Queen's College, Oxford University

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Education	Walter Pater	WP entered King's School, Canterbury , as a day student. Starting in 1858, he studied at Queen's College, Oxford , where he was tutored in Greek by Benjamin Jowett . Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 57
Family and Intimate relationships	Elizabeth Elstob	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...
Occupation	Walter Pater	After graduating with a second-class Oxford degree from Queen's in December 1862, WP returned to London with his sisters. His early attempts to gain a clerical fellowship failed, but in February 1864 he returned to...
Textual Features	Alicia D'Anvers	Another aspect of Oxford presents itself through the hero's bumpkin servant John Blunder, who takes the guided tour. He is full of misapprehensions: that every building he sees is a church; that Queen's College is...

Timeline

18 January 1341

Queen's College , Oxford, was founded; it was originally named Quene Hall.

Rashdall, Hastings. Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages. Editors Powicke, Sir Frederick Maurice and Alfred Brotherston Emden, Clarendon, 1987, 3 vols.

III: 207

Hodgkin, Robert Howard. Six Centuries of an Oxford College: A History of the Queen’s College, 1340-1940. Blackwell, 1949.

The founding date is also given as 18 January 1340, according to Old Style, which continued the old year until 25 March.

12 October 1897

Nearly four years after the appearance of the first fascicle (A-ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary, a great dinner was held at Queen's College, Oxford , for its volunteer readers, including women.

Winchester, Simon. The Professor and the Madman. HarperCollins, 1998.

163-4, 147

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