People Educated at Colston's School: Alan Morley, Alex Brown (Rugby Union), Alex Clarke (Rugby Union), Alex Crockett, Andrew Ibrahim, Chris Brooker, D

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Alan Morley, Alex Brown (rugby union), Alex Clarke (rugby union), Alex Crockett, Andrew Ibrahim, Chris Brooker, Dan Watchurst, Derek Jones, Duncan Bell, Gareth Delve, Ian Davey, Jack Spoors, James Phillips (rugby union), Jordan Crane (rugby union), Lee Mears, Luke Eves, Michael Pitman, Olly Barkley, Peter Mathias, Robert Syms, Robert Walter (politician), Ryan Davis (rugby union), Shane Geraghty, Sydney Horler, Thomas Chatterton, Tom Varndell. Excerpt: Thomas Chatterton (20 November 1752 24 August 1770) was an English poet and forger of pseudo-medieval poetry. He died of arsenic poisoning, either from a suicide attempt or self-medication for a venereal disease. Chatterton was born in Bristol where the office of sexton of St. Mary Redcliffe had long been held by the Chatterton family. The poet's father, also named Thomas Chatterton, was a musician, a poet, a numismatist, and a dabbler in the occult. He had been a sub-chanter at Bristol Cathedral and master of the Pyle Street free school, near Redcliffe church. The wall at the left of this picture is that of the house where Chatterton was raised.After Thomas's birth (four months after his father's death), his mother established a girls' school and took in sewing and ornamental needlework. Thomas was admitted to Edward Colston's Charity, a Bristol charity school, in which the curriculum was limited to reading, writing, arithmetic and the catechism. Thomas, however, was always fascinated with his uncle the sexton and the church of St Mary Redcliffe. The knights, ecclesiastics and civic dignitaries on its altar tombs, became familiar to him. Then he found a fresh interest in oaken chests in the muniment room over the porch on the north side of the nave, where parchment deeds, old as the Wars of the Roses, lay forgotten. Thomas learned his first letters from the illuminated capitals of an old musical folio, and learned to read out of a black-letter Bible. He did not like, his sister said, reading out of small books. Wayward from his earliest years, and uninterested in the games of other children, he was thought to be educationally backward. His sister relates that on being asked what device he would like painted on a bowl that was to be his, he replied, "Paint me an angel, with wings, and a trumpet, to trumpet my name over the world." From his earliest years he was liable to fits of abstraction, sitting for hours in what seemed like a trance, or crying for no reason.