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Balliol College, Oxford University is in Oxford University.
Around 1436 Cardinal John Morton (age 16) educated at Balliol College, Oxford University.
Around 1505 Dean Hugh Weston was born at Burton-Overy, Leicestershire. He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford University then Lincoln College, Oxford University.
In 1592 Thomas Coventry 1st Baron Coventry (age 14) was educated at Balliol College, Oxford University.
In November 1594 George Gresley 1st Baronet (age 14) matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford University.
On 6th May 1603 Thomas Burdett 1st Baronet (age 17) matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford University.
On 8th July 1603 John Oglander (age 18) matriculated Balliol College, Oxford University.
John Evelyn's Diary. 10th May 1637. I was admitted a Fellow-commoner of Baliol College, Oxford; and, on the 29th, I was matriculated in the vestry of St. Mary's, where I subscribed the Articles, and took the oaths: Dr. Baily, head of St. John's, being vice-chancellor, afterward bishop. It appears by a letter of my father's (age 50), that he was upon treaty with one Mr. Bathurst (age 17) (afterward Doctor and President), of Trinity College, who should have been my tutor; but, lest my brother's tutor, Dr. Hobbs, more zealous in his life than industrious to his pupils, should receive it as an affront, and especially for that Fellow-commoners in Baliol were no more exempt from exercise than the meanest scholars there, my father sent me thither to one Mr. George Bradshaw (nomen invisum! yet the son of an excellent father, beneficed in Surrey). I ever thought my tutor had parts enough; but as his ambition made him much suspected of the College, so his grudge to Dr. Lawrence, the governor of it (whom he afterward supplanted), took up so much of his time, that he seldom or never had the opportunity to discharge his duty to his scholars. This I perceiving, associated myself with one Mr. James Thicknesse (then a young man of the foundation, afterward a Fellow of the house), by whose learned and friendly conversation I received great advantage. At my first arrival, Dr. Parkhurst was master: and after his decease, Dr. Lawrence, a chaplain of his Majesty's and Margaret Professor, succeeded, an acute and learned person; nor do I much reproach his severity, considering that the extraordinary remissness of discipline had (till his coming) much detracted from the reputation of that College.
On 19th January 1690 Halsewell Tynte (age 16) matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford University.
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The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, a canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: "In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed." Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
On 19th January 1690 Halsewell Tynte (age 16) matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford University.
On 25th February 1699 John Evelyn 1st Baronet (age 16) matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford University.
On 7th May 1716 Thomas Gresley 4th Baronet (age 17) matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford University.
On 28th February 1724 Walter Calverley aka Blackett 2nd Baronet (age 16) entered Balliol College, Oxford University.
On 13th November 1727 Charles Mordaunt 4th Earl Peterborough 2nd Earl Monmouth (age 19) was educated at Balliol College, Oxford University.
Around 1729 Henry Bathurst 2nd Earl Bathurst (age 14) educated at Balliol College, Oxford University.
On 24th August 1731 William Godolphin (age 31) died at Balliol College, Oxford University.
On 25th October 1738 John Buller (age 17) matriculated Balliol College, Oxford University.
On 24th May 1739 Thomas Gresley 5th Baronet (age 16) matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford University.
Around 1904 Hastings William Russell 12th Duke Bedford (age 15) graduated at Balliol College, Oxford University.
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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
George William Beaumont Howard 13th Earl Carlisle educated at Balliol College, Oxford University.
Charles James Stanley Howard 10th Earl Carlisle educated at Balliol College, Oxford University.
Archbishop George Neville educated at Balliol College, Oxford University.