Mallory, a 37-year-old schoolmaster at Charterhouse, had already proven himself at climbing at high altitude.
But it is Fowler, that supposedly starchy old schoolmaster, who is the most striking opponent of rigidity.
He was born in Birmingham in January 1922 to a village schoolmaster and grew up in Hurstpierpoint in Sussex.
But the boys were only eleven, and the affair was broken up by a priest and schoolmaster named Manolo.
His schoolmaster father had contracted tuberculosis, and young Ka-shing suffered a milder bout but worked through it ("I always had a fighting heart").
Her father, who was a railway signalman at the time of her birth, decided to make the uncommon step-up to becoming a schoolmaster.
The village chief and the local schoolmaster can often influence votes without visibly campaigning: a hint of new buildings or wells can make up wavering minds.
Personally, I feel a bit like an old schoolmaster.
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And more than all, if just previous to putting your hand into the tar-pot, you have been lording it as a country schoolmaster, making the tallest boys stand in awe of you.
The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it.
The painting, also the same size, was previously identified as Constable's schoolmaster from Dedham, Dr Thomas Lechmere Grimwood, based on its description in a 1926 Sotheby's sale catalogue as a 'Portrait of the artist's schoolmaster'.
But the retired schoolmaster was arrested again in 2004 and was convicted of murder the following year at Manchester Crown Court and jailed for life, and told he must serve a minimum of 15 years before being considered for parole.
In the spring of 1994, in Kigali, Rwanda, three Westerners a wily Catholic priest and schoolmaster (John Hurt), his sincere young disciple (Hugh Dancy), and a Belgian military man (Dominique Horwitz) who heads a U.N. unit hunker down in a besieged school with about twenty-five hundred Tutsis under their protection.
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