Dr. Thomas Arnold

1795 - 1842  (46 years)    Has 2 ancestors and 32 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Thomas Arnold
  Prefix	Dr.
  Birth	13 Jun 1795	Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England
  Gender	Male
  Death	12 Jun 1842
  Person ID	I514523	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	4 May 2014

  
  

  Father	William Arnold   d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	Martha de la Field   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F272172	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Penrose   d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	three daughters and four sons,
  Children	+ 1. Professor Tom Arnold,   b. 1823   d. 1900 (Age 77 years) + 2. Matthew Arnold,   b. 24 Dec 1822   d. 15 Apr 1888 (Age 65 years) + 3. William Delafield Arnold,   b. 7 Apr 1828   d. 9 Apr 1859, Gibraltar, British Oversea Territory (Age 31 years)   4. Jane Martha Arnold   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F272179	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	26 Mar 2009

  
  

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  the headmaster of Rugby School (immortalised as a character in Tom Brown's Schooldays ) a British educator and historian. Arnold was an early supporter of the Broad Church Anglican movement. He was headmaster of Rugby School from 1828 to 1841, where he introduced a number of reforms. He was educated at Winchester and Corpus Christi College, Oxford . There he excelled at Classics and was made a fellow of Oriel in 1815. Arnold's appointment to the headship of the renowned Rugby School , after some years as a tutor, turned the school's fortunes around, and his force of character and religious zeal enabled him to turn it into a model followed by the other public schools, exercising an unprecedented influence on the educational system of the country. He is portrayed as a leading character in the novel, Tom Brown's Schooldays . He was involved in many controversies, educational and religious. As a churchman he was a decided Erastian , and strongly opposed to the High Church party. In 1841, he was appointed Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford . His 1833 Principles of Church Reform is associated with the beginnings of the Broad Church movement. He was also one of the Eminent Victorians in Lytton Strachey 's book of that name. His chief literary works are his unfinished History of Rome (three volumes 1838-42), and his Lectures on Modern History. He died suddenly of a heart attack in the midst of his growing influence. His biography, Life of Arnold, by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley , one of Arnold's former pupils, is considered one of the best works of its class in the language. Arnold bought the small estate of Fox How, near Ambleside in the Lake District in 1832, and spent many of his holidays there. He is buried at Rugby chapel. A more recent public school headmaster, Michael McCrum of Tonbridge School and Eton College in the 1960s through 1980s, and also a churchman and Oxbridge academic (Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and Vice-Chancellor), wrote a biography and reappraisal of Arnold in 1991. McCrum was steeped in the significance of Rugby and of public schools; he too had briefly been a master at Rugby and was married to the daughter of another former headmaster. More recently, a biography entitled Black Tom has been written by Terence Copley . Both McCrum and Copley have sought to restore some of the lustre to the Arnold legacy which has been heavily under attack since Strachey's sardonic appraisal.