Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris - The Crucifixion (stained-glass window for chapel of St Edmund Hall, Oxford)
After attending the Merchant Taylors' School in 1881 he was offered a scholarship to St John's College, Oxford, where he gained a first in classics and literature.
Barefoot Books is an independent children's book publisher based in Summertown, Oxford UK and Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Walters House – named after Mr David Walters M.C., MA, Brasenose College, Oxford (Headmaster 1931-1953).
The magazine 'Carcanet' had fallen on hard times by October 1967 when Michael Schmidt, a newly arrived undergraduate at Wadham College, Oxford, took it over.
In a description of an initiation ceremony at Merton College, Oxford in 1647, caudle is described as a "syrupy gruel with spices and wine or ale added".
The University of Mississippi's Center for Intelligence and Security Studies (or CISS), located on the University of Mississippi campus in Oxford, Mississippi, was created in 2008 and is housed in the university's School of Applied Sciences.
The Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) in Oxford, England, is a programme for international students (mainly American) to study in Oxford, and also encourages research in the fields of medieval and Renaissance studies.
He bequeathed his personal library and collection of scientific instruments to Christ Church Library; the instruments are now on display in the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford.
He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1833, as first class in classics and second class in mathematics.
The Arthur H. Cole Prize for the outstanding article in the Journal of Economic History, Sept. 1981-June 1982 for “British Industrialization Before 1841.He is a Professor of Economic History and an Emeritus Fellow at St Antony's College both at the University of Oxford.
He went to Pembroke College, Oxford where he studied English Literature and afterwards trained as a journalist.
He was subsequently educated at St Edward's School, Oxford, and at Liverpool University, where he earned a B.A. degree in history and served during 1971-72 as President of the Guild of Undergraduates.
# All Saints Church, High Street (1896–1971), deconsecrated and now the library of Lincoln College
All colleges are now co-educational, although one of the Permanent Private Halls, St Benet's Hall, only accepts men.
Cornmarket Street (often called just Cornmarket by Oxonians) is a major shopping street and pedestrian precinct in Oxford, England that runs north-south between Carfax Tower and Magdalen Street.
A further (ashlar) monument is to William Bonde (d.1559), erected by his son Nicholas, President of Magdalen College, Oxford.
Henry Daniel began printing in 1845, when still a schoolboy, at Frome in Somerset, and he continued to print books and ephemera well into the twentieth century, latterly at Oxford where he ultimately became Provost of Worcester College.
Phelps attended St Felix School, Southwold, Suffolk, and subsequently trained in psychiatric social work at St Anne's College, Oxford, and at the London School of Economics.
A Rhodes Scholar, Naylor received an MD from the University of Toronto in 1978, proceeding to Hertford College, Oxford, where he earned a D.Phil in 1983 in the Department of Social and Administrative Studies.
He was educated at Eton and New College, Oxford before a military career, serving in both the First World War and World War II.
The Detroit-Oxford was an automobile manufactured in Oxford, Michigan by the Detroit-Oxford Motor Car Company from 1905-06.
Edith Forne was an English noblewoman who was the concubine of King Henry I of England and the foundress of Osney Abbey near Oxford.
He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge with first class honours in Modern History, and from St Antony's College, Oxford with a Masters of Philosophy in Modern History.
He remained as captain of the Rugby School first eleven in 1891 and his performance stood out during a single-innings match against Trinity College, Oxford in which he top-scored for Rugby with 46, and claimed three wickets.
The Church of the Holy Trinity is large with several interesting features and is historically connected with Merton College, Oxford.
In 1863 he played for Boughton and in 1864 spent a year at Exeter College, Oxford.
She has taught courses in feminist legal theory at Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, Berlin, Frankfurt, the University of Tokyo, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and at other universities in the United States, Chile, France, Italy, Japan, and Israel.
He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, and obtained the degrees of Master of Arts and Doctor of Civil Law.
She is credited with establishing a religious site later incorporated into Christ Church in Oxford — Frithuswith was the first abbess of this Oxford double monastery.
He carried out some work for Balliol College, Oxford including a Gothic ceiling for the chapel, and was invited to design a whole new frontage for the college, but the plans were never carried out, due to the intervention of a faction amongst the fellows who commissioned an alternative set of plans from Pugin.
Before joining UCSD, Mackie was assistant professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, a research fellow at the Australian National University, and a junior research fellow at St John's College, Oxford.
Scholars who study British fascism and antisemitism frequently cite her 1978 book Political Anti-Semitism in England 1918-1939—a revision of her thesis submitted to St Antony's College, Oxford.
