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Matthew Arnold

Born: December 24th, 1822 (Laleham-on-Thames, Middlesex, England) Death: April 15th, 1888 (Liverpool, England) Cause of Death: cardiac arrest/ heart failure

Was a British poet, who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the famed headmaster of Rugby School. Matthew Arnold has been characterized as a sage writer, a type of writer who chastises and instructs the reader on contemporary social issues

Matthew Arnold had 2 brothers, Tom and William. Tom Arnold was a Literary professor, and William Arnold was a Novelist, and a Colonial Administrator. Also his dad was the Headmaster of Rugby School; which is a co-ed Boarding school in Rugby, Warwickshire, England. Arnold's college's include, Winchester, Rugby school, Balliol College, and the well known Oxford.

Arnolds Poetic activity almost ceased after he reassigned as Poetry chair at Oxford. Afterward, he was sent by the English government multiple times to make a educational inquiries into the State of education in France, Germany, Holland and other countries; and his reports; with their thorough-going and searching criticism of continental methods, as contrasted with English methods, showed how conscientiously he had devoted his energy to his work.