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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...

AM 's brother Thomas Mozley (three years older than Anne and the first of three brothers in the family to attend Oxford University ) became a clergyman, religious controversialist, and journalist. He was a vital...

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

RPJ 's brother, Siegbert Salomon Prawer , is two years older. While Ruth quickly began writing in English and rarely deals with German topics, her brother read German at Cambridge and embarked on an academic...

LEL's brother was Whittington Henry Landon . The profits from her writing contributed to his university education at Oxford .

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...

AM 's brother James Bowling Mozley (four years younger than she was) became a clergyman, a well-known preacher, and the Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford . He was a shy man who relied on...

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...

Elizabeth Knyvett married Thomas Clinton, Earl of Lincoln , an Oxford graduate; if her generally accepted birth-date is accurate, she was legally married as a child.

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...

During play he was hit by a ball which may have been partly responsible for his sudden illness. On the day of his funeral, play was suspended for a few minutes in his honour during...

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...

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.

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...

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...