Balliol College: A History, Second Edition: REISSUE, WITH REVISIONSBalliol College has existed as a community of scholars on its present site without interruption since about 1263. By this token it is the oldest College in Oxford or Cambridge. Balliol men were prominent in the collection of humanist literature in the fifteenth century, and the College was notorious in the century after that for adherence to Rome. Even the relative obscurity of the next two hundred years was occasionally illuminated by famous members such as John Evelyn the diarist (1620-1706) and James Stirling the mathematician (1692-1770). Balliol blazed the trail in the early nineteenth century by introducing a competitive entrance examination, becoming a dominant influence throughout the British Empire in Victorian and Edwardian times. The College's sometime members include many poets and men of letters, heads of government, heads of state, and religious leaders. The first edition (1988) which used much fresh material and was revisionist in its conclusions, ended with the outbreak of war in 1939. The second edition included new detail throughout, a greatly increased number of illustrations, and it brought coverage up to 1996 in an extended Epilogue. The revised second edition has been brought up to 2004 in the extended Epilogue. |
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Contents
The Foundation of the College I | 1 |
Constitutional Change and Expansion in the Fourteenth Century | 13 |
The Early Members | 21 |
The Fifteenth Century | 30 |
Bishop Foxs Statutes | 38 |
The Second Chapel and the Reformation | 47 |
College Life and Administration | 56 |
Suspicion of Papistrie | 73 |
Effortless Superiority 18931914 | 225 |
The Great War | 245 |
Balliol between the Wars | 258 |
EPILOGUE | 280 |
APPENDICES A Dervorguillas Statutes | 318 |
B Visitors | 321 |
Masters | 323 |
Fellows Elected 15001939 | 325 |
The Early Seventeenth Century | 82 |
The Civil War and Interregnum ΙΟΙ | 101 |
Penury and Recovery 16601720 | 113 |
People Life and Times 16751725 | 135 |
The Mastership of Theophilus Leigh | 155 |
From Obscurity to Preeminence 17851854 | 174 |
Jowetts Balliol | 202 |
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