Richard Valpy

Richard Valpy DD (7 December 1754 – 28 March 1836) was a schoolmaster in Great Britain.

Richard Valpy's tomb, Kensal Green Cemetery

Dr. Richard Valpy by Samuel Dixon, St Laurence's Church, Reading (Roche Abbey stone)[1][2]

Biography

He was born the eldest son of Richard and Catherine Valpy in Jersey. He was sent to schools in Normandy and Southampton, and completed his education at Pembroke College, Oxford. In 1777 he took orders. After holding a mastership at Bury, in 1781 he became head master of Reading Grammar School, a post which he held for fifty years. From 1787 he held also the rectory of Stradishall, Suffolk. During the early part of Valpy's long head-mastership the school flourished greatly. At least 120 boys attended it.

He was the author of Greek and Latin grammars which enjoyed a large circulation. His Greek Delectus and Latin Delectus were long familiar to public school boys. He is said to have been a mighty flogger, and to have refused two bishoprics. In 1800 he was requested by his old pupils to sit for a full-length portrait and thirty years later, on the occasion of his jubilee, he was presented with a service of plate. Mary Russell Mitford has spoken of him as vainer than a peacock.

The school was declining before Valpy's long reign closed. His successor was his son, Francis Valpy (1797-1882), appointed in 1830. Richard Valpy died in London. He is buried in an impressive mausoleum in front of the main chapel in Kensal Green Cemetery.

A statue was erected in St. Lawrence's Church to commemorate him.

He was also the father of printer and publisher Abraham John Valpy and of New Zealand pioneer William Henry Valpy.

Bowdlerisation

"The Second part of King Henry the Fourth, altered from William Shakespeare as it was acted at Reading School in October 1801. Published as it was performed for the benefit of the Humane Society" By Richard Valpy.

"WHEN the First Part of King Henry the Fourth was played at Reading School, it was sufficient to curtail some tedious pages, and to omit some exceptionable expressions. In the Second Part it was absolutely necessary to do more. This Play in the original is disfigured not only with indelicate speeches, but with characters that cannot now be tolerated on a public theatre."

Notes

"Valpy". British Museum. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. J. Limbird. 23 August 1838. p. 392. Retrieved 23 August 2019 – via Internet Archive. samuel nixon stone sculptor.

gollark: Where else would they go?

gollark: What? Of course they are in our universe.

gollark: Those aren't heaven and hell, silly.

gollark: > The temperature of Heaven can be rather accurately computed from available data. Our authority is Isaiah 30:26, “Moreover, the light of the Moon shall be as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days.” Thus Heaven receives from the Moon as much radiation as we do from the Sun, and in addition seven times seven (49) times as much as the Earth does from the Sun, or fifty times in all. The light we receive from the Moon is one ten-thousandth of the light we receive from the Sun, so we can ignore that. With these data we can compute the temperature of Heaven. The radiation falling on Heaven will heat it to the point where the heat lost by radiation is just equal to the heat received by radiation, i.e., Heaven loses fifty times as much heat as the Earth by radiation. Using the Stefan-Boltzmann law for radiation, (H/E)^4 = 50, where E is the absolute temperature of the earth (-300K), gives H as 798K (525C). The exact temperature of Hell cannot be computed, but it must be less than 444.6C, the temperature at which brimstone or sulphur changes from a liquid to a gas. Revelations 21:8 says “But the fearful, and unbelieving … shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone.” A lake of molten brimstone means that its temperature must be at or below the boiling point, or 444.6C (Above this point it would be a vapor, not a lake.) We have, then, that Heaven, at 525C is hotter than Hell at 445C. – “Applied Optics”, vol. 11, A14, 1972

gollark: This is because it canonically receives 50 times the light Earth does.

References

Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Valpy, Richard" . Encyclopædia Britannica. 27 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 865–866.
"Valpy, Richard" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
"The Town of Reading during the early part of the Nineteenth century", (1910). By W. M. Childs, M.A., Principal of University College, Reading. (Available online The Town of Reading during the early part of the Nineteenth century )

External links

Works by or about Richard Valpy in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

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[1] "Valpy". British Museum. Retrieved 23 August 2019.

[2] The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. J. Limbird. 23 August 1838. p. 392. Retrieved 23 August 2019 – via Internet Archive. samuel nixon stone sculptor.