DiFranco was one of the first independent artists to own her own label, which has allowed her a considerable degree of creative freedom over the years, including, for example, providing all instrumentals and vocals and recording the album herself at her home on an analog 8-track reel to reel, and handling much of the artwork and packaging design for her 2004 album Educated Guess.

Educated at Narkover, a school specializing in card-playing, horse-racing and bribery.

Educated as a lawyer, and holding lucrative positions as secretary and counsellor, he seemed, indeed, at one time to have settled down to the practice of law, but following an unexpected summons to Venice, after an absence of several years, he changed his career, and thenceforth he devoted himself to writing plays and managing theatres.

Educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School, he was apprenticed in 1779 to Sir Charles Blicke ( 1745 – 1815 ), a surgeon at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London.

Educated first at home, then spending four years of secondary school in Bienne, he completed his elementary studies in Lausanne.

Educated at the Roman College run by the Jesuits in Rome, he went to the University of Bologna to get degrees in canon and Roman law, June 1575.

Educated first by the celebrated school of St. Maarten in Groningen, he matriculated at the universities of Erfurt ( BA in 1458 ) and Louvain ( MA in 1465 ), where he won renown for the purity of his Latin and his skill in disputation.

Educated at Rugby and the University of Edinburgh, in 1754 he was sent to Leipzig University to study civil law, with a view to his proceeding to a career as an advocate.

Educated at Parramatta High School, Benaud made his first grade debut for Cumberland at age 16, primarily as a batsman.

Educated in medicine at the University of Edinburgh, Jardine obtained a diploma from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1802.

Educated in Latin and Aristotelian physics at the University of Oxford, Wren was a notable astronomer, geometer, and mathematician-physicist, as well as an architect.

Educated first at a Brighton preparatory school and then, from the age of thirteen, as a dayboy at the prestigious Tonbridge School, his academic abilities were noted from an early age.

Educated from 1903 at St Joseph's Christian Brothers School in Fairview, North Dublin, he moved to the O ' Connell School in north Dublin for senior classes, and then attended University College Dublin and graduated with a degree in modern languages and law.

Educated privately, she studied painting in France at the Académie Julian, one of the few establishments that accepted female students.

Educated at Heidelberg and Berlin, he was from 1812 to 1827 a schoolmaster in Berlin, and in 1827 became professor of Latin literature at the University of Berlin.

Educated in Freiburg im Breisgau and at the Kaiser Wilhelm Academy in Berlin, he obtained his doctorate in 1907 at Freiburg.

Educated in Trinity College Dublin and a member of the University Philosophical Society John Butler Yeats began his career as a lawyer and devilled briefly with Isaac Butt before he took up painting in 1867 and studied at Heatherley's Art School.

Educated at Leeds Grammar School, he went on to study English Literature at the University of Leeds.

Educated as a sociologist, he was a Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the Universidade de São Paulo.

Educated at the City of London School, he obtained a studentship at King's College London, and in 1856 a scholarship at Queens ' College, Cambridge where he graduated as fifth wrangler in 1859, and was immediately elected fellow of his college.

Educated at the original Trinity College School in Weston Ontario, as a teenager William Osler's aim was to follow his father into the Anglican ministry and to that end he entered Trinity College, Toronto ( now a constituent college of the University of Toronto ) in the autumn of 1867.

Educated at St Dominic's High School, she also spent some time when younger with the Poor Clares, Queen's University Belfast ( from which she graduated in 1973 ), and Trinity College, Dublin.

Educated at Wath-upon-Dearne Grammar School, a state grammar school, then the University of Oxford ( graduating with First Class Honours in Philosophy, Politics and Economics ) and INSEAD, Hague was first elected to the House of Commons in a by-election in 1989.

Educated locally, he won a scholarship to Tunbridge Wells and later attended the High School and Trinity College in Dublin.

Educated at Shaftesbury Grammar School, he started work in London in 1938, and was in the British Army as a territorial volunteer from 1939 to 1946.

Educated at Berkhamsted Grammar School and at Balliol College, Oxford, he first practised journalism in London.

Educated at Notting Hill & Ealing High School, She served as secretary of the League of Nations health section committee on the physiological bases of nutrition from 1934 to 1937.

Educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh, he went in 1786 on a continental tour and enrolled at Göttingen University.

Educated at Archbishop Tenison's Library School, he was apprenticed to the engraver J.

Educated at All Hallows Convent School, Norfolk ( Anglican ) and the University of Cambridge, in 1985 she joined the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England ( now part of English Heritage ) as a field archaeologist for Wessex.

Educated at first by his mother, George Grote was sent to Sevenoaks grammar school ( 1800 – 1804 ) and afterwards to Charterhouse School ( 1804 – 1810 ), where he studied under Dr Raine in company with Connop Thirlwall, George and Horace Waddington and Henry Havelock.

Educated at Moses Brown School, he earned a bachelor's degree in Government at Fairfield University, a master's degree in Political Science at Villanova University, and a law degree at Marquette University Law School.

Educated at Ackworth School, she was a woman of great strength of character and refined taste.

Educated at Pontardawe Grammar School, she worked in the County Courts Division of the Lord Chancellor's Department and at the Benefits Agency as an Executive officer for many years.

Educated first at Dundee Grammar School and afterwards at the Royal High School and University of Edinburgh, at the age of seventeen he joined the Duke of Montrose East Indiaman as a midshipman.

Educated at Downing College and Gonville & Caius, Cambridge, Iain Overton's film work has won him various awards.

Educated at Trinity College, Glenalmond, he emigrated to Canada in 1980.

Educated at Christ's Hospital and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, he was in 1695 chosen Regius Professor of Greek, a language which he wrote and spoke with the utmost facility.

Educated at Cheltenham Ladies ' College and St Hilda's College, Oxford ( where she was one of the first students ), she served as a Red Cross nurse during World War I with a voluntary Franco-American hospital.

Educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, he became a zealous Protestant ; as such he found it prudent to flee to France when Mary I ascended the throne of England.

Educated at Belvedere College from the age of six, O ' Reilly was known for sporting proficiency in soccer, cricket and tennis and rugby union.

Educated by the Jesuits at Clongowes Wood College, he was primarily interested in poetry and literature, played the lead in school theatricals and was regarded as the best speaker in the school's debating society.

Educated at the Berklee College of Music, Scofield eventually left school to record with Chet Baker and Gerry Mulligan.

Educated at Clifton College, he went to work at a locomotive works in Manchester and later to a Tyneside firm where he became interested in electrical work.

Educated at Cheltenham and Balliol College, Oxford, he was elected a fellow of Queen's College in 1862.

Educated at Eton and at Brasenose College, Oxford, his university career was brilliant.

Educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge, Montagu spent some time in travelling, initially going on the Grand Tour round Continental Europe before visiting the more unusual destinations of Greece, Turkey and Egypt which were then part of the Ottoman Empire.

Educated first at the French College in Berlin, then at Neuchâtel, where his father had returned, Du Bois-Reymond entered in 1836 the University of Berlin.