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JB 's husband was a university instructor who was ordained in the Anglican church in 1854. During the early years of their marriage he taught geography at Oxford University .

DW never names the man, a childhood friend who came back from the Great War with a shattered knee, who broke her heart by failing fully to return the passionate love which developed between them...

AF 's father, born Francis Aungier (Frank) Pakenham, was an Oxford academic whose subject was politics. He became the seventh Earl of Longford in 1961, but he had already been made Baron Pakenham by Clement Attlee

At nineteen, while she was still an undergraduate at Oxford , Catherine Greenfield (later CB ) married Ken Byron , who was then a history student.

She was very fond of Betty as a little girl, and took the child with her to Canada when she went there in 1921. In Betty's early years she was mainly raised by a...

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)...

JW 's brothers, Joseph (her elder by two years) and Thomas (her younger by six), each made a name for himself in the literary and academic worlds. Joseph was Headmaster of Winchester College (a public...

MFB 's father was the Reverend George Henry Billington , who served as rector of Chalbury from 1861 to 1904. He was an antiquarian who corresponded with Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers and contributed to...

In June the previous year he had received an honorary degree from Oxford University .

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

Carrington knew Rex Partridge by mid 1918; he was a friend of Noel Carrington at Oxford University , and was introduced to her by John Hope Johnstone . Partridge soon began to spend much...

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)...

MP 's father, the Rev. Roger Griffith, had attended both Oxford and Cambridge universities. He was rector of the Buckingham parish of Padbury, and probably Master of the Royal Latin (Free) School in Buckingham...

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...

She hoped for more children, but this did not happen. Meanwhile, she found the organization of childcare difficult in her extremely busy life. Charles was educated at boarding schools. He badly antagonised...