Badham, Charles
(male)
04/17/1780 - 11/10/1845
English
University of Edinburgh; Pembroke College, Oxford
Professor of Medicine in the University of Glasgow; classical scholar; travelled extensively; translated Juvenal. See ODNB.
Biedermann, William Henry
(male)
1813 - 07/29/1889
English
Pembroke College, Oxford
Cleric; Vicar of Egham, Surrey. See Boase IV: 397.
Bourne, John Gervas Hutchinson
(male)
1804 - 11/21/1845
English
Pembroke College, Oxford
Barrister and scholar; associated with reformers; published The Exile of Idria (1833), The picture, and the prosperous man (1835), and a translation of Beranger’s songs (1837). Bourne immigrated to Newfoundland in 1838. See Dictionary of Canadian Biography.
Fagan, Rev. Henry Stuart
(male)
1827 - 01/24/1890
Irish
Pembroke College, Oxford
Schoolmaster and divine; head master of various schools; rector of Great Cressingham; wrote for Belgravia, Blackwood's, and other periodicals. See Boase V: 260-1.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Fowler, John Coke
(male)
12/26/1815 - 12/16/1899
English
Pembroke College, Oxford
Barrister of the Inner Temple; magistrate; wrote Church Pews, their Origin and Legal Incidents (1844)Collieries and Colliers: A Handbook of the Law and Leading Cases Relating Thereto (1872); contributed articles to British Quarterly Review. See Boase V: 339.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Fox, Samuel
(male)
1801 - 09/07/1870
English
Pembroke College, Oxford
Vicar of Horsley; wrote Monks and Monasteries (1845), A History of Rome for Young People (1848) and other books; translated Anglo-Saxon version of the Metres of Boethius. See Boase V: 343.
Hawker, Rev. Robert Stephen
(male)
12/03/1803 - 08/15/1875
English
Pembroke College, Oxford
Poet and cleric; High Churchman; Vicar of Morwenstow 1834-1875; wrote "The Song of the Western Men: And shall Trelawny die?"; wrote stories about the Cornish coast and sea wrecks. See Boase I: 1385-6. ODNB.
Hill, George Birkbeck Norman
(male)
07/06/1835 - 02/24/1903
English
Pembroke College, Oxford
Editor and author; best known for editing an edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson. See ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Hodge, Harold
(male)
1862 - 1937
English
Pembroke College, Oxford
Journalist and editor of the Saturday Review; barrister; did social work in East London.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Locker, Arthur
(male)
07/02/1828 - 06/23/1893
English
Pembroke College, Oxford
Journalist, writer and traveller; resided in Australia, India, and at Madeira; contributed reviews to the Times, edited The Graphic; wrote Sir Goodwin's Folly (1864). See Boase I: 468, ODNB.
Low, Sir Sidney James Mark
(male)
01/22/1857 - 01/14/1932
unknown
Pembroke College, Oxford; Balliol College, Oxford
Journalist, historian, and essayist; editor of the St. James's Gazette; leader writer for the Standard.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Scrope, George Julius Poulett
(male)
03/10/1797 - 01/19/1876
English
Pembroke College, Oxford
Economist and scientist; baptized George Julius Thomson; changed last name before marrying Emma Phipps Scrope in 1821 (thanks to Mark Curthoys at ODNB for this information); wrote on geology and political economy; printed many pamphlets (known as "Pamphlet Scrope"); M.P. For Stroud. See Boase III: 465-466, ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Sedgwick, James
(male)
1775 - 01/26/1851
English
Pembroke College, Oxford
Barrister, chairman of excise board and board of stamps, edited and or wrote various legal and economic treatises and reports. See Boase III: 476-7, ODNB.
Sinclair, John
(male)
08/20/1797 - 05/22/1875
Scottish
University of Edinburgh; Pembroke College, Oxford
Church of England cleric; Secretary of the National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor; archdeacon of Middlesex. See Boase III: 589, ODNB.
Stone, Rev. Samuel John
(male)
04/25/1839 - 11/19/1900
English
Pembroke College, Oxford
Cleric, poet, and writer of hymns; rector of All Hallows, London Wall; wrote A New Year's Gift to England (1864), The Knight of Intercession and Other Poems (1872), and other works. See Boase VI: 631, ODNB.
Thiselton-Dyer, Thomas Firminger
(male)
07/25/1848 - 07/14/1923
unknown
Pembroke College, Oxford
Cleric and writer of popular non-fiction; wrote British Customs: Past and Present, The Folk-lore of Plants, and Strange Pages from Family Papers.
Tout, Thomas Frederick
(male)
09/28/1855 - 10/23/1929
English
Balliol College, Oxford; Pembroke College, Oxford
Historian; specialized on medieval era; Professor of English and Modern Languages; wrote Chapters in the Administrative History of Medieval England and other works; wrote for Dictionary of National Biography.,
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
White, James
(male)
1803 - 03/26/1862
Scottish
Pembroke College, Oxford; University of Glasgow
Curate and Vicar, author of The Village poorhouse (1832), The adventures of Sir Frizzle Pumpkin (1836), several dramas including The Mousetrap, various histories. Retired to Bonchurch, Isle of Wright; contributed to several periodicals. See Boase III: 1313, ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)