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Gilbert Murray
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George Gilbert Aimé Murray, OM was an Australian-born British classical scholar and public intellectual, with connections in many spheres. He was a scholar of the language and culture of Ancient Greece. He is the basis for the character of Adolphus Cusins in his friend George Bernard Shaws play Major Barbara, Murray was born George Gilbert Aimé Murray in Sydney, Australia. His father, Sir Terence Aubrey Murray, who died in 1873, had been a Member of the New South Wales Parliament, Gilberts mother, Agnes Ann Murray, then, in 1877, Agnes emigrated with Gilbert to the UK, where she died in 1891. Murray was educated at Merchant Taylors School and St Johns College, in 1889–1899, Murray was Professor of Greek at the University of Glasgow. There was a break in his career from 1899 to 1905. After 1908 he was Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Oxford, from 1925–1926 Murray was the Charles Elliot Norton Lecturer at Harvard University. Murray is perhaps now best known for his translations of Greek drama. As a poet he was taken to be a follower of Swinburne. The staging of Athenian drama in English did have its own cultural impact and he had earlier experimented with his own prose dramas, without much success. Over time he worked through almost the entire canon of Athenian dramas, from Euripides, the Hippolytus and The Bacchae, the Medea, Trojan Women, and Electra, Iphigenia in Tauris, The Rhesus were presented at the Court Theatre, in London. In the United States Granville Barker and his wife Lillah McCarthy gave outdoor performances of The Trojan Women, the translation of Œdipus Rex was a commission from W. B. Until 1912 this could not have been staged for a British audience, a petition was taken to Herbert Gladstone, then Home Secretary, early in 1908. He was one of the associated with Jane Harrison in the myth-ritual school of mythography. He wrote an appendix on the Orphic tablets for her 1903 book Prolegomena, the ritual had its messenger, its recognition scene and its epiphany, various plot devices for representing the moment of perception which follows the pathos. Professor Murray, in a word, studies the art of tragedy in the light of ritual forms and he was a lifelong supporter of the Liberal Party, lining up on the Irish Home Rule and non-imperialist sides of the splits in the party of the late nineteenth century. He supported temperance, and married into a prominent Liberal, aristocratic and temperance family and he made a number of moves that might have taken him into parliamentary politics, initially by tentative thoughts about standing in elections during the 1890s. In 1901-2 he was in contact with the Independent Labour Party
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Boars Hill
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Boars Hill is a hamlet 3 miles southwest of Oxford, straddling the boundary between the civil parishes of Sunningwell and Wootton. Historically part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire, the earliest known record of Boars Hill is from the 12th century. The greater part of Boars Hill was historically a manor of the parish of Cumnor until the 19th century when the parish of Wootton was formed. Until the late 19th century the hill was almost bare and had fine views - northwards to the city of Oxford, southwards to the Downs, Boars Hill does not have its own Church of England parish church. As it straddles two parishes the respective parts of Boars Hill are served by St. Peters, Wootton and St. Leonards, St. Thomas More Roman Catholic chapel in Boars Hill is part of the Roman Catholic parish of North Hinksey. The first poet to leave a record of a visit to the hill was Arthur Hugh Clough, the famous phrase in the latter the dreaming spires encouraged people to visit the hill and settle there. Three prominent poets lived on the hill, the first being Margaret Louisa Woods in the 1880s and she was followed by Robert Bridges and John Masefield, successive Poets Laureate. Bridges daughter, the poet Elizabeth Daryush, continued to live on the hill until her death in 1977, Robert Bridges lived at Chilswell House, which was purchased circa 1963 by the Carmelite order for use as a priory and retreat. Other notable residents were the sculptor Oscar Nemon who fled from Nazi rule in Vienna in 1938 and his house, Youlbury, notable for its Minoan decoration, has since been burnt down. His family lived on at that address for around ten years before dispersing. Jonny Greenwood, of British band Radiohead, lives in Boars Hill, Arthur Evans had Jarn Mound built, built to create a viewpoint from which to see the famous vistas that had been hidden by development. The surrounding trees have continued to grow taller, and the views are again obscured, Evans left most of his estate to the Boy Scouts and Youlbury Camp is still available for their use. From 1933 to 1975 Boars Hill was the home of Ripon Hall, the site is now known as Foxcombe Hall, and is the regional headquarters of the Open University. From 1955 to the mid-1970s, Boars Hill was home to Plater College, the college attracted controversy due to alleged links to Oxford University and was eventually sued with the site repossessed. Soon after the squatters moved in and the site of the former Bishops palace. Yatscombe Hall was destroyed by fire in December 2003 and all the buildings on the site were demolished, however eventually a development of a four large country homes was built on the site by Millgate Homes. Boars Hill is twice mentioned in the 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, first, Cousin Jasper advises the young Charles Ryder upon his coming up to Oxford to. Keep clear of Boars Hill. In contrast, Sebastian Flyte describes a student at Oxford as one who smokes a great pipe and plays hockey and goes out to tea on Boars Hill
