John Langhorne (King's School Rochester)

He became mathematics[2] and writing[3] master of The Free Grammar School of King Edward VI for thirty years.

[4] This may have been because "in 1840 the … number of boys in the High School learning writing and arithmetic under Langhorne was greater than one man could efficiently attend to".

The Langhorne family claimed descent from Major General Rowland Laugharne[8][9] He attended Giggleswick School.

In 1855 he won the Essay prize (see publications) He attended Christ's College, Cambridge where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree on 31 March 1859.

[12] In 1862 he was ordained a deacon in 1862 and a priest in 1864 - in between he was curate at Hildenborough and Tudeley[13] After leaving Cambridge, he worked for a year in Wakefield.

In 1873 his other sister Jane married Christopher Bateson Maudsley (sic), brother of the founder of the Maudesley hospital.

A year after leaving Cambridge, where he had been a scholar at Christ's college, [he] arrived at Tonbridge in 1860 to teach Classics to the fifth form.

Originally from Giggleswick in Yorkshire, he had spent the year since university teaching in Wakefield and had married Henrietta Long.

It quotes the following poem composed by an erstwhile student: "There in the fifth form room, well skilled to swear The mighty Langhorne teaches from his chair A man serene he is and stern to view Satirically inclined and witty too Well have the fellows earned the rows to trace When in the morn they look upon his face But of the will a hearty laugh provoke By witty sayings or a harmless joke" (1870) In October 1877 he left to take up his new position at Kings, Rochester.

Around this time a contemporary student quoted in the "Hill Side Letter" described John Langhorne thus: His loss will be very deeply felt.

By his manly and vigorous training he has done much to form aright the character of the school: and many now doing well in the world must look back gratefully to the years spent under his care.