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Alfred the Great, his grandfather, was born in Mercian Berkshire, not in Wessex, and in later life Alfred was closely supported by the alderman of that county.
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Alfred, known to history as _Alfred the Great_, who ruled as English king from 871 to 901, made great efforts to revive learning in his kingdom.
The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization Ellwood Patterson Cubberley 1904
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Much like the assertion of 19th-century Oxford dons that the university was founded by Alfred the Great, the claim is a little strained.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2011
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_ -- Alfred the Great translated this work into Anglo-Saxon; Chaucer, Queen Elizabeth, and Lord Preston into
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