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Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold, detail of an oil painting by George Frederick Watts, 1880; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Matthew Arnold served as an inspector of schools for 35 years. He accepted the appointment in 1851 and remained in the position until 1886, which was within two years of his death in 1888.1