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St Hugh's College, Oxford
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St Hughs College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford. It is located on a 14. 5-acre site on St Margarets Road and it was founded in 1886 by Elizabeth Wordsworth as a womens college, and accepted its first male students in its centenary year in 1986. It enjoys a reputation as one of the most attractive colleges because of its extensive, in its 125th anniversary year, the college became a registered charity under the name The Principal and Fellows of St Hughs College in the University of Oxford. As of July 2013, the financial endowment was £25.7 million. St Hughs was founded in 1886 by Elizabeth Wordsworth to help the number of women who find the charges of the present Halls at Oxford. Using money left to her by her father, who had been Bishop of Lincoln and she named the college after one of her fathers 13th-century predecessors, Hugh of Avalon, who was canonised in 1220, and in whose diocese Oxford had been. The college was initially accommodated in properties in Norham Road, Norham Gardens and its first six students were Annie Moberly, Jessie Annie Emmerson, Charlotte Jourdain, Constance E. Ashburner, Wilhemina J. de Lorna Mitchell and Grace J. Parsons. Students were required to ask the Principal before accepting invitations to friends. Records show that rent was between £18 and £21 a term depending on the size of the room, with fires being charged extra. The college began to move to its present site in 1913 and this house was situated on the corner of St Margarets Road and Banbury Road, and was owned by University College. The first book was a copy of Sales Koran, which was given to the college by the then Bishop of Tokyo, the college soon took over other properties nearby. The leasehold of No.4 St Margarets Road was acquired in 1919, the leasehold of No.82 Woodstock Road was donated to the college by Dr Joan Evans in 1924 and No.89 Banbury Road was purchased from Lincoln College for £7,000 in 1927. The college obtained the freehold to the site in 1927. The freeholds of Nos. 1-4 St Margarets Road and 74-82 Woodstock Road were purchased from St Johns College in 1931 and 1932 respectively, the college received a Royal Charter in 1926. Between 1935 and 1936 No.1 St Margarets Road was demolished, brick huts were constructed in the college grounds with space for 300 beds. Between 1940 and 1945, over 13,000 servicemen and women were treated at the college, advances in medicine discovered at the hospital meant the mortality rate for brain-penetrating injuries fell from 90% to 9%. Staff and students were relocated to Holywell Manor, Savile House, in 1943 the college acquired the leasehold of No 72 Woodstock Road from Dame Gertrude Whitehead for £1,500. It was used as a club for American soldiers during the war, in 1946, it was leased to the University of Paris as Maison Française, an Anglo-American educational establishment
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Royal Academy of Arts
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The Royal Academy of Arts is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London. The Royal Academy of Arts was founded through an act of King George III on 10 December 1768 with a mission to promote the arts of design in Britain through education and exhibition. Supporters wanted to foster a national school of art and to encourage appreciation, fashionable taste in 18th-century Britain was based on continental and traditional art forms, providing contemporary British artists little opportunity to sell their works. From 1746 the Foundling Hospital, through the efforts of William Hogarth, the success of this venture led to the formation of the Society of Artists of Great Britain and the Free Society of Artists. Both these groups were primarily exhibiting societies, their success was marred by internal factions among the artists. The combined vision of education and exhibition to establish a school of art set the Royal Academy apart from the other exhibiting societies. It provided the foundation upon which the Royal Academy came to dominate the art scene of the 18th and 19th centuries, supplanting the earlier art societies. Sir William Chambers, a prominent architect, used his connections with George III to gain royal patronage and financial support of the Academy, the painter Joshua Reynolds was made its first president. Francis Milner Newton was elected the first secretary, a post he held for two decades until his resignation in 1788, the instrument of foundation, signed by George III on 10 December 1768, named 34 founder members and allowed for a total membership of 40. William Hoare and Johann Zoffany were added to this list later by the King and are known as nominated members, among the founder members were two women, a father and daughter, and two sets of