St. Paul’s School : founded in 1509 by John Colet, Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, it opened in the Cathedral’s churchyard, primarily for the local low-class white boys. Under F.W. Walker as its High Master (1876-1905), it grew “from a small & obscure…school in the city, to a great & famous school”, from 211 boys in 1884 to 573 in 1888. Early in 1884, it moved to a Gothic edifice in Hammersmith, West Kensington. Soon after Drewett left, his mother moved to London, & enrolled the brothers in this school as baptised wards of her son. They took its entrance exam in May 1884, the first year St. Paul’s took in any Jewish or non-white boys. Manmohan was admitted as a paying scholar & Sri Aurobindo as elected to one of the 23 vacant Foundation Scholarships. Since Charles Darwin had heard earth Nature’s decree that she was soon going to snuff out all coloured races, Lord R.A.T. Gascoigne-Cecil Salisbury (see Pax Britannica), announced in Parliament: “When a man has black, red, or yellow skin, when he has the Providential chance of being governed by whites [as he was/is made to do every white Tarzan, Phantom, & Tintin who took/takes over his life!], he ought to bow down & utter thanks.” [R.C. Majumdar, History & Culture of the Indian Peoples, Vol. X, Part II, pp.383-84; s/a Rudyard Kipling]. And so, “the lower class used to shout Blackie, Blackie,” Sri Aurobindo would recall. “It was brought by Anglo-Indians & Englishmen retiring from the colonies. It is a result of democracy, I suppose.” The children of the school which hired him as a teacher, E.R. Braithwaite would find in 1959, “were sure they were clean, because they bathed every Friday night.” [To Sir, With Love, Penguin, New York, 1987, p.77] Sri Aurobindo was the youngest in his class. “I was weak physically & could not do anything. Only my will was bright.” From his photograph taken about that time (for admission to the School?), Ashram artist Promode Kumar made a painting which was shown to the Mother. She remarked “His nature’s spontaneous simplicity and freshness have come out very well; he came to the world with these virtues. His inner beauty is visibly in front. He had no idea of worldly life.” [Nirodbaran, Sri Aurobindo for All Ages, 1990] And so, he kept away from his classmates & neighbours, employing his time & energy in studying the revolutions & rebellions which led France & America & Italy to national liberation. This fertilised the seed he was born with, the strength to redeem his motherland, not physical strength but the power founded upon Knowledge. When he was fourteen [1886], the seed began to sprout; at eighteen [1890] the foundation became firm & unshakeable. [See p.82 of Purani’s Life of Sri Aurobindo, 1978]. It was about that time that, because her expectations of remuneration from Dr Ghose were dashed, & Manmohan was not awed by Moses during her catechism class, Mrs Drewett threw out the boys. The next two years, only because India-born James Cotton (q.v.) came to their aid, did the three find shelter in the office room Cotton had permitted them to live. Benoy & Sri Aurobindo made do with a few slices of bread & butter, an occasional sandwich or two, some cups of tea & a penny worth of sausage; they had no fire in that attic-room & no overcoats to ward off the winter winds. Manmohan began going to a public ‘soup kitchen’. Binyon (q.v.), admitted in 1926: “Manmohan lived in lodgings with two brothers, but what his actual circumstances were when he came to England, & how he came to be at St. Paul’s, I do not think I ever enquired.” No such admission, belated even, seems to have been made by the great critic Chesterton (q.v.) or the 500-plus white Christian boys & Masters, including Mr Walker. E.R. Braithwaite: “It was not entirely their fault. They had been taught with the same textbooks that these children [in his class] were using now [in 1959], & had fully digested the concept [enunciated by Prophet Darwin] that coloured people were physically, mentally, socially & culturally inferior to themselves…. It is not necessary for them to do anything special for a Negro, or any other black, but simply to behave to them as to a stranger Briton, without favour or malevolence, but with the courtesy & gentleness which every human being should give to & expect