ABSTRACT
This dictionary provides the reader with an easily accessible guide to the biographies of approximately 450 educationists. It covers the period from 1800 to the present day and includes a wide range of people who were active in promoting education at different levels.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
letter |13 pages
A
entry |1 pages
Aberdare, Henry Austin Bruce
entry |2 pages
Acland, Sir Arthur Herbert Dyke
entry |2 pages
Acland, Sir Thomas Dyke
entry |1 pages
Adam, Alexander
entry |3 pages
Adams, Sir John
entry |1 pages
Adamson, John William
entry |2 pages
Adderley, Sir Charles Bowyer
entry |1 pages
Alderson, Sir Charles Henry
entry |1 pages
Allen, John
entry |2 pages
Allen, William
entry |1 pages
Allies, Thomas William
entry |1 pages
Althans, Henry
entry |1 pages
Althorp, Viscount, John Charles
entry |1 pages
Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett
entry |2 pages
Anson, Sir William Reynell
entry |1 pages
Applegarth, Robert
entry |1 pages
Armstrong, Henry Edward
entry |1 pages
Arnold, Edward Penrose
entry |2 pages
Arnold, Matthew
entry |2 pages
Arnold, Dr Thomas
entry |2 pages
Asquith, Herbert Henry
entry |1 pages
Atholl, Katherine Marjorie Stewart-Murray
letter |27 pages
B
entry |1 pages
Baden-Powell, Robert Stephenson Smyth
entry |2 pages
Badley, John Haden
entry |1 pages
Bain, Alexander
entry |2 pages
Baines, Sir Edward
entry |2 pages
Balfour, Arthur James
entry |1 pages
Balfour, Sir Graham
entry |2 pages
Ball, Sidney
entry |1 pages
Ballard, Philip Boswood
entry |2 pages
Barker, Sir Ernest
entry |1 pages
Barlow, Sir (James) Alan (Noel)
entry |2 pages
Barnardo, Dr Thomas John
entry |1 pages
Barnes, Revd William
entry |2 pages
Barnett, Dame Henrietta Octavia Weston
entry |1 pages
Barnett, Percy Arthur
entry |1 pages
Barnett, Samuel Augustus
entry |2 pages
Beale, Dorothea
entry |2 pages
Bell, Andrew
entry |1 pages
Bellairs, Henry Walford
entry |1 pages
Beloe, Robert
entry |2 pages
Bentham, Jeremy
entry |1 pages
Bergman-Österberg, Martina Sofia Helena
entry |1 pages
Beveridge, William Henry
entry |2 pages
Birkbeck, George
entry |1 pages
Birley, Sir Robert
entry |1 pages
Birrell, Augustine
entry |1 pages
Blackie, John Stuart
entry |2 pages
Blair, Sir Robert
entry |1 pages
Blake, William
entry |1 pages
Bodichon, Barbara
entry |1 pages
Bosanquet, Bernard
entry |1 pages
Bowen, Edward Ernest
entry |2 pages
Boyle, Sir Edward Charles Gurney
entry |1 pages
Bradley, George Granville
entry |2 pages
Brereton, Joseph Lloyd
entry |1 pages
Brockington, Sir William Allport
entry |2 pages
Brookfield, William Henry
entry |1 pages
Brougham, Henry
entry |2 pages
Browning, Oscar
entry |1 pages
Bruce
entry |1 pages
Bruce, Hon. William Napier
entry |2 pages
Bryant, Sophie
entry |2 pages
Bryce, James
entry |1 pages
Buchanan, James
entry |2 pages
Burdett-Coutts, Angela Georgina
entry |1 pages
Burgess, Richard
entry |2 pages
Burnham, Harry Lawson Webster
entry |2 pages
Burt, Sir Cyril Lodowic
entry |1 pages
