Sentences with phrase «at eton»

Tom was educated at Eton, commissioned as an officer from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, studied History at Bristol University and converted to law at the Oxford Institute of Legal Practice.

He was educated at Eton College and Magdalen College, Oxford where he was awarded a First Class degree in modern languages.

At Eton, he'd been shown a 17th - century Mughal painting by a teacher and in his 20s had become, despite modest means, something of a collector of Indian art.

In 2013 he organised an exhibition on the Topham Collection at Eton College Library and in 2015 has co-curated with Anne Varick Lauder the exhibition Drawn from the Antique: Artists and the Classical Ideal, held at the Sir John Soane's Museum in London and at the Teylers Museum in Haarlem.

[7] On returning, he was educated at Eton College [8] and then at Bryanston School in Dorset.

Katherine is the current artist in residence at Eton College, Windsor and is the recipient of numerous awards, most recently the «London Original Print Fair Prize» at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 2014 and «The Printmaking Toda» y prize at the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers 2014.

Liane Lang: Old School @ James Freeman As artist in residence at Eton College Liane Lang has photographed the historic chapel populated with eerie mannequins and created bronze casts of the carvings on the wall.

Old School is a solo exhibition of new photographic and sculptural work that resulted from her time at Eton.

Both of these prints were made in 2016 and are images of the very elaborate barley - sugar - like Tudor chimneys at Eton College, where I was artist - in - residence last year.

He was educated at Eton college, Berkshire, and, after national service with the Welsh Guards, read history at Pembroke College, Cambridge.

In 2007 his work was included in «Scratching the Surface» at Eton Drawing Schools (with Francesca Simon, Stuart Geddes and Gary Wragg), and in June 2008 in the RA Summer Exhibition and in an exhibition, with Marilyn Hallam, in the Art into Hospitals scheme at the Conquest Hospital, East Sussex.

When we first meet young James, he's just started boarding school at Eton in the 1930's, and from there, the action moves to the Highlands of Scotland, where Alfie Kelly, a local boy, has gone missing.

He was educated at Eton and graduated from the University of Edinburgh with First Class Honours in English Literature in 1994.

Fleming had grown up in the embrace of the British aristocracy: educated at Eton and Sandhurst, the scion of a wealthy banking family.

The first time he did this was actually at Eton.

He taught French and German for two years at Eton before entering the British Foreign Service.

Grandson of the prominent biologist T.H. Huxley and third child of the biographer Leonard Huxley, he was educated at Eton and went on to study at Balliol College, Oxford.

But it is likely to recommend a range of safeguards to avoid the problems that emerged at Eton.

Ofqual also published an interim review on allowing teachers to act as examiners, after the Guardian revealed exam malpractice at Eton involving the Pre-U examinations this summer.

Accounts from 2015 show the highest earner at Eton College was paid at least # 230,000.

The Schools Together Group summer conference was organised this year at Eton College on May 24 2017 and was aimed at those interested in building partnership programmes in the independent and the stat...

Holyport use Eton's sports facilities both for regular sessions and matches, along with the rowing lake at Eton Dorney.

This year, senior staff at Eton and Winchester College allegedly released confidential exam information to colleagues and pupils.

Now the machines will do the routine work and everyone will need the skills that used to be taught — and probably still are — at Eton and Harrow.

All the rest of what we call 21st century skills were taught at Eton and Harrow in the 1890's to the future masters of the British Empire — critical thinking, communications, teamwork, leadership, blah, blah, blah.

10.30 am update from PA: «Tory leader David Cameron today admitted he had done things in his past he «should not have done and regretted» over allegations he smoked cannabis as a schoolboy at Eton.

Born in New York, Johnson, 52, studied at Eton and Oxford University before working as a journalist.

Cameron then attended Eton College, which, according to the school's own website, has previously educated 18 British prime ministers (from Sir Robert Walpole in the 1700s to Alec Douglas - Home), a Northern Irish premier and current Thai leader Abhisit Vejjajiva, whose time at Eton overlapped with Cameron.

Robin Young, I can't see how being educated at Eton disqualifies a person from being able to understand the educational needs of state sector schools.

Is it me, or is there now any irony to see Fiona Mactaggart criticise the Prime Minister for calling Dennis Skinner a dinosaur, and then trying to imply that the perceived rudeness is down to being schooled at Eton, thereby trying to make class the line of attack?

So, I asked, had he given the boys at Eton a full day holiday when David Cameron became prime minister?

Swire's cousin — with whom he would have overlapped at Eton — is Nigel Oakes, founder of Strategic Communications Laboratories.

Through checking Alan's personal papers, looking at his service files held by the Ministry of Defence and the Household Cavalry, and by talking to contemporaries at Eton and Oxford, Trewin concluded that while Alan had been nominally on the books of the Household Cavalry Training Regiment he probably never completed his National Service.

He described the «soundings» of five Tory grandees, four of whom, like Home and Macmillan had been to school at Eton, as a stitch up by an Etonian «magic circle».

Bill Wiggin, a Tory whip and contemporary of Mr Cameron at Eton, also got the benefit of the doubt, even though his mistake was similar to the actions of the suspended Labour MPs David Chaytor and Elliot Morley — claiming for a «phantom mortgage.»

He then tore into Tory leader Mr Cameron by mocking his background and allegations of drug taking at Eton.

In a thinly - veiled swipe at Eton - educated David Cameron, the one - time leadership rival told a meeting on grammer schools the only winners from the death of the selective education system were the public school boys who now «dominate» Britain.

But a 2007 biography of the Tory leader by James Hanning and Francis Elliott revealed that he was disciplined for using cannabis while he was at Eton.

The book says that Lord Richards once had to tell Cameron that «being in the Combined Cadet Force at Eton» did not qualify him to decide tactics for complex military operations.

The PM thus blew a long, masterful raspberry, one so finessed it could only have been learnt in the shadowy confines of prep at Eton targeted at the back of a gowned professor; he yah - boo - sucks - to - youed repeatedly about Ed and his pals spending too much time with the big boys in that silly red uniform with the hammers and sickles from the school next door, Unite City High — which soon became Unite City blues...

Johnson, at some stage in his school career, accepts that they are being groomed to rule over others, and towards the end of his time at Eton, he has become «conscious of Tory feelings».

He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, University of Oxford, where he received an MA in PPE.

Every parent paying # 30,000 per year at Eton would be contributing # 6000 to the pupil premium, still leaving a hefty # 24,000 to be spent on the best schooling that money can buy.

Existing facilities at Wimbledon and Lord's Cricket Ground, the lake at Eton Dorney and the historic Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich will all be used, as will the Dome in Greenwich.

He was two years behind David Cameron at Eton.

In an engaging way Waldegrave recounts how, at the age of fifteen, a schoolmaster at Eton told his class to write out their life's ambitions.

The rain stayed away for the announcement of the Team GB paddlers at Eton Dorney Rowing Lake.

Two very quick thoughts on medal - stories from the day's action 1) The «Tall and talented» programme bears fruit So the hosts got on the Gold medal board today, courtesy Heather Stanning and Helen Glover who absolutely dominated the women's pair rowing final at Eton Dorney.

After another attack, an All Saints player fired a shot at the Eton Messi goalkeeper, which he managed to save but once again failed to keep to control of the ball.

Raised on the Isle of Wight and educated at Eton, Grylls (33) had a stint in the military before becoming the youngest man to climb Mount Everest at 23 (this has since been beaten).