Talk:John Stanbridge

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Is this notable? Enigma ^message 17:26, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

I think so. Stanbridge's books (and subsequent versions of them) became the standard educational texts for hundreds of years. Admittedly, someone (probably me!) needs to expand the article to show his importance, but he rates a long entry in the Oxford DNB and in various books about the period. Hackloon (talk) 17:51, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Belatedly I second the above. Currently Manchester Grammar School is eclebrating the 500th anniversary of its foundation. Its statutes required that its model of Latin teaching was to have been Banbury. Its founder, Hugh Oldham, also influence by the humanism of the circle around William Waynflete, knew Stanbridge and his work. It's not the only school of the time to make explicit reference to Banbury. According to the record of his admission as a pupil to Winchester, Stanbridge was born at Atterbury. The nearest town is Banbury. Stanbridge is part of the rebirth of Classical Latin in England.( user talk Delahays 13 March 2015)Delahays (talk) 18:44, 13 February 2015 (UTC)