Buss, Frances Mary
entry |2 pages
Butler, George
entry |1 pages
Butler, Revd Henry Montagu
entry |2 pages
Butler, Josephine Elizabeth
entry |1 pages
Butler, Richard Austen
entry |1 pages
Butler, Samuel
letter |25 pages
C
entry |1 pages
Caird, Edward
entry |1 pages
Caird, John
entry |1 pages
Carlingford, Chichester Fortescue
entry |2 pages
Carlisle, Nicholas
entry |1 pages
Carnegie, Andrew
entry |2 pages
Carpenter, Mary
entry |1 pages
Cavendish, Lucy
entry |2 pages
Cavendish, Spencer Compton
entry |2 pages
Cavendish, William
entry |1 pages
Cecil, Hugh Richard Heathcote
entry |2 pages
Chadwick, Sir Edwin
entry |1 pages
Chalmers, Thomas
entry |2 pages
Chamberlain, Joseph
entry |2 pages
Chambers, Sir Edmund Kerchever
entry |1 pages
Chambers, William
entry |2 pages
Charles, Thomas
entry |1 pages
Chester, Harry
entry |1 pages
Childers, Hugh Culling Eardley
entry |1 pages
Chuter-Ede
entry |1 pages
Clarendon, George William Frederick Villiers
entry |3 pages
Clarke, Sir Fred
entry |2 pages
Clegg, Sir Alec
entry |1 pages
Clifford, Dr John
entry |2 pages
Clough, Anne Jemima
entry |1 pages
Clough, Arthur Hugh
entry |2 pages
Cobbett, William
entry |1 pages
Cole, George Douglas Howard
entry |2 pages
Cole, Sir Henry
entry |1 pages
Cole, Dame Margaret Isobel
entry |2 pages
Colenso, John William
entry |1 pages
Coleridge, Derwent
entry |2 pages
Collings, Jesse
entry |1 pages
Combe, George
entry |2 pages
Cook, Revd Frederick Charles
entry |1 pages
Cook, Henry Caldwell
entry |2 pages
Courthope, William John
entry |1 pages
Cowper-Temple, William Francis
entry |1 pages
Craik, Sir Henry
entry |1 pages
Cranbrook
entry |2 pages
Crewe-Milnes, Robert Offley
entry |2 pages
Crichton-Browne, Sir James
entry |1 pages
Crosland, (Charles) Anthony (Raven)
entry |2 pages
Cross, Richard Assheton
entry |1 pages
Crosskey, Henry William
entry |1 pages
Crowther, Geoffrey
entry |1 pages
Cullen, Paul
entry |1 pages
Culverwell, Edward Parnall
entry |1 pages
Cumin, Patric
letter |9 pages
D
entry |1 pages
Dale, Robert William
entry |2 pages
Darwin, Charles Robert
entry |1 pages
Dasent, Sir John Roche
entry |1 pages
Davenport Hill
entry |1 pages
Davies, (Sarah) Emily
entry |2 pages
Dawes, Revd Richard
entry |1 pages
Dawson, George
entry |2 pages
Denison, George Anthony
entry |1 pages
Derby
entry |1 pages
Deverell, Edith Mary
entry |1 pages
Devonshire
entry |2 pages
Dicey, Albert Venn
entry |1 pages
Dickens, Charles John Huffam
entry |1 pages
Diggle, Joseph Robert
entry |2 pages
Dixon, George
entry |1 pages
Dodd, Catherine Isabella
entry |2 pages
Donnelly, Sir John Fretcheville Dykes
entry |1 pages
Dunn, Henry
entry |1 pages
Dyke, Sir William Hart
letter |6 pages
E
entry |1 pages
Ede, James Chuter
entry |2 pages
Edgeworth, Maria
entry |1 pages
Edgeworth, Richard Lovell
entry |2 pages
Edwards, Sir Owen Morgan
entry |1 pages
Eicholz, Alfred
entry |1 pages
Eldon, John Scott
entry |2 pages
Ellis, Thomas Edward
entry |1 pages
Ellis, William
entry |1 pages
Elmhirst, Leonard K.
