CORRECTIONS TO OXFORD COLLEGE ARMS (2019 edition, 4th printing)
Although the number of pages in each of the first four printings is the same, each is in fact a new edition. If you have printings 1-3, some of the page and line numbers will have changed. Only the latest edition of the book is available at https://amzn.to/2BKS5Rk. The printing number is indicated by the lowest number on the fourth line from the bottom of the copyright page, p. 2.
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21 Campion Hall Bishop of Lincoln Robert Grosseteste's appointment as Chancellor of Oxford is disputed. See Endnote for page 21.
ADDITIONS FOR HARDCOVER EDITION
The following posts are planned for adaptation to, or excerpts in, the hardcover edition of the book. They will probably be placed at the end of the colleges (after Wycliffe Hall):
ENDNOTES FOR HARDCOVER EDITION
Pagination is from the 112-page paperback edition of Oxford College Arms, 2019, 4th printing.
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Oxford University arms Arms, Blazon. John P Brooke-Little, Oxford University and its Colleges (London: The Heraldry Society, Coat of Arms, Nos 5, 6, and 7, Jan-Jul 1951) Accessed 14 Apr 2018. http://bit.ly/2GBIOua. (Hereafter, Brooke-Little.) Bernard Burke The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales (London: Harrison, 1884), 1044 (University of Oxford). (Hereafter, Burke.)
Arms, Origins. A review of the origins of the Oxford University arms is in the History of the University of Oxford, Volume 1, The Early Oxford Schools, edited by JI Catto (Oxford University Press, 1984), 94-5. The shield of three crowns, often shown with each crown pierced with a crossed silver arrow with points down, is attributed to St Edmund (841-869), King of East Anglia and Martyr. Richmond Herald Michael Maclagan, a Trinity College historian, told historian Trevor Henry Aston that the crowns probably represent the last Saxon kings; https://bit.ly/2HyuE2K. An alternative theory is they are the three crowns of King Arthur. The crowns are also used as devices by the Swedish Wuffingda family, from whom St Edmund was descended (Sweden uses three crowns on its arms and flags). The three crowns are also said to represent Edmund's royalty, martyrdom, and virginity. An authoritative statement about the origin of the arms was published by Henry Frowde: https://bit.ly/2PO8VCX. The Bodleian Library has also reviewed speculation about the bible and three crowns on the Oxford University shield (https://bit.ly/2Oh7oV6), based on the work of EA Greening Lamborn (
https://bit.ly/2DOH7vv)
, a local headmaster and historian with an interest in heraldry, in Oxford, vol 5 (1938), 31-49. Although many plausible antecedents have been cited, no one is sure of the origins of the devices.
Arms, Meaning. The Latin words Dominus Illuminatio Mea are the opening words to Psalm 26 in the older Greek (and later Roman) version; this could be called the Roman Catholic numbering. The psalm is numbered Psalm 27 in the later Hebrew version of the Bible, used by the Church of England. The opening words in English are: “The Lord is my light and my salvation”. In his Commentary on the Psalms, Rev Henry Wansbrough, OSB, Master of St Benet’s Hall, Oxford, 1990-2004, describes Verses 1-6 as being confident, while 7-14 are more threatened (Wansbrough, Psalms, 45-46). The psalm is midway among the psalms of David, 3-41 in the Greek, 3-42 in the Hebrew. The seven Sapiential or wisdom books in the Septuagint translation, considered an “inspired translation” by Henry Wansbrough, include, besides the Psalms: Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs (Song of Solomon), Job, the Book of Wisdom, and the Wisdom of Sirach. Henry Wansbrough. The Psalms. Abingdon, Oxfordshire: The Bible Reading Fellowship, 2014.
Chancellor Lord Patten Since 1201. The origins of Oxford, including the Office of Chancellor, are unclear. Robert Grosseteste, founder of the scientific method at Oxford, was Bishop of Lincoln and had religious oversight over Oxford at that time, and might well have been Chancellor in the 13th century. A contemporary anecdote says he was. See below under Campion Hall for further discussion.
