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… in 1727, and was warmly received by the University of Oxford, who conferred upon him the degree of D.D. He died in … and was educated at Westminster School, and Christ Church, Oxford. Having taken orders, he was elected lecturer of St. … the degree of Doctor in Divinity from the University of Oxford. In 1704 he was appointed to the deanery of Carlisle, …
Old and New London
… 1246 "the sum of 2,591, due from the widow of one David of Oxford, a Jew, was assigned by him to that use." In 1247, if …
Old and New London
… to the Earl of Shrewsbury; Curtana, to the Earl of Oxford; the sword of state to the Earl of Manchester; the …
Old and New London
… to all the land around it, extending from the Thames to Oxford Street, and from Vauxhall Bridge Road to the church of … studied and mastered (thanks to the efforts of the Oxford and Cambridge Architectural Societies, and the labours … William Davenant was the son of a vintner, and was born at Oxford in 1605: his mother, who was a woman of admirable wit …
Old and New London
… of the session. In 1716, Mr. Harley, uncle of the Earl of Oxford, and Ambassador at Hanover, was imprisoned here for … type, and preserved in the library of Brasenose College, Oxford, fixes the Almonry as the scene of his labours; for in …
Survey of London
… of Mr. Crispus Claggett, the proprietor of the Pantheon in Oxford Street. South Side The piece of ground on the south …
Old and New London
… election annually to three studentships at Christ Church, Oxford, and the same number of scholarships at Trinity … election to supply the places of those thus drafted off to Oxford and Cambridge, each boy remaining four years in the … the kitchen for one year." Since 1872 the studentships at Oxford and the scholarships at Cambridge have been thrown …
Old and New London
… his learned subject freely and agreeably on the studies of Oxford, the two University libraries, the literary journals …
Old and New London
… Crown Street, Soho, which brings us to the eastern end of Oxford Street proper. Thence the northern boundary of the city goes due west along Oxford Street, the Bayswater Road, by the north side of Hyde …
Old and New London
… train of courtiers, male and female, left Whitehall for Oxford. Accordingly, we find gossiping Samuel Pepys writing, …