from every other.” [To Sir, With Love, pp.41, 99-100, 182] The only truthful disclosure was that by Arthur Wood (admitted a year before Arabinda), son of a journalist, hence acquainted with Lord Salisbury’s advice, in 1908: “…where or how they lived or who looked after them I think none of us knew or cared. We only noticed that Arabinda especially grew more & more dirty & unkempt, & looked more & more unhealthy & neglected. He neither played any games or made any friends…he was childish…seemed to have no ideas in his head.” Wood omitted what St Paul’s official publication Raes Pauline published in 1911: Mr Walker “never allowed games to interfere with school work”, & for months after Arabinda left it (1890), St Paul’s ‘playfield’ remained “a semi-subterranean basement” with “no organized games” supervised by Masters. In 1888, Arabinda joined the class which coached for ICS Open Entrance exam in subjects that were part St. Paul’s curriculum. He studied them by himself while Wood et al hired tutors. Both passed the ICS entrance exam in 1890, it was Wood’s 2nd attempt, yet Arabinda, taking ten papers, ranked 11th & Wood, taking seven papers, stood 22nd. Even before taking up the obligatory studies as a classical scholar at King’s & as a probationer for the ICS, he began to prepare himself for his roles in the liberation of his motherland & in the forthcoming period of worldwide upheavals & changes. Of those years, Sri Aurobindo revealed only once, & only to a few disciples: “I was extremely selfish & then something came upon me & I felt I ought to give up selfishness. I tried in my own way, of course imperfectly, to put it into practice. But that was a sort of turning point in my inner life.” Thus began the self-discipline which, at Cambridge brought him a brief “mental” experience of the Atman; in February 1893 brought the spiritual experience of the Self, in 1908-09, the realisation of All in the Self & the Self in All. Colet’s motto for his school was Fide et Literis (Faith & Humanities): “a Christian & humane education according to…the new learning of the Renaissance”, but in Sri Aurobindo’s experience, “There was no positive religious or spiritual element in the education received in England… [it] was mainly classical & had a purely intellectual & aesthetic influence.” [Darwin: The Descent of Man; for Salisbury R.C. Majumdar: History & Culture of the Indian Peoples, Vol. X, Part II, pp.383-84; CWSA Vol. 6:390; Georges van Vrekhem: Evolution, Religions, & the Unknown God; Purani: Life of Sri Aurobindo, & Evening Talks, 2007; see also H.M. Hyndman, Ruin of India by British Rule, 1907; Laurence Binyon in his lengthy “Introductory Memoir” to Manmohan’s Songs of Love & Death, 1926, p.9; Arthur Wood: Foundation Scholar, Sept. 1883: left School 1889: entered ICS June 1890: wrote this Note as Collector, Kaira Dist., Bombay, to Director, CID: this note was filed as Govt. of India’s Home Dept. Proceedings, D–June, 1908, 13:3; RAES PAULINA…, Ed. Gardiner & Lupton, St. Paul’s School, West Kensington, 1911:116-17; CWSA Vol. 36.]
... hold of the German people.” 927 These words were spoken by the Indian philosopher and yogi Sri Aurobindo in the course of a conversation on the last day of 1938. Sri Aurobindo was educated at St Paul’s School in London and at Cambridge University; he was an accomplished classical scholar who remembered his Greek and Latin perfectly even in South India and at an advanced age; he had been one of the ...
... everything. Evidently it appealed to some part of the being … I had a thought that I would dedicate my life to a similar world-change and take part in it.” 948 In 1885 Aravinda went to the esteemed St Paul’s School in London. He became proficient in Greek and Latin, and in English literature. He also studied “divinity” (the Bible), French and mathematics. His reports show that these subjects provided him ...
... pastor in Manchester, with the strict instruction that the boys should be shielded from any contact with their motherland, its culture and its religions. Later Aravinda would study at the renowned St. Paul’s School in London and at King’s College in Cambridge. While still a student, and throughout his life, he was recognised for his mastery of the English language. Also, Cambridge made him into a classical ...