CH after Patten. The Order of Companions of Honour was created by George V in 1917 to honour outstanding achievement.
William F Buckley, Jr. Sewell Chan, "Remembering Buckley’s 1965 Run for Mayor" (Obituary), The New York Times, February 27, 2008, https://nyti.ms/2vMLKkO.
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Patten's advocacy of the humanities. https://stanford.io/2B41TaN.
Vice Chancellor Richardson More than 40 percent. Between 2010 and 2015, 6 percent of students admitted to Oxford and Cambridge were in "social classes 6 and 7", with parents in semi-skilled and unskilled work, although they constitute 25 percent of the population. In 2014, Oxbridge admitted twice as many graduates of Eton as it did young people who had been eligible for free school meals. More than one-fourth of the Oxford colleges failed to take a single black student in each year between 2015 and 2017 and more than 40 percent of the Oxford intake comes from private schools, which instruct 7 percent of children https://bit.ly/2JheOqq. Sonia Sodha, "They are so clever. So how can Oxford University get it so wrong on access?" The Guardian, 23 May 2018 https://bit.ly/2PR35RI. To prepare secondary school students for Oxford University, a "foundation year" between school and the first year at the University has been initiated Alan Rusbridger, Principal since 2015 of Lady Margaret Hall. He has several years' experience with implementing the idea.
Head of the River The inter-college bumping races are Torpids, in the 7th week of Hilary (winter) term, and Eights Week, the 5th week of Trinity (summer) term; see http://www.ourcs.org.uk. The inter-university Oxford-Cambridge annual boat race is rowed near Easter. https://bit.ly/2r61Xxf. Cumulative results for the men's and women's races: https://bit.ly/2WqUoRL.
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13th century BBC https://bbc.in/2l2vBjY. The City of Oxford was required to pay 52 shillings/year to the University in perpetuity for the unjust hangings. The Bank of England inflation calculator doesn’t go back to 1209, but 52 shillings, i.e., £2.60, 200 years ago would be worth approximately £5,000 in 2018. https://bit.ly/2vuGeDh.
Southerners. Southerners at Oxford, south of the River Trent, were also called Australes and the northerners were called Boreales, terms dating back to the Romans.
14th century AL Rowse, Oxford in the History of the Nation (London: Book Club Associates, 1975), 32-33.
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15th century New College influence. On the foundation of All Souls and Magdalen–Rowse, Oxford, 33 and 50-53.
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17th century Cromwell. Oxford Reference.
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18th century Spiritual reawakening. Rowse, Oxford, 142-146, 153.
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Women's Education. The first college in the world chartered specifically to grant bachelor's degrees to women was established in 1836, Georgia Female College in Macon, Georgia; it opened its doors to students on January 7, 1839. It is now known as Wesleyan College. Washington University admitted women in 1869, Cambridge in 1870, Harvard in 1879. The first women undergraduates were admitted to the University of Berlin in 1908. Source: Andrew Roberts, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900 (New York: HarperCollins, 2007). The women's colleges at Oxford have all been coeducational since 2008, when St Hilda's College was the last to admit men. The demise of women's colleges as single-sex institutions can be attributed to the declining record of the single-sex women's colleges in the Norrington Table, as women applying to Oxford preferred colleges where men were also living. However, three women's colleges survive at Cambridge.
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All Souls Arms, Blazon. Discussed in Archæologia Oxoniensis (London: Henry Frowde, 1985) 156-7. John Woodward, Treatise on Ecclesiastical Heraldry (Edinburgh: W & AK Johnson, 1894) 430. Burke, 13 (All Souls College). The word is usually pronounced BLAY-zun, but officers of the College of Arms use the more ancient, more French-sounding, pronunciation, BLAZ-un; see https://bit.ly/2V9oAQG.
Chichele. George Hind, "Henry Chichele." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 3. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1908. Accessed 5 Jun 2018.
