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Thomas Arnold ( June 13 , 1795 – June 12 , 1842 ) was a famous schoolmaster and historian, head of Rugby School from 1828 to 1841. He was born on the , and strongly opposed to the High Church party. In 1841, he was appointed Regius Professor Of Modern History At Oxford . He was one of the '' Eminent Victorians '' in Lytton Strachey 's book of that name, and his ''Life'' was written in 1844 by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley , who had been one of his pupils. His chief literary works are his unfinished ''History of Rome'' (three volumes 1838-42), and his ''Lectures on Modern History''. He died suddenly of Angina Pectoris in the midst of his growing influence. His life, by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley , is one of the best works of its class in the language. Arnold's sons were the poet, Matthew Arnold , and the literary figure Tom . Tom's daughter Mary Augusta Arnold , became a famous novelist under her married name of Mrs Humphry Ward, whilst Tom's other daughter married Leonard Huxley (writer) , the son of Thomas Huxley and their sons were Julian and Aldous Huxley . A more recent public school headmaster, Michael McCrum of Tonbridge and Eton 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, Sir Arthur Fforde . REFERENCES
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