He went to school at Eastbourne College, before going on to study at University College of Wales at Aberystwyth and at Merton College, Oxford.

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After a year at Merton College, Oxford, Simcoe was admitted to Lincoln's Inn, but then decided to follow the military career for which his father had intended him.

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In 1944 Polanyi was elected a member of the Royal Society, and on his retirement from the University of Manchester in 1958 he was elected a Senior Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford.

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With the help of the Academic Assistance Council, Adorno registered as an advanced student at Merton College, Oxford, in June 1934.

Although based on those of Merton College, these statutes clearly display the lack of resources then available to the college.

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* October 27 – Walter de Merton, Lord Chancellor of England and founder of Merton College, Oxford

* 1264 – Merton College is founded at the University of Oxford by Walter de Merton.

Born in Colombo, Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka ) to British parents, he received his Bachelor's degree in Classics from the University of Oxford ( Merton College ) in 1956.

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* Merton College Library is built in Oxford, England.

In 1936, he spent a year as a reporter in New Orleans before securing a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University's Merton College, from which he graduated in 1939.

* The first purpose-built accommodation for students ( the Mob Quad ) is completed in Merton College, Oxford, England.

** His interim chancellor and effective regent, Walter de Merton retires from royal service to make the final revisions to his statutes for the foundation of Merton College, Oxford and take up the post of Bishop of Rochester.

* September 14 – Walter de Merton formally completes the foundation of the House of Scholars of Merton ( later Merton College, Oxford ) to provide education in Malden and the University of Oxford.

New Malden is a small town and shopping centre in the south-western London suburbs, mostly within the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames and partly in the London Borough of Merton, and is situated from Charing Cross.

Hence, it is a popular English usage in the underground comic book Merton of the Movement, by Bobby London, while ideologically sound, an alternative term, followed a like lexical path, appearing in Bart Dickon ’ s satirical comic strips.

Serendipity is used as a sociological method in Anselm L. Strauss ' and Barney G. Glaser's Grounded Theory, building on ideas by sociologist Robert K. Merton, who in Social Theory and Social Structure ( 1949 ) referred to the " serendipity pattern " as the fairly common experience of observing an unanticipated, anomalous and strategic datum which becomes the occasion for developing a new theory or for extending an existing theory.

" Cohen therefore considers it paradoxical " that the rise of early modern science was due at least in part to developments in Christian thought — in particular, to certain aspects of Protestantism " ( a thesis first developed as what is now sometimes called the Merton thesis ).

* May 3 – Merton Priory ( Thomas Becket School ) is consecrated.

* Work is begun on the construction of Mob Quad in Merton College, Oxford.

Merton Hall is so called because from 1266 until 1959 both the School of Pythagoras and Merton Hall were property of Merton College, Oxford.

Merton Court is the College's eleventh and westernmost court.

Another early example is immortalised in the picture ' The execution of Murcod Ballagh near to Merton in Ireland 1307 '.

The chimes are stuck on the eighth Gregorian tone, which is also used at Merton College, Oxford.

It was not until 1598 that the library began to thrive once more, when Thomas Bodley ( a former fellow of Merton College ) wrote to the Vice Chancellor of the University offering to support the development of the library: " where there hath bin hertofore a publike library in Oxford: which you know is apparent by the rome it self remayning, and by your statute records I will take the charge and cost upon me, to reduce it again to his former use.

The county is divided into twenty-seven townships: Ash, Blaine, Collins, Cottonwood, Darlington, Day, Eden, Elrod, Fordham, Foxton, Garfield, Hague, Lake, Lincoln, Logan, Maydell, Merton, Mount Pleasant, Pleasant, Raymond, Richland, Rosedale, Spring Valley, Thorp, Warren, Washington, and Woodland.

Mitcham is a district in the south west area of London, in the London Borough of Merton.

Mitcham is on the east side of the London Borough of Merton and is bounded by the London Borough of Wandsworth, the London Borough of Croydon, the London Borough of Lambeth and the London Borough of Sutton.

The area is a possible location for the Battle of Merton, 871, in which King Ethelred of Wessex was either mortally wounded or killed outright.

Morden is a district in the London Borough of Merton.

Mr P J M Roberts was educated at Tiffins, Kingston upon Thames and then read Modern History at Merton College, Oxford where he received a first class honours degree.

Born in London, and educated at St Paul's School and Merton College, Oxford, Edmund's father John Edmund Bentley, was professionally a civil servant but was also a rugby union international having played in the first ever international match for England against Scotland in 1871.

Robert C. Merton was the first to publish a paper expanding the mathematical understanding of the options pricing model and coined the term Black – Scholes options pricing model.

Its foundation can be traced back to the 1260s when Walter de Merton, chancellor to Henry III and later to Edward I, first drew up statutes for an independent academic community and established endowments to support it.

The substance of Merton's claim to the title of oldest College is that Merton was the first college to be provided with " statutes ", a constitution governing the College set out at its founding.

Merton was also the first to be conceived as a community of scholars working to achieve academic ends, rather than just a place for the scholars to live in.

The JCR Football Premier Division was ( jointly ) won for the first time by a Merton team in 2010 / 11.

A post office opened for Glenglade on November 21, 1894, with Merton A Davis as the first postmaster.

At short notice, Merton hosted the first episode after Deayton's departure, and was described as " merciless " in his treatment of his former co-star.

Despite this record though, Merton is one of only three people to have played all three roles of the show's format at various points: he is usually captain of his team, but along with being the first post-Deayton presenter ( series 24, episode 3 ), he has also been a guest on Hislop's team ( in series 11, episode 1 ).

Merton had officially found the Rome he said he didn't see on his first visit: Byzantine Christian Rome.

Merton was also interested in Communism at Columbia, where he briefly joined the Young Communist League ; however, the first meeting he attended failed to interest him further and he never went back.

In March 1942, during the first Sunday of Lent, Merton was accepted as a novice monk at the monastery.

On March 19 Merton became a deacon in the Order, and on May 26 ( Ascension Thursday ) he was ordained a priest, saying his first Mass the following day.

According to The Seven Storey Mountain, the youthful Merton loved jazz but by the time he began his first teaching job he had forsaken all but peaceful music.

Merton was first exposed to and became interested in Eastern religions when he read Aldous Huxley ’ s Ends and Means in 1937, the year before his conversion to Catholicism.

It was in this same year that Walter first set aside two manors in Surrey for the priory at Merton, for the support of " scholars residing at the schools ".

The idea of damages was first conceived in English law during the 13th century, when the Statutes of Merton and Gloucester provided for damages in certain circumstances.

The first focus groups were created at the Bureau of Applied Social Research in the USA, by associate director, sociologist Robert K. Merton.

Born in Lottery Hall, Southampton, he was educated at King's College School, London, and at Merton College, Oxford where he achieved a first class BA degree in Classical Mods, ( 1865 ), and a second class in literae humaniores ( 1867 ).

He began lecturing at Merton and in April 1565 he was formally appointed as the college's first Lecturer in Ancient Greek, a post that was subsequently made permanent.

However Merton does explicitly state that functional analysis does not seek to explain why the action happened in the first instance, but why it continues or is reproduced.