Oxford University

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

In 1895 Robert was awarded a scholarship to attend Harrow and study the classics. After an undistinguished career there, he went on to Oxford , where he became an amateur boxer. Later he aspired to...

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...

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...

In July 1954, Ralph, after taking a First at Oxford in musicology, quarrelled with QDL over his future plans and they became permanently estranged.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...