John Langhorne (King's School Rochester)

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Reverend John Langhorne (born Giggleswick

Giggleswick

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, Yorkshire

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in 1836 and died Ticehurst

Ticehurst

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December 1911) was headmaster of The King's School, Rochester

The King's School, Rochester

The King's School, Rochester is an independent school in Rochester, Kent. It is a cathedral school, and being part of the foundation of Rochester Cathedral, the Dean of Rochester Cathedral serves as the chair of the school's governing body...

and an educational innovator there. He has been called "Lamberhurst's first local historian"

Parentage

His father was John Langhorne (1805-1881) (referred to hereafter with the term "senior", to distinguish him from his son) of Haber House, Crosby Ravensworth

Crosby Ravensworth

Crosby Ravensworth is a village, civil parish and fell in the Eden District of Cumbria, England. The village is about east of the M6 motorway, and Shap.-Notable People:*John Langhorne, mathematical master at Giggleswick School...

, Cumbria

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. John Langhorne (senior) was born at Haber Farm and was schooled at Shap

Shap

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and Sedbergh School

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, subsequently becoming master at Beetham

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. He became mathematics and writing master of The Free Grammar School of King Edward VI

Giggleswick School

Giggleswick School is an independent co-educational boarding school in Giggleswick, near Settle, North Yorkshire, England.- Early school :...

for thirty years. He served most of his time under headmaster Reverend George Ash Butterton. He managed the School Accounts from 1839-1845, but they were found to be “so in accurate and confused” that Mr Robinson had to enter them in the book. This may have been because “in 1840 the … number of boys in the High School learning writing and arithmetic under Langhorne was greater than one man could efficiently attend to”. Langhorne resigned “almost immediately” at the replacement of headmaster Dr Butterton by Reverend John Blakiston

John Blakiston

John Blakiston , was a member of the English parliament, one of the regicides of King Charles I of England, a prominent mercer and coal merchant, puritan and anti-Episcopalian.-Biography:...

in about 1859.

John Langhorne (senior) was the cousin of Thomas Langhorne of High Dalebanks, Crosby Ravensworth

Crosby Ravensworth

who was the founder of Loretto School

Loretto School

Loretto School is an independent school in Scotland, founded in 1827. The campus occupies in Musselburgh, near Edinburgh.-History:Loretto was founded by the Reverend Thomas Langhorne in 1827. Langhorne came from Crosby Ravensworth, near Kirkby Stephen. The school was later taken over by his son,...

. He subsequently retired to Haber House in Crosby Ravensworth to pursue farming.

His mother was Elizabeth Wildman (1806-1878). She was the daughter of Mary Clark and William Wildman, a farmer from Giggleswick. They may have been related to John Wildman (born 1811) bookseller and publisher in Settle

Settle

Settle is a small market town and civil parish within the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England. It is served by the Settle railway station, which is located near the town centre, and Giggleswick railway station which is a mile away. It is from Leeds Bradford Airport...

. (John and William Wildman were rather distantly related. William's grandparents William Wildman and Elizabeth Frankland were John's great-grandparents.)

The Langhorne family claimed descent from Major General Rowland Laugharne

Rowland Laugharne

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Early life and Cambridge University

He attended Giggleswick School. In 1855 he won the Essay prize (see publications)

He attended Christ's College, Cambridge

Christ's College, Cambridge

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where he was awarded a Master of Arts degree on the 31st March 1859. He gained a first class in the Classical tripos

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. He took his MA in 1862 (Christ's College). It was whilst resident at Cambridge that he met his first wife Henrietta Long of Harston Hall, Harston

Harston

Harston is a village to the south of Cambridge, England.-Harston House:Harston House is a historic private house in Harston. It was formerly known as Harston Hall....

and Landemere Hall, Thorpe-le-Soken

Thorpe-le-Soken

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. Henrietta was the daughter of William Long and Henrietta Bridge

Gregory Wale

Gregory Wale was a Cambridgeshire gentleman, a Justice of the Peace for Cambridgeshire and Conservator of the River Cam.-Parents:Gregory Wale was the son of Thomas Wale of Lackfort and Penelope Wood...

. Her brother Harry Allan Long died in 1883 at Kimberley

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, South Africa

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aged 40.

In 1862 he was ordained a deacon in 1862 and a priest in 1864 - in between he was curate at Hildenborough

Hildenborough

Hildenborough is a village and rural parish in the District of Tonbridge and Malling, Kent. It is two miles north-west of Tonbridge and five miles south-east of Sevenoaks...

and Tudeley

Tudeley

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After leaving Cambridge, he worked for a year in Wakefield

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His sister Mary Langhorne died on 17 January 1863 aged 24. In 1873 his other sister Jane married Christopher Bateson Maudsley (sic), brother of the founder of the Maudesley hospital.

Tonbridge School

From 1860 to 1877 he was classics

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master and housemaster at Tonbridge School

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, Kent

Kent

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The following poem was written about John Langhorne by Hughes-Hughes (probably whilst a student at Tonbridge School):

Ego sum Johannes Ursus

Et te puneam si ursus

facils tumultum

Grave puer! num silebis?

