The English educator Thomas Arnold (1795-1842) was a headmaster of Rugby School, and through his efforts it became the model for other English public schools and for boarding schools throughout the Western world. Thomas Arnold was born in West Cowes,...

Thomas Arnold is remembered today chiefly as a reformer of the English public schools and as the father of major Victorian poet and critic Matthew Arnold. His reputation as an educator is based less on his published works than on the legend of his...

"The Jackie Thomas Show" may rank as the least eagerly awaited new series of the season. But then, were any of them eagerly awaited? The new sitcom, in which Tom Arnold plays an obnoxious TV star - one based loosely on his wife, Roseanne...

Thomas Arnold, who lived from 1795 to 1842, was one of those 19th-century larger-than-life Englishmen such as Charles Dickens, William Gladstone or Alfred, Lord Tennyson, who helped define what it meant to be British more than a century ago. As headmaster of Rugby,...