It is based in the Longbridges boathouse on the Isis, which is co-owned by the college and shared with Hertford, St Hilda's, St Catz, Mansfield and St Benet's.
Horspath Cricket Club is based at the Recreation Ground in Horspath Village, which is on the Oxford Road leading into Horspath from Cowley, Oxford, UK
Pinhey matriculated at Keble College in Oxford, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford, where he began his studies on 15 October 1877, at the age of eighteen.
After his stint in the Merchant Marines, Suall studied at Ruskin College, Oxford on a Fulbright scholarship.
Over the next few years, he oversaw the chartering of Phi Kappa chapters at the Emory University Academy in Oxford, Georgia (Gamma Beta) and at the Gulf Coast Military Academy in Gulfport, Mississippi (Mu Theta).
He took his undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago in 1954, studied at New College, Oxford from 1956 to 1958, and returned to Chicago for his Ph.D. in 1961.
He joined El Colegio de México as a professor in 1991 and has worked as visiting scholar at St Anthony's College, University of Oxford; University of Chicago; Trinity College, Dublin; Complutense University of Madrid and University of Salamanca.
After the war, he—as he tells Nick Carraway years later—attends Trinity College, Oxford.
The Jericho Tavern is a music venue and pub in the Jericho area of Oxford, England at 56 Walton Street.
After serving five years in the Royal Navy during World War II he returned to Oxford as a Fellow of first New College and then Wadham College, where between 1947 and 1961 he was in succession Dean, Domestic Bursar and Senior Tutor.
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The outcome was Linacre College (initially Linacre House), the first Oxford University college to accept only graduate students and the first to admit men and women on an equal basis.
Buckler did a lot of work in Oxford, carrying out repairs and additions to St. Mary's Church, and Oriel, Brasenose, Magdalen, and Jesus Colleges.
He was educated at New College, Oxford where he matriculated on 2 September 1729, aged 15.
He was the youngest child of sculptor William Wetmore Story, and the brother of sculptor Thomas Waldo Story, and was educated at Eton and Brasenose College, Oxford University, England.
It is thought that the King had great plans to create a college to rival Oxford's Christ Church with great new architecture, but he died a few weeks after the college was created.
The band gigged around local venues and played with Siouxsie and the Banshees at a gig in the bar of Exeter College, Oxford, Oxford.
Two pages from a Baedeker published in Lyra's world (including entries for the Eagle Ironworks, the Oxford Canal, the Fell Press and the Oratory of St Barnabas the Chymist, all in the Jericho area of Oxford), a postcard from the character Mary Malone, and a brochure for the cruise ship Zenobia are also included.
Every 1 May, at 6am, the choir of the college (including boy choristers from nearby Magdalen College School) sings two traditional hymns — the Hymnus Eucharisticus and "Now Is the Month of Maying" — to start the May Morning celebrations in Oxford.
Magpie Lane, the name of a street in central Oxford, is the title of the first tune on the group's first CD The Oxford Ramble.
He was educated at The King's School, Canterbury and Christ Church, Oxford, studying Politics, Philosophy and Economics and obtaining a Doctorate in philosophy for a study of pre-revolutionary French history.
Merton College Library (in Merton College, Oxford) is one of the earliest libraries in England and the oldest academic library in the world still in continuous daily use.
Hogan could have attended classes and received credit in one of Mississippi's two public, coeducational programs leading to a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, but these were at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg (178 miles from Columbus) and the University of Mississippi in Oxford (114 miles from Columbus).
It is the educational hub of Kerala and is called the Oxford of the South.
He went to University College, Oxford (University of Oxford), where he was awarded a BA Honours (MA) degree in Modern History, the B.Litt., and the BCL.
US 158 breaks off just past that junction and heads east to Oxford while US 501 and NC 57 continue southward towards Durham.
It was originally built as a Primitive Methodist Church, but with Methodist Union in 1932 it was no longer needed for this purpose, as the Wesleyan Wesley Memorial Church is about 100m away;
To solve this mystery, Cranmer begins calling on old contacts from Oxford to the arms trade to find out what his former agent and his purloined mistress have been up to in their disappearance.
It is unclear whether the town is named after either Oxford in England, or more particularly after its university, but it is more probable that it was named after Samuel Wilberforce, who was the Bishop of Oxford from 1845 to 1870.
Oxford's players almost immediately got involved in a brawl with some Inns of Court students while playing at The Theatre in Shoreditch, and several members were thrown into gaol, but they were out and on the road by early June.
