Thomas Arnold

Thomas Arnold
Thomas Arnold by Thomas Phillips, 1839
Born(1795-06-13)13 June 1795
Died12 June 1842(1842-06-12) (aged 46)
Fox How, Ambleside, Westmorland, England
Resting placeRugby School Chapel, Rugby, Warwickshire, England
NationalityBritish
EducationLord Weymouth's Grammar School; Winchester College
Alma materCorpus Christi College, Oxford
Occupation(s)Educator and historian
Known forReforms to Rugby School (immortalised in Tom Brown's Schooldays)
TitleRegius Professor of Modern History, Oxford
Term1841–1842
PredecessorEdward Nares
SuccessorJohn Antony Cramer
ChildrenMatthew Arnold, Tom Arnold, William Delafield Arnold

Thomas Arnold (13 June 1795 – 12 June 1842) was an English educator and historian. He was an early supporter of the Broad Church Anglican movement. As headmaster of Rugby School from 1828 to 1841, he introduced several reforms that were widely copied by other noted public schools. His reforms redefined standards of masculinity and achievement.[1][2]

  1. ^ Simon Heffer, High minds: the Victorians and the birth of modern Britain (2013) pp. 1–30.
  2. ^ Fabrice Neddam, "Constructing masculinities under Thomas Arnold of Rugby (1828–1842): Gender, educational policy and school life in an early‐Victorian public school", Gender and Education 16.3 (2004), pp. 303–326.