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CORY, WILLIAM JOHNSON (1823-1892) , English school-master and author, son of Charles Johnson of Torrington, Devon-shire, was born on the 9th of January 1823. He was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge . At Cambridge he gained the chancellor's medal for an English poem on Plato in 1843, and the Craven Scholarship in 1844. In 1845, after graduating at the university, he was made an assistant master at Eton, where he remained for some twenty-six years. He has been called " the most brilliant Eton tutor of his day." He had a great
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His elder brother, Charles Wellington Johnson Furse (1821-190o), who, on the death of his father in 1854, took the name of Furse, was canon and archdeacon of Westminster from 1894 till his death. The artist Charles Wellington Furse, A.R.A. (1868-1904), was a son of Archdeacon Furse.End of Article: CORY, WILLIAM JOHNSON (1823-1892) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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