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  1. Joseph Wilcocks

    Joseph Wilcocks 1673 1756 was an English churchman, bishop of Gloucester , and bishop of Rochester and dean of Westminster . Life He was born on 19 December 1673, the son of Joseph Wilcocks, a physician of Bristol . He entered Merchant Taylors School, Northwood Merchant Taylors School on 11 September 1684, and matriculated from St John s College, Oxford , on 25 February 1692. From 1692 till 1703 he held a demyship at Magdalen College, Oxford Magdalen College and a fellowship from 1703 till 15 February 1722. He graduated B.A. on 31 October 1695, M.A. on 28 June 1698, and B.D. and D.D. on 16 May 1709. He was for some time chaplain to the English factory at Lisbon in 1709, and to the English embassy, and on his return was appointed chaplain in ordinary to George I of England George I and preceptor to the daughters of the George II of England Prince of Wales . On 11 March 1721 he was installed a prebendary of Westminster, and on 3 Dec. 1721 he was consecrated bishop of Gloucester, holding his stall in commendam . On 21 June 1731 he was installed dean of Westminster, and on the same day was nominated bishop of Rochester. He refused further promotion, declining the archbishopric of York , and devoted himself to completing the west front of Westminster Abbey . He died on 28 February 1756, and was buried in the Abbey on 9 March under the consistory court , where his son erected a monument to his memory in 1761. He married Jane died 27 March 1725 , the daughter of John Milner, British consul at Lisbon. He published several sermons. References DNB wstitle Wilcocks, Joseph s start s rel en s bef before Richard Willis bishop Richard Willis s ttl title Bishop of Gloucester years 1722 1731 s aft after Elias Sydall succession box before Samuel Bradford title Bishop of Rochester after Zachary Pearce years 1731 1756 end box DEFAULTSORT Wilcocks, Joseph Category 1673 births Category 1756 deaths Category Bishops of Gloucester Category Bishops of Rochester Category Deans of Westminster ...   more details



  1. William Agutter

    William Agutter 1758 26 March 1835 was an English sermon writer and preacher. The son of Guy Aguttar of All Souls , Northampton , he enrolled at Lincoln College, Oxford on 18 March 1777, at the age of 18. In 1780 he obtained a demyship at Magdalen College, Oxford and retained it until 1793. He graduated as B.A. in 1781, and took the degree of M.A. in 1784. On 29 May 1793 he was married to Anne Broughton, of Canonbury Place, Islington, a daughter of the Rev. Thomas Broughton. Agutter does not seem to have held any preferment in the English church, but in 1797 he was appointed to the post of chaplain and secretary to the Asylum for Female Orphans in London . He enjoyed a high reputation as a preacher, and many of his sermons were printed by request. The best known of them was preached at St. Mary s, Oxford , before the university on 23 July 1786, and consisted of an orthodox description of the difference between the death of the righteous and the wicked, illustrated in the instance of Dr. Samuel Johnson and David Hume, Esq. He was much attached to that eccentric prodigy of learning, John Henderson, and when his friend died at Oxford in 1788, he accompanied the corpse to Kingswood near Bristol and preached the funeral sermon on the loss which learning had sustained by his death. It was published in the same year. Agutter was the author of several other sermons on such topics as the miseries of rebellion and the abolition of the slave trade . His death occurred at Upper Gower Street , London on 26 March 1835. References DNB wstitle Agutter, William Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Agutter, William ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1758 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 26 March 1835 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Agutter, William Category English sermon writers Category English Christian ministers Category People from Northampton Category Alumni of Lincoln College, Oxford Category Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford Category 1758 births Category ...   more details



