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BRASENOSE COLLEGE.

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the years 1802-6 as being in the first class), though it is hard pressed by Oriel which is third with nineteen first classmen in that school. An examination of the lists of the University prizemen during the same period will show that Brasenose was well to the front in these also. Again, the Brasenose Calendar (1888, supplement 1889), compiled by the Rev. W. E. Buckley and Mr. Falconer M adan, gives a list of 509 Brasenose authors and bishops, of whom 152 are prior to the death of Anthony Wood in 1695, the remainder subsequent to that date. In reference to this list it may be observed that on the death of Mr. Buckley in 1 892, the College obtained the collection ol books by Brasenose authors (about 1500 volumes), which he had been forming for fifty years ; these are now placed in the College Library together with other Brasenose books already there, and it is intended to keep up the collection by adding all other books or pamphlets written by Brasenose men which the College is able to procure.

Among the most distinguished alumni of the Col- lege the following may be mentioned : —

Alexander Nowell, Fellow of Brasenose 1536, Principal 1595, Dean of St. Paul's 1560; John Foxe, the " Martyrologist," matriculated c. 1533 ; Thomas Egerton, afterwards Baron Ellesmere and Earl of Bridgewater, matriculated c. 1556, Lord Chancellor 1603, Chancellor of the University of Oxford 1610-16; Sir Henry Savile, matriculated c. 1561, Warden of Merton College 1585-1621, founder of the Savilian Professorships of Geometry and Astronomy ; Robert Burton, the author of the Anatomy of Melancholy, matriculated 1593, student of Christ Church 1599 ; Sir John Spelman, the antiquary, who came to study in Brasenose about 1641 and died there in 1643 ; Elias Ashmole, matriculated 1644, founder of the Ashmolean Museum ; Sir William Petty, Fellow of Brasenose 1650, Professor of Anatomy at Oxford 1 65 1 ; Dr. John Latham, matriculated 1778, Presi-


 * Two MS. authorities in the Herald

dent of the Royal College of Physicians 181 3- 19 ; Reginald Heber, matriculated 1800, Bishop of Cal- cutta 1823-6 ; Richard Harris Barham, the author of the Ingoldsby Legends, matriculated 1807 ; Henry Hart Milman, matriculated 1810, Fellow of Brasenose 1 814- 1 9, Professor of Poetry at Oxford 1 821 -31, Dean of St. Paul's 1849-68 ; Frederick William Robertson, matriculated 1837, minister of Trinity Chapel, Brighton, 1847-53.

The College Hall contains portraits of the following persons : —

The two Founders; John, Lord Mordaunt, founder of three scholarships (1571) ; Joyce Frankland, foun- dress of one Fellowship, four scholarships and other benefactions ( 1 586-98) ; Baron Ellesmere ; Robert Burton ; Sarah, Duchess of Somerset, foundress of the Somerset Scholarships ; Dr. John Latham ; and several Principals of the College, viz. : — Alexander Nowell (1595); Samuel Radcliffe (1614-48) ; Thomas Yate (1648 and 1660-81) ; Francis Yarborough (1745-70) ; William Cleaver (1785- 1809) ; Frodsham Hodson (1809-22) ; Ashurst Turner Gilbert (1822-42); Edward Hartopp Cradock (1853-86).

The Arms or Badge of the College may be thus described : —The escutcheon divided into three parts paleways, the centre or, thereon an escutcheon charged with the arms of the See of Lincoln (gules, two lions passant gardant in pale or, on a chief azure Our Lady crowned, sitting on a tombstone issuant from the chief, in her dexter arm the Infant Jesus, in her sinister a sceptre, all or), ensigned with a mitre* all proper : the dexter side argent, a chevron sable between three roses gules seeded or barbed vert, being the arms of the Founder William Smyth : on the sinister side the arms of Sir Richard Sutton, of Prestbury, knight, viz., quarterly first and fourth, argent a chevron between three bugle-horns stringed sable, for Sutton, second and third, argent a chevron between three crosses crosslet sable, for Southworlh.

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