“A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster.”

—  Henry George Liddell

Of his headmaster at Charterhouse, Dr. Russell; p. 31.
Colin Gordon, Beyond the Looking Glass (1982)

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Headmaster, lexicographer, classical scholar, and dean 1811–1898

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