Immo vero non lidebis

Si me provocabis multum.

Langhorne was often referred to as "the Bear" (Ursus in Latin). The piece is written from the teacher's perspective:

I am John the Bear

and I will punish you if you are you are a bear

that take easily to turmoil

Unpleasant boy! If you are silent?

To the contrary you shall not sit down

if you provoke me greatly.

The following account of his time at Tonbridge School comes from the “Hill Side Letter”, the journal of one of the houses at Tonbridge School.
By 1866 he had moved to Bordyke. At this time “it was necessary for him to advertise for pupils and a contemporary leaflet shows him charging 40-50 guineas for ‘house, board and washing’”.

The “Hill Side Letter” states that he was known at Tonbridge as “Fling”. It quotes the following poem composed by an erstwhile student:

“There in the fifth form room, well skilled to swear

The mighty Langhorne teaches from his chair

A man serene he is and stern to view

Satirically inclined and witty too

Well have the fellows earned the rows to trace

When in the morn they look upon his face

But of the will a hearty laugh provoke

By witty sayings or a harmless joke” (1870)

In October 1877 he left to take up his new position at Kings, Rochester. Around this time a contemporary student quoted in the "Hill Side Letter" described John Langhorne thus:

King's School, Rochester

In about 1877 John Langhorne became Headmaster at Kings School, Rochester.

The following announcement was made in The Guardian
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newspaper on 7 April 1893: "The Dean and Canons of Rochester Cathedral have now at their disposal the headmastership of Rochester Cathedral Grammar School, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. John Langhorne".

Lamberhurst and retirement

He left Rochester in 1893 to become vicar of Lamberhust and remained there until his death.

Family, marriage and children

On 1 August 1861 he married Henrietta Long of Harston Hall in her parish church of Harston, Chesterton, Cambridgeshire

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. See image. Henrietta Long was the daughter of William Long "gentleman" of Harston and Henrietta Bridge. She was a direct descendant of John Littel Bridge of Shudy Camps

Shudy Camps

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and Gregory Wale

Gregory Wale

. Henrietta Langhorne died in March 1869 at Tunbridge.

He had eight children in total, three from his first marriage and five from his second. Six of his children were educated at the King's School, Rochester.

The first child from his first marriage were:

John Langhorne (1862-1925). This John Langhorne worked at Loretto School
Loretto School
Loretto School is an independent school in Scotland, founded in 1827. The campus occupies in Musselburgh, near Edinburgh.-History:Loretto was founded by the Reverend Thomas Langhorne in 1827. Langhorne came from Crosby Ravensworth, near Kirkby Stephen. The school was later taken over by his son,...

(which had been founded by Thomas Langhorne, a cousin of John Langhorne of Giggleswick School) and then became headmaster of the John Watson's Institution
John Watson's Institution
The John Watson's Institution was a school established in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1762. It was based in the building which now hosts the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.-History:...

in Edinburgh
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. This organisation was based at the building that is now the modern art gallery in Edinburgh. A bronze plaque to him in that building was present until its conversion to a museum.
William Henry Langhorne (born 1865) who became Governors' Exhibitioner, St Bartholomew's Hospital
St Bartholomew's Hospital
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, London. Following a head injury following a fall from a bus he changed career and in 1884 joined the Royal Irish Constabulary
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. He was District Inspector, Brandon
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1904-1910 and County Inspector, South Tipperary from 1910 - 1920.
Brigadier General Harold Stephen Langhorne
Harold Stephen Langhorne
Harold Stephen Langhorne was a Brigadier-General in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps of the British army and served in India, Burma, Hong Kong, South Africa and France.- Early life :He was the son of Reverend John Langhorne, headmaster of King's School, Rochester and Henrietta Long of...

(1866-1932).

John Langhorne's second wife was Frances ("Fanny") Yorke of the Yorke family of Forthampton Court of Tewkesbury

Tewkesbury

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. Her father James Charles Yorke of Gwernant House, Wales had been a Captain in the fifth Dragoon Guards.

The children from his second marriage were

Charles Langhorne (who went to Madras to join his uncle Algy Yorke's import and export business, but became blind and returned to England)
Ursula Vansittart Langhorne (who assisted in the Parish of Lamberhurst and the family home, worked as a governess, and won prizes for breeding Persian cats)
Herbert Yorke Langhorne (King's scholar Rochester, 1888, Tancred Scholar Christ College Cambridge, BA 1898, Headmaster of the Central Modern School, Lahore in 1906), and headmaster of Aldenham Park School, Salop, 1933)
Brigadier James Archibald Dunboyne Langhorne
Major-General Algernon Philip Yorke Langhorne
Algernon Philip Yorke Langhorne
Algernon Philip Yorke Langhorne CB, DSO, MC was a Major-General in the British Army....

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Publications

"Essay", April 2, 1855. Supplement to the Settle Chronicle, Settle

Settle

"John Worthington", April 1896, Notes and Queries

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, Oxford University Press

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, page 315. Article concerning an earlier incumbent at Lamberhurst

"John Worthington", November 1895,Notes and Queries, Oxford University Press, page 408

Letter to editor, Westmorland Gazette, 18 October 1897

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