1Oxford University: Record of Degree of Doctor of Civil Law, 30 April 1762 (Franklin Papers)
Register of Convocation, University Archives: Oxford UniversityThe “Heads of Houses” at Oxford University had voted, Feb. 22, 1762, to confer on Franklin the honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law “whenever He shall please to visit the University.” Above, p. 59. The ceremony took place at a special...
2Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 31 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Oxford University [index entry] schools and colleges; Oxford University [index entry]
3William Thornton to Thomas Jefferson, 9 January 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Oxford University
4Thomas Cooper to Thomas Jefferson, 15 September 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Queen’s College, Oxford University were a part of the “succession of exercises for the Bachelor’s degree” at Oxford University, at which
5Thomas Cooper to Thomas Jefferson, 6 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Oxford University [index entry] schools and colleges; Oxford University [index entry]
6Thomas Cooper to Thomas Jefferson, 11 April 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Oxford, University of [index entry] schools and colleges; Oxford University [index entry]
7John Wood to Thomas Jefferson, 23 July 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Oxford University [index entry] schools and colleges; Oxford University [index entry]
8Thomas Cooper to Thomas Jefferson, 19 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Oxford University [index entry] schools and colleges; Oxford University [index entry]
9To Thomas Jefferson from John Guillemard, 18 July 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
...in Philadelphia early in 1795 and subsequently accompanied him on his journeys in Canada and the United States. The recipient of B.A. and M.A. degrees from St. John’s College of Oxford University, Guillemard in July 1797 was elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society. In Philadelphia from 1797 to 1799 he served as the final member, chosen by lot, of the five-person...
10To Benjamin Franklin from Conte Giovanni Baptista Carburi, 27 March 1765 (Franklin Papers)
George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough (1739–1817), succeeded to the title in 1758. In the Grenville ministry he was lord privy seal, April 1763 to July 1765. Oxford University conferred the degree of D.C.L. on him in 1763 and he became high steward in 1779. Among his gifts to the university was a large telescope, but what interest he may have had in electricity is...
11To George Washington from William Rowley, 19 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
William Rowley (1742-1806) served as a British army surgeon from 1760 to 1765 before entering private practice in 1766. Licensed by the London College of Physicians in 1784, he took degrees at Oxford University in 1784, 1787, and 1788. He was a prolific writer on a variety of medical subjects.
12Thomas Jefferson to George W. Erving, 23 November 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
educated at Oxford University in
13To James Madison from John Graham, 10 September 1810 (Madison Papers)
...the summer of 1810 William Pinkney was frequently attacked in press accounts of his conduct as minister to Great Britain. Among the episodes receiving the most unfavorable notice were the award of a doctorate of civil laws to Pinkney from Oxford University, a version of an address to the Society for the Relief of Foreigners in London in which
14From George Washington to Brigadier General William Woodford, 13 October 1777 (Washington Papers)
, in Tench Tilghman’s writing, New College, Oxford University, England.
“⅌ Capt. Wilder” is written on the cover.
15To George Washington from Brigadier General Christopher Gadsden, 4 July 1777 (Washington Papers)
..., the date that Edward Rutledge wrote a letter of introduction for Horry to GW. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1745–1825) was a successful Charleston, S.C., attorney who had studied law at Oxford University in the 1760s. Pinckney served in the South Carolina provincial assembly in 1769, in the South Carolina provincial congress in 1775, and on the South Carolina council of safety in 1776. In...
16To Benjamin Franklin from David Hartley, 11 October 1783 (Franklin Papers)
1729–1787), D.D. Oxford University (1764), was a chaplain to George III from 1777 until his death: Joseph Foster,
17From James Madison to John Henry Purviance, 24 December 1804 (Madison Papers)
Sir Leoline Jenkins (ca. 1623–1685) was a professor of civil law at Oxford University, a British diplomat who had also served as a member of Parliament and Admiralty Court judge, and secretary of state under Charles II. JM may have had in mind William Wynne’s
18From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 10 June 1783 (Madison Papers)
David Hartley (1732–1813), graduate of Oxford University (1750), member of the House of Commons (1774–1780, 1782–1784), and close friend of Franklin, was a Rockingham Whig who had supported the American cause and endeavored to abolish the slave trade. He wrote...
19To George Washington from Timothy Pickering, 15 October 1796 (Washington Papers)
John Nicholl (1759–1838) attended Oxford University, where he received
20Thomas Cooper to Thomas Jefferson, 10 May 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
who left Oxford University without a degree because of his dissenting religious views. Along with his friend and mentor
21To John Adams from John Brown Cutting, 12 July 1788 (Adams Papers)
...regulate the slave trade. On 9 May William Pitt introduced a resolution in the House of Commons to delay consideration until the next session. Sir William Dolben (1727–1814), M.P. for Oxford University, responded by denouncing the “crying-evil” of the slave trade and the horrors of the Middle Passage. Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn (ca. 1737–1808), a representative from Liverpool, where...