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Hunting the Mallard. The mallard is a symbol of freedom and flexibility. The Lord Mallard ritual at All Souls ritual was probably influenced by Irish Catholics' continuing celebration on St. Stephen’s Day, December 26, of the first Christian martyr by the "Wren boys". Costumed revelers, nowadays sometimes including Wren girls, engage in a ritualized hunting of a wren (in ancient parlance, a wran). They dress up in old clothes, like chimney sweeps, darkening their faces with paint. In some regions, they wear suits made of oat straws. They resemble Ireland's 18th-century agrarian resisters, the Whiteboys, who wore white smocks as a disguise during their night-time raids to protest mistreatment of tenant farmers. The Wren boys go house to house, singing hymns or other songs, dancing, and playing music. They usually collect money for a local charity, with some of the money earmarked for a party in a pub or ballroom. The best-known parade is in Dingle, County Kerry, where it includes an annual talent competition, as it does in other places. A similar festival is held in Lerwick on Shetland. Some European coutries also have a tradition of the hunting a small bird on one day of the year. The revelers are in some places called Mummers, and their festival is said to predate Christianity, as the Gaelic word for wren, “dreoilín”, comes from two words, “draoi ean", meaning "the Druid bird". Birds had great prominence in Irish mythology as intermediaries between this world and the next. One legend is that the birds of the forest met to decide which bird would rule the others, and a contest was held to find which bird could fly the highest. The eagle soared higher than any other bird, until it tired, and a tiny wren emerged from its tail feathers and climbed above it. The wren thus has a reputation for trickery, and is blamed for betraying St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr. Antipathy towards the bird also stems from Christian opposition to Druidic rites. In former times, a wren was hunted and nailed to a pole at the head of the procession, like the All Souls mallard. Sources: Donald MacLeod, “Oxford Dons Go Quackers,” 12 Jan 2001, Daily Telegraph https://bit.ly/2kOSgBU. All Souls history, https://bit.ly/2JDSK8x. Calendar in Lisa Gerard-Sharp and Tim Perry, Eyewitness Travel Guide, Ireland (London: Dorling Kindersley, 1997), 49. For the ancient antecedents, see https://nyti.ms/2RCZfAF, which cites articles from Dingle https://bit.ly/2RcZscQ and Claddagh https://bit.ly/2Sl4wsR.
Trinity-Balliol Feud. Walter George Hiscock, "The Balliol rhymes”. Clare Hopkins and Bryan Ward-Perkins, "The Trinity/Balliol Feud", Trinity College Oxford Report (1989-90), 45-66. G. Norman Knight, "The Quest for Gordouli", Balliol College Record, 1969; reprinted in Trinity College Oxford Report, 1984-5. Natalya Segrove, http://cherwell.org/2010/02/25/trinity-fish-murdered/.
Archbishop Cranmer. https://bit.ly/2MHDppL.
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Blackfriars Arms, Blazon. Charles M. Daley, O.P., Dominicana. Vol. 14 No 1. "The Coat of Arms of the Order of Preachers", March 1929, 33-42.
Allan White, New Blackfriars: https://www.jstor.org/stable/43249895.
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Robert Grosseteste (1175-1253) is indisputably one of the great intellectuals of his day. He has been called the founder of the scientific method at Oxford by A.C. Crombie, author of Robert Grosseteste and the Origins of Experimental Science 1100-1700 (Oxford: University Press, 1953). Grosseteste was Bishop of Lincoln and was at Oxford teaching Franciscans in 1229-30. He lectured on scientific methods, especially as applied to optics, and his illustrious students included Roger Bacon. The assertion that he was Chancellor of Oxford is from a 13th century anecdote that is disputed. He was, however, certainly Bishop of Lincoln at a time when Oxford was in his diocese, so he would have had some oversight over Oxford in that role. It is not clear whether he was ever Chancellor of Oxford.
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Brasenose Arms, Blazon. W K Bedford Riland, The Blazon of Episcopary (London: J R Smith, 1858) Title Page, 58, 61. John LeNeve and T Duffus Hardy Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae Vol II (Oxford: The University Press, 1854) 29. Burke, 938 (Smith), 609 (See of Lincoln), 987 (Sutton). Brooke-Little.
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Campion Hall Arms, Blazon. Brooke-Little, https://bit.ly/2DKnEM3, accessed 12 Aug 2018.
