In 1931 he returned to Oxford as a Fellow of Merton College, where he was highly regarded as a tutor.

Happy to get away from the company of Evelyn Scott, in 1923 Merton returned to Douglaston to live with the Jenkins family and his brother John Paul.

He later returned to New York and then took Merton with him to live in Saint-Antonin in France.

When the holiday ended, Owen returned to France, and Merton to Ripley.

Returning to St. Bonaventure with Gethsemani on his mind, Merton returned to teaching.

Even before 1934, several candidates ran and were elected under the Liberal-Progressive banner ( Frederick Sandy of Victoria South was first elected as a UFO MLA in 1919, was defeated in 1923 and returned to serve as a Liberal-Progressive from 1926-1929 ; Merton Elvin Scott of Oxford South served as a Liberal-Progressive MLA from 1926 to 1929 and UFO MLA David Munroe Ross of Oxford North was re-elected as a Liberal-Progressive in 1926 and 1929 ), however it was only in the 1934 election that a formal alliance between the Progressives and Liberals began, returning four Liberal-Progressive MLAs ( Nixon, Douglas Campbell of Kent East, Roland Patterson of Grey North and James Francis Kelly of Muskoka ).

He was educated at Merton College, Oxford ( Ph. D., 1924 ) and returned to Oxford as reader in Jewish Studies from 1939 to 1964.

In May 2009, Merton returned to the world of Doctor Who, 45 years after her appearance in Marco Polo, to record a special episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures ( starring Elisabeth Sladen ).

On January 31, 1915, Thomas Merton was born in Prades, Pyrénées-Orientales, France, to Owen Merton, a New Zealand painter active in Europe and the United States, and Ruth Jenkins, an American Quaker and artist.

Owen Merton, Evelyn Scott and her husband Cyril Kay-Scott set sail for Europe, traveling through France, Italy, England and Algeria.

After starting at Christ Church in Oxford, he went on to Merton College, Oxford, then with joined the Life Guards of the Household Cavalry in order to support King William's wars against France.

Merton appealed ( in French ) to the Abbot General in France, who concluded that an author's style was a personal matter, and subsequently the local censor also reversed his opinion, paving way for book's publication.

He is now Robert K. Merton Professor of Social Sciences with appointments in Political Science and Philosophy at Columbia University and professeur titulaire at the Collège de France.

This success turned Whitehouse and Higson's career, and they began to appear on shows such as Vic Reeves ' Big Night Out and extensively for the BBC, with Whitehouse appearing on A Bit of Fry and Laurie as a man with a clinical need to have his bottom fondled, and Paul Merton: The Series, then as performer on shows such as Harry Enfield's Television Programme, where he developed numerous characters including DJ Mike Smash of Smashie and Nicey alongside Harry Enfield as Nicey.

Robert K. Merton also coauthored ( with Elinor Barber ) The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity which traces the origins and uses of the word " serendipity " since it was coined.

Pro Bowl safety Merton Hanks led the team with 7 interceptions for 93 return yards, while Sanders had 6 interceptions for 303 return yards and 3 touchdowns, earning him the NFL Defensive Player of the Year Award.

He won a scholarship to study at Merton College, Oxford on a four year course, which he started in 1968 and he graduated in 1972 with first-class honours degree in biochemistry.

* Merton Miller, who started his academic career teaching economic history at the LSE, won the Nobel in 1990 with Harry Markowitz and William Sharpe.

The conflicts of the Civil War soon led King Charles to Oxford, with Harvey attending, where the physician was made ' Doctor of Physic ' in 1642 and later Warden of Merton College in 1645.

Many of the show's performers, including Paul Merton, Josie Lawrence and Sandi Toksvig, were regulars with The Comedy Store Players, an improvisational group based at London's Comedy Store.

In conjunction with the works to integrate the two lines, two major extensions were undertaken: northwards to Edgware in Middlesex ( now in the London Borough of Barnet ) and southwards to Morden in Surrey ( then in the Merton and Morden Urban District, but now in the London Borough of Merton ).

