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List Of Wardens Of All Souls College, Oxford
The head of All Souls College, University of Oxford, is the Warden A warden is a custodian, defender, or guardian. Warden is often used in the sense of a watchman or guardian, as in a prison warden. It can also refer to a chief or head official, as in the Warden of the Mint. ''Warden'' is etymologically identic .... The current Warden is Sir John Vickers who was elected in October 2008. List of Wardens of All Souls College References {{reflist, 30em All Souls Wardens All Souls ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All Souls College, Oxford
All Souls College (official name: College of the Souls of All the Faithful Departed) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Unique to All Souls, all of its members automatically become fellows (i.e., full members of the college's governing body). It has no undergraduate members, but each year, recent graduate and postgraduate students at Oxford are eligible to apply for a small number of examination fellowships through a competitive examination (once described as "the hardest exam in the world") and, for those shortlisted after the examinations, an interview.Is the All Souls College entrance exam easy now? , ''The Guardian'', 17 May 2010. The college entrance is on the north side of |
Stephen Niblett
Stephen Niblett D.D. (1697–1766) was an English academic administrator at the University of Oxford. Niblett was elected Warden (head) of All Souls College, Oxford in 1726, a post he held until 1766. During his time as Warden of All Souls College, he was also Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University from 1735 until 1738. A monument to Niblett and his wife Elizabeth was erected at All Souls College, Oxford in 1766, being sculpted by Nicholas Read Nicholas Read is an American physicist, noted for his work on strongly interacting quantum many-body systems. Biography Read was born in Britain in 1958 and did his undergraduate education at Cambridge University. He completed his PhD at the ....Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851 by Rupert Gunnis p.316 References 1697 births 1766 deaths Wardens of All Souls College, Oxford Vice-Chancellors of the University of Oxford {{UOxford-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Neill, Baron Neill Of Bladen
Francis Patrick Neill, Baron Neill of Bladen, (8 August 1926 – 28 May 2016) was a British barrister and a crossbench member of the House of Lords. Early life and education A son of Sir Thomas Neill, Patrick Neill was educated at Highgate School and Magdalen College, Oxford. Legal career He became a barrister in 1951 and took silk in 1966. After heading One Hare Court, he became head of chambers of Serle Court, in Lincoln's Inn when the two merged in 1999. He worked alongside Henry Fisher, Roger Parker, Gordon Slynn, and Richard Southwell QC Lord Neill left Serle Court in 2008 to join his elder brother Sir Brian Neill, a former Court of Appeal judge, at 20 Essex Street. University of Oxford He was Warden of All Souls College, Oxford, from 1977 until 1995, and an Honorary Fellow since 1995. He was Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University from 1985 till 1989, and played a major part in the University's decision to undertake The Campaign for Oxford. He was an unsuccessful can ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hanbury Angus Sparrow
John Hanbury Angus Sparrow OBE (13 November 1906 – 24 January 1992) was an English academic, barrister, book-collector, and Warden of All Souls College, Oxford, from 1952 to 1977. Early life and education He was born on 13 November 1906 at New Oxley, Bushbury, near Wolverhampton, and died on 24 January 1992 at Iffley, near Oxford. His father was Isaac Saredon Sparrow, a barrister who had inherited wealth through the family business as prominent Midland ironmasters. John Sparrow was the eldest of five children, born to Isaac and Margaret Sparrow (née Macgregor). Sparrow briefly attended the junior house of Wolverhampton Grammar School, but was soon moved to Brockhurst at Church Stretton in Shropshire as a boarder. Not long after, in September 1916, when he was nearly ten, he was sent to a preparatory school called The Old Hall at Wellington in Shropshire. His formal education followed at Winchester College and New College, Oxford. Academic career Sparrow was elected Fellow o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hubert Henderson
Sir Hubert Douglas Henderson (20 October 1890 – 22 February 1952), was a British economist and Liberal Party politician. Background Henderson was born the son of John Henderson of Glasgow. He was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School, Rugby School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. In 1915, he married Faith Bagenal. They had one son (Nicholas Henderson) and two daughters. Henderson was knighted in 1942. Professional career Henderson was Secretary of the Cotton Control Board from 1917 to 1919 and was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge and University Lecturer in Economics from 1919 to 1923. He was editor of ''The Nation and Athenaeum'' from 1923 to 1930. Henderson was Joint Secretary to the Economic Advisory Council from 1930 to 1934. In 1934, he became a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Henderson was Drummond Professor of Political Economy at Oxford from 1945 to 1951. He was appointed Warden of All Souls College, Oxford, in 1951, but he did not take up the appointment. He becam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benedict Humphrey Sumner
Benedict Humphrey Sumner, FBA (8 August 1893 – 25 April 1951), usually known as Humphrey Sumner, was an English historian. He was a fellow of Balliol College, Oxford (1925–44), professor of history at the University of Edinburgh (1944–45) and warden of All Souls College, Oxford (1945–51). The son of the artist Heywood Sumner and his wife Agnes (a sister of Lord Charnwood), he attended Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford. He served as an officer in France in the First World War until 1917 and then worked in the War Office, the Paris Peace Conference, and then the International Labour Office from 1920 to 1922. By that time he had already been appointed a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford (in 1919) and, after his spell in the ILO ended in 1922, he was appointed a tutor at Balliol College; he was elected to a fellowship there in 1925. He remained there until 1944, when he was appointed professor of history at the University of Edinburgh, but the following year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William George Stewart Adams
