University College, Oxford University

As a schoolboy at EtonPBS opposed the system of fagging (allotting junior boys virtually as private slaves to wait on older ones). He was expelled by University College, Oxford (which later set up a...

MB 's father was George Granville Bradley , a clergyman, teacher, scholar, and personal friend of the poet Alfred Tennyson. At the time of her birth he was headmaster of Marlborough College ; in 1870...

Elizabeth's brother, William (who was a scholar ten years older than she was, a Fellow of University College, Oxford from 1696, and a clergyman in London from 1702), was an important figure in her earlier...

In Belinda, RB is believed to have drawn extensively from her own early negative experience of the closed world of Oxford society. It was in particular believed that she caricatured college head Mark Pattison