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7 unusual facts about Merton College


Andy Cato

Cato was educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, an independent school for boys in Wakefield, followed by the University of Oxford (Merton College), where he studied history.

Caudle

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".

Charles Marsham

Born in Merton College, Oxford, Marsham was the brother of C. D. B. Marsham, who was noted as the best amateur bowler in England.

Embleton, Northumberland

The Church of the Holy Trinity is large with several interesting features and is historically connected with Merton College, Oxford.

H. W. Bliss

Bliss was born to Rev. James Bliss in 1840 and was educated at the Merton College, Oxford.

Harlequins Cricket Club

The Harlequins Cricket Club is a wandering cricket club formed in 1852 by fellows of Merton College, Oxford.

Thomas Carew

The poet was probably the third of the eleven children of his parents, and was born in West Wickham in London, in the early part of 1595; he was thirteen years old in June 1608, when he matriculated at Merton College, Oxford.


Carl Joachim Classen

He also was visiting professor in Changchun (1992), Tartu (1994 and 1996), Rome (1995 and 1997) and visiting member at the All Souls College, Oxford (1980) an the Merton College, Oxford (1995).

Edmund Clerihew Bentley

Born in London, and educated at St Paul's School and Merton College, Oxford, Edmund's father John Edmund Bentley, was professionally a civil servant but was also a rugby union international having played in the first ever international match for England against Scotland in 1871.

Frank Brenchley

In 1986 he presented his collection of first editions and papers T. S. Eliot to Merton College Library and also presented a bust of Eliot by Jacob Epstein wnich has been placed in the foyer of the new lecture theatre named after the poet.

Hubert Phillips

Phillips was educated at Sexey's School, Bruton, and Merton College, Oxford, where he read history and economics, taking a first class degree.

Merton College Library

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.

Michael Wood's Story of England

Kibworth goes through the worst famine in European history, and then, as revealed in the astonishing village archive in Merton College Oxford, two thirds of the people die in the Black Death.

Stephen Blundell

He was subsequently offered a SERC research fellowship which involved a move to the Clarendon Laboratory at Oxford University, he was later awarded a Junior Research Fellowship at Merton College, where he began research in organic magnets and superconductors using muon-spin rotation.

Thomas Glazier

There is a panel probably executed by him in the church of Thenford, Northamptonshire, as well as windows in Winchester Cathedral and the chapel of Merton College, Oxford.


see also

Charles Richard Vaughan

Vaughan was educated at Rugby School, where he entered on 22 January 1788, and at Merton College, Oxford, matriculating on 26 October 1791.

Itrat Husain Zuberi

He was educated at St John's college Agra, Allahabad University, Merton college, Oxford, and Edinburgh University where he worked under the celebrated professor, Sir Herbert JC.

Thomas Bickley

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.