Thomas Ernest Hulme was an English critic and poet who, through his writings on art, literature and politics, had a notable influence upon modernism

Modernism

Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes the modernist movement, its set of cultural tendencies and array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society...

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Hulme was born at Gratton Hall, Endon

Endon

Endon is a village within the Staffordshire Moorlands district of Staffordshire, England. It is southwest of Leek and north-northeast of Stoke-on-Trent....

, Staffordshire

Staffordshire

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, the son of Thomas and Mary Hulme. He was educated at Newcastle-under-Lyme

Newcastle-under-Lyme

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 High School and, from 1902, St John's College, Cambridge

St John's College, Cambridge

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, where he read mathematics, but was sent down in 1904 after rowdy behaviour on Boat Race night. He was thrown out of Cambridge a second time after a scandal involving a Roedean

Roedean School

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 girl.