brothers. The Royal Academy was initially housed in cramped quarters in Pall Mall, although in 1771 it was given temporary accommodation for its library and schools in Old Somerset House, then a royal palace. In 1780 it was installed in purpose-built apartments in the first completed wing of New Somerset House, located in the Strand and designed by Chambers, the Academy moved in 1837 to Trafalgar Square, where it occupied the east wing of the recently completed National Gallery. These premises soon proved too small to house both institutions, in 1868,100 years after the Academys foundation, it moved to Burlington House, Piccadilly, where it remains. Burlington House is owned by the British Government, and used rent-free by the Royal Academy, the first Royal Academy exhibition of contemporary art, open to all artists, opened on 25 April 1769 and ran until 27 May 1769. 136 works of art were shown and this exhibition, now known as the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, has been staged annually without interruption to the present day. In 1870 the Academy expanded its programme to include a temporary annual loan exhibition of Old Masters. The range and frequency of these exhibitions have grown enormously since that time. Britains first public lectures on art were staged by the Royal Academy, led by Reynolds, the first president, a program included lectures by Dr. William Hunter, John Flaxman, James Barry, Sir John Soane, and J. M. W. Turner
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Winsor and Newton
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The company was founded in 1832 by William Winsor and Henry Newton. The firm was located at Henry Newtons home in 38 Rathbone Place. This was then part of a quarter in which a number of eminent painters, including Constable, had studios. The standards of quality for W&Ns most renowned line of kolinsky sable brush, a few months before his death, Henry Newton sold the business to the newly incorporated firm of Winsor & Newton Ltd. which included members of both families amongst the shareholders. In 1937, W&N introduced its gouache paints, the company moved to Wealdstone in northwest London in 1937. After World War II, W&N opened a factory in Lowestoft. In 1970, the company introduced its first range of acrylics, later, in 1992, a series of oil bars were launched. The Winsor & Newton student range of watercolours was named after John Sell Cotman, the painting habits of the suspects, including which kind of paint is used by each, turn out to provide crucial clues that eventually lead Lord Peter Wimsey to the real culprit. In Michel Bussis 2011 detective novel Black Waterlilies set in Giverny, Winsor and Newton is frequently referenced, although it is imagined to be an American, rather than a British, company. Karlheinz Stockhausen and his studio assistants read product names from the Winsor & Newton catalogue aloud in his electronic composition Hymnen
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Robert Newton
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Robert Newton was an English stage and film actor. Along with Errol Flynn, Newton was one of the most popular actors among the juvenile audience of the 1940s and early 1950s. Known for his hard drinking lifestyle, he was cited as a model by the actor Oliver Reed. He would continue to portray Blackbeard in 1952 and Long John Silver again in the 1954 film of the same name, hailing from Dorset in the West Country of southern England, his exaggeration of his West Country accent is credited with popularising the stereotypical pirate voice. Newton has become the saint of the annual International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Robert Guy Newton was born in Shaftesbury, Dorset, a son of the landscape painter Algernon Newton and he was educated in Lamorna near Penzance, Cornwall, then at Exeter School and St Bartholomews School in Newbury, Berkshire. His acting career began at the age of 16 at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1921 and he followed this by performing in plays in the West End of London. He also appeared in Private Lives on Broadway, taking over the role from his friend Laurence Olivier, from 1932 to 1934, he was the manager of the Shilling Theatre in Fulham, London. In 1939, he played Horatio to Laurence Oliviers Hamlet at the Old Vic, in a production also included Alec Guinness. During the war he starred in the West End in No Orchids for Miss Blandish and his final performance on stage was in the 1950 production of Gaslight with Rosamund John at the Vaudeville Theatre. During World War II, Newton served in the Royal Navy on board HMS Britomart and he also starred in a number of notable films. There were also roles that displayed his versatility, in Alfred Hitchcocks film Jamaica Inn, he played a virtuous law officer. Newton appeared in roles in two films based on the novella The Vessel of Wrath by W. Somerset Maugham. He played the Dutch contrôleur in the 1938 version, and the role of Edward Ginger Ted Wilson in The Beachcomber. He starred as the Scottish hatter, James Brodie, in Hatters Castle and he also played Ancient Pistol in Laurence Oliviers 1944 film of Henry V and Lukey in Carol Reeds Odd Man Out, this performance was later immortalised in Harold Pinters play Old Times. A good example of Newton playing a lead role is Noël Cowards This Happy Breed directed by David Lean in 1944. He again played Long John Silver in a 1954 Australian-made film and it was shot at Pagewood Studios, Sydney and directed by Byron Haskin, who had directed Treasure Island. The company went on to make a 26-episode 1955 TV series, The Adventures of Long John Silver, while filming in Australia in 1954, Newton was declared bankrupt with debts in the UK of £47,000