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Christ Church Arms, Blazon. Burke, 195 (Christ Church). Brooke-Little.
Peter Sutcliffe, Oxford University Press (OUP, 1978), v.
Martyn Percy. In 2018, scholars from several fields prepared a guide to Percy's work: Reasonable Radical? Reading the Writings of Martyn Percy. https://bit.ly/2DHHtng.
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Corpus Christi College Arms, Blazon. Burke, 373 (Fox), 1122 (See of Winchester), 755 (Oldham). Brooke-Little.
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Exeter College Arms, Blazon. Brooke-Little. Burke, 963-4 (Stapledon). Harvey, et al. Visitations of the County of Oxford in the Year 1533, 1574, and in 1634 (London: The Harleian Society, 1874) 100. Burke, 1884, 335. Loggan’s view https://bit.ly/2ScjxR8, accessed 20 Apr 2018. For Archives, enquire at archives@exeter.ox.ac.uk.
Tolkien. Tolkien might have become some kind of artist. Before he wrote his Hobbit stories he would draw elaborate landscapes showing the Hobbit country; https://bit.ly/2RqXxgX.
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Green Templeton Arms, Blazon. Formed in 2008 by a merger of Green and Templeton Colleges, the arms of the two merging colleges were elegantly combined by Windsor Herald, William Hunt, and were granted in 2009.
Sir John Templeton. Joe Holley, Obituary of Sir John M Templeton, American Rhodes Scholars Newsletter, 2008; https://www.americanrhodes.org/news-123.html.
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Harris Manchester College Arms, Blazon. Arms were originally granted in 1934; https://bit.ly/2RZChTx.
Founded. The original language of the foundation of Manchester College was provided by Harris Manchester Library in an email to the author, 2 July 2018. Unitarians have few dogmas, but generally reject the Trinity and the divine nature of Jesus; https://www.namb.net/apologetics-blog/unitarian-universalist/. David Harrison, email to the author, 16 October 2015.
History. In 1994 Harris Manchester was put into play as a likely college at the same time that Kellogg College was born. Both cater to older students (Harris Manchester admits only students 21 and older); https://ind.pn/2K1U75j. It became a full college in 1996.
Lord Harris. Michael Gove, “My hero: Lord Harris, the Conservative millionaire who is saving schools,” The Guardian. https://bit.ly/2z2YxUo, accessed 1 July 2018.
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Hertford College Arms, Blazon. Brooke-Little, 1951. Geoffrey Kingman-Sugars, 2018. Email to Lee Lumbley from Alice Roques at Hertford College received 16 Apr 2018.
History. Sidney Graves Hamilton, University of Oxford College Histories—Hertford College. FE Robinson & Co. London. 1903. 153-4. “Hertford College", in A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 3, the University of Oxford, ed. HE Salter and Mary D Lobel (London, 1954), 309-319. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol3/pp309-319, accessed 20 June 2018. Hertford College website. https://www.hertford.ox.ac.uk/my-hertford/chapel/about-chapel/chapel-people.
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Jesus College Arms, Blazon: Brooke-Little. Burke, pp 542 (Jesus College, Oxford), 824 (Price). The end of the blazon refers parenthetically to Dr Hugh Price (a.k.a. Aprice). He is recorded as a wealthy church-man who was created Diocesan Treasurer of St David's in his seventies in 1571, and is often credited with having been the College's "real" founder. He is named in the 1571 charter from Queen Elizabeth I as one of eight commissioners empowered to make statutes for Jesus College. https://bit.ly/2TJqpTY, accessed 13 April 2018. Queen Elizabeth founded the College on the petition of Dr Price.
Arms, Origin. The arms remain a puzzle for heraldic historians as they do not resemble any arms borne by any members of the Price family in England. Though the field is now vert and the stags argent, attired or, in the past both an azure field and argent stags have been used. Brooke-Little, 1951, https://bit.ly/2s0qgye, accessed 14 Apr 2018.
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Head of House. Sir Nigel Shadbolt https://www.jesus.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-sir-nigel-shadbolt-freng-frs.
