Thomas Arnold

Thomas Arnold was a historian, teacher, pedagogue and writer (1795–1842). He was born at Cowes and died at Rugby.

Thomas Arnold in brief

Born
1795
Died
1842
Known for
historian, teacher, pedagogue and writer
Place of birth
Cowes
Contents

Identity and origins

His recorded language was English. His recorded confession was Anglicanism.

He was the child of William Arnold and Martha Delafield. He married Mary Penrose. 4 children are recorded: Tom Arnold, William Delafield Arnold, Matthew Arnold and Jane Martha Arnold.

Formation and teaching

Thomas Arnold studied at Corpus Christi College, Winchester College and Warminster School.

As a teacher, Thomas Arnold is recorded in connection with Richard Congreve. Each of those relationships is stated by the authority record rather than inferred from style.

Career and activity

He was employed by University of Oxford and Rugby School. Recorded positions include head teacher and Regius Professor of History, University of Oxford.

Catalogued works

52 works under this name are catalogued by Open Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago and The Cleveland Museum of Art. Their recorded dates run from 1760 to 1957.

PRINCIPLES OF CHRUCH REFORM. Education of Deaf-Mutes. Versuch einer Neuwertung Seiner Bedeutung als Theologe, Sozialkritiker und Headmaster der Public School in Rugby. Christian Life Its Course, Its Hindrances, and Its Helps. On Writing a Will. Introductory Lectures on Modern History, London by Thomas Arnold. Interpretation of Scripture, London. Practical Introduction to Greek Prose Composition. Christian Life. Manual of English Literature, Historical and Critical - with an Appendix on English Metres. Manual of English Literature, Historical and Critical. Sermons Chiefly on the Interpretation of Scripture. Manual of English Literature. Life of Hannibal. Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Observations on the Nature, Kinds, Causes, and Prevention of Insanity; Volume 2. Remarks on the Rev. Dr. Arnold's Principles of Church Reform. Observations on the Nature, Kinds, Causes, and Prevention of Insanity; Volume 1. History of Rome; Volume II. History of Rome. Christian Life, Its Hopes, Its Fears, and Its Close. Two Stage Biblical Creation. Der Hohlpfennigfund von Mühlhausen (1990). Deutschland - nein danke. Historia Anglorum. the History of the English from AC 55 to AD 1154. Die Rolle von Peroxyradikalen bei atmosphärischen Oxidationsprozessen. Tetragon. History of the Later Roman Commonwealth : From the End of the Second Punic War to the Death of Julius Caesar; and of the Reign of Augustus. Notes on Beowulf. Passages in a Wandering Life. History of the Peloponnesian War; Volume 2. Memorials of St. Edmund's Abbey; Volume 3. Second Punic War. Inaugural lectures. Review of new publications. The education of the deaf and dumb. Addison Selections From Addison's Papers Contributed To The Spectator. Creamer, dated 1760–75, silver, held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, inventory 59.208.75. Refugee Camp, Ruins in Background, San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, dated April 1906, printed 1956, gelatin silver print, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1956.1097. Ruins of Church Looking North-East or East; Yerba Buena Island in far Right Distance) San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, dated April 1906, printed 1956, gelatin silver print, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1956.1099. The Burning City, San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, dated April 1906, printed 1956, gelatin silver print, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1956.1098. Cooking on the street, San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, dated April 1906, printed 1956, gelatin silver print, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1956.1096. In the Sea, dated 1883, oil on panel, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1990.443. Ithaca-Policeman in Front of Fruit Stand, dated January 3, 1949, dye imbibition print, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1956.1127. Carl Sandburg, dated 1955, gelatin silver print, held by The Cleveland Museum of Art, inventory 1988.160. Thomas Arnold. Pencil drawing., held by Wellcome Collection. Thomas Arnold Murray, M.D. / [William Munk]., dated 1878, held by Wellcome Collection. Cash, Thomas Arnold, dated 1920-1921, held by Wellcome Collection. Arnold, Thomas (1742-1816), dated 1785-1794, held by Wellcome Collection. History of Rome / [Thomas Arnold]., dated 1840-1848, held by Wellcome Collection. M0016362: Portrait of Thomas Arnold (1742-1816), dated September 1957, held by Wellcome Collection. Dissertatio medica inauguralis de pleuritide ... / [Thomas Arnold]., dated 1766, held by Wellcome Collection.

In public collections

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 4 named public collections.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 17 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue. The Art Institute of Chicago: 7 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue. The Cleveland Museum of Art: 2 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue. Wellcome Collection: 244 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

