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Lancasterian

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Lan`cas`te´ri`an
prop. a.1.Of or pertaining to the monitorial system of instruction followed by Joseph Lancaster, of England, in which advanced pupils in a school teach pupils below them.


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McGibbon, of Lancasterian Street, Carrickfergus, was returned for trial after Belfast Magistrates Court accepted there was a case to answer.
It overemphasizes the importance of eighteenth and early nineteenth century republican theorists whose visionary plans generally had few practical results, and it neglects the Lancasterian or monitorial schooling (not given a mention in RBET)--mass charity education on the cheap for the poor--that swept the country, especially its cities.
Henry, who usurped the Throne from his cousin, Richard II, in 1399, established the Lancasterian dynasty which ruled until 1471.
 
 
 
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