... the boarding, lodging and education of his sons. The three brothers, under the tutelage of grandmother Drewett, moved to London. There, in September 1884, Manmohan and Aravinda were admitted to St Paul’s School, one of the best schools of its time. ‘Impressed by Aurobindo’s proficiency in Latin, [Headmaster] Walker awarded him a Foundation Scholarship and placed him directly in the upper fifth form … ...
... Sri Aurobindo for All Ages II: Manchester and St. Paul’s School, London (1879-1890) AT MANCHESTER, the boys were readily given shelter by the Drewett family: Rev. Drewett, his wife and his elderly mother. Before he left, Dr. Ghose gave strict instructions that his sons should not be allowed to make the acquaintance of any Indians or to undergo any Indian ...
... already well versed in Greek and English literature when he joined St. Paul's School, London. Aravinda A. Ghose and Manmohan Ghose were both admitted to St. Paul's School in September 1884. The original site of the school, which was founded in 1509, was near St. Paul's Cathedral. But as the original building was burned down, the school was moved to South Kensington in 1884, just before the two Ghose... boys to St. Paul's School in London? It is not known. But may I proffer my own conjecture ? The High Master, Dr. F. W. Walker, about whom Binyon speaks so glowingly, was elected to take charge of St. Paul's in 1876; at the time the school was not flourishing. The choice of the school's governing body fell on Dr. Walker who had distinguished himself in running the Manchester Grammar School. It seems... their admission to St. Paul's? And, again, he must have spoken of the brilliance of his youngest ward, Aravinda Akroyd Ghose? Under the able stewardship of Dr. Frederick William Walker (1830-1910), St. Paul's School began to thrive. His brain, his toil and his devotion made the school an educational institution of renown. He had been the High Master of the Manchester Grammar School from 1859 to 1876 ...
... was five years of age. Thereafter till twenty-one he spoke only English. In my father's house only English and Hindustani were spoken. I knew no Bengali. Quite early he was sent to St. Paul's School at Darjeeling, and then, when he showed unusual promise, to King's College, Cambridge.... ... His chosen medium of expression is English. Another error is worth correcting. The reviewer... speaking English and thinking in English and no other tongue. He was educated in French and Latin and other subjects under private tuition in Manchester from seven to eleven and studied afterwards in St Paul's School London for about seven years. From there he went to King's College. He had never to study English at all as a subject; though it was not his native language, it had become by force of circumstances ...
... St. Paul's School The three terms at St. Paul's School begin in January, April and September; the largest number of entrants being in September. Both M. M. Ghose and A. A. Ghose entered the School in the Autumn term of 1884. While Mano's guardian was named as 'W. H. Drewett,' Sri Aurobindo's was listed as 'Mr. Ackroyd': GHOSE, ARAVINDA ACKROYD. A. A. Ghose was elected to St. Paul's... on 5 November 1889 at the meeting of the School Literary Society. On 19 November he took part in a debate on Milton. A. A. Ghose was an active member in the St. Paul's School Literary Society. Already in 1887, he had joined the Union, another school society. And, yes, in spite of his lack of fluency and accuracy in spoken French, he did speak in the School's French Debating Society, supporting the motion... English often extraordi- narily good. Improving. That Sri Aurobindo gave his attention to the classics at Manchester and at St. Paul's, we now know. But "even at St Paul's in the last three years he simply went through his school course and spent most of his spare time in general reading, especially English poetry, literature and fiction, French literature and the history of ...
... Michaelmas 1890 . . ." The feast of St. Michael, one of the archangels, is known as Michaelmas and falls on 29 September. Oxford, Cambridge and other universities in England have a Michaelmas term. Dr. K. D. Ghose wanted his son to go in for the Indian Civil Service. So, while waiting to go up to Cambridge, Ara joined the I.C.S. Class organized by St. Paul's School —which had no official recognition... and left it to my mind to absorb what it could. That's why I could never become a scholar." But what a mind I and what a power of absorption!! There is no examination for passing out of St. Paul's School other than the Public examinations —at least it was so in the last century. Thus it was in December 1889 that A. A. Ghose took the Examination for Scholarships, Exhibitions and Admissions to King's... S. recruited its new members by public competition administered by the Civil Service Commission — out of all the candidates, A. A. Ghose ranked eleventh. In his I.C.S. Class Report from St. Paul's School, for the half-year ending July 1890, we note that the teachers commented on his 'lack of energy,' although they found the young man's work 'good.' This was the period when the adolescent was living ...
