KIRKUS REVIEWS | Quotes from Review of "Oxford College Arms" and Notes

The following will appear on the front and back covers of the next edition of Oxford College Arms:

Front: “Marlin meticulously covers each college, … its unique history, … its coat of arms, and its specific educational mission. —Kirkus Reviews

Back: Unfailingly clear language, and the entire work is as rationally organized as it is informative. For those in search of a confident guide to these meaningful hieroglyphics, it would be difficult to find one superior to Marlin’s effort. An astute exploration of Oxford’s coats of arms.”—Kirkus Reviews

For notes on, and an index to, the book, go to:

https://theoxbridgepursuivant.blogspot.com/2018/08/oxford-college-arms-end-notes-and-photo.html

OXFORD | Visiting the Colleges; Tour-Bus Stops

For a self-guided tour of the Oxford colleges, take the Oxford tour bus. 

Buy a bus ticket at the City Sightseeing Sales Office at the Railway Station (Stop 1). 

Then hop on, hop off. Get off at one of the 15 (out of 20) numbered stops that have one or more colleges to look at. 

Some colleges may be closed, or require an admission charge. Warning: The college with the highest charges and most complicated booking system is Christ Church. Here is a list of the hours, restrictions, charges and concessions for each college: https://www.ox.ac.uk/visitors/visiting-oxford/visiting-the-colleges

Oxford alumni may obtain free admission or concession rates with their alumni card. https://www.alumni.ox.ac.uk/oxford-alumni-card

Passes for a walking tour may be obtained at Stops 8 and 13.

SOUTHERN LOOP

Stops 1-10

3. Worcester College (famed gardens).

4. Nuffield College and St Peter’s College.

6. Alice in Wonderland Shop and punting on the Isis (Thames).

7. Christ Church (Harry Potter movies filmed here), Pembroke College.

8. Brasenose College, Oriel College, Lincoln College.

9. The Queen’s College, University College, Merton College, Corpus Christi College, All Souls College.

10. Magdalen College, St Hilda’s College.

NORTHERN LOOP

Stops 11-20

11. Linacre College, St Catherine’s College.

13. New College, Exeter College.

14. Trinity College, Wadham College.

15. Keble College.

16. St Hugh’s College, Lady Margaret Hall.

17. St Antony’s College.

18. St Anne’s College, Somerville College, Eagle and Child (“Bird and Baby"). 

19. Balliol College, St John’s College.

HERALDRY LINKS | Alphabetical

OXFORD COLLEGES AND PPHS
The following are draft sections of a book, © 2018 by Boissevain Books LLC.

All Souls
Balliol College
Blackfriars Hall
Campion Hall

Harris Manchester

Kellogg College (Updated May 12)~

Lady Margaret Hall (a College) (May 19, 2018)~

Linacre (Updated May 13, 2018)~

Lincoln (Updated May 15, 2018)~

Mansfield College (Updated May 13, 2018)~

Oriel College (Updated May 15, 2018)~

Regent's Park College (a PPH) (Updated May 15, 2018)~

St Antony's College (Updated May 12, 2018)~

St Benet's Hall (a PPH) (Updated May 13, 2018)~

St Catherine's (St Catz, Updated May 14, 2018) ~
St Cross (Updated May 16, 2018) ~
St Edmund Hall (a College) (Updated May 16, 2018)~
St Hilda's (May 19, 2018) ~
St Hugh's (May 19,2018)~
St John's (May 20, 2018)

St Peter's (Updated May 16, 2018)~

Trinity (Updated May 15, 2018)~
Wolfson (May 20, 2018)

HERALDIC TOPICS

Beer, Branding and Paul Walton

Coat of Arms v. Crest, reply to Robert Parker (Trinity 1967)
George Washington's Arms and the Stars and Stripes I, Huffington Post

George Washington's Arms and the Stars and Stripes II (Sulgrave)
GW's Arms – Selby or Trinity, Which Is Older? (2018)
Martlets (2018)
Richmond Herald (2018)
Scotsmen Inspired the Patriots (2018)

Simple Heraldry Is Fun

Sinister Questions

Stars in the Oxford College Arms

The Arms of Douglas, Moray and de Vere,

U.S. Arms | The American College of Heraldry (2018)
Visit to the Lord Lyon in Edinburgh (2018)

What's Your Blazon?, article in Oxford Today, 2015
What's Your Blazon? Oxford Heraldry Society Likes

OTHER OXFORD TOPICS
Oxford Birthdays | April
Oxford Birthdays | May
Oxford–The First Seven Centuries (May 16, 2018)
Oxford's Rapid Expansion
Oxford Arms Superlinks . Heraldry Links (Alphabetical)

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BRITISH PMs: Universities Attended (Updated Aug. 15, 2016)

Theresa May. Oxford gets another, to make
27. Cambridge has 14 British PMs.

With Theresa May installed as British Prime Minister, Oxford racks up another PM spot. There have been 76 Prime Ministerial Administrations so far (the official UK Govt. site shows 75, but it also still indicates as of July 17, 2016 that Cameron is the Prime Minister).

The official site counts a Prime Minister twice if he came back after an interim (so far no female Prime Ministers have achieved this). The Disraeli-Gladstone pas de deux leaps to mind.

