Herbert Edward Douglas Blakiston
Herbert Edward Douglas Blakiston, D.D. (5 September 1862 – c. July 1942) was an English academic and clergyman who served as President of Trinity College, Oxford, and as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford.[1][2]
Blakiston was the son of the Rev. Douglas Yeoman Blakiston by his marriage to Sophia Matilda Dent.[3] He had three younger brothers, Charles, John and William, and attended Tonbridge School. He also studied at Trinity College, Oxford, gaining a first class degree in Literae Humaniores in 1885. He was ordained and became Fellow, Chaplain, and Lecturer at Trinity College in 1887. He then became Tutor in 1892, Senior Tutor and Junior Bursar in 1898, before becoming President of the College (1907–38). He also served simultaneously as Estates Bursar (1915–38).
Blakiston wrote articles for the Dictionary of National Biography.[4] He was President of Trinity College from 1907 to 1938[5] and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University from 1917 to 1920.[6]
[edit] References
- ^ Clare Hopkins, Blakiston, Herbert Edward Douglas (1862–1942), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, September 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/31917
- ^ "Blakiston, Herbert Edward Douglas". The Concise Dictionary of National Biography. Volume I: A–F. Oxford University Press. 1995. p. 216.
- ^ Person Page 17130 at thePeerage.com
- ^ Author:Herbert Edward Douglas Blakiston, WikiSource.
- ^ Higham, Thomas F., Dr. Blakiston recalled: Memories of an Oxford 'character,' the Rev. Herbert Edward Blakiston, D.D., President of Trinity College, 1907-1938, Oxford: Blackwell, 1967. ISBN 0-631-10990-0.
- ^ "Previous Vice-Chancellors". University of Oxford, UK. http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/vc/position/previousvice-chancellors/. Retrieved July 13, 2011.
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Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University 1917–1920 |
Succeeded by Lewis Richard Farnell |
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