William George Stewart Adams (8 November 1874 – 30 January 1966) was a British political scientist and public servant who became principal of an Oxford College and a leader in the fields of voluntary service and rural regeneration. Background and education George Adams was born in Auchingramont Road, Hamilton, the younger son of John and Margaret (née Stewart) Adams, by whom he was given "an intellectual and somewhat evangelistic upbringing". His father was Rector (headmaster) of St John's Grammar School and had founded Gilbertfield House School, both in Hamilton. His mother came from a Glasgow mercantile family and was a niece of the social activist John Murray. Educated at St John's (where he was School Dux in 1891), Adams proceeded to Glasgow University with a Dundonald Bursary in Philosophy. At Glasgow he was Blackstone medallist in Latin and Sandford scholar in Greek and obtained a first-class degree in Classics (1897). He afterwards went up to Balliol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford
Frederic John Napier Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford, (12 August 1868 – 1 April 1933) was a British statesman. He served as Governor of Queensland from 1905 to 1909, Governor of New South Wales from 1909 to 1913, and Viceroy of India from 1916 to 1921, where he was responsible for the creation of the Montagu–Chelmsford Reforms. After serving a short time as First Lord of the Admiralty in the government of Ramsay MacDonald, he was appointed the Agent-General for New South Wales by the government of Jack Lang before his retirement. Early life Thesiger was born on 12 August 1868 in London, England, the son of the Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford and Adria Heath. He was educated at Winchester College and Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating from the latter as Bachelor of Arts with first-class honours in law in 1891. Thesiger was elected as a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford (1892–1899). In 1893 he was called to the Bar of the Inner Temple to practise law. He joi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis William Pember
Francis William Pember JP (16 August 1862 – 19 January 1954) was an English first-class cricketer (a right-handed batsman), lawyer and University of Oxford academic, where he served as Vice-Chancellor. Francis Pember was the son of Edward Henry Pember KC JP. He was educated at Harrow School (for whom he played cricket) and Balliol College, Oxford, where he matriculated on 21 October 1880. Pember made his first-class debut for Marylebone Cricket Club against his future club Hampshire in 1882. Pember played two further matches for the club, against Oxford University in 1883 and 1885. In the 1883 fixture Pember made his highest first-class score of 47 *. Pember made his debut for Hampshire in the 1885 season, which was Hampshire's last with first-class status until the 1895 County Championship. Pember made his county debut against Surrey at The Oval. Pember's second and final first-class match for the county came against Derbyshire in the 1885 season. He was called to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir William Anson, 3rd Baronet
Sir William Reynell Anson, 3rd Baronet, (14 November 18434 June 1914) was a British jurist and Liberal Unionist turned Conservative politician from the Anson family. Background and education Anson was born at Walberton, Sussex, the eldest son of Sir John William Hamilton Anson, 2nd Baronet, and his wife Elizabeth Catherine (née Pack). Educated at Eton, 1857–62, and Balliol College, Oxford, 1862–66, he took a first class in both Classical Moderations, 1863, and Literae Humaniores ('Greats', a combination of philosophy and ancient history), 1866. He was elected to a fellowship of All Souls in the following year. Legal and political career In 1869, he was called to the Bar, and went on the home circuit until 1873, when he succeeded to the baronetcy. In 1874, he became Vinerian reader in English law at Oxford, a post attached to a Fellowship of All Souls College, which he held until he became, in 1881, Warden of All Souls. Anson identified himself both with local and univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Leighton
Francis Knyvett Leighton (1806 – 13 October 1881) was an English academic and priest, who was Warden of All Souls College, Oxford, from 1858 until his death. Life Leighton was educated at the University of Oxford, matriculating as a member of Trinity College on 24 June 1823 at the age of 16. He was a demy (scholar) at Magdalen College from 1823 to 1829, obtaining a second-class BA degree in 1828, and winning a prize for Latin verse in 1826. He was elected to a Fellowship at All Souls College in 1829, which he held until 1843. He was ordained as a priest in the Church of England and served as Rector of Cardeston, Shropshire, and then as vicar of St Chad's, Shrewsbury, and rector of Harpsden, Oxfordshire. He was elected Warden of All Souls in 1858, holding the position until his death on 13 October 1881; as Warden, he was also rector of Lockinge in Oxfordshire. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1866 to 1870 (a post in which he was "distinguished by his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewis Sneyd
Lewis Sneyd was born in London on 14 July 1788 and baptised at St Marylebone Parish Church on 10 August. His parents were the Revd Ralph Sneyd of the family of Keele Hall in StaffordshireF. E. Hutchinson and Sir Edmund Craster, ''Monumental Inscriptions in All Souls College, Oxford'', with translations and additions by M. A. Screech (All Souls College, Oxford, second edition 1997) and Penelope Moore. On 24 October 1805 at the age of 17, Lewis was matriculated at the University of Oxford by Christ Church, and took the degree of B.A. in 1809. Joseph Foster, ''Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford 1715–1886: Their parentage, birthplace and year of birth, with a record of their degrees'', later series Vol. 3, S–Z (Parker & Co, Oxford and London, 1891) Lewis Sneyd was ordained Deacon at Oxford on 25 May 1812 and Priest at Coventry & Lichfield on 20 September the same year. He was Vicar of Wolstanton, Staffordshire from 21 September 1812 to 9 August 1824 (and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
