Oxford University

RP 's first job was playing the viola at Westminster Abbey, for which she was paid five pounds. Later, like many graduate students, she did some teaching at Oxford , and like many...

In May 2009 she was elected the first-ever woman Professor of Poetry at Oxford , but she resigned nine days later after revealing that she had informed a couple of journalists about past sexual harassment...

In August 1869 JR was appointed the first Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford University . While in this role he established the Ruskin School of Art , donated and arranged art collections, and...

From 1982 SH held an academic position at Harvard , where he taught for just one semester of the year. Two years into this arrangement Harvard appointed him Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory. From...

JAF initially followed in his brother's footsteps at Oxford , joining the Oxford Movement, assisting John Henry Newman with his Lives of the English Saints, and taking orders as a Deacon.

EJ took her Oxford BA Honours in English Language and Literature at St Anne's College .

She sat the entrance exams for admission to Oxford , and got as far as being placed on a waiting list. She was rejected after the A-level results came through (although she got two A's...

MW received an Oxford BA in Modern Languages (French and Italian) from Lady Margaret Hall ; following this she received her MA as well.

He was admitted while very young to Oxford University (where he did not, however, take his degree) and later to Lincoln's Inn . He was a law student when he wrote most of his love-poetry...

PHJ attended Clapham County Secondary School until she left at the age of sixteen and a half. Her mother paid fees of five pounds a term until she had to ask to be excused them...

He left Oxford without taking a degree.

He was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge . He later studied at Oxford University for a degree in medicine. Among writing in many genres, his pastorals and odes proved particularly...

After her father's death, her mother moved her to a boarding school at Lausanne in Switzerland, and then to a progressive girls' school, Parsons Mead School in Ashtead, Surrey. Before long Helen had...

KKD worked on her a DPhil in English from Oxford University .

ES was privately educated, never, as she put it, on orthodox lines. At one point she was sent for eighteen months to boarding school in Calcutta—at which, however, she learned nothing. She...