Mitcham, along with nearby Merton Abbey, became the calico cloth printing centres of England by 1750.

Others with local connections include actors Roger Moore, Simon Callow, Peter Davison, Nicholas Clay, Neil Pearson and June Whitfield, saucy seaside postcard artist Donald McGill and comedians Eddie Izzard, Jeremy Hardy and Paul Merton.

Transport links expanded further with new railway lines to Croydon ( Wimbledon and Croydon Railway, opened in 1855 ) and Tooting ( Tooting, Merton and Wimbledon Railway, opened in 1868 ).

The main local newspaper in Merton is The Wimbledon Guardian with two editions, Wimbledon along with Mitcham and Morden.

The wards containing Mitcham town centre and the St Helier Estate are ranked highest for crime within Merton with the wards containing the smaller commercial centres of Colliers Wood and South Wimbledon also featuring high in the ranking.

* In 1997, Merton was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Myron Scholes for their work on stock options.

In 2011, Hertford College ranked 5th in the Norrington Table of results, and over the decade 2000 – 2009, it was in the top ten most years, an honour shared with Balliol, Christ Church, Magdalen, Merton, New College, and St John's.

Many of the sports teams are " combined " in partnership with Merton College.

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 has traditionally had single sex accommodation for freshers, with female students going into the Rose Lane buildings and most male students going into 3 houses on Merton Street.

Merton has a long-standing sporting relationship with Mansfield College, with the colleges fielding amalgamated sports teams for nearly all major sports except rowing.

Visitors to Merton are often told Mob Quad, built in the 14th century, is the oldest quadrangle of any Oxford or Cambridge college and set the pattern for future collegiate architecture, but Front Quad was certainly enclosed earlier ( albeit with a less unified design ) and other colleges, for example Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, can point to their own older examples.

Merton had mixed feelings about the publishing of this work, but Dom Frederic remained resolute over Merton continuing his writing.

The stay brought up feelings of loneliness and depression for Merton, as he felt deserted by his father.

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.

Wimbledon had its own borough of Wimbledon and was within the county of Surrey ; it was absorbed into the London Borough of Merton as part of the creation of Greater London in 1965.

Wimbledon had its own borough of Wimbledon and was within the county of Surrey ; it was absorbed into the London Borough of Merton as part of the creation of Greater London in 1965.

Merton is among the wealthier colleges, and as of 2006, had an estimated financial endowment of £ 142 million.

Merton has had a reputation for having the best food in Oxford since an old Mertonian left money specifically for the improvement of the kitchens, and this budget was further augmented during the two years when Crown Prince Naruhito of Japan studied there ( 1983 – 85 ).

In 2010, it was ( incorrectly ) reported that Merton had not admitted a black student in the previous five years.

The University also reported that Merton had admitted at least one black undergraduate since 2005.

The " House of Scholars of Merton " originally had properties in Surrey ( in present day Old Malden ) as well as in Oxford, but it was not until the mid-1260s that Walter de Merton acquired the core of the present site in Oxford, along the south side of what was then St John's Street ( now Merton Street ).

Wilder Penfield, a famous Canadian neurosurgeon had also previously entered Merton College.

Merton later explained that at the time he was " very tired " of the show and that he thought it had become " stuck in a rut ".

Archer eventually formed The Blue Ox Babes, while Blythe, Spooner, Williams, Stoker and Mick Talbot ( ex-The Merton Parkas, who had recently joined on keyboards ) left to form The Bureau.

Merton enjoyed his studies there and benefited from a greater sense of community than had existed at the lycée.

Merton went to see him and together they left for Scotland, where a friend had offered his house for Owen to recover in.

Merton soon learned his father had a brain tumor.

Merton had a hard time leaving the place, though he was unsure why.

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

One night in his pensione, Merton had the sense that Owen was in the room with him for a few moments.

By this time Bennett had had enough and, in a meeting in April, Merton and his guardian appear to have struck a deal: Merton would return to the States and Bennett would not tell Merton's grandparents about his indiscretions.