John gay

He was a talented, strong and dominant player. As he matured, he got even better. His Gateway football and track careers began in back in He was the first ever sophomore to start at running back for Coach Pete Antimarino.

Editor of Private Eye, Ian Hislop, is the presenter, and Dr Rebecca Bullard of the University of Oxford is on hand to help uncover the life of a man who was perhaps as keen to expose the corruption and sleaze he saw around him as he was to climb the greasy pole of professional success. After reaching middle age in the shadow of his much more famous friends, Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope, what was it about The Beggar's Opera that suddenly brought him the fame he craved? And was John Gay, in fact, gay? See all episodes from Great Lives.

John Gay lived a relatively short life from the end of the 17 th century to only the third decade of the 18 th century but managed to write enough controversial verse to last a much longer lifetime. He was, on the one hand, patronised by the great and the good, thus allowing him to continue his musings. Readers found this so hard to understand that the true meaning of the piece had to be explained in a separate publication by two other writers. Gay moved in sometimes Royal circles throughout his life without ever really capitalising on his good fortune.

Graduating as a geographer, John Gay undertook theological training and a doctorate in the geography of religion at Oxford. From teaching and parish work in Paddington he went into teacher training first at Culham College of Education and then here in the Department of Education where he was responsible for the RE PGCE course and the organisational theory component of the MSc course. From — he was Director of the Culham Institute, a small research and development organization working in the areas of Church schools, Church colleges and universities and school-based Religious Education. The Institute moved into the Department in and John worked closely with the Department to enable RE to be re-established and sustained as a PGCE and research subject and has been heavily involved in creating and working with the Religion Philosophy and Education Research Forum.