During his headmastership its reputation greatly increased, and in the standard of its scholarship it stood as high as any other public school in England.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference

In 1667, after taking orders, he was appointed by Roger Boyle, first Lord Orrery, to the headmastership of a school recently established by that nobleman at.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference

In the earlier years of his headmastership Dr. Arnold had to face a good deal of opposition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Arnold] Reference

Queen's, his ordination and his appointment to the headmastership of a south-country grammar school.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Elsmere] Reference

But he is an exception; and besides, he did not stop an assistant master long; he got a headmastership pretty soon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Loom of Youth] Reference

'But what banishes every shadow of doubt is the Minute-book of the school, which declares the headmastership to be at that time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life Of Johnson]

He had failed in his attempt to keep up a school in Dublin, and refused the headmastership of the school of Armagh which Lord Primate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish] Reference

William Woodford, of Caroline and accepted the headmastership of Rappahannock Academy, which position he filled with distinction for three years.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Caroline County, Virginia] Reference

His bag full of commandments and principles; but when He came to woman, He resigned His headmastership and turned artist, with only His brush and paint-box.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Home and the World] Reference

IN 1827 the headmastership of Rugby school fell vacant, and it became necessary for the twelve trustees, noblemen and gentlemen of Warwickshire, to appoint a successor to the post.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Arnold] Reference

He sent the class list which contained his name among the Firsts to his father; in the same way he communicated the news of his Fellowship at Queen's, his ordination and his appointment to the headmastership of a south-country grammar school.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Elsmere] Reference

Quite unaware of the trend of his younger son's genius, Captain Borrow obtained for him a free-scholarship at the Grammar School, then under the headmastership of the Rev. Edward Valpy, B.D., whose principal claims to fame are his severity, his having flogged the conqueror of the "Flaming Tinman," and his destruction of the School Records of Admission, which dated back to the Sixteenth Century.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of George Borrow]

"Kay got the offer of a headmastership at a small school in the north, and jumped at it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Head of Kay's] Reference

There’s actually a very well-established origin of the modern public school; the headmastership of Thomas Arnold at Rugby, which revolutionized the public school ethos and whose methods were enthusiastically copied elsewhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Culture and Size and Scope of Government] Reference

Through his students “ who included Doukas Laskaris as well as the historian George Akropolites (1217 “ 82), later charged by Michael VIII with the headmastership of the Imperial School in Constantinople “ and through his widely read compendia on logic and natural philosophy (see sect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Byzantine Philosophy] Reference

1807 to a prebendal stall in Lichfield cathedral, and in 1822 to the archdeaconry of Derby; all these appointments he held with his headmastership, but in 1836 he was promoted to the bishopric of Lichfield.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference

Possibly even a headmastership.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cedar Lounge Revolution] Reference

After referring to the progress of the School under the headmastership of Mr. Thring, and remarking that the older schools would have to look to their laurels, as Uppingham was treading close upon their heels, the Chairman said that in some fifteen or twenty years to come many of the boys would be in Parliament, some of them officers in the army or navy, fighting the battles of the nation, some of them would be barristers, seeing that the people got fair play in the courts of law, others would no doubt be eminent merchants, importing the produce of foreign countries, whilst others would be surgeons, like Dr. Childs -- (loud cheering) -- and physicians.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uppingham by the Sea a Narrative of the Year at Borth] Reference