  1. Dalziel Hammick

    Dalziel Llewellyn Hammick Fellow of the Royal Society FRS born 8 March 1887, West Norwood , London , England , died 17 October 1966 , was an English research chemist . His major work was in synthetic organic chemistry. He promulgated Hammick s rule , which predicts the order of substitution in benzene derivatives, while the Hammick reaction is used in the synthesis of larger molecules. Early life The son of L. S. H. Hammick, Dalziel Hammick was educated at Whitgift School , Magdalen College, Oxford Magdalen College , University of Oxford Oxford where he was a Demyship demy , and at the University of Munich . He graduated Bachelor of Arts BA in Natural Sciences in 1910 and Master of Arts Oxford, Cambridge and Dublin MA in 1921. ref HAMMICK, Dalziel Llewellyn , in The Provosts and Fellows of Oriel College 1922 ref At Oxford, he was a Cadet in the University s Officers Training Corps , and in July 1911 he was commissioned as a second lieutenant for service with the Gresham s School OTC. ref The Times , Wednesday, Jul 26, 1911 pg. 15 Issue 39647 col. C ref Career After some ten years as a schoolmaster at Gresham s School Gresham s and Winchester College Winchester , in 1920 Hammick was elected to a fellowship of Oriel College, Oxford , where he remained until his death in 1966. For most of his time at Oriel, he was also a lecturer in natural sciences at Corpus Christi College, Oxford Corpus Christi College . His early research was on inorganic substances. He studied sulfur and its compounds and suggested structures for liquid and plastic sulfur. In 1922 he showed that the polymer Polyoxymethylene plastic polyoxymethylene results from the sublimation of trioxymethylene. It was not until the 1960s that this polymer was to be used commercially. He also translated scientific books from French language French into English. His work was honoured by election as a Fellow of the Royal Society Fellow of the Royal Society in 1952. Career summary 1906 1910 Magdalen College, Oxford ...   more details



  1. Bernard Gardiner

    Bernard Gardiner baptised 25 September 1668 22 April 1726 was an academic at the University of Oxford , serving as Warden of All Souls College, Oxford and also as Vice Chancellor of the University of Oxford Vice Chancellor of the university . Life Gardiner was the son of Sir William Gardiner, 1st Baronet , a lawyer and politician, and was baptised in Fareham, Hampshire on 25 September 1668. He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford , matriculation matriculating there in November 1684 and holding a demyship scholarship , but lost his position during a battle for supremacy between the college s officials and James II of England James II . He obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1688, and became a Oxbridge Fellow Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford All Souls College in the following year. Thomas Tenison , the Archbishop of Canterbury , nominated him to become the Warden head of All Souls in 1702 he later added the degrees of Bachelor of Civil Law 1693 and Doctor of Civil Law 1698 . Further positions within the University of Oxford followed Keeper of the Archives from 1703, and Vice Chancellor of the University of Oxford Vice Chancellor of the university from 1712 to 1715. He took steps to ensure that fellows of the colleges of the University of Oxford Oxford colleges complied with their obligations to reside in Oxford and, for fellows at some colleges, to become priests a campaign in which he had some, but not complete, success since some of the errant fellows had powerful supporters. Gardiner himself was ordained, and was vicar of Ambrosden , Oxfordshire 1708 onwards and rector of Hawarden , Flintshire 1714 onwards . He helped to organise the rebuilding of All Souls by Nicholas Hawksmoor and George Clarke . Gardiner died on 22 April 1726 in Oxford and his estates were inherited by his daughter, Grace. ref name Oxford cite web first William last Gibson title Gardiner, Bernard 1668 1726 work Oxford Dictionary of National Biography publisher Oxford University Press ...   more details



  1. John Conington

    John Conington 10 August 1825 &ndash 23 October 1869 was an England English classical scholar . He was born at Boston, England Boston in Lincolnshire , and is said to have learned the alphabet at fourteen months, and to have been reading well at three and a half. He was educated at Beverley Grammar School , at Rugby School and at University of Oxford Oxford , where, after matriculation matriculating at University College, Oxford University College , he came into residence at Magdalen College, Oxford Magdalen , where he had been nominated to a demyship . He was Ireland and Hertford scholar in 1844 in March 1846 he was elected to a scholarship at University College, and in December of the same year he obtained a first class in classics in February 1848 he became a fellow of University. He also obtained the Chancellor s prize for Latin verse 1847 , English essay 1848 and Latin essay 1849 . He successfully applied for the Eldon law scholarship in 1849, and went to Lincoln s Inn but after six months he resigned the scholarship and returned to Oxford. During his brief residence in London he began writing for the Morning Chronicle , and continued to do so after leaving. He showed no special aptitude for journalism , but a series of articles on university reform 1849&ndash 1850 was the first public expression of his views on a subject that always interested him. In 1854 his appointment, as first occupant, to the chair of Latin literature , founded by Corpus Christi College, Oxford , gave him a congenial position. From this time he confined himself with characteristic conscientiousness almost exclusively to Latin literature. The only important exception was the translation of the last twelve books of the Iliad in the Edmund Spenser Spenserian stanza in completion of the work of Philip Stanhope Worsley P.S. Worsley , and this was undertaken in fulfilment of a promise made to his dying friend. In 1852 he began, in conjunction with Prof. Goldwin Smith , a complete edition of Vi ...   more details