... Note on Sri Aurobindo Sri Aurobindo was born in Calcutta on August 15, 1872. At the age of seven he was taken to England for his education. There, he studied at St. Paul's School, London, and at King's College, Cambridge. Returning to India in 1893, he worked for the next thirteen years in the Princely State of Baroda in the service of the Maharaja and as a professor in ...
... al Notes Autobiographical Notes Incomplete Life Sketch in Outline Form, c. 1922 Born 1872. Sent to England for education 1879. Studied at St Paul's School, London, and King's College, Cambridge. Returned to India. February, 1893. Life of preparation at Baroda 1893-1906 Political life—1902-1910 [The "Swadeshi" movement prepared from 1902-5 ...
... Grammar School. His two brothers studied there, but he himself was educated privately by Mr and Mrs Drewett. Drewett was an accomplished Latin scholar; he did not teach him Greek, but grounded him so well in Latin that the headmaster of St. Paul's school took up Aurobindo himself to ground him in Greek and then pushed him rapidly into the higher classes of the school. [At St. Paul's Aurobindo... me that language (but not Greek, which I began at Saint Paul's, London), and English History etc.; Mṛṣ Drewett taught me French, Geography and Arithmetic. No Science; it was not in fashion at that time. Page 26 Aurobindo studied in the Manchester Grammar School for a period of about five years.... The Head Master of St. Paul's from the first entertained a very high opinion of Aurobindo's... Manchester Grammar School, it was his two brothers who went there. He himself studied privately with Mr and Mrs Drewett. Mr Drewett was a very fine classical scholar and taught him Latin and grounded him so firmly that the Head Master of St. Paul's after teaching him personally the elements of Greek which he had not yet begun to learn, put him at once from the lower into the higher school. There was no ...
... at Rang pur (now in Bangladesh), and at the age of 5 is sent to Loreto Convent School, Darjeeling. 1878,Feb. 21 - Mother is born in Paris. 1879,June -Sri Aurobindo leaves India for England with his parents and his two elder brothers. He spends 5 years in Manchester, enters St. Paul's School, London, in 1884, and King's College, Cambridge, in 1890. 1885,Dec ...
... secret basic rhythm to the life of the boy from Bengal who had been taken out of India in 1881 when seven years old, tutored privately at first in an English family at Manchester, sent later to St. Paul's School in London and finally to King's College at Cambridge. The slowly unfolding answer to this query is the tale Professor K.R.Srinivasa Iyengar has to tell in the neatly got-up and chastely... mastery of its turns and nuances. But English is not the only tongue he knows nor the literature of England the only "monument of the mind's magnificence" he is familiar with. From St. Paul's School, London, he went with a senior classical scholarship to King's College, Cambridge, where he took away in one year all the prizes for Greek and Latin verse. In the open I.C.S. examination in ...
... and have been published. Page 191 One of his main occupations at Cambridge was writing English poetry to' which he had devoted much of his time the last two years he was at St. Paul's School. Sri Aurobindo's lifelong poetical career, let us recollect, began in Manchester when he wrote for the Fox Family Magazine — "an awful imitation of somebody I don't remember." Brother Mano was... Page 194 have helped in moulding the 'poet' in Sri Aurobindo before he had entirely found himself. Poets are born and not taught, goes the saying, and metre is not taught at school, so how did Sri Aurobindo learn it? "I have never studied prosody myself—in English at least; what I know I know by reading and writing and following my ear and using my intelligence." Sri Aurobindo ...
