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 NAME Agutter, William ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Sermon writer and preacher 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 1835 de ... more details
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
Use dmy dates date April 2012 Use British English date April 2012 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 United Kingdom 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 i ... more details
Infobox Christian leader name Joseph Wilcocks title Bishop of Rochester church Church of England diocese Diocese of Rochester elected 21 June 1731 ended 1756 death predecessor Samuel Bradford successor Zachary Pearce other post Dean of Westminster br 1731 br Bishop of Gloucester br 1721 1731 Orders ordination consecration 3 December 1721 Personal details birth date birth date 1673 12 19 df y birth place Bristol death date death date and age 1756 2 28 1673 12 19 df y buried Westminster Abbey nationality English people English British people British religion Anglicanism Anglican parents Joseph Wilcocks spouse Jane Milner children at least 1 son alma mater St John s College, Oxford Joseph Wilcocks 19 December 1673 28 February 1756 was an English churchman, bishop of Gloucester , and bishop of Rochester and dean of Westminster . Wilcocks was 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 until 1703 he held a demyship at Magdalen College, Oxford Magdalen College and a fellowship from 1703 until 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 December 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 ... more details
Cleanup rewrite date April 2011 Nathaniel Forster , D.D. 1726? 1790 , was an English writer on political economy. Forster was the son of the Rev. Nathaniel Forster of Crewkerne, Somerset , and cousin of Nathaniel Forster scholar Nathaniel Forster , D.D., the editor of Plato, was born in 1726 or 1727. He matriculated at Oxford, as a member of Balliol College, 12 Feb. 1741 2, but migrated to Magdalen College where he was elected a demy in 1744 , and graduated B.A. in 1745, and M.A. in 1748. He resigned his demyship in 1754. ref Bloxam, Magdalen College Register, vi. 264 ref Returning to Balliol College on being elected a fellow of that society, he took the degrees of B.D. and D.D. by cumulation in 1778. He became rector of All Saints Church, Colchester, and chaplain to the Countess Dowager of Northington . When Dr. Samuel Parr left Stanmore in 1777 to become master of the school at Colchester, he was received by Forster with open arms, and was offered by him the curacies of Trinity Church and St. Leonard s in addition to the school. The conversation of Forster was peculiarly interesting to Parr, who never mentions him in his correspondence without some term of admiration. Forster was instituted to the rectory of Tolleshunt Knights, Essex, in 1764. He died on 12 April 1790, aged 63. He left an only son, Edward Forster miscellaneous writer Edward Forster 1769 1828 . Besides four single sermons, which are characterised by Parr as very excellent, he published the following political treatises 1. An Answer to a pamphlet entitled The Question Stated, whether the Freeholders of Middlesex forfeited their right by voting for Mr. Wilkes at the last Election. London, 1749, 4to anon. 2. An Enquiry into the Causes of the present High Price of Provisions, London, 1767, 8vo anon. M Culloch remarks that this is perhaps the ablest of the many treatises published about this period on the rise of prices. It contains, indeed, not a few principles and conclusions that are quite untenable ... more details
one source date February 2012 no footnotes date February 2012 John Conington 10 August 1825 &ndash 23 October 1869 was an England English classical scholar . He was born at Boston, Lincolnshire 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, ... more details
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
for the only Bishop of Berwick Thomas Sparke bishop 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 summoned by Ja ... more details
For the politician Henry Clerke MP For Henry Clerke 14th century MP Winchester UK Parliament constituency Henry Clerke c.1619 24 March 1687 was an England English academic and physician , President college President of Magdalen College, Oxford from 1672. Life He was son of Thomas Clerke of Willoughby, Warwickshire Willoughby , Warwickshire , England , and Matriculation matriculated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford on 20 April 1635, at the age of 16. He obtained a demyship at Magdalen College, and was probationer Oxbridge Fellow fellow there from 1642 to 1667. He graduated Bachelor of Arts B.A. on 4 December 1641, and Master of Arts Oxbridge and Dublin M.A. on 21 June 1644. He was reader in logic at his college in 1643, bursar in 1653, 1656, and 1662, vice president in 1655, and again in 1663. He seems to have submitted to the parliamentary visitors in May 1648. Meanwhile he had taken the degree of Doctor of Medicine M.D. by accumulation on 27 May 1652, and was incorporated at University of Cambridge Cambridge in 1673. In 1657, he was appointed deputy lecturer in anatomy at Oxford. He was admitted a candidate of the Royal College of Physicians College of Physicians on 5 April 1658, and a fellow on 25 June 1669. He was admitted a Fellow of the Royal Society Fellow of the Royal Society on 7 November 1667. On the resignation of Thomas Pierce in 1672, Clerke was elected President of Magdalen College on 5 March of that year. In order to fully qualify himself for the office he soon afterwards took holy orders . He was appointed Vice Chancellor of the University of Oxford on 9 October 1676. ref cite web url http www.admin.ox.ac.uk vc position previousvice chancellors title Previous Vice Chancellors publisher University of Oxford , UK accessdate July 27, 2011 ref Clerke continued President until his death, which occurred at the seat of his son in law on 24 March 1687, at the age of 68. He was buried with his ancestors at Willoughby. A monument was afterwards erected on the north wal ... more details