entry |1 pages
Ewart, William
letter |11 pages
F
entry |3 pages
Farrar, Frederic William
entry |2 pages
Fawcett, Henry
entry |1 pages
Fawcett, Philippa
entry |2 pages
Fearon, Daniel Robert
entry |1 pages
Findlay, Joseph John
entry |2 pages
Fisher, Herbert Albert Laurens
entry |1 pages
Fitch, Sir Joshua Girling
entry |3 pages
Fitzroy, Sir Almeric William
entry |1 pages
Fleming, David Pinkerton
entry |2 pages
Fletcher, Joseph
entry |1 pages
Forster, William Edward
entry |2 pages
Fortescue, Hugh
entry |1 pages
Foster, Vere Henry Lewis
entry |1 pages
Fox, William Johnson
entry |1 pages
Fraser, James
entry |1 pages
Freud, Dr Anna
entry |1 pages
Fry, Elizabeth
letter |13 pages
G
entry |2 pages
Galloway, Janet Ann
entry |1 pages
Galton, Sir Francis
entry |2 pages
Garnett, Dr William
entry |1 pages
Garrett
entry |2 pages
Gathorne-Hardy, Gathorne
entry |1 pages
Geddes, Sir Eric Campbell
entry |2 pages
Gilkes, Revd Arthur Herman
entry |1 pages
Gittins, Charles E.
entry |2 pages
Gladstone, William Ewart
entry |1 pages
Gleig, George Robert
entry |2 pages
Gore, Bishop Charles
entry |1 pages
Gorst, Sir John Eldon
entry |2 pages
Gould, Frederick James
entry |1 pages
Gould, Sir Ronald
entry |2 pages
Graham, Sir James Robert George
entry |1 pages
Granville, Leveson-Gower, George
entry |2 pages
Graves, Alfred Perceval
entry |1 pages
Graves, John James
entry |2 pages
Green, John Alfred
entry |1 pages
Green, Thomas Hill
entry |2 pages
Gregory, Robert
entry |1 pages
Grey, Maria Georgina
entry |1 pages
Grier, Lynda
entry |1 pages
Grote, George
letter |25 pages
H
entry |2 pages
Hadow, Sir William Henry
entry |1 pages
Hahn, Kurt Matthias Robert Martin
entry |2 pages
Haldane, Richard Burdon
entry |2 pages
Hamilton, Lord George Francis
entry |1 pages
Hamilton, Sir William
entry |2 pages
Harrison, Frederic
entry |1 pages
Hartog, Sir Philip Joseph
entry |2 pages
Hawtrey, Edward Craven
entry |1 pages
Hayward, Frank Herbert
entry |2 pages
Headlam, Revd Stewart Duckworth
entry |1 pages
Headlam-Morley, Sir James Wycliffe
entry |2 pages
Heath, Sir Henry Frank
entry |1 pages
Heller, Thomas Edmund
entry |2 pages
Henslow, Revd John Stevens
entry |1 pages
Hetherington, Sir Hector
entry |2 pages
Hetherington, Henry
entry |1 pages
Hewins, William Albert Samuel
entry |2 pages
Hickson, William Edward
entry |1 pages
Higdon, Annie Catharine
entry |2 pages
Hill, Matthew Davenport
entry |1 pages
Hill, Octavia
entry |2 pages
Hill, Rosamond Davenport
entry |2 pages
Hill, Sir Rowland
entry |1 pages
Hobhouse, Arthur
entry |2 pages
Hodgson, William Ballantyne
entry |1 pages
Hogben, Lancelot Thomas
entry |2 pages
Hogg, Quintin
entry |2 pages
Holland, Henry Scott
entry |1 pages
Hollowell, James Hirst
entry |1 pages
Holman, Henry
entry |3 pages
Holmes, Edmond Gore Alexander
entry |1 pages
Holmes, Sir Maurice Gerald
entry |2 pages
Holyoake, George Jacob
entry |2 pages
Hook, Walter Farquhar
entry |1 pages
Horner, Leonard
entry |2 pages
Horsbrugh, Florence Gertrude
entry |1 pages
Houghton, Sir William Frederick
entry |1 pages
Hubback, Eva Marion
entry |1 pages
Hughes, Thomas
entry |2 pages
Hullah, John Pyke
entry |2 pages
Huxley, Thomas Henry
letter |1 pages
I
entry |1 pages
Iles, John Cyril
entry |1 pages
Isaacs, Susan Sutherland
letter |7 pages
J
entry |1 pages
