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Updated: May 8, 2025

This sort of aspersion was continued by Dr Wallis, the Savilian Professor of Mathematics at Oxford in 1700, who was roused to a fine pitch of indignation by Maidwell's efforts to start an academy in London: "Of teachers in the academie, scarce any of a higher character than a valet-de-chambre.

Clare Howard - English Travellers of the Renaissance