This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III THE FIRST FOUNDATION The new Principal, the work of whose life was to be the transformation of the Hall into a College, was admitted July 28, 1710. Formerly a Westminster student and tutor at Christ Church, he now came back to Oxford from the rectory of Sudborough, in Northamptonshire, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III THE FIRST FOUNDATION The new Principal, the work of whose life was to be the transformation of the Hall into a College, was admitted July 28, 1710. Formerly a Westminster student and tutor at Christ Church, he now came back to Oxford from the rectory of Sudborough, in Northamptonshire, where he had still employed his leisure in taking pupils. Among these were at this time the two sons of Lord Pelham, both destined afterwards to be Prime Ministers, the future Duke of Newcastle and his brother, Henry Pelham. The elder brother about this time matriculated at Cambridge; the younger came with his tutor to Oxford, and was entered at Hart Hall. Newton was thus already known as a teacher, and it seems really to have been his success as a tutor, quite as much as the distinguished rank of some of his pupils, that led to his being' sent for, ' as he himself put it, ' from a very Peaceful Retirement' to take charge of an Oxford Hall. The charge of an Oxford Hall was, indeed, the very thing for which he was best fitted by character and inclination. He returned to Oxford with a strong sense of the necessity for reform in the University generally, and he aimed from the first at making his Hall a model in learning, discipline, and economy. His first care was to pay off the debt which Thornton had bequeathed to his successors. For this purpose he determined for a time to devote the whole income of the Hall to the benefit of the Hall itself, retaining his rectory as a sufficient provision for himself; and by this means he was able within six years not only to relieve Thornton's buildings of their burden of debt, but to add to them new buildings of his own on land which he acquired for the purpose. These buildings, which still remain, now form.
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