St Bees

St. Bees School

St. Bees is a village in the Cumbria district . It is on the north-west coast of England south of Whitehaven and west of Egremont .

The place has about 1800 inhabitants. St Bees is for the Irish hermit St. Bega named one here Klause had. Bees is the anglicized form of the name.

In 1817, George Henry Law , a Conservative Bishop of Chester and brother of Judge Ellenborough, founded an Anglican seminary at St. Bees. It was intended to train clergy too poor to study theology at Oxford or Cambridge.

Famous citizens

Edmund Grindal , Archbishop of Canterbury
Edwin Sandys , Archbishop of York

Web links

Commons : St Bees - collection of images, videos and audio files

http://www.stbees.org.uk/index.htm

Individual evidence

↑ http://www.stbees.org.uk/index.htm
^ Peter J. Manning: Wordsworth at St. Bees: Scandals, Sisterhoods, and Wordsworth's Later Poetry . English Literary History 52/1, 1985, 43

54.49 -3.5894444444444Coordinates: 54 ° 29 ′ N , 3 ° 35 ′ W

[1] ttp://www.stbees.org.uk/index.htm

[2] Peter J. Manning: Wordsworth at St. Bees: Scandals, Sisterhoods, and Wordsworth's Later Poetry . English Literary History 52/1, 1985, 43