There have been a number of notable Old Rugbeians including the purported father of the sport of Rugby William Webb Ellis, the inventor of Australian rules football Tom Wills, the war poets Rupert Brooke and John Gillespie Magee, Jr., Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, author and mathematician Lewis Carroll, poet and cultural critic Matthew Arnold, the author and social critic Salman Rushdie ( who said of his time there: " Almost the only thing I am proud of about going to Rugby school was that Lewis Carroll went there too.

Brooke was an inspiration to poet John Gillespie Magee, Jr., author of the poem " High Flight ".

Magee also won the same poetry prize at Rugby School which Brooke had won 34 years earlier.

This list of the fallen included the celebrated war poet Rupert Brooke ( 1887 – 1915 ), whose work Magee greatly admired and who had also won the school poetry prize 34 years prior to Magee.

On 10 February 1938, Legation Secretary of the German Embassy, Rosen, wrote to his Foreign Ministry about a film made in December by Reverend John Magee to recommend its purchase.

It was while serving with No. 53 OTU that Magee wrote his poem High Flight.

" Dunn also wrote of " the lifting mind ", another phrase that Magee uses in " High Flight.

Long-time sports writer Jerry Magee of the San Diego Union-Tribune wrote: " Al Davis taking over as commissioner was the strongest thing the AFL ever did.

In 1946, Vereide wrote and released a book with Reverend John G. Magee, chaplain to President Harry Truman entitled Together ( Abingdon Cokesbury ).

Purportedly, the first person to read this poem later that same day was fellow Pilot Officer Michael Le Bas ( later Air Vice-Marshal M H Le Bas, Air Officer Commanding No. 1 Group RAF ), with whom Magee had trained, in the officers ' mess.

Magee enclosed the poem on the back of a letter to his parents.

Magee's family had owned the book for many years, and Magee told investigators that she'd never seen the poem before.

* John Gillespie Magee, Jr., Aviator and poet, famous for his poem High Flight.

Case 5 of John Magee ( missionary ) | John Magee's film: on December 13, 1937, about 30 Japanese soldiers murdered all but 2 Chinese of 11 in the house at No. 5 Xinlukou.

Patrick Magee from St. Patrick's Church aided materially in bringing about the annexation of Geddes.

A number of alumni have made meaningful contributions to arts and letters: Joel T. Headley ( 1839 ), author of numerous books about the Adirondack Mountains and early American history ; William James Stillman ( 1848 ), photographer and author ; Fitz Hugh Ludlow ( 1856 ), author of The Hashish Eater ; Andrea Barrett ( 1974 ), winner of the National Book Award ( for Ship Fever ) and the Pulitzer Prize for works of fiction ; and David Markson ( 1950 ), author of titles such as The Ballad of Dingus Magee.

Sides ( originally Seitz ) was about 62 when he marched off from his home in Baton Rouge with Magee and the other revolutionaries.

Before the annexation, Major John P. Burnet, a major landholder in south Geddes, met with Magee and informed him that he was anxious to see the village merge with the city and if that were to happen, he would donate of his farm for a public park.

Burnet wanted Magee to help him get the word out.

In 1822 the Archbishop of Dublin was translated to Armagh, and Magee succeeded him at Dublin.

Following several weeks of attrition warfare, stalemate, and negotiations, Col. Magee died under mysterious circumstances, probably related to Gutierrez, who didn't trust him.

They were also concerned about the marketability of a book that criticised Bradman — still the dominant player of the time and an idolised figure — strongly.

Recurring characters included Des ( George Layton ) ( series 1-3 ), a back-street mechanic friend of Terry's who was friendly and likable, but not beyond car theft when called for ; stripper Debbie Mitchell ( Diana Malin ) and air stewardess Penny ( Gennie Nevinson ), both recurring girlfriends of Terry's ; Ray Winstone as mechanic Arnie ( series 4-7, conceived as a replacement for George Layton's Des and as dim as Des was sharp ); and wide boy Justin James ( Mark Farmer ) ( series 5-7 ), who idolised Arthur and aspired to be like him, seeing him as a kind of godfather.