Literature

21 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Arnold, Sir Thomas, Oxford Art Online, 2003. Arnold, Thomas (1795–1842), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2017. Arnold, Thomas (1679–1737), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2017. Arnold, Thomas (1823–1900), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2017. Hill, Thomas Arnold, African American Studies Center, 2013. Enrichment of Vascular Fragments from Mouse Embryonic Brains for Endothelial Cell Analysis, Bio-Protocol, 2021. An evolutionarily conserved glycine-tyrosine motif forms a folding core in outer membrane proteins., PLoS ONE, 2017. Altered brain vascularization and transcriptional changes in embryos lacking ABCA1 support a role of cholesterol in brain angiogenesis, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2026. Hyperspectral imaging: a novel approach for plant root phenotyping, Plant Methods, 2018. AUTOGOBIERNO DEPORTIVO: UNA REVISIÓN DE LOS FUNDAMENTOS IDEOLÓGICOS DE LA COMUNIDAD DEPORTIVA ANTE EL ESTADO., E-balonmano.com: Revista de Ciencias del Deporte, 2023. Effects of empagliflozin on quality of life and healthcare use and costs in chronic kidney disease: a health economic analysis of the EMPA-KIDNEY trialResearch in context, EClinicalMedicine, 2025. A.D. Butovsky and the system of physical education in Britain, Pedagogìka, Psihologìâ ta Mediko-bìologìčnì Problemi Fìzičnogo Vihovannâ ì Sportu, 2012. Vascular Pedicle Width on Chest Radiograph as a Measure of Volume Overload: Meta-Analysis, Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2011. Quasi-Dilemmas for Artificial Moral Agents, arXiv. A general approach to maximise information density in neutron reflectometry analysis, arXiv. DP-Rewrite: Towards Reproducibility and Transparency in Differentially Private Text Rewriting, arXiv. Enabling Basic Normative HRI in a Cognitive Robotic Architecture, arXiv. When Exceptions are the Norm: Exploring the Role of Consent in HRI, arXiv. A Survey of Transformer Enabled Time Series Synthesis, arXiv. Explainable Anomaly Detection: Counterfactual driven What-If Analysis, arXiv. Improving CACC Robustness to Parametric Uncertainty via Plant Equivalent Controller Realizations, arXiv.

Naming and authority record

This heading is established in Gemeinsame Normdatei (GND) (1089778252). Those registers additionally record the form Johnson, Thomas A.

Digitised editions and texts

20 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by Internet Archive, Project Gutenberg, DataCite (Zenodo) and DataCite (Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre).

The Christian Duty of Granting the Claims of the Roman Catholics: With a Postscript in Answer to ... (1829) — Internet Archive. History of the Peloponnesian War (1852) — Internet Archive. Fragment on the Church (1845) — Internet Archive. Jebb - Treatment of Grain for Manufacture of Distilled Liquors, British Patent 2840 of 1881 (1881) — Internet Archive. Rerum Britannicarum Medii aevi Scriptores (1885) — Internet Archive. Additional Notes to the Edition of Thucydides Published in 1828-35 (1842) — Internet Archive. The History of Rome (1868) — Internet Archive. Enabling Basic Normative HRI in a Cognitive Robotic Architecture (2016) — Internet Archive. Life of Hannibal (1879) — Internet Archive. The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, D.D., Late Head-master of ... (1862) — Internet Archive. POPE, SELECTED POEMS; THE ESSAY ON CRITICISM; THE MORAL ESSAYS; THE DUNCIAD (1876) — Internet Archive. the catholic dictionary (1881) — Internet Archive. The Christian Life: Its Course, Its Hindrances, and Its Helps — Project Gutenberg. Address to the Inhabitants of Rugby about the Cholera Morbus — Project Gutenberg. Thomas Arnold at The National Portrait Gallery, London (2026) — DataCite (Zenodo). CCDC 1040222: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination (2015) — DataCite (Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre). CCDC 1040221: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination (2015) — DataCite (Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre). CCDC 1040220: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination (2015) — DataCite (Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre). CCDC 931031: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination (2013) — DataCite (Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre). CCDC 931032: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination (2013) — DataCite (Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre).

Scholarly footprint

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 27 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)), 14 scientific preprints indexed (arXiv (Cornell University)) and 349 deposited research records (DataCite Commons). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

Evidence base

This article draws on 11 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 11 means 11 genuinely separate publishers of record. 9 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

In detail

Thomas Arnold studied at Corpus Christi College, Winchester College and Warminster School. Richard Congreve is recorded as having studied under Thomas Arnold. the recorded working language is English.

Employment is recorded with University of Oxford and Rugby School. Positions recorded include head teacher and Regius Professor of History, University of Oxford.

Chronology

  1. 1795Thomas Arnold born at Cowes.
  2. 1829The Christian Duty of Granting the Claims of the Roman Catholics: With a Postscript in Answer to ... digitised by Internet Archive.
  3. 1842Thomas Arnold died at Rugby.
  4. 1842Additional Notes to the Edition of Thucydides Published in 1828-35 digitised by Internet Archive.
  5. 1845Fragment on the Church digitised by Internet Archive.
  6. 1852History of the Peloponnesian War digitised by Internet Archive.
  7. 1868The History of Rome digitised by Internet Archive.

Sources

Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.

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    Arnold, Sir Thomas, Oxford Art Online, 2003

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    Arnold, Thomas (1679–1737), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2017

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    Arnold, Thomas (1795–1842), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2017

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    Arnold, Thomas (1823–1900), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2017

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    arXiv, Cornell University, preprints naming “Thomas Arnold”

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    DataCite Commons, deposited research records naming “Thomas Arnold”

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    Hill, Thomas Arnold, African American Studies Center, 2013

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    Open Library author record for Thomas Arnold (Internet Archive), 159 catalogued works.

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    Directory of Open Access Journals lists 37 articles naming Thomas Arnold.

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    Gemeinsame Normdatei 1089778252, Johnson, Thomas Arnold.

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    Internet Archive, 106 digitised items catalogued under Thomas Arnold as creator.

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    Project Gutenberg holds 2 full texts attributed to Thomas Arnold.

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    The Art Institute of Chicago, collection records associated with Thomas Arnold.

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    The Cleveland Museum of Art, open access collection records associated with Thomas Arnold.

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    The Metropolitan Museum of Art, collection records associated with Thomas Arnold (17 objects).

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    Wellcome Collection catalogue records 244 works naming Thomas Arnold.

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    Wikidata, structured authority record Q887226: Thomas Arnold

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    “Thomas Arnold”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

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