  1. Lewis Gielgud

    No footnotes date April 2009 Lewis Evelyn Gielgud , Member of the Order of the British Empire MBE 11 June 1894 25 February 1953, Paris was a British scholar, writer, intelligence officer and humanitarian worker. Life Lewis was the eldest son of Kate Terry and Frank Gielgud, and an elder brother to the broadcaster Val Gielgud and the actor John Gielgud . He attended Eton College as a King s Scholar and then studied at Magdalen College, Oxford as an exhibition scholarship exhibitioner in 1912 and a demyship classical demy in 1913. On the outbreak of the First World War he became an officer in the 6th Battalion, King s Shropshire Light Infantry The King s Shropshire Light Infantry , but left active service after being wounded in 1915. He spent the rest of the war with the War Office 1916 17 and British Military Mission in Paris 1917 19 . After the war he joined the staff of the International League of Red Cross Societies , rising to Under Secretary General in 1927 and marrying Zita Gordon in 1937 they had only one child, a daughter . He travelled far and wide for the organisation, organising international Red Cross conferences and giving lectures and broadcasts for them, but resigned from the organisation on the outbreak of the Second World War . He was given another army commission in 1940, serving in the War Office again and then being transferred to the Intelligence Corps being promoted to his final rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the latter in 1942 . Released from the army in 1944, he returned to the Red Cross in 1945 as their sub commissioner in Paris . He was Co Ordinating Officer of the Inter Allied Reparation Agency in Brussels from 1946 to 1949, a counsellor of Organisation for Economic Co operation and Development OEEC from 1949 to 1951, and a senior official with UNESCO from 1951 until his death shortly after an operation in Paris in 1953. He and Zita divorced in 1951. Works Red Scroll , a novel The Wise Child , a novel A book on travel Several translations an ...   more details



  1. Thomas Sparke

    for the only Bishop of Berwick Thomas Sparke Bishop of Berwick Thomas Sparke 1548 1616 was an English clergyman, who represented the Puritan point of view both at the 1584 Lambeth Conference and the 1604 Hampton Court Conference . Life He was born at South Somercote , Lincolnshire . He was elected to a demyship at Magdalen College, Oxford , in 1567, and was fellow there from 1569 to 1572. He graduated B.A. in October 1570, M.A. in June 1574, B.D. in July 1575, and D.D. on 1 July 1581. Having taken holy orders, he became chaplain to Thomas Cooper bishop Thomas Cooper , Bishop of Lincoln , by whom he was made archdeacon of Stow on 1 March 1575. By the favour of Arthur Grey, 14th Baron Grey de Wilton , he was presented also to the rectory of Bletchley , Buckinghamshire , where he was instituted on 2 September 1578. The rectory and archdeaconry being at some distance from each other, Sparke resigned the latter out of conscience in 1582. On 26 September of the same year he was installed prebendary of Lincoln. Together with Walter Travers , Sparke represented the Puritan positions in a conference held at Lambeth in December 1584 with Archbishop John Whitgift and Cooper as Bishop of Winchester , Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester and Francis Walsingham being present. They protested against the reading of the apocryphal scriptures in churches, against private and lay baptism, the use of the sign of the cross, the celebration of private communions, and the allowance of plurality and non residence. Neither party was satisfied. On 14 September 1585 Sparke preached at Chenies , Buckinghamshire, a funeral sermon on Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford he also preached at the funeral of his patron, Lord Grey de Wilton, on 22 November 1593, at Whaddon, Buckinghamshire . In 1591 he published an Answere to Mr. John de Albine s notable Discourse against Heresies , against Jean d Albin de Valsergues his opponent s complete text is inserted and answered chapter by chapter. He was sum ...   more details



