William Henry Charsley (1820 – 2 November 1900) was an

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academic, Master of

Charsley's Hall Charsley's Hall was a private hall of the University of Oxford. After 1891 it was renamed as Marcon's Hall. The hall was established in 1862 by William Henry Charsley, formerly of Christ Church, under the university statute ''De Aulis Priva ...

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from 1862 to 1891. Born at

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in 1820, Charsley matriculated at

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, but left after being blinded in an accident. He returned to

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, with assistance from his brother Robert Harvey Charsley, and graduated from there to become a well-regarded tutor.Richard William Hiley, ''Memories of Half a Century'' (1899), p. 55: "The above description of some of the members that composed our body shall be closed with a slight biography of two men, honoured, respected and beloved by all who knew them..." He founded Charsley's Hall, a private hall at Oxford, in 1862, continuing as its licensed Master until 1891, when he was succeeded by

Charles Abdy Marcon Charles Abdy Marcon (22 September 1853 – 7 February 1953) was an English clergyman, Master of Marcon's Hall, a private hall of Oxford University, from 1891 to 1918, then from 1918 Vicar of Kennington in south London. Early life Marcon was the ...

.''The Annual Register of World Events'' (Longmans, Green, 1901) p. 145 ''The History of the University of Oxford'' states that Charsley died at

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on 2 November 1900. The ''Oxford Magazine'' noted that he had "succeeded in founding a Hall and filling it most successfully, and it still flourishes under his successor".The Oxford magazine, Volume 19, p. 76 In R. W. Hiley's ''Memories of Half a Century'' (1899), Charsley is described as "honoured, respected and beloved by all... a fine man in person, of superior mind, a good scholar".

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