Identifier: trinitycollege18blak (find matches)
Title: Trinity college
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Blakiston, Herbert Edward Douglas,1862-1942
Subjects: University of Oxford. Trinity College
Publisher: London : F.E. Robinson
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ege can elect to some sort of fellowship, if it has thewherewithal, any male person possessing any qualifica-tions which can be described as academic. It is to befeared that, for the fellows, the permission of marriageand the abolition of the life tenure will tend not only tobreak up the old sociability of life in College, but alsoto diminish the sense of corporate existence, which hasbeen so strong a bond of union in the past. The NewStatutes leave a restricted Visitatorial power to theBishops of Winchester; at this moment it is for thesecond time in the hands of an old Trinity man,Randall Thos. Davidson, D.D. (Com. 1867), succes-sively Dean of Windsor and Bishop of Rochester and ofWinchester, who was succeeded at Windsor^ by anotherTrinity man, Philip Frank Eliot, D.D. (Com. 1853), ^ Trinity thus possesses simultaneously the three clerical officers ofthe Order of the Garter, viz., the Bishop of Winchester, Prelate, theBishop of Oxford, Chancellor, and the Dean of Windsor, Registrar.
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NINETEENTH CENTURY 237 while his elevation to the See of Winchester involvedthe promotion of Edgar Charles Sumner Gibson, D.D.(Com. 1867), to the vicarage of Leeds, and the Rev.Hugh Penton Currie (Com. 1873), to the principalshipof the Theological College at Wells. Mr. Wayte was succeeded as President by the Rev.John Percival, M.A., formerly Fellow of Queens, head-master of Clifton College 1862-78. In 1887 Mr.Percival, who had been appointed to a canonry ofBristol in 1882, resigned the presidency on acceptingthe head-mastership of Rugby School. On 25 March1895, he was consecrated Bishop of Hereford,^ andreceived the degi-ee of D.D. by diploma; in 1891 hewas elected Honorary Fellow of Trinity. His portraitwill shortly be placed in the College hall by the gift ofhis successor, the Rev. Henry George Woods, M.A.(Fell. 1865-79, re-elected 1883, tutor 1869-80, bursar1869-87, Hon. Fell. 1898), who took the degree ofD.D. in 1892, and discharged many important functionsin the University, espec

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