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The Reverend James Maury (1719–1769), of Huguenot ancestry, was an educator and Anglican cleric in the American colonies. Among his famous pupils were Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States , the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence , and one of the most influential Founding Fathers of the United States for his promotion of the ideals of republicanism in the United States....
 and James Madison, the First Bishop of Virginia. The boarding school in which Maury taught was considered the "best known" school in Albemarle
Albemarle

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 county, Virginia
Virginia

The Commonwealth of Virginia is an United States U.S. state on the East Coast of the United States of the Southern United States. The state is known as the "Old Dominion" and sometimes as "Mother of Presidents", because it is the birthplace of Lists of United States Presidents by place of birth#By state....
.

The Reverend James Maury taught instruction in classics
Classics

Classics is the branch of the Humanities comprising the languages, literature, philosophy, history, art, and other culture of the ancient Mediterranean World; especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome during Classical Antiquity ....
, manners and morals, mathematics
Mathematics

Mathematics is the study of quantity, structure, space, change, and related topics of pattern and form. Mathematicians seek out patterns whether found in numbers, space, natural science, computers, imaginary abstractions, or elsewhere....
, literature
Literature

Literature is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word means "acquaintance with letters" . In Western culture the most basic written literary types include fiction and non-fiction....
, history
HIStory

HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I is a double album by Michael Jackson, released on June 20, 1995, and is Jackson's ninth. The first disc, named "HIStory Begins" consists of a selection of Jackson's greatest hits from the singer's past fifteen years, while the second, named "HIStory Continues" features new songs, with the...
 and geography
Geography

Geography is the study of the Earth and its lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth"....
 (Dabney 110), Latin and Greek.






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The Reverend James Maury (1719–1769), of Huguenot ancestry, was an educator and Anglican cleric in the American colonies. Among his famous pupils were Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States , the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence , and one of the most influential Founding Fathers of the United States for his promotion of the ideals of republicanism in the United States....
 and James Madison, the First Bishop of Virginia. The boarding school in which Maury taught was considered the "best known" school in Albemarle
Albemarle

Albemarle may refer to:...
 county, Virginia
Virginia

The Commonwealth of Virginia is an United States U.S. state on the East Coast of the United States of the Southern United States. The state is known as the "Old Dominion" and sometimes as "Mother of Presidents", because it is the birthplace of Lists of United States Presidents by place of birth#By state....
.

The Reverend James Maury taught instruction in classics
Classics

Classics is the branch of the Humanities comprising the languages, literature, philosophy, history, art, and other culture of the ancient Mediterranean World; especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome during Classical Antiquity ....
, manners and morals, mathematics
Mathematics

Mathematics is the study of quantity, structure, space, change, and related topics of pattern and form. Mathematicians seek out patterns whether found in numbers, space, natural science, computers, imaginary abstractions, or elsewhere....
, literature
Literature

Literature is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word means "acquaintance with letters" . In Western culture the most basic written literary types include fiction and non-fiction....
, history
HIStory

HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I is a double album by Michael Jackson, released on June 20, 1995, and is Jackson's ninth. The first disc, named "HIStory Begins" consists of a selection of Jackson's greatest hits from the singer's past fifteen years, while the second, named "HIStory Continues" features new songs, with the...
 and geography
Geography

Geography is the study of the Earth and its lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth"....
 (Dabney 110), Latin and Greek. Most of these boys when going to the Reverend Maury's school, lived there as home was too far away to leave the school area and be back the next morning. Therefore, these boys knew another well as young adults and as adults they worked together in making this nation great.

Thomas Jefferson lived with Maury for two years while being educated. Jefferson and others naturally went home on special holidays such as Thanksgiving and Christmas and sometimes on the week ends. Jefferson started in Maury's Classical School for Boys immediately after his father, Peter Jefferson
Peter Jefferson

Peter Jefferson was the father of President Thomas Jefferson....
, died.

Maury fathered 11 children. His eldest son was America's first overseas consul James Maury
James Maury (consul)

James Maury Jr was a United States diplomat and the first American consul appointed overseas.The US Consulate in Consulate of the United States in Liverpool, established In 1790, was the first overseas consulate founded by the then fledgling United States of America....
 Jr (1746–1840), on whose behalf Thomas Jefferson petitioned then US President George Washington
George Washington

George Washington was the leader of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War and served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States of the United States of Americas ....
 for an appointment. The petition was successful, and Maury Jr became America's first consul
Consul

Consul was the highest elected office of the Roman Republic and an appointive office under the Roman Empire. The title was also used in other city states, and revived in modern states, notably French Republic before the Napoleon I of Franceic counter-revolution....
 to Liverpool
Consulate of the United States in Liverpool

The United States Consulate in Liverpool, England was established in 1790, and was the first overseas consulate founded by the then fledgling United States of America....
, England
England

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 - a position that he held from 1790 to 1829, eventually quitting due to Jacksonian politics. During this overseas appointment, both he and his nephew Matthew Fontaine Maury
Matthew Fontaine Maury

Matthew Fontaine Maury , USN was an United States astronomer, historian, oceanographer, meteorologist, cartographer, author, geologist, and educator....
 (born in 1806) had opportunities to discuss and study the natural philosophy
Natural philosophy

Natural philosophy or the philosophy of nature , is a term applied to the Objectivity study of nature and the physical universe that was dominant before the development of modern science....
 lectures (mainly physics
Physics

Physics is the natural science which examines basic concepts such as energy, force, and spacetime and all that derives from these, such as mass, charge, matter and its Motion ....
) of Thomas Young
Thomas Young (scientist)

Thomas Young was an England polymath who made notable contributions to the fields of Visual perception, light, solid mechanics, energy, physiology, language, harmony and Egyptology....
 published in 1807. Maury Jr's portrait still hangs today in Liverpool Town Hall.

When Thomas Jefferson's daughter, Martha, married, it was Maury that performed the marriage ceremony.

Maury considered knowledge of geography
Geography

Geography is the study of the Earth and its lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth"....
 as one of the essential features in the education of a "well-rounded young gentleman"(Allen 61) and strongly promoted settling the west. Later President Thomas Jefferson gained the Louisiana Purchase
Louisiana Purchase

The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition by the United States of America of of the French territory Louisiana in 1803. The U.S. paid 60 million French franc plus cancellation of debts worth 18 million francs , a total cost of $15,000,000 for the Louisiana territory....
 and sent out the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

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  • In his Autobiography, Thomas Jefferson wrote of the revd James Maury as a correct and classical scholar and states that he was schooled under him for two years.




  • (Albemarle Adventures)