Professor Terence CopleyAEs new biography of Thomas Arnold combines a study of his life with an examination of ArnoldAEs influence as an educator, a theologian and a churchman. Arnold was only a Victorian for five years (he died in 1842) but he has been remembered as a major figure of the age, not least because Lytton Strachey chose him as one of his objects of ridicule and pillory in Eminent Victorians (1918).He stands as a monument to the development of the 19th-century public school system whose influence spread far beyond BritainAEs upper-class. Arnold was the celebrated headmaster of...