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Keble College Arms, Blazon. Burke, 554 (Keble). Brooke-Little.
Tractarians v Evangelicals. http://www.victorianweb.org/religion/herb7.html. Averil Cameron (former Warden) and Ian Archer (former History tutor), Keble Past and Present: History of Keble College. Copies available from Keble’s Alumni & Development Office.
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Kellogg College Arms, Blazon. Granted 1999.
History. Malcolm Airs, ed. Kellogg College The First 25 Years (Oxford: Kellogg College, 2015) 27, 49.
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Lady Margaret Hall Arms, Blazon. Brooke-Little.
History. “Lady Margaret Hall”, in A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 3, the University of Oxford, ed. H E Salter and Mary D Lobel (London, 1954), 341-343. British History Online https://bit.ly/2rXgNbN.
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Linacre never had to choose. James J. Walsh, in his introduction to Catholic Churchmen in Science (1906 edition), 80. Thanks to Pia Joliffe (D.Phil., Linacre College, Oxford) for this reference.
Article in Oxford Today, Michaelmas 2015, 45-50. https://bit.ly/2tm89Va. Comment in Oxford Today https://bit.ly/2luyH1R.
Arms, Origin. Perceval Landon, "Notes on the Heraldry of the Oxford Colleges," Archaeologica Oxoniensis, III and IV (July and Oct 1893), 156. See also 143, 199, 206. Also Andrew Clark, Heraldry of Oxford Colleges," Archaeologica Oxoniensis, II, April 1895, pp. 333-336. Also Lincoln College Website, https://www.lincoln.ox.ac.uk/The-College-Arms.
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Why Is the Mullet Pierced? Brooke-Little, 1951, https://bit.ly/2s0qgye. His work on Lincoln would have been informed by Stephen A Warner, Lincoln College Oxford (London: Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd., 1908), 38, 38A, Google Books edition http://bit.ly/2pj3UF8. Warner consulted the Bodleian, the British Museum library, and the libraries of Queen's College, Oxford and Gonville and Caius College and Sidney Sussex Colleges at Cambridge.
Our Lady and Babe. W K Riland Bedford, The Blazon of Episcopary (J R Smith, London, 1858). In a chapter titled “Bishops of Lincoln, from 1067”, 61, the blazon is—Gules two Lions passant guardant Or on a Chief Azure Our Lady sitting with her Babe Crown and Scepter of the second. This is as in Hardy's edition of LeNeve – John LeNeve and T Duffus Hardy, Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae, or A calendar of the principal ecclesiastical dignitaries in England and Wales, and of the chief officers in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, from the earliest time to year 1715, Vol II (Oxford: The University Press, 1854), 29.
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Magdalen College Arms, Blazon. Brooke-Little. Burke, 649 (for Magdalen College), 780 (Patten, two entries).
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Waynflete. Richard Chandler, The Life of William Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester (London, 1811).
Rena Gardiner, The Story of Magdalen College Oxford, 2003. The illustrated history book can be viewed here: https://bit.ly/2GzPyJz.
A. L. Rowse, Oxford in the History of the Nation (London: Book Club Associates, 1975), 52.
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Mansfield Elaine Kaye. Mansfield College, Oxford: Its Origin, History, and Significance (Oxford University Press, 1996, 236-7). Brooke-Little, 1951.
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Merton Brooke-Little. Burke, 680 (Merton).
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New College Brooke-Little. Burke, 729 (New College), 1142 (Wykeham).
This theory is questioned by John Woodward, LLD in his Treatise on Ecclesiastical Heraldry (Edinburgh and London: W & A K Johnston, 1894), under the New College heading, where he notes that the double chevrons or chevronels appear on Wykeham’s seal as Archdeacon of Lincoln. Woodward cites Herald and Genealogist, Vol. V, 226-227.
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Ole J. Benedictow, "The Black Death: The Greatest Catastrophe Ever", History Today, 55:3, March 2005 (https://bit.ly/1i2fpI7) and Philip Daileader, The Late Middle Ages, The Teaching Company, (2007).
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 3rd edition, 1979.
