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Alfred Webb-Johnson, 1st Baron Webb-Johnson

He was educated at the Newcastle High School at Newcastle-under-Lyme and at the Manchester University Medical School.

Almohad reforms

He was also well educated, having studied across the Islamic world in Alexandria, Córdoba, Mecca, and Baghdad.

Boniface of Valperga

He was educated at home and subsequently by his uncle Arduino, Bishop of Turin.

Carl Hermann Credner

Credner was born at Gotha, educated at Breslau and Göttingen, and took the degree of Ph.D. at Breslau in 1864.

Charlie Higson

Higson was educated at Sevenoaks School and at the University of East Anglia (where his brother taught from 1986 to 2008, latterly as Professor of Film Studies) where he met Paul Whitehouse, David Cummings and Terry Edwards.

Charlotte Ritchie

Educated at James Allen's Girls' School in Dulwich South London, she took part as an uncredited extra in Harry Potter: The Goblet of Fire and went on to play the lead character in a short film The Open Doors with Michael Sheen and Cherie Lunghi.

Chautauqua, Illinois

Arriving first by packet boat, and later by automobile or the trains that ran by as often as six times a day, the vacationers were entertained, educated, and inspired by such luminaries like William Jennings Bryan, evangelists Sam Jones, Billy Sunday and Gypsy Smith, the Swiss Bell Ringers, John Philip Sousa’s band and "Sunny Jim," reputed to be one of the Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders.

Cyril Blažo

Blažo was educated in Bratislava, attending supš from 1984 to 1988, and the Academy of Fine Arts and Design (VŠVU) from 1988 to 1994.

David Bensusan-Butt

A nephew of the French Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro, and the son of Dr Ruth Bensusan-Butt (1877–1957), the first woman doctor to work in Essex, Bensusan-Butt was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, and King's College, Cambridge, where he was a student of John Maynard Keynes and indexed Keynes's magnum opus, the General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.

Doric de Souza

Born to Goan ournalist Armand de Souza, who was the editor of the Morning Leader and a founding member of the Ceylon National Congress, Doric was educated at as a young child at St Bridgets Convent, and then at St. Joseph's College, Colombo as well the University College, Colombo where he graduated with a BA honours in English.

Erik Bodom

Bodom was born in Vestby, and was educated in Christiania (modern-day Oslo), but concerned himself more with drawing than his studies.

Frances Adamson

Adamson was born in Adelaide, Australia, and educated at Walford Anglican School for Girls and The University of Adelaide, where she received a Bachelor of Economics.

Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg

In accordance with traditional Prussian noble practices, the children were at first strictly educated privately by a governess.

Gary Sykes

Educated at Birkdale High School he is based in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire and is a former British super featherweight champion.

Gligorije Trlajić

Gligorije Trlajić was educated in Segedin, Buda, and Pesth, and studied law at the University of Vienna before he entered the bureaucracy in the department of justice in which he rose rapidly to be assistant to the solicitor-general in Vienna.

Glyn James

He was educated at Oswestry Boys High School, where he played for the school team as well as turning out for Gobowen Juniors and the Druids club at Ruabon.

Grace Noll Crowell

She was educated at the German-English college in Wilton, Iowa.

Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone

Educated at St Paul’s School, London, Janner was evacuated to Canada during the war and attended Bishop's College School, Lennoxville, Quebec.

H. Chandler Elliott

Elliott was educated at the University of Toronto where he received a B.A. in 1930 and a M.A. in 1935.

Hector Munro Chadwick

He was born in Thornhill, West Yorkshire, and was educated at Wakefield Grammar School and Clare College, Cambridge.

Herbert Cozens-Hardy, 1st Baron Cozens-Hardy

He was born in Letheringsett, Norfolk in 1838, the second son of William Hardy Cozens-Hardy and was educated at Amersham School.

Isabel Dodge Sloane

Educated at Detroit's exclusive Liggett School for Girls, her family's great wealth brought her in contact with America's social elite and in 1921 she married Manhattan stockbroker, George Sloane.

Jack Cotton

Jack Cotton was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, then at Cheltenham College.

Jeremiah Halpern

Jeremiah Halpern was educated at The Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium in Tel Aviv and following his high school education graduated as a Captain from the Italian Naval Academy in 1917.

Joachim Friedrich von Blumenthal

The son of Christoph von Blumenthal and his wife Dorothea von Hacke, and the first cousin of General von Königsmarck, he was educated privately by the family tutor Johannes Crüger from the age of 10, and then attended the Viadrina from 1622, at the age of 15.

