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GA 's first wife, whom he married while he was still an undergraduate at Oxford , died prematurely. He married again the year after her death, and he and his second wife had one son.

By the end of 1910, VT had become romantically involved with Alan Parsons , whom she had met at Brancaster in Norfolk. At the beginning of their courtship, she was still studying music in...

ES 's father, Arthur Sidgwick , was a classical scholar who had been regarded since school and university days as brilliant. He spent many years as a master at Rugby School before becoming a Fellow...

In a poem written at the age of twenty-one Elizabeth Sophia mentions four little sisters and a little brother, aged from two and a half to eleven and a half. She was evidently closest, emotionally...

Her father, Thomas Shore , received his education at Oxford and was a Church of England clergyman until his reservations about the Thirty-Nine Articles led him to redirect his energies to private tutoring. He educated...

Shaw was lecturing at Oxford University 's Extension Summer School when they met. At forty-two, he was seventeen years older than MR , and she set him on a pedestal and never thought of him...

JK 's father, Francis Aungier Pakenham, was an Oxford academic teaching political science when his daughter Judith was born. He was already a maverick: he commanded the Oxford Local Defence Volunteers (later the Home Guard)...

James Edwards Sewell (1810-1903) became an academic. He served as Warden of New College, Oxford , and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University .

CC 's elder son, Theophilus, was born in 1776. His mother was trying in 1799, after his graduation, to get him a parish, and in 1802 to get him a better one. Her younger son...

SD 's brother James, born in 1672, studied at Oxford and died young in 1700, deeply mourned. She never mentions the other brother, Robert, b. 1673, who became a lawyer and had a large family.

One of DA 's aunts had studied at Oxford , become the family bluestocking, and worked as a hospital almoner in London, but had come home when her father died to look after her perfectly...

He was a son of the man of letters Oliver Elton . At the time of his wedding to EJS he was Oxford University 's Reader in Animal Ecology and a Senior Research Fellow of...

The Goudge family moved from Ely to Oxford when EG 's father became Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University .

CO 's father, Charles Oman , said that his early life had been most unhappy. He had been a poverty-stricken student, then a Fellow of All Souls. He became librarian of the...

Their brother Trevenen committed suicide in August 1914, having done (comparatively) badly in exams at Oxford , and fallen in love with a girl who worked as a maid (whom his family regarded as impossible)...