... Shakespeare, Shelley, Keats, etc. Mr. Drewett grounded Sri Aurobindo so well in Latin that when Sri Aurobindo went to St. Paul's School in London, the headmaster of that school "took him up to ground him in Greek and then pushed him rapidly into the higher classes of the school." When Sri Aurobindo was eleven years old, he had a sort of premonition that great revolutions were going to take... growing within him that he had some great work to do, a mission to fulfil. Sri Aurobindo "gave his attention to the classics at Manchester and at St. Paul's; but even at St. Paul's in the last three years he simply went through his school course and 3. The whole family went to England - Dr. Ghosh, Mrs. Ghosh, and their three sons and daughter Sarojini. Barindra, the fourth son... myself it was the best thing I have ever done, but at school it would have been condemned as extraordinarily Asiatic and bombastic. The great O.B. afterwards asked me where my rooms were and when I had answered he said: 'that wretched hole!' (and) then turning to Mahaffy: 'How Page 8 Sri Aurobindo at St. Paul's School, London, 1884 Sri Aurobindo ...
... 1879, at the age of seven, he was taken with his two elder brothers to England for education and lived there for fourteen years. Brought up at first in an English family at Manchester, he joined St. Paul's School in London in [1884] 1 and in 1890 went from it with a senior classical scholarship to King's College, Cambridge, where he studied for two years. In 1890 he passed also the open competition... boycott of British law courts and the foundation of a system of Arbitration courts in their stead, boycott of Government universities and colleges and the creation of a network of National colleges and schools, the formation of societies of young men which would do the work of police and defence and, wherever necessary, a policy of passive resistance were among the immediate items of the programme. Sri Aurobindo ...
... years to go before he too would complete his studies at St. Paul's School. But the hols were here! Mano's letter is again from St. Stephen's Avenue, and dated July 1. "Thank you very much for your note and the addresses you recommend. Since you say Littlehampton is so expensive (with bad drains too) we have adopted your suggestion of St. .Leonard's. I believe my brother has already written; but... August 10, 1886, Tuesday, is from Keswick (c/o Miss Scott, Ambleside Road) where the brothers were holidaying that summer. The two friends were still students at St. Paul's. "I am sorry you cannot come to the Lake District —but I quite understand your difficulties in the way of expense and luggage, for we have been feeling the same. And Derbyshire, I can tell you from my own experience, is one of... A. A., B. B. and M. M. were in London, in the same lodgings that old Ma Drewett had taken. The next three letters to L. Binyon are from 49, St. Stephen's Avenue, Uxbridge Road. "April 15. It is rather wretched here in the holidays, more so than in school-time, for there is no one to speak to. ... I never knew till lately that my father was a Buddhist, nor indeed that he had any religion; strange ...
... Instead of a young Englishman going to India, we have a younger Indian at Cambridge, the University of both Macaulay and Milton. This Indian undergraduate has lately come up from St. Paul's School of London, the very school which Milton had attended. Now the year is 1890. On the second of December the student, aged 18, pens a letter to his father across the seas. The subject is an invitation the previous... and tropical imagery, it abounded in antitheses and epigrams and it expressed my real feelings without restraint or reservation. I thought myself that it was the best thing I had ever done, but at school it would have been condemned as extraordinarily Asiatic and bombastic." Thus the earliest piece of worthwhile critical writing we know of as Sri Aurobindo's was on Milton as well as Shakespeare ...
... and Manmohan to St. Paul's School in London, but in the register Manmohan, who was admitted in the same month as Aurobindo, September 1884, is listed as a "Ward of W.H. Drewett". The address given is 49, St. Stephen's Avenue, Uxbridge Road, Shepherd's Bush. Sri Aurobindo later said that Mrs. Drewett, the mother of W.H. Drewett, had taken lodgings for them in London. St. Paul's School, West Kensington... that I had a thought that I would dedicate my life to a similar world change and take part in it." ¹ Both at Manchester and at St. Paul's Aurobindo gave his attention to the study of classics, but even at St. Paul's in the last three years he simply went through his school course without labouring over it and spent most of his time in general reading, especially of English poetry, literature and fiction... England: "In concluding this short account of Sri Aurobindo some reference must be made to his academic distinctions. He was for some time at St. Paul's School, London, where in 1889, he gained the Butterworth Second Prize. He left school the following year having gained a scholarship at King's College, Cambridge, where he was considered the most distinguished Indian student of his ...