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Mark Jones (museum director)
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Sir Mark Ellis Powell Jones FSA FRSE is a British art historian, numismatist and museum director. He was Master of St Cross College, Oxford from 2011-2016, previously, from 2001 to 2011, he was director of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Jones was born on 5 February 1951 and he is the son of writer and historian, Ann Paludan. He was educated at Eton College, a public school in Eton. He studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Worcester College, Oxford and he then undertook postgraduate studies in art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art, graduating with a Master of Arts degree. Jones spent 18 years in the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum, in 1992 he was appointed director of the National Museums of Scotland, and here he gained a high reputation. He oversaw the creation in 1998 of the Museum of Scotland, which went on to win 22 prizes for its displays, in May 2001, Jones became Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum. On his first day as director, he announced the scrapping of entry charges to the museum, under his directorship a number of renewal projects have been completed, including the Medieval and Renaissance galleries which opened in 2009. On 18 November 2010, it was announced that Jones had been elected as the next Master of St Cross College, Oxford and he retired from the post in September 2016, and was succeeded by Carole Souter. He is married to Dr Camilla Toulmin, the director of the International Institute for Environment and Development. They have three children and Jones has a daughter from a previous marriage, fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, appointed a Knight Bachelor for services to the Arts
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St Cross College, Oxford
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St Cross College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. It is a college with traditional-style buildings on a central site in St Giles. It aims to match the structure, life and support of undergraduate colleges, founded in 1965, the college is the fourth youngest of Oxfords 38 colleges. In September 2016, she succeeded Sir Mark Jones, who had been Master of St Cross since 2011, St Cross College was formally set up as a society by the University on 5 October 1965, it was to admit its first graduate students in the following year. The early location of St Cross was on a site in St Cross Road, the college was named for its proximity to these places. In 1976 negotiations began between the college and the members of Pusey House over the possibility of moving the college to the St Giles site. The negotiations were successful, and in 1981 the college moved from St Cross Road into a site owned by Pusey House for a period of 999-years. The site now houses two residential buildings, which were opened in 1996, unlike every other college head, the Master of St Cross is appointed not by the colleges governing body but by the University Council. Therefore, the election has only the character of a recommendation to Council, the college is located on St Giles near to the Ashmolean Museum, and immediately north of Blackfriars. It is also within metres of the Classics faculty and the Oriental Institute, regents Park College, one of Oxfords Permanent Private Halls, is also nearby. The Pusey House buildings date from the period of 1884 to 1926 and are mainly the work of the architects Temple and Leslie Moore, discreet internal alterations were made when St Cross moved in by Geoffrey Beard and the Oxford Architects Partnership. Among these was the conversion of a cloister and store rooms into the Saugman Hall named after Per Saugman, a former Director of Blackwell Scientific Publications, most students, however, refer to the Richard Blackwell Quadrangle by its nickname, the Quad. Behind the main buildings to the west, and through the four colleges arch and it should be noted that Four Colleges Arch is referred to by most students as that arch. This has offered the college the possibility of expanding its buildings, work has so far been completed on one new wing, containing a hall and kitchen, with bar, function room and games room below, and study bedrooms above. The final sections of the quadrangle, otherwise known as the West Quad, were set to be completed in time for the colleges semicentennial in 2015. However, planning permission for the new building was rejected, as it required the demolition of a boundary wall. Planning permission was subsequently granted following an appeal, and the West Quad is now due to be completed in October 2016, the new West Quad will include 50 new student bedrooms, a new lecture theatre, a library with a garden room, and several new seminar rooms. St Cross has just under 500 graduate students at any one time, there is a strong emphasis on international diversity, with 70% of the students coming from outside the UK
