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8 unusual facts about Thomas Arnold


August Neander

In addition to all these he published Denkwürdigkeiten aus der Geschichte des Christentums (1823-1824, 2 vols., 1825, 3 vols., 1846); Das Eine und Mannichfaltige des christlichen Lebens (1840); papers on Plotinus, Thomas Aquinas, Theobald Thamer, Blaise Pascal, John Henry Newman, Blanco White and Thomas Arnold, and other occasional pieces (Kleine Gelegenheitsschriften, 1829), mainly of a practical, exegetical and historical character.

Historia de Sancto Cuthberto

The text was divided into 33 chapters by its 19th-century editor, Thomas Arnold.

Shibli Nomani

He traveled with Thomas Arnold in 1892 to Syria, Egypt, Turkey and other countries of the Middle East and got direct and practical experience of their societies.

He taught Persian and Arabic languages at Aligarh for sixteen years where he met Thomas Arnold and other British scholars from whom he learned first hand modern Western ideas and thoughts.

Thomas Arnold

However, his reputation suffered as one of the Eminent Victorians in Lytton Strachey's book of that name published in 1918.

He has been played several times in adaptations of Tom Brown's School Days, including by Sir Cedric Hardwicke in the 1940 film version, Robert Newton in the 1951 film version, Iain Cuthbertson in the 1971 television version and Stephen Fry in the 2005 television version.

They had five daughters and five sons, including the poet Matthew Arnold, the literary scholar Tom, and the author William Delafield Arnold.

William Edward Addis

Addis was the author of Anglicanism and the Fathers, Anglican Misrepresentation, and of the "Catholic Dictionary" (London, 1883) compiled in conjunction with Thomas Arnold,.


Arnold Ward

Ward was the son of Humphry "Thomas" Ward, a fellow and tutor of Brasenose College and Mary Augusta Ward, a popular author; grandson of Tom Arnold; greatgrandson of Thomas Arnold, the famous headmaster of Rugby School.

Francis Charles Massingberd

The previous summer, together with his friend William Ralph Churton, he had accompanied Thomas Arnold in a visit to Italy to determine the line of Hannibal's passage over the Alps, and to explore the battlefields of his campaign, for the purposes of Arnold's Roman History.


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