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  • Luckily, the school didn't go on past 16, so my parents decided to send me to another boarding school called Aldenham in Elstree, Hertfordshire, an all-boys 'school that had recently started accepting girls into sixth form.

    EducationNews.org 2010

  • Luckily, the school didn't go on past 16, so my parents decided to send me to another boarding school called Aldenham in Elstree, Hertfordshire, an all-boys 'school that had recently started accepting girls into sixth form.

    EducationNews.org 2010

  • He was educated at Aldenham which is at Elstree in Hertfordshire, a school founded in 1597 a scant hundred years after Columbus discovered America.

    The Strength and Strains of the British Economy 1970

  • Only one hunt, the Aldenham Harriers, has disbanded in the past year but supposedly due to creeping urbanisation in its area, Hertfordshire, rather than due to members' disillusion with the constraints of hunting laid scent trails.

    Boxing Day hunts whip up mission to repeal ban 2011

  • [Note: "The sermons of which this book is composed were delivered to the girls at the Assumption Convent (now at Exton, Rutland) when they were evacuated to Aldenham Park, Bridgnorth, during the late war."]

    She Doesn't Pay Her Musicians! John 2008

  • It's not that unusual for Russian pupils to show up with bodyguards as well as chauffeurs, says Richard Harmon, headmaster at Aldenham, a boarding school founded in 1596, a hundred years before Peter the Great first set foot in England.

    London Calling 2007

  • Aldenham advertises in Russian magazines to tap the growing market.

    London Calling 2007

  • While he prepared her for reception into the Roman Church, she provided him with the opportunity to carry out his translation of the Bible, employing him from 1939 to 1947 as private chaplain at Aldenham Park, her husband's family seat in

    03/01/2003 - 04/01/2003 John 2003

  • After his marriage with the daughter of Richard Acton, goldsmith in Leadenhall-street, he gave his own sister to Sir Whitmore Acton, of Aldenham; and I am thus connected, by a triple alliance, with that ancient and loyal family of Shropshire baronets.

    Memoirs of My Life and Writings Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794 1994

  • Returning to England, however, in 1859, to settle upon the family estate of Aldenham in Shropshire, he entered parliament as member for an Irish constituency, and retained his seat for six years, voting with the Liberals, but taking little part in the debates.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

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