Matthew Arnold was a British poet. He was born in 1822 at Laleham and died in 1888. The son of a headmaster at Rugby, Matthew Arnold spent a short period as assistant master at Rugby before in 1851 becoming one of HM Inspectors of Schools, a post he held until 1886. His first books of poetry were published anonymously in 1849 and 1852 and were unsuccessful, but two later volumes published under his own name caused him to be elected professor of poetry at Oxford, a post he held from 1857 to 1867. Research Matthew Arnold
Thomas Arnold was an English teacher. He was born in 1795 at Cowes, Isle of Wight and died in 1842. He entered Oxford in his sixteenth year, and in 1815 he was elected fellow of Oriel College, and both in that year and 1817 he obtained the chancellor's prize for Latin and English essays. After taking deacon's orders he settled at Laleham, near Staines, where he employed himself in preparing young men for the universities. In 1828 he was appointed headmaster of Rugby School, and devoted himself to his new duties with the greatest ardour. While giving due prominence to the classics, he deprived them of their exclusiveness by introducing various other branches into his course, and he was particularly careful that the education which he furnished should be in the highest sense moral and Christian. His success was remarkable. Not only did Rugby School become crowded beyond any former precedent, but the superiority of Dr. Arnold's system became so generally recognized that it may be justly said to have done much for the general improvement of the public schools of England. In 1841 he was appointed professor of modern history at Oxford, and delivered his introductory course of lectures with great success. His chief works are his edition of Thucydides, his Roman History, unhappily left unfinished, and his Sermons. Research Thomas Arnold
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