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He worked continuously as classical tutor and lecturer at Exeter College from 1870 to 1889. He was elected by his college proctor of the university in 1879. Losing his fellowship on his marriage in 1873, he was re-elected in 1882, under the statutes of the second university commission.
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were set up in type in 1888, he completed in manuscript only three and a half chapters, covering the years B.C. 35-15, and he never resumed the work after 1890; his other research, too, was hereafter limited to detached points in Roman imperial history.
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On the other hand, he joined actively in administrative work, for which his strong personality and his clear sense fitted him at least as well as for research; he served on many Oxford boards, was a member of the
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in 1869, and graduated B.A. in the same year. In 1870, he won the chancellor's English essay prize with a dissertation on the reciprocal influence of national character and national language.
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1876), while his lectures, which (under the system then growing up) were open to members of other colleges besides Exeter, attracted increasingly large audiences; he also planned, with the
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He was elected honorary fellow of Exeter in 1895, was an original fellow of the British Academy in 1902 and received the hon. degree of LL.D. at Aberdeen in 1906. He became
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is attached. As professor he developed the lectures and teaching which he had been giving as college tutor and reader, and attracted even larger audiences.
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in May 1860, he moved rapidly up the school, and left in December 1864. Next year he won an open classical scholarship at
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from 1879 to 1905, aided semi-academic educational movements (he was a founder of the women's college
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Pelham was born on 19 September 1846 at Bergh Apton, then his father's parish. Entering
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He died in the president's lodgings at Trinity on 12 February 1907, and was buried in
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Laura Grace Pelham (20 September 1888 – 18 April 1980) married David Francis Bickmore
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The grave of Henry Francis Pelham in St Sepulchre's Cemetery, Oxford, with biography
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Catherine Harriet Pelham (8 September 1885 – 20 November 1894), died in childhood
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F. J. Haverfield, rev. Roger T. Stearn. "Pelham, Henry Francis (1846–1907)".
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From school onwards his principal subject was ancient and more particularly
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in both eyes (1890), and though a few specimen paragraphs of his projected
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Arthur John Pelham (24 December 1878 – 11 August 1883), died in childhood
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At Oxford he took 'first classes' in honour classical moderations and in
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On 30 July 1873, he married Laura Priscilla Buxton, third daughter of
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as 'common fund reader' in ancient history, and in 1889 he became
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Fifty-Five Years at Oxford : An Unconventional Biography
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Henry George Woods
Herbert Edward Douglas Blakiston
Bergh Apton
Oxford
John Thomas Pelham
Alma mater
Trinity College, Oxford
FSA
FBA
Camden Professor of Ancient History
University of Oxford
Trinity College, Oxford
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester
John Thomas Pelham
Harrow
Trinity College, Oxford

literæ humaniores
Exeter College
Roman history
Clarendon Press
W. W. Capes
Camden Professor of Ancient History
George Rawlinson
Brasenose College
cataract
Hebdomadal Council
Somerville Hall
F.S.A.
Abingdon School

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