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. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 1. David Hughes, 1802-17. Henky Foui.kes, 1817-57. Dr. Hoare"s Principalship, the longest so far in the annals of the College, flowed uneventfully on into the nineteenth century. The connection of the College with the Bodleian was not broken till the death of Dr. ...
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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. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 1. David Hughes, 1802-17. Henky Foui.kes, 1817-57. Dr. Hoare"s Principalship, the longest so far in the annals of the College, flowed uneventfully on into the nineteenth century. The connection of the College with the Bodleian was not broken till the death of Dr. Price in 1813, when Dr. Bulkeley Bandinel, son of James Bandinel, one of King Charles I."s Fellows at tTesus, succeeded to the post. Apart from this connection, few Jesus men of the period were conspicuous in University affairs. The Fellows were invariably supplied by the Scholars of the College, nor is there any instance during all this time of a Jesus man being elected into another College. Philip Eyton, who died in 1792, had for forty-seven years been Esquire Bedel in Medicine and Arts, while a Mr. Matthews died at an advanced age in 1806 after having been Esquire Bedel in Divinity for many years. He is stated to have combined that post with the office of Butler in the College. One of his sons, Andrew Hughes Matthews, was elected a Fellow in 1803, and after being Rector of StantonHarcourt, died as recently as 1854, The excitement of the Continental War seems to have penetrated even into the quiet quadrangles of the Welsh College, and in 1798 we find in the account books 100 entered as the "Principal's subscription for the prosecution of the war," while in the same year he subscribed 20 "for the purchase of muskets for our members belonging to the University Corps." In 1802 Dr. Hoare died. For years he had never been seen outside the College walls except inside the carriage in which he " took the air," if such an expression can with propriety be used in connection with an almost hermetically sealed conveyance. The...
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