... sent to the Loreto Convent School, Darjeeling. 1878 February 21 Birth of the Mother in Paris. 1879 Taken to England. 1879-1884 In Manchester (84, Shakespeare Street) in the charge of the Drewett family. Tutored at home by the Drewetts. 1884 September Admitted to St. Paul's School, London . Takes lodgings at 49, St. Stephen's Avenue, Shepherd's... Vacation in Keswick. 1887 August Vacation in Hastings. After returning from Hastings takes lodgings at 128, Cromwell Road, London. 1889 December Passes Matriculation from St. Paul's. 1890 July Admitted as a probationer to the Indian Civil Service. October 11 Admitted on a scholarship to King's College, Cambridge. While at Cambridge, joins the Indian... a letter to The Hindu, Madras (published in the November 13 issue), announcing his presence in Pondicherry and his retirement from active politics. 1911 April New lodgings taken on Rue St. Louis ("Raghavan House"). July 20 A letter to The Hindu. August 15 First celebration of Sri Aurobindo's birthday in Pondicherry. 1912 July 3 Letter to Motilal ...
... later sent to the Loretto Convent School, Darjeeling. 1878 — February 21 Birth of the Mother in Paris. 1879 — Taken to England. 1879-1884 — In Manchester (84, Shakespeare Street) in the charge of the Drewett family. Tutored at home by the Drewetts. 1884 — September Admitted to St. Paul School, London. Takes lodgings at 49, St. Stephen's Avenue, Shepherd's Bush... August Vacation in Keswick. 1887 — August Vacation in Hastings. After returning from Hastings takes lodgings at 128, Cromwell Road, London. 1889 — December Passes matriculation from St. Paul's. 1890—July Admitted as a probationer to the Indian Civil Service. October 11 Admitted on a scholarship to King's College, Cambridge. While at Cambridge, joins the Indian Majlis... letter to The Hindu, Madras (published in the November 13 issue), announcing his presence in Pondicherry and his retirement from active politics. 1911 —April New lodgings taken on Rue St. Louis ("Raghavan House"). July 20 A letter to The Hindu. August 15 First celebration of Sri Aurobindo's birthday in Pondicherry. 1912—July 3 Letter to Motilal Roy ...
... seemed to hold in himself, like a greater Leonardo da Vinci, the seeds of a new age. A Bengali by birth, he was yet educated from his seventh to his twenty-first year in England, first at St. Paul's School, London, and then at King's College, Cambridge. Over and above using the English language as if it were his mother-tongue, he was a brilliant classical scholar who made his mark not only ...
... meeting may be read on the cultural plane. Sri Aurobindo, hailing from India, was educated in England from his seventh to his twenty-first year — at the start privately in Manchester, later at St. Paul's School in London and finally at King's College, Cambridge. He became not only a master of English but also an extraordinary scholar of Greek and Latin. He grew perfectly familiar with French and knew... had been practising spirituality first in France and then in Algeria, got also into touch with Pondicherry — initially through one who came there in connection with French politics. A little before Paul Richard arrived in the capital of French India, Sri Aurobindo had already made his home there. Richard spoke to him of Mirra, as the Mother's name then was. Sri Aurobindo is reported to have said that ...
... was written inspired by Shelley’s ‘ The Cloud’, and published in a local magazine when he was ten years old. He was so advanced in Latin that he was allowed to skip the first class at St Paul’s secondary school in London. Along with the normal curriculum, by following which he made rapid progress in Latin, Greek and French, he also taught himself Italian, German and Spanish to read Dante, Goethe ...
