Stonyhurst College

Stonyhurst College

school, Clitheroe, England, United Kingdom
      Roman Catholic school for boys in Lancanshire, Eng., conducted by the Jesuits. It originated in a college for English boys founded at Saint-Omer (France) in 1593, later moved to Bruges and then to Liège. In 1794 it moved into its present home, Stonyhurst Hall. Its observatory has been made famous by many astronomers of wide reputation. Among its teachers have been the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins (classics), the Roman Catholic Modernist George Tyrrell (philosophy), and the astrophysicist Pietro Angelo Secchi (astronomy).

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