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Dr Charles Longley (July 28, 1794 – October 27, 1868) served as headmaster of Harrow School between 1829 and 1836, however this was not his crowning achievement. In later years he went to serve as Bishop of Ripon, Bishop of Durham, Archbishop of York and Archbishop of Canterbury from 1862 until his death. After being educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, he was ordained in 1818, appointed vicar of Cowley, Oxford, in 1823. When he joined the school he became known as “good natured Longley” but this led to a breakdown in discipline, as Percy M Thornton says in his history Harrow School and its Surroundings: “The moral fibre of the school became loosened, and it is agreed on all sides that too mild an exercise of authority had led to a mischievous laxity in discipline.” This is one of a number of streets named after former headmasters and prominent figures of Harrow School.