  1. William Greenhill

    William Greenhill 1591 1671 was an English nonconformist clergyman, independent minister, and member of the Westminster Assembly . Life He was born probably in Oxfordshire . At the age of thirteen he matriculated at the University of Oxford on 8 June 1604 and was elected a demy of Magdalen College, Oxford , on 8 January 1605. He graduated B.A. on 25 January 1609, and M.A. on 9 July 1612, in which year he resigned his demyship. From 1615 to 1633 William Greenhill held the Magdalen College living of New Shoreham , Sussex . He appears to have officiated in some ministerial capacity in the Anglican Diocese of Norwich diocese of Norwich , when Matthew Wren was bishop he got into trouble for refusing to read The Book of Sports . He then moved to London, and was chosen afternoon preacher to the congregation at Stepney , while Jeremiah Burroughes ministered in the morning. He was a member of the Westminster Assembly of Divines, convened in 1643, and was one of the Independent religion Independents . In the same year, on 26 April, he preached before the House of Commons on occasion of a public fast, and his sermon was published by command of the house, with the title The Axe at the Root . In 1644 he was present at the formation of the congregational church in Stepney, and was appointed first pastor. In 1649, after the death of Charles, he was appointed by the parliament chaplain to three of the late king Charles s children James, Duke of York afterwards James II Henry, Duke of Gloucester and the Henrietta Anne Stuart Lady Henrietta Anne . In 1654 he was appointed by Oliver Cromwell one of the commissioners for approbation of public preachers, known as triers. In 1658 he was on the committee drawing up the Savoy Declaration . ref Francis J. Bremer, Tom Webster, Puritans and Puritanism in Europe and America A Comprehensive Encyclopedia 2006 , p. 534. ref It was also probably by Cromwell that he was appointed vicar of St. Dunstan s in the East , the old parish church of Stepney ...   more details



  1. John Knight Fotheringham

    John Knight Fotheringham Fellow of the British Academy FBA 14 August 1874 12 December 1936 was a United Kingdom British historian who was an expert on ancient astronomy and chronology . ref name dnb John Knight Fotheringham , The Concise Dictionary of National Biography , Volume I A F, Oxford University Press , 1995. ref ref http www.nature.com nature journal v139 n3523 abs 139788a0.html Obituary Dr. J. K. Fotheringham, F.B.A. . Nature magazine Nature , 139, 788 789, 8 May 1937. doi 10.1038 139788a0 ref ref John L. Myres, John Knight Fotheringham, 1874 1936 . Proceedings of the British Academy , volume XXIII. ref He established the chronology of the Babylonian dynasties. J.K. Fotheringham was educated at the City of London School and Merton College, Oxford , where he held an Exhibition scholarship exhibition and received first class degree s in Literae Humaniores 1896 and modern history 1897 . During 1898 1902, he held a senior demyship at Magdalen College, Oxford and started to study ancient chronology. ref name ras http adsabs.harvard.edu abs 1937MNRAS..97..270. Obituary Notices Fellows Fotheringham, John Knight , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 97, 4, http adsabs.harvard.edu full 1937MNRAS..97..270. pp. 270 272 , February 1937. ref In 1904, he was appointed a lecturer in classical literature at King s College London and taught there until 1915. Fotheringham was a Fellow at Magdalen College 1909 16 . He was a Reader in ancient history at the University of London 1912 20 . He was later Reader in ancient astronomy and chronology at the University of Oxford 1925 36 . J.K. Fotheringham edited Saint Jerome s version of Eusebius of Caesarea Eusebius in 1923. ref name dnb He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1933. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society . ref name ras Selected books Fotheringham published a number of papers and books, ref A. Pogo, http www.jstor.org stable 225926 The Writings of J. K. Fotheringham , Isis , ...   more details



