& St. John's College, Oxford.- Baker (Elizabeth Johnston, member of the Primrose League, wife of Rev. William Baker Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford 1863-70, Headmaster of Merchant Taylors' School 1870-1900, author of "Latin & Greek Verse Translations 1895, 1841-1910, of old Charterhouse, London and later Netherfield, Berkhamsted, 1846-1931) Day Book [Diary], autograph manuscript, 354pp. excluding blanks, 2ff. loose, lacks front front free endpaper, hinges splitting but holding, original vellum, lettered direct on upper cover, soiled and browned, lacks tail of spine, folio, 1891-1903. *** Includes, numerous visits to St. John's College and meeting the President, James Bellamy (1819-1909), scores of rugby and cricket matches involving the Merchant Taylors' School, holidays in Switzerland (climbing the Riffelhorn), politics (electing William Lucas Shadwell as Conservative MP, anti Irish Home Rule, Primrose League meetings and canvassing, reference to politicians including Lord Salisbury, Lord Randolph Churchill etc.), Dame Elizabeth Wordsworth (1807-85), first principal of Lady Margaret Hall (Baker's daughter Alice was a student at LMH during the 1890s), Wordsworth was "the most unselfconscious yet the most influential pioneer of women's university education that Oxford had known" (Oxford DNB); Edith Wardale (1863-1943), philologist and literary scholar, Wardale was "the only woman in the whole history of Higher Education of Women at Oxford who has taken a decent degree - Joseph Wright" (Oxford DNB), Mrs. Humphry Ward [Mary Augusta Ward (1851-1920)], novelist; Graham Greene's parents (Charles Henry Greene (1865-1942), headmaster of Berkhamsted School), lecture on the Congo by Herbert Ward etc.
& St. John's College, Oxford.- Baker (Elizabeth Johnston, member of the Primrose League, wife of Rev. William Baker Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford 1863-70, Headmaster of Merchant Taylors' School 1870-1900, author of "Latin & Greek Verse Translations 1895, 1841-1910, of old Charterhouse, London and later Netherfield, Berkhamsted, 1846-1931) Day Book [Diary], autograph manuscript, 354pp. excluding blanks, 2ff. loose, lacks front front free endpaper, hinges splitting but holding, original vellum, lettered direct on upper cover, soiled and browned, lacks tail of spine, folio, 1891-1903. *** Includes, numerous visits to St. John's College and meeting the President, James Bellamy (1819-1909), scores of rugby and cricket matches involving the Merchant Taylors' School, holidays in Switzerland (climbing the Riffelhorn), politics (electing William Lucas Shadwell as Conservative MP, anti Irish Home Rule, Primrose League meetings and canvassing, reference to politicians including Lord Salisbury, Lord Randolph Churchill etc.), Dame Elizabeth Wordsworth (1807-85), first principal of Lady Margaret Hall (Baker's daughter Alice was a student at LMH during the 1890s), Wordsworth was "the most unselfconscious yet the most influential pioneer of women's university education that Oxford had known" (Oxford DNB); Edith Wardale (1863-1943), philologist and literary scholar, Wardale was "the only woman in the whole history of Higher Education of Women at Oxford who has taken a decent degree - Joseph Wright" (Oxford DNB), Mrs. Humphry Ward [Mary Augusta Ward (1851-1920)], novelist; Graham Greene's parents (Charles Henry Greene (1865-1942), headmaster of Berkhamsted School), lecture on the Congo by Herbert Ward etc.
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