , which was seen as a stepping stone to the headmastership of Eton, which had become vacant. He remained at Winchester little more than a year, and was then appointed Headmaster of Eton, in succession to Balston. His appointment

418-494: Was an English educator and poet . He was dismissed from his post at Eton for encouraging a culture of intimacy, possibly non-sexual, between teachers and pupils. He is widely known for his English version of the elegy Heraclitus by Callimachus . He was born at Great Torrington in Devon, and educated at Eton , where he was afterwards a renowned master, nicknamed "Tute" (short for "tutor") by his pupils. After Eton, where he won

440-458: Was educated at Eton, where he did not row, but played in the Eton cricket eleven in 1845. Hornby matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford , before being appointed a Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford in 1849. Whilst at Brasenose, he had the rare distinction of rowing in the college Eight while also being a Fellow. He rowed bow for Oxford in the second Boat Race of 1849, which Oxford won on

462-499: Was made possible by the conclusions of the Northcote Commission which had removed restrictions among educational endowments, among which was the tradition that the Eton headmaster should come from King's College, Cambridge . With the restrictions gone, Hornby was the first to exercise the increased independent authority of the headmaster. He "taught Eton the art of self-government" and his sixteen years' Headmastership

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484-410: Was very successful. As he had not been an Eton master, he had to overcome a certain amount of resentment by his good work, sympathetic temper and his pleasant manners. Guy Nickalls , at Eton in the early 1880s, recalled: "In spite of the swishings I got, I liked the headmaster, Hornby, the perfectly mannered and sonorously-voiced old English gentleman. Handsome, alert, witty, a great athlete in his day,

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