Herbert Kynaston

Herbert Kynaston (1809–1878) was High Master (headmaster) of St Paul's School, London, for 38 years. He was also a priest in the Church of England and a prebendary in St. Paul's Cathedral.

Kynaston, second son of Roger Kynaston, by his marriage to Georgiana, third daughter of Sir Charles Oakeley, governor of Madras, was born at Warwick in 1809 and educated at Westminster School from 1823. He was admitted to Christ Church, Oxford, in 1827, and matriculated on 30 May. He obtained the college prize for Latin verse (subject, Scythae Nomades) in 1829, took a first-class in Classics in 1831, and was appointed tutor and Greek reader in 1836. He graduated BA in 1831, M.A. in 1833, and BD and D.D. in 1849.

At the university he was select preacher in 1841, and was subsequently a lecturer at his college in philology, a subject to which he was much devoted, and to which he continually directed the attention of his pupils. In 1834 he was ordained, and served as curate of Culham, Oxfordshire. Four years later, at the early age of twenty-eight, he was elected High Master of St. Paul's School, London, on the retirement of Dr John Sleath. During the thirty-eight years of his successful rule he numbered among his scholars many who grew up to be distinguished men. Messieurs Demogeot and Montucci, the French commissioners who visited the school in 1866, especially mention the paternal manner in which the High Master dealt with the boys. Lord Truro, an Old Pauline, presented him in 1850 to the city living of St. Nicholas Cole Abbey, with St Nicholas Olave, which he held until the parishes were amalgamated with St. Mary Somerset in 1866. He resigned the mastership of St. Paul's in 1876, and the only preferment which he held at the time of his death was the prebendal stall of Holborn in St. Paul's Cathedral, to which he was presented by Bishop Blomfield in July 1853.

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