Joan Walmsley, Baroness Walmsley

She was educated at Notre Dame High School in Liverpool, before attending Liverpool University from where she graduated with a BSc in Biology in 1966, and later completed a PGCE at Manchester Polytechnic in 1979.

Joe Gladwin

He was baptised on 28 January 1906 at Mount Carmel RC Church, Ordsall and educated at the parish school.

John Forrester

Forrester was born in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent and was educated at Eastwood (local authority run) School, the City School of Commerce in Stoke-on-Trent, and Alsager teacher training college in Cheshire.

John L. Jinks

He was educated at Birmingham University and remained there for the majority of his career, contributing to the development of biometrical genetics, human behavioural genetics, and supervising a number of students who went on to make their own contributions, among them David Fulker.

John Norton, 5th Baron Grantley

Norton was born in Florence, Italy, the son of Thomas Norton, 4th Baron Grantley and his wife, Maria, née Federigo, and a grandson of Caroline Norton, the writer, and was educated at Harrow School and the University of Dresden.

John Short

Born in Richmond, Upper Canada and educated in Lennoxville, Canada East, he was the son of the Reverend Robert Short and Margaret Lyon, the grandson of John Quirk Short and the great-grandson of Robert Quirk Short.

K. Krishnamurthy

Born in Kottayam on 22 October 1915, Krishnamurthy was educated in Kottayam, University College Trivandrum, Presidency College, Madras and Hertford College, Oxford.

Metal Marines

He was educated in public schools and attended the General H. Norman Schwarzkopf Academy of Military Sciences.

Mohit Banerji

Mohit Banerji’s formative years were spent in West Bengal, having been educated at Midnapore Collegiate School followed by tertiary undergraduate study at the University of Calcutta.

Niels Frederiksen

Niels Frederiksen is educated in economics, and worked in Danske Bank for several years, while having a part time job as youth coach at B93 and Lyngby Boldklub.

Parker Burrell

Burrell was educated at The Pas, Manitoba, and received a Certificate of Communications in Cranberry Portage.

Peter Mews

Mews was born at Caundle Purse in Dorset, and was educated at the Merchant Taylors' School, London, and at St John's College, Oxford, of which he was scholar and fellow.

Rajiv Dixit

Under the tutelage of his father Radhe Shyam Dixit, he was educated till the 12th grade in the village schooling system in Firozabad.

Reinhard Keiser

Keiser was born in Teuchern (in present-day Saxony-Anhalt), son of the organist and teacher Gottfried Keiser (born about 1650), and educated by other organists in the town and then from age eleven at the Thomasschule in Leipzig, where his teachers included Johann Schelle and Johann Kuhnau, direct predecessors of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Richland, Iowa

All the high school students from these four towns, along with all the rural areas which had been associated with these separate school systems, were then educated at a new building located near Pekin.

Robert Harwood

He was educated at the Collège Saint-Sulpice in Montreal, and became a Captain in the Vaudreuil Militia, also serving as a warden for the County of Vaudreuil.

Robert V. Jackson

He was raised in Nkana, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) where his father worked on the copper mines and was educated at Falcon College in Rhodesia and St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he rose to the presidency of the Oxford Union.

Samuel Lyness Howe

He was born in St. Vincent township, Grey County, Ontario, the son of Andrew Howe and Margaret Lyness, and was educated at the Ontario College of Pharmacy.

Sebastian Castellio

Having been educated at the age of twenty at the University of Lyon, Castellio was fluent in both French and Italian, and became an expert in Latin, Hebrew and Greek as well.

Sir George Staunton, 1st Baronet

He was born in Cargins, Co Galway, Ireland and educated at the Jesuit College, Toulouse, France (abtaining an MD in 1758) and the School of Medicine in Montpellier, France.

Tibor Scitovsky

He was educated at the Pázmány Péter University (from which he held an undergraduate degree in law), University of Cambridge, and the London School of Economics.

Vasily Lanovoy

Lanovoy is married to Irina Kupchenko, herself a famous Soviet actress and a fellow Ukrainian educated in Kiev.

William Munnings Arnold

He was educated at home and then at private schools in Lowestoft and High Wycombe.

Willy Decker

Decker was born in Pulheim near Cologne and was educated first at the Rheinischen Musikschule in Cologne where he studied violin and later at the University of Cologne and the Hochschule für Musik Köln where he studied philosophy, theatre, music, and singing.


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