Busby

Busby, RICHARD, a great English schoolmaster, was born at Lutton, otherwise Sutton St Nicholas, Lincolnshire, in 1606. Educated at Westminster School, and Christ Church, Oxford, he was in 1640 appointed head-master of Westminster School, the duties of which office he continued to discharge until his death in 1695. He is the type of pedagogues alike for learning, assiduity, and unsparring application of the birch; none the less for his own loyalty and piety, and the grateful affection of his pupils. He was a most successful teacher, and at one time could point to no less than sixteen occupants of the bench of bishops who had been educated in his school. Among his pupils were Dryden, Locke, South, Atterbury, Philip Henry, and Bishop Hooper. He published several works, but they were chiefly for school use, and left money to found lectureships and to educate poor boys in his native place.