  1. Humphry Bowen

    NOTOC Humphry John Moule Bowen 22 June 1929 9 August 2001 was a British botanist and chemist . ref http web.archive.org web 20071202071551 http www.jpbowen.com publications hjmb obituary.html Obituary , The Times , 2001. ref ref http education.guardian.co.uk obituary story 0,12212,750151,00.html Obituary , The Guardian , 2001. ref ref http www.portal.telegraph.co.uk news main.jhtml?xml news 2001 09 05 db02.xml Obituary , The Daily Telegraph The Telegraph , 2001. ref ref S. L. Jury, http www.herbarium.rdg.ac.uk modules.php?name Collectors&rop show collector&id 12 Humphry John Moule Bowen 1929 2001 . Watsonia journal Watsonia , 24 268 270, 2002. ref Bowen was born in Oxford , son of the chemist Edmund Bowen . He attended the Dragon School , gaining a scholarship to Rugby School and then a demyship to Magdalen College, Oxford . He won the Gibbs Prize in 1949 and completed a DPhil in chemistry at Oxford University in 1953 before starting his professional career as a chemist. Bowen was also a proficient amateur actor in his early years, appearing with a young Ronnie Barker at Oxford. His first post was with the Atomic Energy Research Establishment AERE , working at the Wantage Research Laboratory, then in Berkshire . His early work started an interest in radioisotopes and trace elements that he maintained throughout his working life. While at AERE, he spent several months in 1956 attending the British nuclear tests at Maralinga British nuclear tests at Maralinga in Australia to study the environmental effects of radiation . Bowen realized that the calibration of different instruments intended to measure trace elements was an important issue that needed addressing. His solution was to produce a good supply of a material which later become known as Bowen s Kale . With Peter Cawse, he grew a large amount of the plant kale , then dried and crushed it into a homogeneous and stable substance that he then freely distributed to researchers around the world for years to come. Thi ...   more details



  1. Robert Gunther

    For the Minnesota politician, see Bob Gunther . Image Old Ashmolean 2006.JPG 220px thumb right The Museum of the History of Science in the Old Ashmolean building Oxford , founded by Robert Gunther in the 1920s. Robert Theodore Gunther 23 August 1869 9 March 1940 was a History of science historian of science , ref Fox, Robert, http www.jstor.org stable 20462553 The History of Science, Medicine and Technology at Oxford . Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London , Volume 60, Number 1, pages 69 83, 22 January 2006. Published by The Royal Society . doi 10.1098 rsnr.2005.0129 ref zoologist , and founder of the Museum of the History of Science , University of Oxford Oxford . ref Simcock, A. V. editor , Robert T. Gunther and the Old Ashmolean . Oxford Museum of the History of Science , 1985. ref Gunther s father, Albert G nther , was keeper of Zoology at the British Museum in London . Robert Gunther was educated at University College School , attached to University College London . Towards the end of his schooling he attended lectures at University College itself. He was elected to a demyship at Magdalen College, Oxford in 1887 and took this up in 1888. He joined the Oxford University Scientific Club in his first term at Magdalen and subsequently he took up a Fellowship at the College. In 1911, Gunther and his family moved to 5 Folly Bridge , an unusual and distinctive tall house on a small island in the River Thames next to the bridge. This made the river central to his life. He was a pioneer of environmental conservation in Oxford. From 1923, Robert Gunther produced a fourteen volume set of books on Early Science in Oxford , his magnum opus , the last appearing in 1945. These were initially produced under the auspices of the Oxford Historical Society and printed at the Clarendon Press , Oxford . A fifteenth volume by his son A. E. Gunther in 1967 covered Robert Gunther himself. ref Gunther, A. E., Robert T. Gunther A pioneer in the history of science 1869 1940 . E ...   more details



  1. Thomas Lionel Hodgkin

    Thomas Lionel Hodgkin 3 April 1910, Headington Hill near Oxford 25 March 1982, Tolo, Greece was an English Marxist historian of Africa who did more than anyone to establish the serious study of African history in the UK. ref name Times The Times , 26 March 1982. ref His wife was the scientist Dorothy Hodgkin . Life Thomas Lionel Hodgkin was born into an academic family. Named after his grandfather, the historian Thomas Hodgkin historian Thomas Hodgkin , ref name Times he was the son of Robert Howard Hodgkin , Provost of Queen s College, Oxford , and Dorothy Forster Smith, daughter of the historian Alfred Lionel Smith . ref name ODNB Michael Wolfers, http www.oxforddnb.com view article 51860 Hodgkin, Thomas Lionel 1910 1982 , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, Sept 2004 online edn, Jan 2008, accessed 15 Jan 2010 ref He was educated at Winchester College Winchester and Balliol College, Oxford before using a demyship at Magdalen College, Oxford to travel, spending 1932 3 on John Garstang s archaeological dig at Jericho ref name Times . From 1934 to 1936 he was in the Palestine civil service, where he started to become critical of British imperialism. Resigning from the colonial service after the April 1936 Palestinian general strike Arab uprising , he hoped to stay in Palestine but was ordered to leave by the British administration. ref name ODNB Returning to London, where he stayed with his father s cousin Margery Fry and joined the Communist Party of Great Britain Communist Party , he briefly tried training as a schoolteacher before entering adult education. He met and married Dorothy Hodgkin Dorothy Crowfoot in 1937. In 1939, declared ineligible for military service on medical grounds he suffered from narcolepsy , Hodgkin became a Workers Educational Association tutor in north Staffordshire . In September 1945 he became Secretary of the Oxford University Oxford delegacy for extra mural studies , and a Balliol fellow. ref name WhoWasWh ...   more details