John Hanbury Angus Sparrow, Words on the Air, “Memory".
The motto was that of Ferdinand I (1503-1564), Holy Roman Emperor 1558-1564.
Lord Nuffield: a philanthropic legacy (Volume of essays to commemorate the extraordinary philanthropy of William Morris, Lord Nuffield on the 50th anniversary of his death). Oxford: Nuffield College, 2013. https://bit.ly/2uaMFda.
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Hollerith cards are punched cards we once had to assemble for the IBM 360 and earlier mainframe computers. https://bit.ly/2N7yqOp.
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https://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/media/1921/jcr-handbook-2017-18.pdf
Oriel College Blazon Burke, 761. Oriel College, Brooke-Little. The definitive history of Oriel by Jeremy I Catto (Emeritus Fellow of Oriel), Oriel College: A History, Oxford University Press, 2013 (https://bit.ly/2MKMugy) was the first serious review of the College’s history to be published for more than a century.
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Rhodes Must Fall. The Times (London), 2 February 2016. https://bit.ly/2Jdubyl.
Cherwell, https://bit.ly/2uou11F.
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In Tom Brown at Oxford by Thomas Hughes, Tom’s college in this race was fictionalized as "St Ambrose” (Oriel), which took first place in the Head of the River race, having bumped "Oriel" (Trinity) https://bit.ly/2zCUa0h.
Pembroke Burke, 788 (Pembroke College), 481 (Herbert). Brooke-Little.
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Queen’s Brooke-Little. Burke, 833 (Queen’s College), 319 (Eglesfield).
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Somerville Brooke-Little. Burke, 948-9 (Somerville).
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St Anne’s Arthur Charles Fox-Davies Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat Armour 7th Ed (London: Hurst & Blackett, 1929), 1563.
St Antony’s Michael Maclagan of Trinity, when he was Slains Pursuivant, gave advice in 1952 on the College’s new arms. https://bit.ly/2muBl8C.
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St. Benet's Hall capital campaign "Joining Our Journey", 6.
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St Cross John Tepper Marlin, “What’s Your Blazon?”, Michaelmas 2015, 28:1, 45-50 http://issuu.com/oxfordalumni/docs/ot-michaelmas-15.
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St Edmund Hall Blazon Brooke-Little.
St Edmund. Bernard Nicholas Ward, St Edmund, Archbishop of Canterbury, reprint edition. See Appendix F of his book for Dom Wilfred’s discovery. Abe Books https://bit.ly/2Knah4t. Amazon https://amzn.to/2veOION. The book is also available to read free on Google Books.
St Hilda’s Blazon: Annual Report for October 1959-October 1960 [PUB 006/2]. Brooke-Little, 1951.
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St Hugh’s Blazon Brooke-Little.
Mary I Cyril Davenport, English Heraldic Book-Stamps (London, Constable, 1909), under Mary I (who used fleurs-de-lys in her book-stamp).
St Peter’s "[I]ndisputably Oxford's greatest twentieth-century military hero." Adds: "T. E. Lawrence notwithstanding." David Horan, Oxford: A Cultural and Literary Companion, 162.
Sources for this section include David Horan, Oxford: A Cultural and Literary Companion, 161-164; the websites of St Peter's and Trinity College, Oxford; Ian Senior (Trinity, Oxon 1958), 2018; and the Trinity College Newsletter, 2018.
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St Stephen’s House According to an email from Robin Ward at St Stephen’s received 16 Apr 2018, “There is no official Coat of Arms. This device was created by an amateur. The College has petitioned the College of Arms for an official device. Prior to that, St Stephen’s used Arms of Bishop Edward King” [See Burke, 566 (King)].
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Trinity College Blazon Brooke-Little, Burke, 814 (Pope). Warton, 1753, 16-17. https://bit.ly/2tgAdsN. Sir Thomas Pope was granted a patent for his coat of arms on 26 June 1535. Pope's biographer, Thomas Warton, says that Pope ordered that his arms be "placed in painted glass, twice in the Hall and twice in the President's Lodging" (in Life of Sir Thomas Pope, 16, note x; book is online at https://bit.ly/2SmVNGM), but Trinity College Archivist Clare Hopkins can find no corroboration of this assertion.