Jacks, Lawrence Pearsall
entry |2 pages
Jackson, Sir Cyril
entry |1 pages
Jackson, Sir Percy Richard
entry |2 pages
Jeffery, George Barker
entry |2 pages
Jex-Blake, Sophia
entry |1 pages
Jex-Blake, Thomas William
entry |2 pages
Johnson-Marshall, Stirrat Andrew William
entry |1 pages
Jones, Emily Elizabeth Constance
entry |2 pages
Jones, Sir Henry
entry |1 pages
Jones, John Viriamu
entry |2 pages
Jones, Thomas
entry |1 pages
Jowett, Benjamin
letter |8 pages
K
entry |1 pages
Kandel, Isaac Leon
entry |1 pages
Kane, Sir Robert John
entry |1 pages
Kay, Joseph
entry |2 pages
Kay-Shuttleworth, Sir James Phillips
entry |1 pages
Keate, John
entry |2 pages
Keenan, Sir Patrick Joseph
entry |1 pages
Kekewich, Sir George William
entry |2 pages
Kennedy, Benjamin Hall
entry |1 pages
Kennedy, William James
entry |1 pages
Kimmins, Charles William
entry |2 pages
King, Bolton
entry |1 pages
Kingsley, Charles
entry |1 pages
Klein, Melanie
entry |1 pages
Knox, Vicesimus
letter |13 pages
L
entry |2 pages
Labouchere, Henry
entry |2 pages
Lancaster, Joseph
entry |1 pages
Lane, Homer
entry |2 pages
Lansdowne, Petty-Fitzmaurice, Henry
entry |1 pages
Laurie, Simon Somerville
entry |1 pages
Lawrence, Dame Maude Agnes
entry |2 pages
Leach, Arthur Francis
entry |1 pages
Leathes, Sir Stanley Mordaunt
entry |1 pages
Lee, James Prince
entry |2 pages
Lethaby, William Richard
entry |2 pages
Lindsay, Alexander Dunlop
entry |1 pages
Lingen, Sir Ralph Robert Wheeler
entry |2 pages
Livingstone, Sir Richard Winn
entry |1 pages
Lockwood, Sir John Francis
entry |1 pages
Londonderry, Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Charles Stewart
entry |1 pages
Lovett, William
entry |2 pages
Lowe, Robert
entry |2 pages
Lubbock, Sir John
entry |1 pages
Ludlow, John Malcolm Forbes
entry |2 pages
Lyttelton, Edward
entry |1 pages
Lyttelton, George William
letter |24 pages
M
entry |1 pages
McDougall, William
entry |2 pages
MacHale, John
entry |1 pages
Mackail, John William
entry |2 pages
McKenna, Reginald
entry |1 pages
Mackinder, Sir Halford John
entry |2 pages
McMillan, Margaret
entry |1 pages
McMillan, Rachel
entry |2 pages
MacMunn, Norman
entry |2 pages
McNair, Arnold Duncan
entry |1 pages
Macnamara, Thomas James
entry |2 pages
Magnus, Sir Philip
entry |1 pages
Malthus, Thomas Robert
entry |1 pages
Mander, Sir Frederick
entry |1 pages
Mangnall, Richmal
entry |2 pages
Mannheim, Karl
entry |2 pages
Manning, Henry Edward
entry |2 pages
Mansbridge, Albert
entry |1 pages
Marriott, Sir John Arthur Ransome
entry |2 pages
Martineau, Harriet
entry |1 pages
Marvin, Francis Sydney
entry |2 pages
Mason, Charlotte Maria Shaw
entry |1 pages
Mason, Sir Josiah
entry |2 pages
Mason, Stewart Carlton
entry |1 pages
Masson, David
entry |2 pages
Maurice, (John) Frederick Denison
entry |1 pages
Mayo, Revd Charles
entry |2 pages
Mayo, Elizabeth
entry |1 pages
Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow
entry |2 pages
Miall, Edward
entry |1 pages
Mill, James
entry |2 pages
Mill, John Stuart
entry |1 pages
Moberly, George
entry |3 pages
Morant, Sir Robert Laurie
entry |1 pages
More, Hannah
entry |2 pages
Morell, John Daniel
entry |1 pages
Morley, Henry
entry |1 pages
Morrell, Derek Holtby
entry |1 pages
Morris, Henry
entry |1 pages
Morris, William
