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105 Regius Professor of History. He was then exceedingly popular, and his lectures, both public and private, were largely attended, although lectures, as a rule, were not a particularly favorite source of instruction or amusement in Oxford; and despite the fact that Dr. Stubbs complained, in 1886, that some of his own talks "were delivered to two or three listless men."

Froude became a Fellow of Exeter in 1842, and Regius Professor of History as successor of Freeman in 1892. Tradition hath it that "he lived up the Fellows' Staircase." But that is mere tradition; and that is as far, in his case, as tradition goes. Nobody seems to remember where his apartments were; and, as usual, nobody in Oxford seems to care.