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Oxford left England in the first week of February, and a month later was presented to the King and Queen of France.
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Upon graduation, he won a Rhodes Scholarship to University College, Oxford where he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics, though because he had switched programs and had left early for Yale University, he did not receive a degree there.
Oxford left Venice in March, intending to return home by way of Lyons and Paris ; although one later report has him as far south as Palermo in Sicily.
When World War I broke out in Western Europe, Moseley left his research work at the University of Oxford behind to volunteer for the Royal Engineers of the British Army.
Though not taking up an academic career, he was left with an enduring and deep love for Oxford.
After his failure to capture the five members and fearing for his family's lives, Charles left London for Oxford.
Looney declared that the late play The Tempest was not written by Oxford, and that others performed or published after Oxford's death were most probably left incomplete and finished by other writers, thus explaining the apparent idiosyncrasies of style found in the late Shakespeare plays.
" Oxfordians argue that this supports their own position, since there is no evidence that William Shakespeare ever left England, but Oxford undoubtedly visited the area.
River Thames at Chiswick during the 2010 University Boat Race ( Oxford boat on right, Cambridge on left )
When Lean left Oxford during 1933, the society ended, and its name was transferred by Tolkien and Lewis to their group at Magdalen College.
He left Oxford in 1494 – after only two years – at the insistence of his father, to begin his legal training in London at New Inn, one of the Inns of Chancery.
Banks left Oxford for Chelsea in December 1763.
As a result, his will left the partners ' stock and lease in trust to Oxford University, and charged them with keeping together " my founding Materialls of the Press.
In 1261, Henry revoked his assent to the Provisions of Oxford and de Montfort, in despair, left the country.
Blunden left the army in 1919 and took up the scholarship at Oxford that he had won while still at school.
On the same English Literature course was Robert Graves, and the two were close friends during their time at Oxford together, but Blunden found university life unsatisfactory and left in 1920 to take up a literary career, at first acting as assistant to Middleton Murry on the Athenaeum magazine.
In 1654, Boyle left Ireland for Oxford to pursue his work more successfully.
In 1668 he left Oxford for London where he resided at the house of his sister, Lady Ranelagh, in Pall Mall.
Before he left Oxford ( sometime in 1600 or 1601 ), he wrote and published three long poems in popular Elizabethan styles ; none appears to have been especially successful, and one, his book of satires, ran afoul of the Anglican Church's ban on verse satire and was burned.
This had left Oxford exposed to a sudden threat from the Parliamentarian armies commanded by the Earl of Essex and Sir William Waller and forced the King to leave the city in haste and head to Worcester, where he was still in danger.
The phrase is believed to come from the end-of-episode situation in adventure silent films of the early 1900s, with the protagonist literally left hanging from the edge of a cliff, although the oldest usage the Oxford English Dictionary has is from 1937.
He went on to Magdalen College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar but left without earning a doctorate.
He went on to study music at Keble College, Oxford, serving as organist at Hertford College, but left without taking his degree.
In 1919 he left Cambridge to take the Savilian Chair of Geometry at Oxford in the aftermath of the Bertrand Russell affair during World War I.
He collected some of those sermons, along with some short notes and reflections, not long after he left Oxford ; this is now known as his Dicta.
Oxford and England
* Out of The Blue ( Oxford University ) ( England )
Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1913.
A side managed by Oxford University — supposedly the England rugby team, but actually including three Scottish players — toured Argentina at the time: the people of Argentina termed it the " Combined British ".
" In a letter to his sisters in Oxford, England, Pasternak claimed to have finished translating one of Calderon's plays in less than a week.
Adherents of the Oxford Movement, begun in 1833, raised questions about the relationship of the Church of England to the apostolic church and thus about its forms of worship.
It might be as small as Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford, England, Sacred Heart Cathedral in Raleigh, United States, or Chur Cathedral in Switzerland.
In despair, he wrote to William Paterson the London Scot and founder of the Bank of England and part instigator of the Darien scheme, who was in the confidence of Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, leading minister and spymaster in the English Government.
* Prestwich, Michael ( 2005 ), Plantagenet England: 1225-1360, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
The Dominican friars quickly spread, including to England, where they appeared in Oxford in 1221.
The first Dominican site in England was at Oxford, in the parishes of St. Edward and St. Adelaide.
There were four such visits in England and Wales — Oxford, London, Cambridge and York.
Twelve-year-old Edward was now the 17th Earl of Oxford and Lord Great Chamberlain of England, and heir to an estate whose annual income, though assessed at approximately £ 2, 500, may have run as high as £ 3, 500.
In August, Oxford attended Paul de Foix, who had come to England to negotiate a marriage between Elizabeth and the Duke of Anjou, the future King Henry III of France.
At this point Italian financier Benedict Spinola had loaned Oxford over £ 4, 000 for his 15 month long continental tour, while in England over 100 tradesmen were seeking settlement of debts totalling thousands of pounds.
A contretemps occurred during the progress in mid-August when the Queen twice requested Oxford to dance before the French ambassadors, who were in England to negotiate a marriage between the 46 year old Elizabeth and the younger brother of Henri III of France, the 24 year old Duke of Anjou.
In April the Spanish ambassador, Bernardino de Mendoza, wrote to King Philip of Spain that it had been proposed that if Anjou were to travel to England to negotiate his marriage to the Queen, Oxford, Surrey and Windsor should be hostages for his safe return.
Although details are unclear, there is evidence that in 1577 Oxford attempted to leave England to see service in the French Wars of Religion on the side of King Henry III.
Like many members of older established aristocratic families in England, Oxford flirted with Catholicism ; after his return from Italy he was reported to have embraced the religion.
In 1585 negotiations were underway for King James to come to England to discuss the release of his mother, Mary, Queen of Scots, and in March Oxford was to be sent to Scotland as one of the hostages for James's safety.
Oxford complained that his servant Thomas Hampton had taken advantage of these writs by taking money from the tenants to his own use, and had also conspired with another of Oxford's servants to pass a fraudulent document under the Great Seal of England.
Lincoln reported that after dinner Oxford spoke of the Queen's impending death, claiming that the peers of England should decide the succession, and suggested that since Lincoln had ' a nephew of the blood royal ... Lord Hastings ', he should be sent to France to find allies to support this aim.
Oxford, England: Archaeopress ) ISBN 1-84171-074-1
* 1355 – The St. Scholastica's Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
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