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245 College in June, 1843, but almost immediately he obtained a "Demieship" at Magdalen. He returned to University, however, in 1846 with a Scholarship. He became a Fellow in 1849; won a First Class and the Chancellor's Prize; and in 1854 he filled the chair of the Latin Language and Literature. He began his famous edition of "Virgil" there in 1852, when he was twenty-seven.