It remained in this family (who later took the name 'de Wolverton' after the village of Wolverton) until 1442 when it was sold to All Souls College, Oxford.
Born on 20 February 1799 and educated at Eton College and at Oriel College, Oxford, Pakington had a long career as an active and industrious Conservative politician, being member of parliament for Droitwich from 1837 to 1874.
Educated at Shaftesbury Grammar School, Dorset 1965-1972, he was organ scholar 1972-1975 at New College, Oxford, where he gained a First Class Honours degree in music.
Rather than joining the ranks of the unemployed, he elected to study philosophy at Magdalen College, Oxford, before quickly realising that, in his own words, 'Oxford wasn't about learning, but about a peculiarly unpleasant form of class indoctrination'.
Havard-Williams received degrees from universities in Wales and Oxford.
He has contributed extensively to education and as a result, many schools and colleges (such as Harris Manchester College, Oxford) bear his name.
The square is named after John Radcliffe, a student of the university who became doctor to the King, made a large fortune, and left a significant legacy to the University and his college (University College), which is nearby in the High Street to the south.
This academy was the germ of the institution now known as Harris Manchester College, Oxford.
A Recognised Independent Centre (RIC) of Oxford University is a status awarded to acknowledge a special relationship with a small number of institutes and centres which are involved in teaching and research in their specialised areas in Oxford.
As the status of Saint Louis grew among Europe's aristocracy, the influence of his famous chapel also extended beyond France, with important copies at Karlštejn Castle near Prague (c.1360), the Hofburgkapelle in Vienna (consecrated 1449) and Exeter College, Oxford (1860).
Bergman was a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford in 1966, and was tutored by Denis Noble FRS, cardiac physiologist and later head of the Oxford Cardiac Electrophysiology Group.
At the age of fifteen, Miller was already interested in antiquarian subjects, and while studying at St Mary Hall, Oxford he continued to develop his interest in England's past, under the influence of William King.
On 12 October 1642, together with his fellow-member Richard Herbert he was disabled from sitting in parliament, on account of their having joined the king at Oxford in the initial stages of the English Civil War.
From Westminster School Aylesbury passed in 1598 to Christ Church, Oxford, where he took the degrees of B.A. and M.A. in 1602 and 1605 respectively.
St Edmund Hall, Oxford, a constituent college of the University of Oxford
St Stephen's House, Oxford, an Anglican theological college nicknamed "Staggers"
He was born at Somertown near Oxford, the son of the Rev. Stephen Phillips, precentor of Peterborough Cathedral.
The nickname of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford
By 1959, the proposal had received strong endorsement from Oxford City Council, and an embargo on new shopping developments along the nearby Cowley Road was enforced.
The book is divided into seven chapters, respectively covering Chenevix-Trench's ancestry and early childhood, his education at Shrewsbury School and Christ Church, Oxford, his military service in the Malayan Campaign during the Second World War, and his successive spells of teaching at Shrewsbury, Bradfield, Eton and Fettes.
The poem traditionally commemorates the introduction of a motorised omnibus service in the city of Oxford (Corn and High are the colloquial names of streets in the centre of the city where several Colleges of the University are located), thereby shattering the bucolic charm of the horse-drawn age.
Daughter of a Head of House at Oxford, cousin Kitty endures her mother's academic dinner-parties, studies half-heartedly with an impoverished female scholar named Lucy Craddock, and considers various marriage prospects, dismissing Edward.
He was recommended to the Dean and Chapter of Chichester Cathedral by Walter Parratt (then Organist of Magdalen College, Oxford) after stringent competition, and was therefore appointed Organist and Master of the Choristers at Chichester Cathedral.
According to some reports, the young Grey attended Magdalen College School, Oxford, and he is uncertainly said to have been taught (either at the school or else privately tutored) by the future Cardinal Wolsey.
Thomas Helwys is honoured with the Helwys Hall at Regent's Park College, Oxford.
Tring National School was founded in 1842 by Church of England Revd Edward I. Randloph, with the assistance of a grant from the National Society, on land granted by the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church, Oxford.
The club's members are students and staff from Trinity College and, occasionally, associate members from other Colleges.
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Another nineteen years passed with rowing at Trinity growing in its importance within the college, until finally during the Eights in 1861, Trinity bumped University College, Oxford, BNC, Exeter and finally Balliol College to go Head of the River.
The Victoria Arms (known locally as the Vicky Arms) is a public house on the eastern bank of the River Cherwell at the end of Mill Lane close to Old Marston, northeast of Oxford, England.