... proceeded to St Paul's School, London, in 1884 and remained there for another six years. He was an apt pupil in every way and secured the Butterworth Prize for Literature and the Bedford Prize for History. Dr Walker took personal interest in Sri Aurobindo, impressed by his character and abilities, taught him Greek, and pushed him rapidly into the higher forms. Did the Head Master of St Paul's already see... 15 August 1914 Arya, a monthly journal devoted to "a systematic study of the highest problems of existence", was launched on Sri Aurobindo's forty-third birthday. Madame Richard and Paul Richard collaborated in the venture till they were obliged, owing to the exigencies of the war, to leave for France. The main burden of running the journal fell upon Sri Aurobindo, who wrote most of... education, as far as possible uncontaminated by 'native' ways and 'native' speech. He accordingly sent Sri Aurobindo, along with his elder brothers Benoy Bhushan and Manomohan, to the Loretto Convent School at Darjeeling. Thus, from the age of five, Sri Aurobindo moved mainly with English children and learned to speak English as a matter of course. In 1879, Krishnadhan took his sons to England and left ...
... in great upheavals of the future. 1884-90 At St. Paul's School in London. Learnt Greek. In I886, started writing English poetry Wrote also Latin and Greek poetry. Learnt European languages to study their lite-ratures. Made a thorough study of European history. Won all Classics prizes. 1885 Had an inner perception of... 1885-86 Then in his fourteenth year, had another and clearer intimation of his destined part in coming great world movements. 1890 With a scholarship from St. Paul's, left for Cambridge. Passed the Indian Civil Service Examination, but after the probationary period, did not turn up for the final riding test; for this and for anti-government... came the reply. This was just two months before the outbreak of the First World War. August I5: Started the monthly philosophical review Arya in joint editorship with Mother and Paul Richard. 1915 February 2I: Celebration of Mother' s birthday for the first time in Pondicherry. February 22: Mother left Pondicherry for France. ...
... consulted) 5 1885 1884 Sri Aurobindo entered St. Paul's School in September 1884 (Gardiner, ed., Admissions Registers , p. 121; personal communication from the Librarian, St. Paul's School, London). 5 February January The steamship Carthage... Dictionary of Indian Biography . Reprint edition. Delhi: Indological Book House, 1971. "Burton on Trent Grammar School", http://www.burton-on-trent.org/1-History/ School%20History/History.htm Gardiner, Robert Barlow, ed., Admissions Registers of St. Paul's School from 1876 - 1905 . London: George Bell and Sons, 1906. Ghosh, Pansy Chhaya, "Cotton, Henry (Sir)". In Dictionary... 1915, when Paul was ordered to join his regiment. The Richards remained in France until March 1916, when they departed for Japan. After a four-year stay in that country, they returned to Pondicherry in April 1920. To Paul Richard . Sri Aurobindo wrote these letters to Richard after their meeting in 1910 and before Richard returned to India in 1914. To the Mother and Paul Richard . ...
... Greek and then pushed him rapidly into the higher Page 30 Sri Aurobindo — Manchester —1883 classes of the school. At first Mrs. Drewett, who had taken lodgings for them, was with the boys in London, for St. Paul's was but a day school. At the St. Stephen's Avenue house, the old lady, who was pious Christian, used to have passages from the Bible read at prayer time. The boys... Australia with his wife, leaving the three boys in charge of his mother. Presently old Mrs. Drewett took lodgings for the Ghose brothers in London at 49, St. Stephen's Avenue, Uxbridge Road, Shepherd's Bush. Sri Aurobindo was admitted to St. Paul's School in September 1884 and remained there till December 1889. At the time of admission, the Head Master, Dr. Walker, was impressed by Sri Aurobindo's character... Court, South Kensington, and remained there till almost the end of the year. 19 Sri Aurobindo's five years at St. Paul's were a period when — albeit desultorily — he garnered extensively from classical and modern European literature. Strictly in academic terms, his school record speaks for itself. He won the Butterworth 2nd Prize in Literature, and an Honourable Mention in the Bedford History ...