The Oxford and Cambridge rankings now show, by my calculations, a total of 41 Oxbridge Prime Ministers:
Oxford - 27
Cambridge - 14

[Postscript July 22: These numbers were confirmed in a recent post by the Editor of Oxford Today, Richard Lofthouse. I was pleased to see that two of the comments on his post as of July 22 stepped away from self-congratulation or  questions about pre-university testing to ask fellow Oxonians, more or less: "Where did our educational go wrong to produce a Cameron and a Johnson?" (And, by implication, a Brexit.)]

Within Oxford, the leading colleges are:
Christ Church - 13
Balliol - 3
Trinity - 3
Brasenose - 2
Other: Hart Hall (later Hertford), Jesus, Somerville, St Hugh's, St John's, Univ.

Within Cambridge, the leading colleges are:
Trinity - 6
St John's - 4
Other: Clare, King's, Pembroke, Peterhouse.

Other universities attended (10, of which 5 are not in addition to Oxford or Cambridge. I credit two universities when someone attended both; none of the Prime Ministers is listed as attending both Oxford and Cambridge, but five attended a second university in Birmingham, or Scotland, or the Netherlands or Germany):
Edinburgh - 3
Glasgow - 2
Mason Science College (later part of Birmingham) - 2
Leiden - 1
Utrecht - 1
Leipzig, Saxony - 1

No university attended - 8

Summary: Oxford 27, Cambridge 14, Other university (not additional) 5, No university 8.

Prime Minister	Term of office	University	Total	College	Total
Thomas Pelham-Holles Duke of Newcastle	1754–1756 1757–1762	Cambridge	14 Cambridge	Clare	1
Robert Walpole	1721–1742	Cambridge		King’s	1
William Pitt the Younger	1783–1801 1804–1806	Cambridge		Pembroke	1
George Hamilton-Gordon Earl of Aberdeen	1852–1855	Cambridge		St John's	4
Frederick J. Robinson Viscount Goderich	1827–1828	Cambridge		St John’s
Charles Watson-Wentworth Marquess of Rockingham	1765–1766 1782	Cambridge		St. John’s
Spencer Perceval	1809–1812	Cambridge		Trinity	6
Charles Grey Earl Grey	1830–1834	Cambridge		Trinity
William Lamb Viscount Melbourne	1834  1835–1841	Cambridge		Trinity
Arthur Balfour	1902–1905	Cambridge		Trinity
Augustus FitzRoy Duke of Grafton	1768–1770	Cambridge		Peterhouse	1
Stanley Baldwin	1923–1924 1924–1929 1935–1937	Cambridge & Mason Science College		Trinity
John Russell Earl Russell	1846–1852 1865–1866	Edinburgh	3 Edinburgh
Gordon Brown	2007–2010	Edinburgh
Henry John Temple Viscount Palmerston	1855–1858 1859–1865	Edinburgh; Cambridge		St John's
Andrew Bonar Law	1922–1923	Glasgow	2 Glasgow
Henry Campbell-Bannerman	1905–1908	Glasgow; Cambridge		Trinity
John Stuart Earl of Bute	1762–1763	Leiden	1 Leiden
Neville Chamberlain	1937–1940	Mason Science College	2		2
William Cavendish Duke of Devonshire	1756–1757	None	8
Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington	1828–1830 1834	None
Benjamin Disraeli Earl of Beaconsfield	1868  1874–1880	None
David Lloyd George	1916–1922	None
Ramsay MacDonald	1924  1929–1935	None
Winston Churchill	1940–1945 1951–1955	None
James Callaghan	1976–1979	None
John Major	1990–1997	None
Herbert Henry Asquith	1908–1916	Oxford	27	Balliol	3
Harold Macmillan	1957–1963	Oxford		Balliol
Edward Heath	1970–1974	Oxford		Balliol
Henry Addington	1801–1804	Oxford		Brasenose	2
David Cameron	2010–2016	Oxford		Brasenose
George Grenville	1763–1765	Oxford		Christ Church	13
William Petty Earl of Shelburne	1782–1783	Oxford		Christ Church
William Cavendish-Bentinck Duke of Portland	1783  1807–1809	Oxford		Christ Church
William Grenville Lord Grenville	1806–1807	Oxford		Christ Church
Robert Jenkinson Earl of Liverpool	1812–1827	Oxford		Christ Church
George Canning	1827	Oxford		Christ Church
Robert Peel	1834–1835 1841–1846	Oxford		Christ Church
William Ewart Gladstone	1868–1874 1880–1885 1886  1892–1894	Oxford		Christ Church
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil Marquess of Salisbury	1885–1886 1886–1892 1895–1902	Oxford		Christ Church
Archibald Primrose Earl of Rosebery	1894–1895	Oxford		Christ Church
Anthony Eden	1955–1957	Oxford		Christ Church
Alec Douglas-Home Earl of Home	1963–1964	Oxford		Christ Church
Henry Pelham	1743–1754	Oxford		Hart Hall (Hertford)	1
Harold Wilson	1964–1970 1974–1976	Oxford		Jesus	1
Margaret Thatcher	1979–1990	Oxford		Somerville	1
Theresa May	2016–	Oxford		St Hugh’s	1
Tony Blair	1997–2007	Oxford		St John's	1
Spencer Compton Earl of Wilmington	1742–1743	Oxford		Trinity	3
Clement Attlee	1945–1951	Oxford		Univ.	1
Edward Smith-Stanley Earl of Derby	1852  1858–1859 1866–1868	Oxford		Christ Church
William Pitt the Elder Earl of Chatham	1766–1768	Oxford; Utrecht University	1	Trinity
Frederick North Earl of Guilford	1770–1782	Oxford; Leipzig	1	Trinity