Wadham College Boat Club (WCBC) is the rowing club of Wadham College, Oxford, in Oxford, United Kingdom.
Number 47 houses the administrative offices of the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages.
In 1959, Westminster College moved into a set of purpose-built facilities on Harcourt Hill, Oxford, with buildings noted for their fusion of Oxford quads with a "New England" style of architecture, evident particularly in the large and distinctive chapel.
His father, George Huddesford, was the President of Trinity College, Oxford.
He was educated at Fettes College of which his father (Rev William Augustus Heard) had been Headmaster, and at Balliol College, Oxford where he rowed.
The rights to the manor in the village used to belong to University College, Oxford.
1561, who entered Gray's Inn from Magdalen College, Oxford, 28 January 1583 (Foster, Alumni. Oxon.; Gray's Inn Admission Register, 28 Jan 1582-3), but another account of him, claiming to be based on sources not now available, suggests that he was born about 1536 and received no university education.
Furneaux was born Elisabeth Yvonne Scatcherd and came to England in 1946 to study Modern Languages at St Hilda's College, Oxford, where she was known as "Tessa Scatcherd".
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Cadell's great-uncle Vernon Royle represented Lancashire, Oxford University and the Marylebone Cricket Club in first-class cricket.
Hume and the Problem of Causation (Oxford University Press, 1981) (with T.L. Beauchamp)
Schmid, D. (1999) "Train, Arthur", American National Biography, Oxford University Press, 21: 799-800, ISBN 0-19-520635-5
The first two bills were for the establishment of the Buckingham and Brackley Junction Railway and the Oxford and Bletchley Junction Railway to construct lines from Bletchley to Oxford via Winslow and Bicester, and another from a point near Claydon House to Brackley and Buckingham.
Its endowment was granted in 1363, and included the church of Pagham, Sussex, along with (initially) eight Oxford houses' rents and a portion of the rents from Woodford, Northamptonshire and Worminghall, Buckinghamshire, where the Priory had manors.
In 1891 he took over from William Henry Charsley as Master of Charsley's Hall, Oxford, with the result that it was renamed Marcon's Hall.
Charles Fortescue Ingersoll (1791–1832), Massachusetts-born Canadian businessman and political figure who served in War of 1812 and represented Oxford County in Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1824 until his death from cholera
Vaughan was educated at Rugby School, where he entered on 22 January 1788, and at Merton College, Oxford, matriculating on 26 October 1791.
On completion of the OED, the universities of Oxford, Leeds, and Birmingham conferred honorary degrees upon him.
This is a common practice in the UK at schools attached to cathedrals where the choir is the Cathedral Choir, and at Oxford and Cambridge University Colleges, many of which have famous choirs.
Its most internationally famous clergyman, Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali, formerly diocesan bishop of Raiwind in West Punjab, was given sanctuary by Robert Runcie, the then-Archbishop of Canterbury when his life was imperilled; he then taught at Oxford and served as Bishop of Rochester, England.
A former defense researcher and strategist and member of the Institute for Strategic Studies in London, and a member of Oxford's All Souls College, he was a senior grade public affairs officer for the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in Santiago, Chile during the Allende government.
This linked Water Eaton and Oxford, and a short section of this path (at the bottom of Harpes Road, Islip Road and Victoria Road in North Oxford) is called Water Eaton Road.
Dan Housego was educated; first at Moulsford Prep School, Oxford, then at The Oratory School, Woodcote.
Restructuring Networks in Postsocialism: Legacies, Linkages, and Localities (Co-editor with Gernot Grabher), London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Being a conscientious objector to World War II he spent the war years at Oxford with physicist Kurt Mendelssohn where they worked on medical problems relating to the war effort.
In 1899 he was chosen to be the first principal of Ruskin College, Oxford.
1927 An Introduction to Old Norse, Revised edition 1956, revised by A.R. Taylor; Reprinted 1981, Oxford University Press, USA; 2nd edition
1991 England riots, mainly in Oxford, Cardiff, Dudley, Leeds and Newcastle upon Tyne; riots in Birmingham around the same time
Bradley, who was studying at Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar, took advantage of his year in Europe, to give decisive help to Milano.
Born in Oxford, New Jersey, Schoonover studied under Howard Pyle at the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia and became part of what would be known as the Brandywine School.
Mark Freedland, English professor of employment law at Oxford and author
Doug McAdam, Freedom Summer (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988).
