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The Old Etonians Football Club is an English football club whose players are taken from previous attendees of Eton College, in Eton, Berkshire. Founded by Lord Kinnaird, they were the last amateur or "true blue" club to win the FA Cup on 25 March 1882 when they beat Blackburn Rovers 1–0 at The Oval. They lost 2–1 after extra time to another Blackburn club, Blackburn Olympic, the following ...
24 de nov. de 2016 · In fact, the only known video footage of Orwell is this clip from 1921, where he is seen playing the 300 year-old "Wall Game" at Eton as a young boy. It was unearthed in 2003, on the author's ...
1 de out. de 2012 · Historians of modern Britain are familiar with the upper-class notion that a uniquely talented generation was wiped out by the First World War. They are also aware that, at least in part, it is a demographic exaggeration. This article, analysing the activities of the cohort of Etonians of potential combat age (1871–1917), interrogates both perceived wisdoms. It follows both the post-Eton ...
20 de mar. de 2024 · Um ano antes, em 1882, Fergus Suter e o Blackburn Rovers até haviam chegado à final, mas acabaram derrotados pelos Old Etonians – 1 a 0, gol de Arthur Kinnaird. Esta é a edição que mais se aproxima do enredo de The English Game, tendo sido a única final de Copa da Inglaterra que colocou frente a frente Fergus Suter e Arthur Kinnaird.
Eton’s chief Great War memorial was a large-scale bursary scheme for the sons of Old Etonians who had been killed, wounded or incapacitated in the war. It was decided early on that, in addition, there would also be a ‘permanent and visible record’ of the service and sacrifice of 1,157 old boys and Eton masters who died and 5,660 who served.
7 de dez. de 2012 · This article, analysing the activities of the cohort of Etonians of potential combat age (1871–1917), interrogates both perceived wisdoms. It follows both the post-Eton lives of the most talented boys intellectually – namely those who won the prestigious King's and Newcastle Scholarships, and went on to fight in the war – and physically, the Eton Eights Rowing teams.
4 de jul. de 2019 · In 1984 I couldn’t have predicted that politics in the early 21st century would be so contaminated by my schoolfellows. Cameron became prime minister in 2010, and British life began to resemble a set-up from a Johnny English comedy – soon the prime minister, the mayor of London and the archbishop of Canterbury were all old Etonians.
