At Eton, John Vaughan Wilkes, his former headmaster's son recalled, "... he was extremely argumentative — about anything — and criticising the masters and criticising the other boys .... We enjoyed arguing with him.

At Eton he played tricks on John Crace, his Master in College, among which was to enter a spoof advertisement in a College magazine implying pederasty.

At Eton and at Cambridge, Keynes had been prolific in his homosexual activity ; significant among these early partners were Dilly Knox and Daniel Macmillan.

At the Restoration of the king in 1660 he was favourably received at court, and in 1665 would have received the provostship of Eton College, if he would have taken orders ; but this he refused to do on the ground that his writings on religious subjects would have greater weight coming from a layman than a paid minister of the Church.

At Eton, there are dozens of organisations known as ' societies ', in many of which pupils come together to discuss a particular topic, presided over by a master, and often including a guest speaker.

At Eton, Lyttelton fagged for Lord Carrington and formed his love of jazz.

At the age of thirteen Huxley attended Eton College as a King's Scholar, and continued to develop scientific interests ; his grandfather had influenced the school to build science laboratories much earlier.

At Eton he developed an interest in ornithology, guided by science master W. D. ' Piggy ' Hill.

At Eton he was a favorite of Oscar Browning, an over-intimate relationship that led to his tutor's dismissal.

At the age of ten, in 1767, he began his education at Eton College, a public school in Berkshire.

At a fancy-dress party at the Firth family house of Cavendish Hall, Suffolk, Francis dressed up as a flapper with an Eton crop, beaded dress, lipstick, high heels, and a long cigarette holder.

At Eton Powell spent much of his spare time at the Studio, where a sympathetic art master encouraged him to develop his talent as a draftsman and his interest in the visual arts.

At school he wrote for the College Magazine, edited the subsequent Horæ Otiosæ, and after leaving Eton contributed verses to the Etonian during 1820 – 1.

At Eton in 1914

At Eton, Rosebery notably attacked Charles I of England for his despotism, and went on to praise his Whig forebears-his ancestor, James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope, was a minister to George I of Great Britain.

His first role in a major film production was in A Yank At Eton ( 1942 ), where he played a snobbish bully opposite Mickey Rooney.

At the age of thirteen, he went to Eton College in Berkshire, following his father and elder brother.

At the upper end of the scale, public boarding schools such as Eton and Harrow were founded or greatly extended to meet the growing demand for the education of the children of those in colonial service overseas.

At Winchester College and Eton College, there is a separate house for foundation scholars.

At Eton, his distant cousin Bridges was his senior and took him under his wing.

At Eton, Gresham was his house captain.

At the age of 13, the young Harris was sent to Eton to finish his education.

At Eton, Kynaston was never on the losing side in the needle matches against Harrow and Winchester.

At Eton in 1658 he preached the funeral sermon of Francis Rous, the provost ; in 1660 he was ejected.

Washington was hard to miss: At exactly six feet, he towered over most of his contemporaries.

At this time such a scandal would be enough to derail a major politician, so it is a measure of the respect contemporaries had for his integrity that Melbourne's government did not fall.

At this length, he would tower over most of his common contemporaries.

At this time, they were playing extended numbers such as " Revelation " ( originally titled " John Lee Hooker ") and getting the attention of such contemporaries as the Rolling Stones and the Yardbirds.

At the war's conclusion in 1721, Bering was not promoted like many of his contemporaries.

At the time of his deployment to Europe during World War I ( 1914 – 1918 ), Kilmer was considered the leading American Roman Catholic poet and lecturer of his generation, whom critics often compared to British contemporaries G. K. Chesterton ( 1874 – 1936 ) and Hilaire Belloc ( 1870 – 1953 ).

At the height of his power Jakob Fugger was sharply criticized by his contemporaries, especially by Ulrich von Hutten and Martin Luther, for urging the Pope to rescind or amend the prohibition on the levying of interest and for the sale of indulgences and benefices.

At her baptismal ceremony, contemporaries wrote that Charles, despite his best efforts, appeared upset at the child's sex.

At the academy, Milner played against contemporaries from other clubs in the north, including future Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney.

At each of these seats of learning, he left his mark ; beyond any other of his contemporaries he animated the dry bones of Roman law.

At the time, his law of octaves was ridiculed by his contemporaries and the Society of Chemists did not accept his work for publication.

At the time, the band's sound was unlike that of any of its contemporaries in the then fledgling Japanese ska scene, and over the course of the past 21 years, their innovation has proved to have been very influential on Japanese music as a whole.

At the time of her marriage Proust wrote that she " was probably unsurpassed in intelligence by any of her contemporaries ," and added that " she looked like a lovely figure in an Italian fresco ".

At an age when most of his contemporaries retired from politics, Byrnes was not yet ready to give up public service.

At some point, as Patriarch Nikephoros records, Kubrat expelled the Avar troops from his lands and ruled alone over the united Bulgars, thus creating " Great Bulgaria ", as it was known to its contemporaries.

" At Durham Castle, contemporaries described how the motte-and-bailey superstructure arose from the " tumulus of rising earth " with a keep rising " into thin air, strong within and without " with a " stalwart house ... glittering with beauty in every part ".

At a time when the state was practically bankrupt, he encouraged the king in extravagance, and accumulated for himself a fortune estimated by contemporaries at forty-four million ducats.

At the end of the 18th century some contemporaries even compared the Imperial Chamber Court to the National Assembly in Revolutionary France.

At Gresham's, some of his contemporaries were Lord Simon of Glaisdale, James Klugmann ( 1912 – 1977 ), Roger Simon ( 1913 – 2002 ), Benjamin Britten ( 1913-1976 ) and the scientist Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin.

At both the latter, one of his contemporaries was Alan Ryan, later a professor of politics at Princeton and then Warden of New College Oxford.

At his death he left behind a body of literature larger than that of his Renaissance contemporaries: in fact, his work rivals in size the canons of Spenser and Milton.

At the time, classification focused on the habitat and medicinal properties of the plant and Morison's criticism of systems promoted by botanists such as Jean and Gaspard Bauhin caused some anger among his contemporaries.

" At Durham Castle, contemporaries described how the keep arose from the " tumulus of rising earth " with a keep reaching " into thin air, strong within and without ", a " stalwart house ... glittering with beauty in every part ".

At her salon she associated with many of her contemporaries in the Parisian literary community, such as Victor Hugo.