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Mary Tudor took the throne If Lady Jane Grey had stayed longer on the throne than her "nine days" (actually a little longer than that), her supporters might have captured Mary Tudor and there would have been no temporary revival of Roman Catholicism in England. Therefore probably Trinity and St John's Colleges, both founded by Catholic knights on property of the dissolved Durham College, would not have been created, certainly not in 1555. I tell this story here: http://www.ladyjanegrey.info/?p=14705.
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Gatsby. A second book has been written about what Trinity College would have been like after World War I when Fitzgerald wrote that Gatsby claimed (fictionally) to have been at the college.
20th Century. An interesting account by an undergraduate at Trinity in 1940-42 shows how academic life continued during the years of World War II. The writer of the book is especially knowledgable about the Oxford University scene for dramatic productions, since he was involved in many of the productions. John Harper-Nelson, Oxford at War (Western Australia: Access Press, 1996).
Shutting Out the Dean The story is told at length on the Univ website https://bit.ly/2M37NgG. Related papers were collected by J.H.S. Wild and deposited in the Muniment Room in August 1951 as UC:P45/MS/1, originally sent to Wild by the son of Sir Michael Sadler. Further information in L. G. Mitchell, “The Screwing up of the Dean”, University College Record Vol. XI no. 4 (1996), 69-81, and Robin Darwall-Smith, A History of University College Oxford (Oxford, 2008), 402-6. More papers on the topic are at UC:P46 https://bit.ly/2vhOjLL.
Contemporary Cartoon Several cartoons are in the UC:P45-46 files cited in the previous note. More sources here: https://bit.ly/2MiZolU.
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Wadham College Brooke-Little. Burke, 1061 (Wadham, Wadham College), 796 (Petre).
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Worcester Colllege Brooke-Little. 1951. Burkes. 1884, 1135, 225. Email from Emma Goodrum, Worcester College, 25 Apr 2018. However, Grazebrook’s The Heraldry of Worcestershire shows the arms of the Cookes of Bentley as tinctured gules throughout, including the six martlets. https://worcestercollegelibrary.wordpress.com/page/1/
Council of Constance https://www.britannica.com/event/Council-of-Constance.
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Frank Chavasse Ann Clayton, Chavasse, Double VC (Leo Cooper, 1992), 2-11.
ART AND PHOTO CREDITS
All heraldry is by heraldic artist Lee Lumbley, © 2018 by Boissevain Books LLC. All photos unless otherwise identified are by © John Tepper Marlin, 2014, 2017, 2018). Please send errors or broken links to info@boissevainbooks.com. The numbers preceding each item are the page numbers of the 3rd printing of Oxford College Arms.
FRONT COVER Heraldry by Lee Lumbley, cover design by Jason Snyder.
4 Photo of spires, Oxford University press office.
5 Photo of Richard Lofthouse provided by the photographee.
6 Oxford coat of arms by Lee Lumbley.
Photo of Chancellor Lord Patten by Oxford University press office.
7 Photos of Vice Chancellor Richardson and Summer Eights by Oxford University press office.
8 Drawing of Oxford spires by W. Matthison in Robert Peel and H. C. Minchin, Oxford (London: Methuen & Co., 1905).
9 Photo of Mansfield College wall by JT Marlin.
11 Photo of Eagle & Child chalkboard by JT Marlin.
12-13 Photo by Oxford University press office. The two-page photo shows the length of the Dead Man's Walk, the route of medieval Jewish processions, going from left to right at the northern end of the Merton College field. It begins at the synagogue in the Oxford Jewish Quarter near Christ Church's Tom Tower, passing in front of Corpus Christi and Merton Colleges, to the Jewish cemetery, now Oxford University's Botanic Garden. By legend, the ghost of Col. Francis Windebank, executed in 1645 by a firing squad at the Oxford City wall bordering Merton College, has been seen walking here. It is on the list of tour sites of Oxford Ghost Tours (https://www.oxfordghosttours.com/slide-show).
