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A Founder’s Day Poem by Benjamin George Ambler

4th December 2016

A Founder’s Day Poem by Benjamin George Ambler

Founder’s Day is held in celebration of Thomas Sutton (pictured above). He died at his home in Homerton in 1611, the same year he founded the Charterhouse. The son of an official of the city of Lincoln, he was born in 1532 and educated at Eton College and at St John’s College, Cambridge.... continue

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