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
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
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 Chronicle 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 ... more details
Bernard Gardiner baptised 25 September 1668 died 22 April 1726 was an academic at the University of Oxford , serving as Warden college Warden of All Souls College, Oxford ref name VCH cite book editor1 last Salter editor1 first H.E. editor2 last Lobel editor2 first Mary D editor2 link Mary Lobel series Victoria County History title A History of the County of Oxford Volume 3 The University of Oxford year 1954 pages 173 193 publisher url http www.british history.ac.uk report.aspx?compid 63880 chapter All Souls College accessdate 18 July 2011 ref and also as Vice Chancellor of Oxford University . ref name vc cite web url http www.admin.ox.ac.uk vc position previousvice chancellors title Previous Vice Chancellors publisher University of Oxford accessdate 18 July 2011 ref ref cite book title The Oxford University Calendar publisher University of Oxford year 1817 pages 27 28 url http books.google.com books?id B7kUAAAAQAAJ&pg PA27 chapter Vice Chancellors from the year 1660 accessdate 18 July 2011 ref 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 in 1693 and Doctor of Civil Law in 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. ref name vc He took steps to ensur ... more details
NOTOC Infobox scientist name Humphry John Moule Bowen image filename only image size caption birth date Birth date 1929 06 22 df y birth place Oxford , England death date Death date and age 2001 08 09 1929 06 22 df y death place Dorset , England nationality United Kingdom British fields Analytical chemistry , botany , lichenology workplaces Atomic Energy Research Establishment br University of Reading alma mater Magdalen College, Oxford doctoral advisor doctoral students known for Study of trace elements , Bowen s Kale awards 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.telegraph.co.uk news obituaries 1339494 Humphry Bowen.html Obituary , The Daily Telegraph The Telegraph , 2001. ref ref name independent cite news url http www.independent.co.uk news obituaries humphry bowen 729440.html title Obituaries Humphry Bowen work The Independent date 25 September 2001 accessdate October 6, 2011 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 . ref name symonds cite book title The Changing Faces of North Oxford Book One publisher Robert Boyd Publications author Symonds, Ann Spokes chapter Families The Bowens pages 81 83 isbn 1 899536 25 6 ref 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 ... more details
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, Shepway 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 c ... more details
Use dmy dates date April 2012 Arthur James Cain Fellow of the Royal Society FRS 25 July 1921 20 August 1999 ref cite doi 10.1098 rsbm.2007.0034 ref 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. Lat ... more details
Infobox scientist name Henry Roy Dean image HR Dean.jpg image size 70px birth date birth date 1879 2 19 df y birth place Bournemouth , Dorset, England death date death date and age 1961 2 13 1879 2 19 df y death place Cambridge , England nationality United Kingdom fields Medicine Pathology Pathology as a medical specialty Pathology workplaces Lister Institute br University of Sheffield br University of Manchester br University of Cambridge alma mater New College, Oxford known for Department of Pathology of the University of Cambridge br Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge awards influenced Max Barrett Henry Roy Dean , Doctor of Medicine MD , LL.D , D.Sc , Royal College of Physicians FRCP 19 February 1879 13 February 1961 , also known as Prof. H. R. Dean, was a professor of Pathology Pathology as a medical specialty Pathology at the University of Cambridge and Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge . ref name HRD1 cite journal pmid 14447876 year 1961 title H. R. Dean, M.D., LL.D., D.Sc., F.R.C.P volume 1 issue 5225 pages 595 6 pmc 1953813 journal British medical journal doi 10.1136 bmj.1.5225.595 c ref ref name HRD2 cite journal doi 10.1002 path.1700830242 title Henry Roy Dean, 19th February 1879 13th February 1961 year 1962 last1 Dible first1 J. Henry journal The Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology volume 83 issue 2 pages 587 97 ref Biography Born at Bournemouth , Dorset, England and educated at Sherborne School , he attended with first class honours the School of Natural Science at New College, Oxford , to be graduated MB BCh in 1904, after medical training at St Thomas Hospital , where he was medical registrar and after resident assistant physician. After a senior demyship at Magdalen College, Oxford , he took Membership of the Royal College of Physicians MRCP in 1906, a Radcliffe Travelling Fellowship in 1909 to study at Wassermann Laboratory, Berlin , Doctor of Management D.M. in 1912 and Royal College of Physicians FRCP in 1913. ref name HRD1 From 1910 he was assist ... more details
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