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Busby and students
It appears that Hooke was one of a group of students whom Busby educated in parallel to the main work of the school.

Busby and Anglican
Dr. Richard Busby ( 27 September 1606 – 1695 ) was an English Anglican priest who served as head master of Westminster School for more than fifty-five years.

Busby and Church
A network of streets in the East of Kentish Town has streets named after places or persons connected with Christ Church, Oxford viz: Oseney, Busby, Gaisford, Caversham, Islip, Wolsey, Frideswide, Peckwater & Hammond.
From Westminster School, where he was a scholar under Richard Busby, at the age of eighteen he was elected to Christ Church, Oxford in 1681.
Robert Hooke was gradually recruited into the Wilkins group: he arrived at Christ Church, Oxford in 1653, working his way to an education, became assistant to Willis, and became known to Wilkins ( possibly via Richard Busby ) as a technician.
He was educated at Coventry and later at Christ Church, Oxford, under Richard Busby.
Nottingham entered the Inner Temple and Westminster School in 1658, where he boarded for three years at the house of Dr. Richard Busby, the headmaster and his father's tutor at Christ Church, Oxford.
A stained-glass window depicting the player, designed by Francis Skeat, was unveiled in St Francis's Church, the parish church for the Priory Estate, by Matt Busby in 1961, and a statue in the town centre was dedicated by his mother and Bobby Charlton in 1999.
From Westminster, Busby duly proceeded to Christ Church, Oxford, graduating in 1628.
He was born at Hackney, Middlesex, and was educated at Westminster School under Richard Busby, and at Christ Church, Oxford, matriculating on 11 December 1651.
He was under Richard Busby at Westminster School, and studied at Christ Church, Oxford under Henry Aldrich.

Busby and was
At the same time, he was doing his National Service with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps in Shrewsbury, where Busby had advised him to apply as it meant he could still play for United at the weekend.
Gregg returned to the plane to try to help the appallingly injured Busby and Blanchflower, and when he turned around again, he was relieved to see that Charlton and Viollet, both of whom he had presumed to be dead, had got out of their detached seats and were looking into the wreckage.
Most obviously, the musical film was born ; the first classic-style Hollywood musical was The Broadway Melody ( 1929 ) and the form would find its first major creator in choreographer / director Busby Berkeley ( 42nd Street, 1933, Dames, 1934 ).
The estate was designed by Charles Busby and Amon Henry Wilds and constructed by Thomas Cubitt.
In 1968, under the management of Matt Busby, Manchester United was the first English football club to win the European Cup.
Matt Busby resigned as manager in 1969 and was replaced by the reserve team coach, former Manchester United player Wilf McGuinness.
Following an eighth-place finish in the 1969 – 70 season and a poor start to the 1970 – 71 season, Busby was persuaded to temporarily resume managerial duties, and McGuinness returned to his position as reserve team coach.
According to reports, Busby was impressed with his physical prowess and offered Connery a contract worth £ 25 a week immediately after the game.
James Busby wrote in Journal of a recent visit to the principal vineyards of Spain and France that the 1826 book Œnologie Française, " stated that, according to the tradition of the neighbourhood, the plant was originally brought from Shiraz in Persia, by one of the hermits of the mountain ".
One of the varieties collected by him was Syrah, although Busby used the two spellings " Scyras " and " Ciras ".
The Syrah grape was introduced into Australia in 1832 by James Busby, an immigrant who brought vine clippings from Europe with him, and it is almost invariably called Shiraz.
Busby was provided with neither legal authority nor military support and was thus ineffective in controlling the European population.
A lifelong supporter of Manchester United, Finney narrated the documentary Munich, about the aircrash that killed most of the Busby Babes in 1958, which was shown on United's TV channel MUTV in February 2008.
The Chronicle History of Henry the fifth was entered into the Register of the Stationers Company on 14 August 1600 by the bookseller Thomas Pavier ; the first quarto was published before the end of the year — though by Thomas Millington and John Busby rather than Pavier.
Hooke was an apt student, so although he went to London to take up an apprenticeship, and studied briefly with Samuel Cowper and Peter Lely, he was soon able to enter Westminster School in London, under Dr. Busby.
Busby, an ardent and outspoken Royalist ( he had the school observe a fast-day on the anniversary of the King's beheading ), was by all accounts trying to preserve the nascent spirit of scientific inquiry that had begun to flourish in Carolean England but which was at odds with the literal Biblical teachings of the Protectorate.
This was exemplified in the person of George Hooper, the Bishop of Bath and Wells, whom Busby described as " the best scholar, the finest gentleman and will make the completest bishop that ever was educated at Westminster School ".

