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7 unusual facts about tutor


Claude Aurelius Elliott

He had an undistinguished scholastic career at Eton, but on going up to Trinity College, Cambridge, he discovered a natural bent as an historian, taking his BA in 1909, and becoming a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge in 1910, and a Tutor in 1914.

Saliba

Tutor-Saliba Corporation, American building contractor and heavy civil works construction company

Tutor

In “Cruel Intentions” (1999), starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon, and Selma Blair, a wealthy and naïve Manhattan teenager (Cecile, played by Blair) falls in love with her music tutor.

My Tutor, a 1983 movie directed by George Bowers, is about a group high school grads trying to lose their virginity before college, and one of them has a relationship with his female French tutor.

Tutor-Saliba Corporation

Investors put in $200 million in capital while raising $400 million in liabilities through a Barclays led group of banks.

Mike Lang, former business development executive at News Corporation, was selected as the CEO of Miramax, and the sale, estimated around US$663 million, includes 700 film titles, as well as 90 book rights, 300 development projects and the "Miramax" name.

On December 3, 2010, Tutor-Saliba Corporation entered into the film business when Disney closed the sale of Miramax to Filmyard Holdings, which is an investment group they became a part of along with Qatar Investment Authority, Colony Capital and The Weinstein Company.


Adolf Spiess

After graduation, Spiess became private tutor in the family of the Hessian Count Solms-Rödelheim, at Assenheim.

Afrosinya

She was the property of Alexei's tutor, Prince Nikifor Vyazemsky, but had originally been a captive from Finland, then a Swedish province, and was thereby a Swedish citizen.

Allan M. Collins

With collaborator Jaime Carbonell, Collins produced the first documented example of an intelligent tutor system called SCHOLAR CAI (computer-assisted instruction).

Anabasis Alexandri

Arrian was able to use sources which are now lost, such as the contemporary works by Callisthenes (the nephew of Alexander's tutor Aristotle), Onesicritus, Nearchus, and Aristobulus, and the slightly later work of Cleitarchus.

Battle of the Fischa

The opponents were a Bavarian army led by duke Henry XI and the Hungarian army under the leadership of king Géza II and his uncle and palatine Beloš Vukanović, who formerly served as regent and tutor for the underage Géza II.

Benjamin Robinson

He began life as chaplain and tutor in the family of Sir John Gell at Hopton, Derbyshire.

Benjamin Silliman

He studied law with Simeon Baldwin from 1798 to 1799 and became a tutor at Yale from 1799 to 1802.

Bernard André

A native of Toulouse, André was tutor to Prince Arthur of England, and probably had a share in the education of the future King Henry VIII.

Billie Godfrey

Godfrey is also a lecturer and vocal tutor at the Brighton Institute of Modern Music.

Caledon Egerton

Four of their sons were knighted, including Field Marshal Sir Charles Egerton, Sir Reginald Egerton (Private Secretary to the Postmaster-General), Admiral Sir George Egerton, and Sir Brian Egerton (tutor to Ganga Singh, the Maharaja of Bikaner).

Christopher W. Baker

He played the part of an artist and painting tutor in Joanna Hogg's film Archipelago, shot on Tresco, Isles of Scilly in 2009.

Craig Raine

He became poetry editor at publishers Faber and Faber in 1981, and has been a fellow of New College, Oxford, since 1991, retiring from his post as tutor in June 2010.

Encyclopédie

With Judith Hawley, Senior Lecturer in English at Royal Holloway, University of London; Caroline Warman, Fellow and Tutor in French at Jesus College, Oxford; and David Wootton, Anniversary Professor of History at the University of York, and presented by Melvyn Bragg.

François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac

Francois Hédelin was educated in law, but after practising some time at Nemours, he abandoned law, took holy orders, and was appointed tutor to one of Richelieu's nephews, the duc de Fronsac.

Frederick Geoffrey Lawrence

After graduation he acted as tutor to two sons of Jan Masaryk, travelling with the family to the United States of America, and Prague.

Friedrich Justin Bertuch

Christoph Martin Wieland, tutor at the Weimar court and publisher of the "Teutschen Merkur", cooperated with Bertuch from 1782 to 1786 and provided him with his way into the Weimar court.

Fritz Reuter

In 1850 he settled as a private tutor in the little town of Treptow an der Tollense in Pomerania (today Altentreptow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern), and was now able to marry Luise Kuntze, the daughter of a Mecklenburg pastor.

Gene Calderazzo

Gene Calderazzo is an American jazz drummer, born in New York, but currently residing in the United Kingdom, where he is a visiting tutor at the Birmingham Conservatoire, the Royal Academy of Music, Trinity and the Guildhall.

Giuseppe Agujari

After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, he later enrolled at the Municipal Technical School of Trieste, where his brother Tito Agujari was his tutor.

H. P. Bulmer

In 1889, his elder brother Fred (Edward Frederick Bulmer), coming down from King's College, Cambridge, turned down the offer of a post as tutor to the children of the King of Siam to join Percy in his fledgling cider business.

I Bought a Flat Guitar Tutor

"I Bought a Flat Guitar Tutor" is a song by 10cc appearing on their 1977 album, Deceptive Bends.

Jacques Georges Deyverdun

He also acted as tutor to several English noblemen on the Grand Tour such as Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl of Chesterfield and Sir Richard Worsley, 7th Baronet.

Jane Martha St. John

Her brother Michael, 21 years her senior had married and her brother William, 18 years older than his sister, was continuing his education at Eton and at Edinburgh with his tutor Sydney Smith, leaving her as the only child at home.

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.

John Buckeridge

He became a fellow of his college, and acted as tutor to William Laud, whose opinions were perhaps shaped by Buckeridge.

John Ruthven, 3rd Earl of Gowrie

Gowrie had thus been already deeply engaged in treasonable conspiracy when, in August 1594, he proceeded to Italy with his tutor, William Rhynd, to study at the University of Padua.

Joshua Bayes

Being dedicated from his birth to the nonconformist ministry, he was placed under the tuition of Richard Frankland, of Attercliffe in Yorkshire, on 15 Nov. 1686.

Juan Luis Vives

Soon afterwards, he was invited to England, and acted as tutor to the Princess Mary, for whose use he wrote De ratione studii puerilis epistolae duae (1523) and, ostensibly, De Institutione Feminae Christianae, on the education of girls (a book he dedicated to the English queen, Catherine of Aragon).

Karl Friedrich August Kahnis

From a poor background, Kahnis was educated at the gymnasium of his native town Greiz, and after acting as private tutor for several years began the study of theology at Halle.

Lizzy Dijeh

In July 2007 she was one of six writers selected by the Royal Court Theatre to attend the 10th World Interplay Festival in Australia as the UK representative alongside the playwright and UK tutor for that year, Tanika Gupta.

Louis Dutens

On his return to England the Duke of Northumberland procured him the living of Elsdon, in Northumberland, and made Dutens overseer and senior travel companion - in effect, tutor - to his younger son during his Grand Tour.

Louis Napoleon George Filon

He born at Saint-Cloud, near Paris, the only child of Augustin Filon, the French littérateur who was appointed as the official tutor to the Prince Imperial.

Max Haushofer

He was born in Nymphenburg, the son of a tutor at the court of the Bavarian King Maximilian I.

Metrodorus of Athens

It chanced that Aemilius Paulus, visiting Athens on his return from his victory over Perseus of Macedon in 168 BC, asked for a tutor for his children and a painter to glorify his triumph.

Michel Amelot de Gournay

In 1682 he was appointed ambassador to Venice, in which post he took with him as secretary his tutor, the connoisseur Roger de Piles.

Miles Gerard

Descended perhaps from the Gerards of Ince, he was, about 1576, tutor to the children of Squire Edward Tyldesley, at Morleys Hall, near Astley, Lancashire.

My Daughter Seo-young

However, her life will take a dramatic change after being hired by the wealthy Kang family as a live-in tutor their youngest son, Kang Sung-jae (Lee Jung-shin).

Peter of Blois

Peter went with Stephen du Perche and Walter of the Mill to Sicily in 1166 and there became the tutor to King William II of Sicily in 1167.

Puroshottam Choudhary

Later, he looks been influenced by other Christian evangelists like Helen Knott, General Adjutant Evalin, and Major Brett from East India Company—While working as a tutor in Parlakimedi, he sent a letter to Serampore-press, and through Roman Catholics who happened to know his letter, he was directed to Helen Knott, who gave Gospel of Luke and two tracts—In May 1833, he went to Vizagapatnam to meet missionaries, then-overseen by Major Brett.

Quinquatria

His old tutor, Anicetus, whom he had raised to be captain of the fleet of Misenum, had undertaken to construct a vessel which could be sunk, without exciting suspicion.

Richard Smethurst

In the following academic year (1965/66) he was simultaneously Fellow and Tutor in Economics at St Edmund Hall, Oxford and consultant to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization programme at the Oxford Institute of Commonwealth Studies.

Ruan Xiaoqi

Wu Yong succeeds in persuading the Ruan brothers to join Chao Gai, himself, Gongsun Sheng and Liu Tang to rob the convoy of birthday gifts for the Imperial Tutor, Cai Jing.

Sergei Pavlovich Baltacha

Baltacha is currently a physical education teacher and tutor at Bacon's College in South East London, having formerly been a physical education teacher at Geoffrey Chaucer Technology College (Old Kent Road, London) and a coach at the Charlton Athletic academy.

St. Michael's Catholic High School

Each tutor group is named after a monastic institution of learning, namely: Fountains Abbey, Iona Abbey, Abbey of Kells, Lindisfarne Abbey, Rievaulx Abbey and Whitby Abbey.

Tenshō embassy

They were accompanied by two servants, their tutor and interpreter Diego de Mesquita, and their mentor Valignano, who only accompanied them as far as Goa in Portuguese India, where he was to take up new responsibilities.

Walter of the Mill

He was long thought to be an Englishman who came to Sicily with Peter of Blois and Stephen du Perche at the direction of Rotrou, Archbishop of Rouen, cousin of Queen Margaret of Navarre, originally as a tutor to the royal children of William I of Sicily and Margaret.

Warwick Collins

Collins studied biology at Sussex University, where his tutor was the leading theoretical biologist John Maynard Smith.

Wellingborough School

Wellingborough School RAF section is linked to No. 5 Air Experience Flight at RAF Wyton, where cadets are flown on Friday afternoons in the Grob Tutor training aircraft, and to 616 Volunteer Gliding Squadron, at RAF Henlow in Bedfordshire, where cadets go on Sundays to fly in the Grob Vigilant motor glider, and where Flt Lt Walker is a C Category instructor.


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