Andrews, John
(male)
02/02/1837 - 1906
English
Wadham College, Oxford
Lawyer and poet; born at Wolverhampton; wrote Day Dreams: a New Volume of Poems (1865), Precedents of Leases and Mortgages; appointed Estates Bursar Oct. 1893; death date uncertain.
Arnould, Sir Joseph
(male)
11/12/1813 - 02/16/1886
English
Wadham College, Oxford
British judge in India and writer; wrote articles for the Daily News; wrote Law of Marine Insurance; promoted study of Mohammaden and Hindu law. See Boase IV: 175, ODNB.
Bandinel, James
(male)
1814 - 1893
English
Wadham College, Oxford
Cleric and writer; Rector of Emley; wrote Lufra; or the convent of Algrarve: a poem in eight cantos (1851), Milton Davenant (1852), and other works; wrote for the English Review and Ainsworth's Magazine. See Boase IV: 256, ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Benett, William
(male)
02/24/1779 - 08/25/1859
English
Merton College, Oxford; Wadham College, Oxford
Perhaps the William Benett who was a barrister and a police magistrate. (In Wellesley Index as W. Bennett.) See Boase IV: 357.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Bent, James Theodore
(male)
03/30/1852 - 05/05/1897
English
Wadham College, Oxford
Explorer and archaeologist; worked in the Aegean, in Asia Minor, and in Africa.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Blew, William John
(male)
04/13/1808 - 12/27/1894
English
Wadham College, Oxford
Cleric and classicist; translated Agamemnon (from Aeschylus) (1855); co-wrote The Church Hymn and Tune Book (1852); wrote Church Restoration: its Principles and Methods (1869). See Boase IV: 430, ODNB.
Childers, Robert Caesar
(male)
1838 - 07/25/2019
English
Wadham College, Oxford
Orientalist; served in civil service in Ceylon; professor of Pali and Buddhist literature at University College, London.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Church, Richard William
(male)
04/25/1815 - 02/10/1890
English
Wadham College, Oxford
Ordained priest 1852; dean of St. Paul's 1871-1890; one of the founders of The Guardian; leading member of High Church party; many books including History of the Oxford Movement. See Boase IV: 662-3, ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Duff, Edward Gordon
(male)
02/16/1863 - 09/28/1924
English
Wadham College, Oxford
Bibliographer and librarian; expert on early English printing; worked at John Rylands Library; wrote Early Printed Books (1893) and other works.
Eagles, Rev. John
(male)
11/08/1783 - 11/09/1855
Scottish
Wadham College, Oxford
Cleric, art critic, and poet; wrote extensively for Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. See Boase I: 950-1, ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Gardner, Richard
(male)
1813 - 06/04/1856
English
Wadham College, Oxford
Son of Robert Gardner, brother of William Atkinson Gardner; M.P. Leicester; author of political pamphlets. See Boase I: 1123.
How, William Walsham
(male)
12/13/1823 - 08/10/1897
English
Wadham College, Oxford
Ordained priest 1847; diocesan inspector of schools 1852-1870; Bishop of Bedford 1879; Bishop of Wakefield 1888-1897; popularly known as the Children's Bishop; author of Palin words; or short sermons (1859-75) and many other works. See Boase IV: 711-12, ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
King, Henry
(male)
1817 - 11/06/1888
English
Wadham College, Oxford
Barrister; wrote for Blackwood's Magazine; frequent contributor to Notes and Queries. Different sources give 1816 or 1817 as his birth year.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Maskelyne, Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story
(male)
09/03/1823 - 05/20/1911
English
Wadham College, Oxford
Mineralogist; lectured on mineralogy at Oxford; lived and worked at Ashmolean Museum; keeper of the minerals at British Museum; liberal MP for Cricklade. See ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Mayhew, Anthony Lawson
(male)
1842 - 1916
English
Wadham College, Oxford
Chaplain of Wadham College, Oxford, and a noted lexicographer.
Mew, James
(male)
1837 - 1913
English
Wadham College, Oxford
Barrister and contributor to the Dictionary of National Biography.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Poynder, Rev. Frederick
(male)
03/11/1816 - 07/07/1899
English
Wadham College, Oxford
Master at Charterhouse School; wrote On the Influence of Practical Piety (1843), Dictionary of the English Language (1854), and other works. See Boase VI: 423.
Strong, Rev. Charles
(male)
1784 - 01/27/1864
English
Wadham College, Oxford
Cleric and poet; rector of Broughton-Gifford, Wilshire; wrote Sonnets from the Most Celebrated Italian Poets (1827). See Boase III: 802.
Vipan, Frederick John
(male)
1819 - 1894
English
Wadham College, Oxford
Barrister; brother of David Jennings Vipan. See Blackwood's Magazine, unidentified.
Watson, Albert
(male)
12/04/1828 - 11/21/1904
English
Wadham College, Oxford
Principal, Brasenose College, Oxford; cleric and classical scholar; edited an edition of Cicero's letters; wrote for Bentley's Quarterly Review; translated Ranke's History of England. See ODNB.