{"id":343110,"date":"2025-12-30T16:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T16:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/343110\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T16:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T16:43:07","slug":"bobby-seagull-appointed-mbe-for-libraries-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/343110\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobby Seagull appointed MBE for libraries work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Seagull studied at Eton College, Berkshire, having applied after seeing an advertisement for scholarships at the prestigious school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He attended the University of Oxford to study mathematics, but later dropped out, and re-enrolled and graduated from the Royal Holloway University in London instead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He completed his teaching qualification at University of Cambridge and finished his master&#8217;s degree in education at Emmanuel College whilst finishing his newly qualified teacher (NQT) year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2017, Seagull became an ambassador for the charity National Numeracy, which works to empower children and adults in the UK to feel confident with everyday maths.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After his appearance on University Challenge, he teamed up with Monkman to write The Monkman and Seagull Quiz Book, which was released in 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The duo launched a TV series titled Monkman and Seagull&#8217;s Genius Guide to Britain in 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Before he became a maths teacher, Seagull worked as an investment banking trader at Lehman Brothers &amp; Nomura, and qualified as a chartered accountant from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has also worked with the Financial Times as a columnist and appeared on BBC Radio 4&#8217;s Puzzle for Today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seagull studied at Eton College, Berkshire, having applied after seeing an advertisement for scholarships at the prestigious school.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-343110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}