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  1. Arthur Cain

    Arthur James Cain Fellow of the Royal Society FRS 25 July 1921 20 August 1999 was a United Kingdom British evolutionary biologist and ecologist . He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1989. Life Arthur James Cain was awarded an open scholarship in 1939 Demyship to Magdalen College, Oxford , where he graduated with first class honors in zoology in 1941. Entering the British Army in December 1941, Cain was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps engineering and was later transferred to the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers R.E.M.E. on its formation. He was promoted to Captain British Army and Royal Marines Captain in 1942. After leaving the military in November 1945 Cain returned to Oxford to pursue research in the Department of Zoology. He became a Departmental Demonstrator in October 1946, and received his M.A. in November 1947. From January 1949 until 1964 Cain was employed as University Demonstrator now referred to as Lecturer in Animal Taxonomy. Career Cain s main interests lay in evolutionary biology , ecological genetics , systematics animal taxonomy and speciation . Though he conducted research with John Baker biologist John Baker on the histochemistry of lipids , his main work lay in the field developed by E.B. Ford , namely, ecological genetics . With Philip Sheppard P.M. Sheppard , Cain studied the ecological genetics of colour and banding polymorphism biology polymorphisms in snails . Cain and Sheppard s work on Cepaea nemoralis , one of the first studies to demonstrate natural selection by predators acting on a colour polymorphism, is now regarded as a classic. It generated a long series of further studies by Cain, including the formal genetic analysis of the variation, the discovery of area effects and the analysis of climatic influences. With John Currey he made elegant use of sub fossil material to follow changes in time as well as space. Later he turned to the study of variation in shell shape. In population g ...   more details



  1. James Atkin, Baron Atkin

    Image Lord Atkin of Aberdovey.jpg right thumb Lord Atkin of Aberdovey James Richard Atkin, Baron Atkin 28 November 1867 25 June 1944 was a lawyer and judge of Australia n Welsh people Welsh origin, who practised in England and Wales . He always thought of himself as a Welshman, and was President of the London Welsh Centre London Welsh Trust from 1938 to 1944. ref name ODNB Lewis 2004 ref Early life and practice His parents were Robert Travers Atkin 1841 1872 and his wife, Mary Elizabeth n e Ruck born 1842 . Robert was from Kilgariff, County Cork , Mary s father from Newington, Kent and her mother from Merioneth , Wales. The couple married in 1864 and soon emigration emigrated to Australia intending to take up sheep farming . However, little more than a year into their enterprise Robert was badly injured in a fall from a horse and the couple moved to Brisbane where Robert became a journalist and politician . James was born in Brisbane, the eldest of three sons but in 1871, his mother brought him and his siblings back to her own mother s house, Pantlludw on the River Dovey in Wales. His father died in Australia in the following year. James was much influenced by his grandmother and acquired from her an egalitarian instinct and a distaste for sanctimonious posturing. ref name ODNB Atkin attended Friars School, Bangor ref Lewis 1983 p. 24 ref and Christ College, Brecon and won a demyship to Magdalen College, Oxford where he read classics and literae humaniores , enjoying playing tennis in his leisure time. Atkin was called to the bar by Gray s Inn in 1891 and scoured the London law courts assessing the quality of the advocates so as to decide where to apply for pupillage . He was ultimately impressed by Thomas Edward Scrutton Thomas Scrutton and became his pupil, joining fellow pupils Frank Douglas MacKinnon Frank MacKinnon , a future Lord Justice of Appeal , and Robert Wright, Baron Wright Robert Wright , another future Law Lord. ref name ODNB He took chambers law cham ...   more details



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  1. Niall Ferguson

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  1. Oscar Wilde

    154 ref He was encouraged to compete for a demyship to Magdalen College, Oxford which he won easily ...   more details



  1. Alfred Denning, Baron Denning

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