NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Sumner, Robert Carey, 1729-1771 DNB: Sumner, Robert Carey (1729–1771), schoolmaster LBT ID: RoSumne1771 VIAF ID: 49103227 LOC ID: nr93038063 | B/BAP: 1729-03-09 DIED: 1771-09-12 |
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Educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, he was assistant master at Eton (1751)
and headmaster at Harrow (1760). Samuel Parr and Sir William Jones were among his
pupils. | |