• Richard Mulcaster (ca. 1531, Carlisle, Cumberland – 15 April 1611, Essex) is known best for his headmasterships of Merchant Taylors' School and St Paul's...
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  • (PDF) Elementarie[permanent dead link] by Richard Mulcaster Mulcaster's "Elementarie" by Richard Mulcaster Silent E, complete lyrics by Tom Lehrer Look...
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    exercise with the phrase "We wyll playe with a ball full of wynde". Richard Mulcaster, a student at Eton College in the early 16th century and later headmaster...
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    Colet's trust.[citation needed] One of St Paul's early headmasters was Richard Mulcaster, famous for writing two influential treatises on education (Positions...
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    still maintains strong links with the Company. The first Head Master, Richard Mulcaster, took up his post in 1561; one of the houses at Merchant Taylors'...
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    prefatory matter including poems in Latin elegiacs by the schoolmaster Richard Mulcaster and the young courtier Ferdinand Heybourne (aka Richardson). There...
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  • the newly founded Merchant Taylors' School, whose headmaster was Richard Mulcaster. Fellow students included Edmund Spenser and Thomas Lodge. Here, Kyd...
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    Elyot published in 1538. The next to appear was by Richard Mulcaster, a headmaster, in 1583. Mulcaster compiled what he termed "a generall table [of eight...
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  • violent. In the sixteenth century, the headmaster of St Paul's School Richard Mulcaster is credited with taking mob football and transforming it into organised...
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  • dedicated to Henry VIII. 1542 saw an enlarged second edition. Composed by Richard Mulcaster, headmaster of Merchant Taylors' School in London, The Elementarie...
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