15 Photo of college arms on plates by JT Marlin.
16 All Souls arms by Lee Lumbley.
Photo
18 Balliol arms by Lee Lumbley.
19 Photos by JT Marlin.
20 Blackfriars arms by Lee Lumbley.
21 Photo by JT Marlin.
22 Brasenose arms by Lee Lumbley.
23 Painting of Brasenose Old Quad by W. Matthison, plate facing 100, Robert Peel and H. C. Minchin, Oxford (London: Methuen & Co., 1905).
24 Photo of Campion Hall by JT Marlin.
25 Christ Church arms by Lee Lumbley.
26 Photo of Christ Church Cathedral by the Oxford University press office.
27 Corpus Christi College arms by Lee Lumbley.
28 Photo of Corpus Christ College quad by JT Marlin.
29 Exeter College arms by Lee Lumbley.
30 Photo of Exeter College chapel by JT Marlin.
31 Green Templeton arms by Lee Lumbley.
32 Photo of Green Templeton tie by JT Marlin.
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BOOKS ON OXFORD, OXONIANS, OR MULTIPLE COLLEGES
Bullen, Annie, Oxford Colleges. Pitkin Publishing, 2015.
Catholic Encyclopedia, The. Vol. 3. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1908. Multiple entries on Oxford alumni and religious movements.
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Harper-Nelson, John. Oxford at War: An Undergraduate Memoir. Northbridge, Western Australia: Access Press, 1996.
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Pearce, Joseph. Literary Converts: Spiritual Inspiration in an Age of Unbelief. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2000.
Woodward, John, Treatise on Ecclesiastical Heraldry. Edinburgh: W & AK Johnson, 1894.
BOOKS ON SINGLE OXFORD COLLEGES
Hertford College Hamilton, Sidney Graves. University of Oxford College Histories—Hertford College. F.E. Robinson & Co. London. 1903.
Kellogg College Airs, Malcolm, ed., Kellogg College The First 25 Years (Oxford: Kellogg College, 2015).
Lincoln College Warner, Stephen A, Lincoln College Oxford. London: Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd., 1908. Google Books edition http://bit.ly/2pj3UF8.
Magdalen College Gardiner, Rena, The Story of Magdalen College Oxford, 2003. https://bit.ly/2GzPyJz.
Magdalen College, History of the County of Oxford. https://bit.ly/2NGz1aT.
Mansfield College Kaye, Ellen, Mansfield College, Oxford: Its Origin, History, and Significance Oxford University Press, 1996.
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St Anne's College Reeves, Marjorie, St Anne's College: An Informal History. St Anne's, c1977.
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Trinity College Blakiston, Herbert E D. Trinity College. London, 1898.
Ellis, Donna M. and Karen A. Stuart. The Calvert Papers: Calendar and Guide to the Microfilm Edition. (Arms were granted to Sir George Calvert in 1622.) Baltimore: The Maryland Historical Society, 1989.
Flintoff, Ian. Gatsby at Trinity. Oxford: Pitchfork Production and YouCaxton Publications, 2014.
Georghallides, G S. Academic and Social Memories of Undergraduate Life at Trinity College Oxford, 1961-64. Nicosia, Cyprus: Imprinta Ltd., 2010. Privately printed, available from the book's author at P.O. Box 21262, 1505 Nicosia, Cyprus.
Harper-Nelson, John. Oxford at War: An Undergraduate Memoir. Northbridge, Western Australia: Access Press, 1996. Describes an undergraduate's life at Trinity during World War II.
Hopkins, Clare. Trinity: 450 Years of an Oxford College Community. Oxford: OU Press, 2005.
Jensen, Ann. Leonard Calvert and the Maryland Adventure. Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer, 2010. (Leonard Calvert, first Governor of Maryland, was a Trinity College, Oxford alumnus, as was his father and brother, the First and Second Lords Baltimore.)
The talk with slides will cover the coats of arms of both the Oxford and Cambridge colleges and halls.
Oxford was protected by Henry II from competition from the University of Paris. Both Henry IV and Henry VIII exempted Oxford colleges from costly visitations by heralds.
