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  • (the Haberdashers were a wealthy company), by whom she had another son.

    Medieval People Eileen Edna Power 1914

  • By forgoing a year out and starting university this September, Christopher, who is in year 13 studying English literature, Latin and chemistry A-levels at the private Haberdashers' Aske's boys' school in Hertfordshire, will be part of the last cohort to pay the current, lower tuition fees for university.

    University hopefuls feel the pressure mounting 2011

  • His family relocated in 1938 and he attended Haberdashers 'Aske's school, then situated in Cricklewood, north-west London, before entering the RAM on a scholarship.

    Felix Kok obituary Anne Inglis 2010

  • The visitor half expects the answer no – how many haberdashers, after all, does the City of London's Worshipful Company of Haberdashers contain?

    Fire returns to the Potteries' heart Ian Jack 2010

  • Top of the table is Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls, where boarders can stay for around £17,121 a year and parents can expect exceptionally high results.

    Archive 2006-09-01 2006

  • Top of the table is Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls, where boarders can stay for around £17,121 a year and parents can expect exceptionally high results.

    Paying for results 2006

  • Edmund Tremayne, of a later generation, faithfully served his King in the troubled times of the Civil Wars, 'and was several hundred pounds deep in their books, at Haberdashers' Hall, for his loyalty.

    Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

  • What a multitude of people we have here, Jews, Haberdashers, and money-lenders without number, a sort of Marine Cheapside, Mr Solomons,

    The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1 A. M. W. [Compiler] Stirling

  • But some will say, it is not so much the _Patrons_ as the _Poets_ fault, whose wide Mouths speak nothing but Bladders and Bumbast, treating only of trifles, the Muses Haberdashers of small wares.

    The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley

  • Haberdashers, said that he was in entire agreement with the last speaker.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 12, 1919 Various

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