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The school was founded in 1939, and was originally named Egerton Farm School. It was established by a large land grant of 740 acres (3 km²) by Maurice Egerton, 4th Baron Egerton of Tatton. The school's original purpose was to prepare white European youth for careers in agriculture. By 1955, the name had changed to Egerton Agricultural College.
The Egerton Gospel ( British Library Egerton Papyrus 2) refers to a collection of three papyrus fragments of a codex of a previously unknown gospel, found in Egypt and sold to the British Museum in 1934; the physical fragments are now dated to the very end of the 2nd century CE. Together they comprise one of the oldest surviving witnesses to ...
Maseno University is a public university based in the Maseno district of the Kisumu County, Kenya, along the Equator. [1] It was fully fledged as a university in 2001, after being a constituent college of Moi University for a decade. It has over 10,000 students pursuing programmes offered in the university campuses and it is currently ranked ...
The Egerton Hours is a book of hours of the use of Paris, illuminated in France during the 15th century. The manuscript belonged to the Valois-Anjou family and probably to René of Anjou . It is currently held in the British Library as MS Egerton 1070.
Adolphus Egerton Ryerson (24 March 1803 – 19 February 1882) [1] was a Canadian educator, author, editor, and Methodist minister who was a prominent contributor to the design of the Canadian public school system. [2] [3] Ryerson is considered to be the founder of the Ontario public school system. An advocate against Christian sectarianism and ...
Taron Egerton (/ ˈ ɛ dʒ ər t ən / EJ-ər-tən; born 10 November 1989) is a Welsh actor. After graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art , he performed in stage plays. Egerton gained recognition for his starring role as Gary "Eggsy" Unwin , a spy, in the action comedy films Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) and Kingsman: The ...
The Egerton 2803 maps are an atlas of twenty Genoese portolan charts dated to around 1508 or 1510 and attributed to Visconte Maggiolo. The manuscript maps depict various regions of the Old and New Worlds, blending both Spanish and Portuguese cartographic knowledge. They have been noted as the earliest non-Amerindian maps of Middle America, and ...
The Egerton Collection is a collection of historical manuscripts held in the British Library. The core of the collection comprises 67 manuscripts bequeathed to the British Museum in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater, along with £12,000 (the Bridgewater fund). To this sum a further £3000 (the Farnborough Fund) was added in ...