Henry Attwell
Henry Attwell FRGS KOC (17 February 1834 – 29 June 1901) was an English schoolmaster, classicist and educator.
Biography
Henry Attwell was born at Romford. Honorary lecturer of English language and literature at Leiden University in 1858, he directed the studies of William, Crown-Prince of Orange-Nassau,[1] at the invitation of the King of the Netherlands.[2] In recognition of his services to education he was made knight of the Order of the Oak Crown.[2] He commemorated his services to the Dutch Royal family by changing the name of his house in Barnes from Fern Lodge to Nassau House, which he opened as Nassau House School in January, 1859, shortly before his 25th birthday.[2]
He became a friend of the Pre-Raphaelite painter John Butler Yeats, father of the poet W. B. Yeats. Shortly after John Ruskin's death in 1900, Atwell published a compendia of extracts to which he gave the title Thoughts from Ruskin. It contains more than 100 excerpts, most short, extracted from Ruskin's works.
Attwell played an active part in the formation of the first Barnes Working Men's Institute, acting as its President for many years. He was also a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
Henry Attwell died at Barnes, London.
Works
- Poems (1856)
- A Book of Golden Thoughts (1870)
- A Table of the Aryan Languages (1874)
- Iphigenia in Tauris: A Drama (1875; editor)
- French-English Pseudo-synonyms (1886)
- The Italian Masters: with Special Reference to the Italian Pictures in the National Gallery (1888)
- Thoughts Chosen from Ruskin (1900; editor)
Translations
- Manual of General History for the Use of Schools (1859)
- Victor Hugo, Phantoms (1856; Hugo's Orientales, No. 33)
- Xavier de Maistre, A Journey Round My Room (1871)
- Xavier de Maistre, The Leper of the City of Aosta (1873)
- Albert Réville, The Devil: His Origin, Greatness, and Decadence (1877)
- François Coppée, The Treasure (1895)
- Joseph Joubert, Pensées of Joubert (1896)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Gleams from Goethe (1898)
Notes
- ↑ "The Prince of Orange," Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, Vol. XV, No. 18 (1858), p. 284.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Attwell, Mary (1996). Childhood Memories of Barnes village. Barnes: Barnes and Mortlake History Society.
References
- Attwell, Bill (2014). A History of the Attwell Family 1640-1890. Lulu Press.
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