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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.

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...

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.

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...

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 .

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...

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.

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...

Her mother, born Betty Smith, took university degrees at Manchester and Oxford universities.