He was born in Bangalore, South India, and educated at Saint Ronan's School in Worthing, West Sussex, and at Cheltenham College, where he met his lifelong friend and biographer, the screenwriter and novelist Gavin Lambert ; Wadham College, Oxford, where he studied classics ; and Magdalen College, Oxford where he studied English literature.

In 2004 he was appointed as a Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, and associated with the Oxford Internet Institute, where he was a visiting fellow from 2004 through 2006.

He was Head Boy at Ashville College, Harrogate and attended Wadham College, Oxford, where his contemporaries included Kenneth Tynan, Lindsay Anderson and Gavin Lambert.

Hooke was irascible, at least in later life, proud, and prone to take umbrage with intellectual competitors, though he was by all accounts also a staunch friend and ally and was loyal always to the circle of ardent Royalists with whom he had his early training at Wadham College, particularly Christopher Wren.

Greig's situation was similar to that of Felicity Jones who played Emma Carter in the series ; Jones, after a period studying at Wadham College, Oxford has moved into large TV parts, such as a starring role in Northanger Abbey.

Badham afterwards attended Eton College from about 1826, and in 1830 was elected to a scholarship at Wadham College, Oxford, but only obtained a third class in Classics ( 1836 ), a failure which may have been due to the methods of study at Oxford.

It was apparently in 1622 that he married Sarah, daughter of John Harte of Brill in Oxfordshire, a proctor in Doctors ' Commons ; having thus vacated his fellowship, he entered himself in 1623 as a fellow commoner at Wadham College.

In 1974, Jesus was among the first group of five men's colleges to admit women as members, the others being Brasenose, Wadham, Hertford and St Catherine's ; between one-third and one-half of the undergraduates are women.

A new boathouse was constructed ( jointly with St Anne's and Wadham Colleges ) between 1989 and 1990.

It was founded by Nicholas and Dorothy Wadham, wealthy Somerset landowners, during the reign of King James I.

The college was founded by Dorothy Wadham ( née Petre ) in 1610, using money left by her husband Nicholas Wadham for the purpose of endowing an Oxford college.

In fact, Wadham was the first historically all-male college to have a female student.

:: There once was a Warden of Wadham

The Wadham library was founded by funds from the Iranian monarchy in 1976.

The son of a chartered surveyor, he was educated at Dulwich College and Wadham College, Oxford, where he got a first-class honours degree in English.

He was Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, from 1938 to 1970, and served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1951 to 1954.

In 1922, he was elected a Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, with the support of the Regius Professor of Greek, Gilbert Murray.

In 1938 the Wardenship of Wadham fell vacant and Bowra was elected to the post, keeping it until 1970, when he was succeeded by Stuart Hampshire.

However, it was Waugh who marked his friend's election as Warden Of Wadham by presenting him with a Monkey-puzzle tree for his garden.

He then went on to read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Wadham College, Oxford.

Since then a special connection between Wadham and Iran has been established.

Outside that club he came to know Maurice Bowra, then a young don at Wadham College.

He was educated at Cheam School and then both Wadham College, Oxford and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating B. A.

He was educated initially at Durham School and then at Wadham College, Oxford.

He attended the Nelson Thomlinson School in Wigton, and then read Modern History at Wadham College, Oxford, in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

He never finished his medical course, because his great-uncle and mentor, Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna ( who was then regarded as Fiji's paramount chief ), seeking to groom him for future leadership of the nation, arranged for him to study history at Wadham College, Oxford University in the United Kingdom.

After winning a scholarship, Fry was educated at Repton School ( where his academic career was erratic ), and then at Wadham College, Oxford.

The idea for a scholarship fund enabling students from The Royal Frederik ’ s University, as Oslo University was then called, to study for one year at Wadham College in Oxford was conceived in 1919 by a young alumnus of the college, who during the war years 1914-18 had held the post of British vice-consul in Kristiansund N, a port-and fishing town on the west coast of Norway.

He was born at Midsomer Norton in Somerset and briefly educated at Bristol Grammar School and then at Eton College, where he was the first winner of the Newcastle Scholarship in 1829, and at Wadham College, Oxford, of which he became a fellow in 1833.

He was educated at Brighton College and then Wadham College, Oxford, of which he wrote a history, before being articled as a pupil to Sir George Gilbert Scott.

In Lent term 1675 Creech was admitted as a commoner at Wadham College, Oxford, and placed under the tuition of Robert Pitt.

A significant expansion of the school occurred under the next Headmaster The Revd Dr John Bradley Dyne ( Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford ) between 1838-1874.

John Bassett, Wadham College, Oxford graduate and assistant to Ponsonby, recommended jazz band mate and rising cabaret talent Dudley Moore, who in turn recommended Alan Bennett, who had been a hit at Edinburgh a few years before.

Hooke studied at Wadham College during the Protectorate where he became one of a tightly knit group of ardent Royalists centred around John Wilkins.

However, Wren became closely associated with John Wilkins, the Warden of Wadham.

Among his contemporaries at Wadham were Edward Spencer Beesly, John Henry Bridges, and George Earlam Thorley who were to become the leaders of the secular Religion of Humanity or " Comtism " in England.

He was the grandson of Ralph Lingen, Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, and was a descendant of Elisabeth de Burgh ( d. 1522 ), co-heiress of the family descended from the Princes of Powys, Llywelyn the Great, King John, Henry III and Edward I.

There was an earlier semi-staged performance given in The Holywell Music Room June 4-6 1964 by the Oxford University Opera Club and Wadham Music Society, conducted by John Byrt-also claiming to be the ' World Premiere '.

After four terms at the University College of Liverpool, he went up to Wadham College, Oxford, in 1891, where he was a contemporary of the politician John Simon and the athlete C. B.

In February 1908 Smith was made a King's Counsel by Lord Loreburn, on the same day as his friend and rival from Wadham College, future Home Secretary Sir John Simon.

* John Pitt ( warden ), Warden of Wadham College, Oxford 16?

His maternal grandparents were Sir George Darell or Darrell ( died c. 1474 ) and Margaret Stourton ( born c. 1433 ), a daughter of John Stourton, 1st Baron Stourton and Margery or Marjory Wadham.

He was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, gaining a BA in Classics and a DipEd, and worked as a school teacher of classics at The John Fisher School, a grammar school in Purley from 1959-67.

He started the small magazine Mandrake in 1946 with John Wain while at Wadham College, Oxford, subtitled the ' An Oxford Review '; it was published until 1957.

This other group, later centred on Wadham College, Oxford and John Wilkins, was centrally concerned in the founding of the Royal Society ; and Boyle became part of it in the 1650s.