In a country where cricketers are idolised, Harbhajan's performances have brought him government accolades and lucrative sponsorships.

The Yorkshire public idolised him, just as we all did ".

As a child he idolised Allan Donald and Dennis Lillee, the latter of whom would become a mentor to him as a teenager.

As a teenager, O ' Neill idolised Keith Miller after his uncle took him to the Sydney Cricket Ground: O ' Neill saw Miller play that day and was impressed with the way he hit the ball off the back foot.

Desi Xpress spokesperson Zakia Yousaf defended the actress saying, " We do not believe the actress meant it in that she truly idolised him.

His housemaster, R. H. J. Brooke, whom Peel described as " extraordinarily eccentric " and " amazingly perceptive ", wrote on one of his school reports, " Perhaps it's possible that John can form some kind of nightmarish career out of his enthusiasm for unlistenable records and his delight in writing long and facetious essays.

Singer Brooke Fraser wrote the " C. S.

Nearer the end of the century, Henry Brooke wrote an adaptation which was apparently never staged.

Sullavan's older daughter, Brooke, in 1977 wrote about the breakdown in her autobiography Haywire: Sullavan had humiliated herself by begging her son to stay with her.

Sullavan's elder daughter, actress Brooke Hayward, wrote Haywire, a best-selling memoir about her family, which was made into a television movie starring Lee Remick as Margaret and Jason Robards as Hayward.

After his visit Alexander wrote to the CIGS, Alan Brooke, saying: Lucas wrote in his diary on February 15:

World War I gave rise to British war poets and writers such as Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves and Rupert Brooke who wrote ( often paradoxically ), of their expectations of war, and / or their experiences in the trench.

The combative General Joseph Stilwell wrote: " Brooke got nasty, and King got good and sore.

At his death in 1960, The Montreal Gazette wrote that the Honourable Brooke Claxton “ faced death … with unbreakable courage .” He astounded associates by working hard right to the end and “ never relaxing his grip .”

and Keith Brooke wrote, " This is not an over-written novel, it's an intensely-written one.

At this stage, the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, General Sir Alan Brooke wrote:

Brooke Fraser wrote the song " Albertine " on her album Albertine about an eponymous orphan from the genocide which Fraser met time in Rwanda in 2005.

He also wrote the biographies Edith Sitwell ( 1952 ), Virginia Woolf and her World ( 1975 ), Thrown to the Woolfs ( 1978 ) and Rupert Brooke ( 1980 ).

At Gallipoli he wrote his scores in his tent at base camp, including his tribute to Brooke, Elegy for String Orchestra: " In Memoriam Rupert Brooke " ( 1915 ), conceived in the wake of Brooke's death.

Because the Royal Navy proved unable to capture or reduce the fort in order to enter Baltimore harbor to bombard the main American defense line east of the city, British commander-in-chief Vice Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane wrote to British Army commander Colonel Arthur Brooke that it was up to him whether to decide to attack or withdraw.

Adams wrote and produced Made-Up, co-starring her younger sister and brother-in-law, Brooke Adams and Tony Shalhoub, as well as Eva Amurri, Gary Sinise and Lance Krall.

She became the love of English poet Rupert Brooke in 1912, who wrote love sonnets to her.

Gilmore's father became a Los Angeles Police Department ( LAPD ) officer, and also wrote and acted on radio shows, a police public service ( the shows featured promising movie starlets as well as established performers like Bonita Granville, Ann Rutherford, the " jungle girl " Acquanetta, Joan Davis, Hillary Brooke, Ann Jeffreys, Brenda Marshall and other players young John Gilmore became acquainted with.

Explaining the aims and ideals of the first board of trustees, responsible for opening Dove Cottage to the public, Stopford Brooke wrote, in 1890: