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3 unusual facts about Roger Ascham


Corporal punishment

Meanwhile, early writers on education, such as Roger Ascham, complained of the arbitrary manner in which children were punished.

Nathaniel Westlake

The subjects were 'Lady Jane Grey discourses with Roger Ascham' and 'By Industry and Perseverance', symbolising the importance of female endeavour in higher education.

Whittlesford

Roger Ascham, the tutor of Elizabeth I, lived in Whittlesford, and a road in the village is named after him.


John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor

He also edited the English works of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester (1876); Thomas Baker's History of St John's College, Cambridge (1869); Richard of Cirencester's Speculum historiale de gestis regum Angliae 447–1066 (1863–1869); Roger Ascham's Schoolmaster (new ed., 1883); the Latin Heptateuch (1889); and the Journal of Philology.


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