entry |2 pages
Morris, William Richard
entry |1 pages
Moseley, Revd Henry
entry |1 pages
Mundella, Anthony John
letter |7 pages
N
entry |1 pages
Neill, Alexander Sutherland
entry |1 pages
Nettleship, Richard Lewis
entry |1 pages
Newbolt, Sir Henry John
entry |2 pages
Newcastle, Pelham-Clinton, Henry Pelham Fiennes
entry |1 pages
Newman, Sir George
entry |2 pages
Newman, John Henry
entry |1 pages
Newsom, Sir John Hubert
entry |2 pages
Norris, John Pilkington
entry |1 pages
Northcote, Sir Stafford Henry
entry |1 pages
Norton
entry |3 pages
Norwood, Sir Cyril
entry |1 pages
Nuffield, Viscount
entry |1 pages
Nunn, Sir Thomas Percy
letter |2 pages
O
entry |2 pages
Owen, Hugh
entry |1 pages
Owen, Owen
entry |1 pages
Owen, Robert
letter |12 pages
P
entry |2 pages
Pakington, Sir John Somerset
entry |1 pages
Palgrave, Francis Turner
entry |2 pages
Pankhurst, Emmeline
entry |1 pages
Paton, John Brown
entry |2 pages
Paton, John Lewis
entry |1 pages
Pattison, Mark
entry |2 pages
Payne, Joseph
entry |1 pages
Pearse, Patrick Henry
entry |2 pages
Pease, Joseph Albert
entry |1 pages
Pelham, Sir Edward Henry
entry |2 pages
Penrose, Dame Emily
entry |1 pages
Percival, John
entry |2 pages
Percy, Eustace Sutherland Campbell
entry |2 pages
Pillans, James
entry |1 pages
Pipe, Hannah Elizabeth
entry |1 pages
Pitman, Sir James
entry |2 pages
Place, Francis
entry |2 pages
Playfair, Lyon
entry |1 pages
Pounds, John
entry |1 pages
Priestley, Joseph
entry |1 pages
Pullinger, Frank
letter |1 pages
Q
entry |1 pages
Quick, Robert Herbert
letter |15 pages
R
entry |1 pages
Raikes, Robert
entry |2 pages
Rathbone, Eleanor Florence
entry |1 pages
Rayleigh, Baron
entry |1 pages
Redcliffe-Maud, John Primatt Redcliffe
entry |2 pages
Reddie, Cecil
entry |2 pages
Reed, Sir Charles
entry |1 pages
Reichel, Sir Harry Rudolf
entry |2 pages
Reith, John Charles Walsham
entry |1 pages
Rennie, Belle
entry |2 pages
Richard, Henry
entry |2 pages
Richardson, Marion
entry |1 pages
Rigg, Revd Arthur
entry |2 pages
Rigg, James Harrison
entry |1 pages
Robbins, Lionel Charles
entry |2 pages
Robinson, Canon Hugh George
entry |1 pages
Robson, Edward Robert
entry |2 pages
Roby, Henry John
entry |1 pages
Rooper, Thomas Godolphin
entry |1 pages
Roscoe, Sir Henry Enfield
entry |2 pages
Ruskin, John
entry |2 pages
Russell, Bertrand Arthur William
entry |1 pages
Russell, Dora
entry |2 pages
Russell, Lord John
entry |2 pages
Russell, John Scott
entry |1 pages
Russell, Sir Lionel
entry |1 pages
Ryder, Dudley Francis Stuart
letter |25 pages
S
entry |2 pages
Sadler, Sir Michael Ernest
entry |1 pages
Samuelson, Sir Bernhard
entry |2 pages
Sanderson, Frederick William
entry |2 pages
Sandford, Francis Richard John
entry |1 pages
Sandon
entry |1 pages
Schofield, Herbert
entry |2 pages
Schonell, Sir Fred Joyce
entry |1 pages
Scott, Robert Pickett
entry |2 pages
Selby-Bigge, Sir Lewis Amherst
entry |1 pages
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper
entry |1 pages
Sharp, Sir Percival
entry |2 pages
Sharpe, Thomas Wetherhed
entry |1 pages
Shaw, George Bernard
entry |1 pages
Shirreff, Emily Anne Eliza
entry |2 pages
Sidgwick, Eleanor Mildred
entry |1 pages
Sidgwick, Henry
entry |2 pages
Simon, (Dorothy) Shena
entry |1 pages
Simpson, James
entry |2 pages
Simpson, James H.