Captain Sir Hubert Guy Dyke Acland, 4th Baronet Acland of St. Mary Magdalen, Oxford, DSO (8 June 1890 – 6 May 1976) was an officer in the British Royal Navy who served during both World Wars.
In 1956, he married Aline Halban, née de Gunzbourg, who was not only the former wife of an Oxford colleague and a former winner of the ladies' golf championship of France, but from an exiled half Russian-aristocratic and half ennobled-Jewish banking and petroleum family (her mother was Yvonne Deutsch de la Meurthe, granddaughter of Henri Deutsch de la Meurthe) based in Paris.
He earned a second B.A. with first class honours, from Oxford University, in 1986, a J.D. from Yale Law School, in 1989, an M.A. from Oxford (which is not a separate degree, but an upgrading of the BA), in 1991, and a diploma from the Hague Academy of International Law in 1992.
He was born at Oxford, and succeeded his father as superintendent of the Physic Garden, and on the death of Dr. Robert Morison in 1683, lectured as botanical professor.
He served in succession: the Baptist church in Oxford, New Jersey; the East Marion Baptist Church on Long Island; First Baptist Church of Ticonderoga, New York; McDougal Street Baptist Church, New York City; the Park Baptist Church in Port Richmond, New York on Staten Island; North Street Baptist Church, Philadelphia; the E Street or Third Baptist Church of Washington, D.C. and the Temple Baptist Church also in Washington.
At Oxford, Lee and Herring performed in a regular comedy revue called The Seven Raymonds, which also included the material and performance of Emma Kennedy, Michael Cosgrave and Tim Richardson.
Two award winning books published by Welcome include, The Oxford Project by Stephen G. Bloom, photographed by Peter Feldstein and American Farmer, The Heart of Our Country with photographs by Paul Mobley and text by Katrina Fried.
The "Magdalen" papyrus was purchased in Luxor, Egypt in 1901 by Reverend Charles Bousfield Huleatt (1863–1908), who identified the Greek fragments as portions of the Gospel of Matthew (Chapter 26:23 and 31) and presented them to Magdalen College, Oxford, where they are cataloged as P. Magdalen Greek 17 (Gregory-Aland 64) and whence they have their name.
This sweeping bottomland, located approximately halfway between Holly Springs and Oxford, was the inspiration for fictional settings in several works by William Faulkner.
Future U.S. President Bill Clinton, then a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, organized and participated in the demonstration in England; this later became an issue in his Presidential campaign.
The following year Graves started as a student in Oxford.
The New Theatre Oxford (known, for a period, as the Apollo Theatre Oxford or simply The Apollo from 1977–2003) is the main commercial theatre in Oxford, England and has a capacity of 1,800 people.
This was the time of Titus Oates and the "Popish Plot", and some of Walker's writings made him a suspect; however, no serious steps were taken against him, although Oxford booksellers were forbidden to sell his book, The benefits of our Saviour Jesus Christ to mankind.
Despite the fact that Oxford is a city with its own cathedral, the term "town hall" is still used.
Having taken orders about 1615, he preached in the neighbourhood of Oxford, till he was appointed master of the grammar school in College Green, Bristol.
His work in that field was distinguished by his acumen, his philosophical understanding, and extensive study of the major pioneering works of Durkheim, Toennies, Max and Alfred Weber, Simmel and others in the British Museum Library in London, while resident as a student in Oxford.
The manuscripts were left to Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, who by his will bequeathed them (160 volumes in all) to the Bodleian Library at Oxford.
He promptly slipped away to Oxford, where he was warmly welcomed by the King, but his houses in Hammersmith and Lime Street were ransacked.
The pub features in Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited and in Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse series, which was written and filmed in and around Oxford.
Prior to the success of The Voodoo Trombone Quartet, Thorpe was singer in Loveblobs signed to Wiiija Records and Nork Law, releasing a single on Oxford’s Shifty Disco and recording material for Eastwest Records.
Returning to England after the accession of Elizabeth I, he enjoyed rapid promotion, being made, within ten years, chaplain to Archbishop Matthew Parker, rector of Biddenden in Kent, of Sutton Waldron in Dorset, archdeacon of Stafford, chancellor in Lichfield Cathedral, and Warden of Merton College, Oxford.
Joan Turville-Petre, Lecturer in English, Anglo-Saxon and Ancient Icelandic at Oxford University
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E. O. G. Turville-Petre (commonly known as Gabriel Turville-Petre), an English Professor of Ancient Icelandic Literature and Antiquities at Oxford University