Brasenose College, Oxford University

In 1869 Pater moved from Brasenose College and took a house with his sisters at 2 Bradmore Road, Oxford. He developed a wider social circle and began dressing like a dandy.

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...

While at Brasenose , he wrote three anonymous essays for the Westminster Review: Coleridge 's Writings, Winckelmann, and The Poetry of William Morris. All three were attacked, says scholar Laurel Brake

From his time at BrasenoseWP knew Oscar Browning . In Oxford and London he socialized with Edmund Gosse , Algernon Charles Swinburne , Simeon Solomon , Oscar Wilde , Vernon Lee , A. Mary F. Robinson

Mary Augusta Arnold married Thomas Humphry Ward , a Fellow of Brasenose who came from a middle-class family.

After going to school in several different towns as his father was allotted to various parishes, JB went on a scholarship to Glasgow University , where he specialised in classics and was taught by Gilbert Murray