entry |2 pages
Smiles, Samuel
entry |1 pages
Smith, Arthur Lionel
entry |2 pages
Smith, Sir Hubert Llewellyn
entry |1 pages
Smith, Sir Swire
entry |1 pages
Sneyd-Kynnersley, Edmund Mackenzie
entry |3 pages
Snow, Charles Percy
entry |2 pages
Solly, Henry
entry |1 pages
Somerville, Mary
entry |1 pages
Spearman, Charles Edward
entry |1 pages
Spencer, Frederick Herbert
entry |1 pages
Spencer, Herbert
entry |2 pages
Spencer, John Poyntz
entry |1 pages
Spens, Sir Will
entry |2 pages
Stainer, Sir John
entry |1 pages
Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn
entry |2 pages
Stanley, Edward George Geoffrey Smith
entry |2 pages
Stanley, Edward Lyulph
entry |1 pages
Stanley, Oliver Frederick George
entry |2 pages
Stenhouse, Lawrence
entry |1 pages
Stewart, Dugald
entry |1 pages
Stow, David
entry |1 pages
Strutt, John William
entry |1 pages
Stuart, James
entry |1 pages
Symonds, Sir Aubrey Vere
letter |9 pages
T
entry |1 pages
Taunton
entry |2 pages
Tawney, Richard Henry
entry |2 pages
Temple, Frederick
entry |1 pages
Temple, William
entry |2 pages
Thomson, Sir Godfrey (Hilton)
entry |2 pages
Thring, Edward
entry |1 pages
Tinling, Edward Douglas
entry |2 pages
Tomlinson, George
entry |1 pages
Toynbee, Arnold
entry |1 pages
Tremenheere, Hugh Seymour
entry |1 pages
Trevelyan, Sir Charles Edward
entry |2 pages
Trevelyan, Sir Charles Philips
entry |2 pages
Trimmer, Sarah
entry |1 pages
Tufnell, Edward Carleton
entry |1 pages
Turnbull, William Peveril
letter |2 pages
V
entry |1 pages
Valentine, Charles Wilfrid
entry |2 pages
Vaughan, Charles John
entry |1 pages
Vaughan, Henry Halford
letter |14 pages
W
entry |2 pages
Wallas, Graham
entry |1 pages
Walsh, Edward
entry |1 pages
Walsh, William John
entry |1 pages
Ward, Herbert
entry |2 pages
Ward, Mary Augusta
entry |2 pages
Warre, Edmond
entry |1 pages
Warren, Sir Thomas Herbert
entry |2 pages
Watson, Foster
entry |2 pages
Webb, Beatrice
entry |2 pages
Webb, Sidney James
entry |1 pages
Welldon, James Edward Cowell
entry |2 pages
Whately, Richard
entry |2 pages
Whewell, William
entry |1 pages
Whitehead, Alfred North
entry |2 pages
Whitworth, Sir Joseph
entry |1 pages
Wilderspin, Samuel
entry |2 pages
Wilkinson, Ellen Cicely
entry |1 pages
Williams, William
entry |2 pages
Wilson, John Dover
entry |1 pages
Withers, Harry Livingston
entry |2 pages
Wolfenden, Sir John Frederick
entry |1 pages
Wollstonecraft, Mary
entry |2 pages
Wood, Edward Frederick Lindley
entry |1 pages
Woodard, Nathaniel
entry |1 pages
Wyse, Sir Thomas
letter |1 pages
Y
entry |1 pages
Young, Robert Fitzgibbon
entry |1 pages
Yoxall, Sir James Henry
letter |1 pages
Z
entry |1 pages
Zimmern, Sir Alfred Eckhard