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Frederick William Walker

1830–1910

Headmaster. Educated at St Saviour’s Grammar School in Southwark, Rugby School, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Philosophy tutor at Corpus, 1856–9; fellow, 1859–67. High master, Manchester Grammar School, 1858. Emphasised classics, but also introduced modern languages, art, and natural sciences into the curriculum. Increased the number of pupils from Manchester entering Oxford and Cambridge. Headmaster of St Paul’s School, London, 1876–1905; introduced science into the curriculum.

Source

ODNB

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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