... NE : E NGLAND AND B ARODA , 1883–1898 Sri Aurobindo went to England as a child of seven in 1879. He lived in Manchester until 1884, when he went to London to study at St. Paul's School. From there he went to Cambridge in 1890. Three years later he returned to India, and until 1906 lived and worked in the princely state of Baroda. He began writing poetry in Manchester... 1910 he went from Calcutta to Chandernagore, and six weeks later to Pondicherry, where he spent the rest of his life. Satirical Poem Published in 1907 Reflections of Srinath Paul, Rai Bahadoor, on the Present Discontents. This poem was published on 5 April 1907 in the daily Bande Mataram . This political newspaper, edited by Sri Aurobindo and others, carried a number... In his report on the session of the Bengal Provincial Conference held in Behrampore in 1907, Hemendra Prasad wrote that the chairman of the Reception Committee, a loyalist named Srinath Paul (who bore the honourary British title Rai Bahadoor), finished his address "perspiring and short of breath" ( Bande Mataram , 2 April1907). This phrase moved Sri Aurobindo to write this amusing ...
... Hence five-year old Auro was put in Loreto Convent School in Darjeeling which was otherwise exclusively meant for English children. In 1879, at the age of seven he, along with his brothers, was taken to England where he mostly stayed for the next fourteen years with an English family. In September 1884 Auro was admitted to St Paul's School in London and had his education there until July... he read the King James Bible." 12 Soon the attentive and wakeful student mastered half a dozen European languages, including Greek and Latin in which he scored highest marks ever obtained in a school examination. Not only languages; he knew intimately and incomparably well the literature and culture that dominated European life and history for centuries. These classical themes later found great... guidance of the Mother. These are examples of the new art that is to come in its wake and there shall be many more creations to bring Savitri itself closer to us. We thus envisage the coming of new schools of thought, choreography, poetry, criticism, comparative research and studies, fiction, songs, oratorical dissertations, discourses, recitations and readings all welling up from this inexhaustible ...
... helping and teaching enthusiastic students. I think he was largely responsible for the good name acquired by St. Paul's School. His coaching Page 30 helped me beyond all expectations. Earlier it had been Mr. Drewett who had taught me personally, now it was the headmaster of St. Paul's who took me in hand. This, I have noticed, is one of the finer traits in the English character. If an Englishman... London and the Houses of Parliament, of the river Thames spanned by the famed London Bridge. And then, it is always a matter of pride to think one is going to study at St. Paul's School." "Why?" "Because it is the finest school in London. It has the finest students from all over England. But I did not know then that happy days would soon be over to be replaced by misery and gloom. Mr. Drewett... to her. You will understand all these complex truths better when you grow up. In the meantime, shall we resume our story, then?" "Oh yes! You had told us that you went to London, to join St. Paul's School," said Gita. "Now began a new chapter in our lives. In me, the child was giving place to the boy and, though I had not yet quite learned how to fly freely, my wings had begun to show. I no ...
... not the kingdom of a Pope, a priesthood or a sacerdotal class. 7 When he began his life in London, at the age of twelve, Sri Aurobindo knew Latin and French thoroughly. The headmaster of St. Paul's School, where he had enrolled, was so surprised at the aptitude of his young student that he personally coached him in Greek. Three years later, Sri Aurobindo could skip half his classes and spend most... where we are ever a king. Indeed, perhaps this is the true meaning of Sri Aurobindo's humor: a refusal to see things tragically, and, even more so, a sense of inalienable royalty. Whether St. Paul's School appreciated his sense of humor we do not know, but it certainly appreciated his astonishing culture; Page 9 he was awarded a scholarship to attend Cambridge (just in time; the family... those of the prehistoric shepherds. First, he was to devote a great deal of time to writing, which for the moment, is probably the most visible sign of his collective action. In 1910, a French writer, Paul Richard, came to Pondicherry, met Sri Aurobindo, and was so impressed by the breadth of his views that he made a second trip to see him in 1914, this time urging him to put his thoughts into written ...
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