The New Student's Reference Work/Balliol College

Balliol (băl′-yŭl) College, Oxford, is at present probably the most important of the colleges of Oxford University. It was founded about the middle of the 13th century. The greatest of its masters in the middle ages was John Wiclif; and, perhaps, in the 19th century Jowett and Caird. Among poets, Balliol College has educated Southey, Matthew Arnold, Clough and Swinburne. The philosophers, T. H. Green and Sir William Hamilton, were men of Balliol; as was the late Archbishop Temple. There are about 600 names of members on the books.