22To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Elwyn, 22 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Thomas Langdon Elwyn (ca. 1776-1816) was born in Canterbury, England, and in 1794 graduated from Oxford University. Elwyn emigrated to the United States in 1795, and later married Elizabeth Langdon, the only daughter of New Hampshire statesman John Langdon. Both Elwyn and his wife were members of the New Hampshire Bible Society. In 1814,...
23To James Madison from Samuel Peters, 2 May 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
Esqr. who has been educated in the College of Artois in France, then 4 years at oxford university, then 4 years at the Temple in London & there was made a Barrester of Law and became a Special Pleader. I wish that his own Works & Abilities recommend him.
24To George Washington from Major General William Heath, 11 December 1776 (Washington Papers)
, and throughout the war years he wrote numerous articles and letters championing the royal cause in Loyalist newspapers. Oxford University conferred a doctorate of divinity on Inglis in 1778. Inglis left New York at the end of the war, and in 1787 he became bishop of Nova Scotia.
25Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Abstract of Marriage Settlement of John Paradise and Lucy Ludwell Paradise, [after 10 May … (Jefferson Papers)
Oxford University
26To Benjamin Franklin from Samuel Fayerweather, 5 December 1768 (Franklin Papers)
Winthrop’s second marriage was to Fayerweather’s sister. One of the criticisms of the Church of England was “that little Sam Fayerweather who had been buried under the honors piled on him by Oxford University was a brother-in-law of Professor John Winthrop, … one of the greatest of living Americans, who was refused an honorary degree by the same institution because he was a Congregationalist.”
27John Guillemard to Thomas Jefferson, 28 October 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Saint John’s College, Oxford University
28Thomas Jefferson’s Deposition in Fry v. Bell, 9 March 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Oxford University
29To James Madison from William Pinkney, 17 December 1810 (Madison Papers)
William Scott (1745–1836) had lengthy careers in both politics and law. He first entered Parliament in 1790 where he held the seat for Oxford University until 1821. His true interests, however, were in admiralty and ecclesiastical law. In 1798 he was appointed to the Privy Council and to the judiciary of the High Court of Admiralty. In the latter capacity he delivered...
30George Ticknor to Thomas Jefferson, 10 February 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Oxford, University of [index entry]
31To James Madison from William Thornton, 1 March 1824 (Madison Papers)
(Tony Rail, “Biographical Notes for William Steill Brown … and Some Biographical Notes for John Finch,” n.d., Harris Manchester College Library and Archives, Mss, Oxford University, 16–19).
32To James Madison from George W. Featherstonhaugh, 28 February 1828 (Madison Papers)
William Buckland (1784–1856), a graduate and later fellow of Oxford University, became professor of mineralogy there in 1813. A leading geologist, Buckland twice served as president of the London Geological Society, was a member of the Royal Society, and in 1832 acted as president of the British Association...
33To George Washington from the Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of the New-York Line, 30 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), 77–161.
34To James Madison from Edmund Pendleton, 21 July 1783 (Madison Papers)
...are much indebted to the courtesy and perseverance of Atcheson L. Hench, Professor Emeritus, University of Virginia. Following much unrewarding correspondence, he was supplied with the elusive reference by a “‘learned friend’ of a man in Oxford” University (Letters of Atcheson L. Hench, 9 Apr., 10 Apr. 1970).
35Note of Agenda to Reduce the Government to True Principles, [ca. 11 July 1792] (Jefferson Papers)
in the words “committee” and “manufactures”—have been silently corrected in the decipherment. The Editors also wish to thank Robert C. Latham of Magdalene College, Cambridge University, and Frances Macdonald of New College, Oxford University, for assistance with Shelton’s shorthand system.
36Thomas Jefferson to James Breckinridge, 9 April 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Oxford, University of [index entry]
37James Jones Wilmer to Thomas Jefferson, 10 [July] 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
and Oxford University. In 1773 Wilmer was
38From Benjamin Franklin to the Printer of The London Chronicle, 9 May 1759 (Franklin Papers)
...(1573–1645), dean of Gloucester, 1616–21; bishop of St. David’s, 1621–26; bishop of Bath and Wells, 1626–28; bishop of London, 1628–33; archbishop of Canterbury, 1633–45; chancellor of Oxford University, 1629–41.
39To James Madison from Jeremy Bentham, 30 October 1811 (Madison Papers)
Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), a graduate of Oxford University, had read law at Lincoln’s Inn. He did not practice his profession, but by virtue of his application of the principles of utilitarianism, he became both a celebrated jurisconsult and a leading exponent of the ideas of...
40An Examination of the British Doctrine, Which Subjects to Capture a Neutral Trade, Not Open in Time of Peace, [ante–8 … (Madison Papers)
Alberico Gentili (1552–1608), also known as Albericus Gentilis, was a native of Italy who lived in England, taught at Oxford University, and wrote on international law and political theory (Thomas Erskine Holland,