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unusual facts about The Cathedral School, Llandaff


Thomas Mathews

He was born at Llandaff Court, Llandaff, the son of Colonel Edward Mathews (died 1700), and grandson on his mother's side of Sir Thomas Armstrong (1624–1684) (who was executed in 1684, for his part in the Rye House Plot).


Act of Uniformity 1558

The bishop of Llandaff, Anthony Kitchin, refused to officiate at Parker's consecration; thus instead bishops deposed and exiled by Mary assisted: William Barlow, former Bishop of Bath and Wells, John Scory, former Bishop of Chichester, Miles Coverdale, former Bishop of Exeter, and John Hodgkins, former Bishop of Bedford.

Anthony Kitchin

Indeed, one historian has written of Kitchin that he was a 'timeserver who would doubtless have become a Hindu if required, provided he was allowed to hold on to the See of Llandaff' (Eamon Duffy, 'Fires of Faith', p. 23).

BBC Wales Today

Wales Today is the BBC's national news programme for Wales, broadcast on BBC One Wales from the headquarters of BBC Wales in Llandaff, Cardiff.

Diocese of Llandaff

Dubricius was only active in Ergyng and Gwent, while Teilo's associations with Llandaff have been transferred from his great abbey at Llandeilo Fawr.

Earl Landaff

Despite their territorial designations and the fact that they were in the Peerage of Ireland, the titles all referred to the place in Glamorgan now spelt Llandaff.

Glyn Simon

As the Dean of Llandaff, Simon was largely responsible for the reconstruction of the war-damaged nave of the cathedral, commissioning Epstein's Majestas or statue of Christ in Majesty.

Howell's School Llandaff

It was originally housed in a building designed by Decimus Burton, on the outskirts of the village of Llandaff.

Idloes Owen

In November 1943, at a gathering of a small group of music lovers, at his home in Llandaff, he was instrumental in forming The Lyrian Grand Opera Company.

Ivor Atkins

Born into a Welsh musical family at Llandaff, Atkins graduated with a bachelor of music degree from The Queen's College, Oxford in 1892, and subsequently obtained a Doctorate in Music (Oxford).

Jeremiah Homfray

In 1787 he married Mary, the daughter of John Richards of Llandaff, and after this for many years resided at Llandaff House.

Landaff, New Hampshire

The name on the town charter is Llandaff, after the Bishop of Llandaff, chaplain to England's King George III.

Lichfield Gospels

The 'altar of St. Teilo" has in the past been associated with the monastery at Llandaff but, as it has been determined that the third, fourth and sixth marginal inscriptions refer to lands within fifteen miles of Llandeilo Fawr, it is now thought that the book originated there.

Llandough, Penarth

The current church, which was built in the middle of the 19th century by the Llandaff diocesan architects, Prichard and Seddon, replaced one built a few years earlier, which was apparently sold to the next village of Leckwith, and moved piece-by-piece to be erected there.

Luca Bellisomo

In Australia, Bellisomo was student at The Cathedral School of St Anne & St James in the Australian town of Townsville, Queensland, and went on to play for the Queensland Academy of Sport, the Queensland U-17 state team, and the North Queensland schoolboys side.

Merthyr Dyfan

In the 6th century, St Teilo, the founder of Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff, was made a patron saint of the church along with Llandaff.

Mundingburra, Queensland

Services in Mundingburra include three schools, Mundingburra State School (prep-year 7), St Josephs (prep-year 7) and The Cathedral School (prep-year 12).

Pentre

In 1857 Edward Curteis of Llandaff leased the mineral rights of Tyr-y-Pentre from Griffith Llewellyn of Baglan and soon had two levels opened, the Pentre and Church.

Richard Newcombe

Richard Newcome (1701–1769) or Newcombe, English bishop of Llandaff and bishop of St Asaph

Smalbroke family

He obtained a fellowship and, in 1712, became chaplain to Archbishop Thomas Tenison and treasurer of Llandaff, Wales.

The Cathedral School

Episcopal Collegiate School (formerly named The Cathedral School), Little Rock, Arkansas, United States

The Cathedral School, Llandaff

David Bevan, Sang in the choir at Westminster Abbey for the Queen's Coronation (1953) - received Coronation Medal for 'Personal Service to the Sovereign" - Dean's Scholar and Captain of Rugby in 1954)

The Cathedral School, Townsville

One of the founding houses, More House, is named after the lawyer and scholar, Thomas More, who was beheaded in 1535 after he refused to sign an Act of Supremacy declaring King Henry VIII Royal Supremacy to the Church of England.

Tideman

Robert Tideman of Winchcombe, medieval Bishop of Llandaff and Bishop of Worcester

William Wotton

Whilst at Carmarthen he also conducted surveys of the cathedrals of St David's and Llandaff which were published by his friend Browne Willis in 1717 and 1718.


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