Busby and support
Francine Busby, Cunningham's Democratic challenger in 2004 and the Democratic candidate for the 50th District in the runoff election to fill Cunningham's vacancy, called November 28 " a sad day for the people " and called for support for her proposed ethics reform bill, the " Clean House Act ", saying that " our government in Washington is broken.

Busby and into
* Bremmer, R. H., Jr. " The Gesta Herewardi: transforming an Anglo-Saxon into an Englishman ", in: T. Summerfield & K. Busby ( eds.
Originally, the Football League again denied entry to the European Cup, but Busby and his chairman, Harold Hardman, with the help of the Football Association's chairman Stanley Rous, defied the league and United became the first English team to venture into Europe.
Busby remained in office throughout the Civil War and the Commonwealth, when the school was governed by Parliamentary Commissioners, and well into the Restoration.
This was begun, and in February 1829 Governor Darling stated in a dispatch that it was " quite impossible to dispense with Busby so long as the work in which he is employed introducing water into Sydney is in operation ".
As champions, Red Star were Yugoslavia's entrants into the 1957 – 58 European Cup where they were famously beaten 5 – 4 on aggregate by English champions Manchester United in the quarter-finals, with the team managed by Matt Busby beating Red Star 2 – 1 in the first leg in England before drawing 3 – 3 with them in Yugoslavia in the return game on 5 February at JNA Stadium.
Whithorn is also the name of the area of 10, 000 acres in Wigtownshire, 11 miles south from Wigtown, about eight miles in length, and varies from two to five miles in breadth, anciently divided into baronies, each controlled by a baron of the court of the barony, i. e. Houston, Baron of the Barony of Busbie or Busby.
Many of Pell's manuscripts fell into the hands of Richard Busby, master of Westminster School, and afterwards came into the possession of the Royal Society ; they are still preserved in nearly forty folio volumes in the British Library, which contain, not only Pell's own memoirs, but much of his correspondence with the mathematicians of his time.
Before going into management, Busby was a player for two of Manchester United's greatest rivals, Manchester City and Liverpool.
Busby would often accompany his father down into the coal pits, but his true aspiration was to become a professional footballer.
He was the first man to get the young players into Manchester United and form the Busby Babes.
The musical was made into a movie as Billy Rose's Jumbo in 1962, starring Jimmy Durante, Doris Day, Martha Raye, and Stephen Boyd, featuring Busby Berkeley's choreography.
The Busby Babes were a group of Manchester United players, recruited and trained by the club's chief scout Joe Armstrong and assistant manager Jimmy Murphy, who progressed from the club's youth team into the first team under the management of the eponymous Matt Busby.
Subsequently Blythe branched out into non-fiction with 2002's The Encyclopaedia Of Classic Eighties Pop, a humorous reference guide published by Allison & Busby, which led to a stint co-presenting the music show 80s Night on BBC Local Radio in the North of England.
The river forms the boundary between East Renfrewshire and South Lanarkshire here before running through the centre of the village of Busby after which it runs around the eastern side of Clarkston and Netherlee where it crosses the Glasgow city boundary into Linn Park, heading downstream to Cathcart.

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