3-070-766 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late Dr. R. Bullock-Marsham, Warden of Merton College, Oxford, 1881. The only one among the Heads of Colleges at Oxford who was not a clergyman, but the oldest of them all, was Dr. Robert Bullock-Marsham...He was educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he took his Bachelor's degree in 1807. In 1811 he was elected to a Fellowship at Merton College. In 1826 he was chosen to fill the Wardenship - a post to which, even half a century ago. laymen were eligible. He was the senior head of a house at Oxford...Dr. Marsham was a magistrate and Deputy Lieutenant for Oxfordshire. He was called to the Bar, and became a Recorder of Rochester, and was at one time one of the Charity Commissioners...He took but little part in the affairs of the University, never won any great honours in learning, and may be regarded as the type of the country gentleman Head of a House. In 1854 he was put up by the Conservative party...to contest Mr. Gladstone's seat, but was unsuccessful. He continued to assist in college business till the last University term'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.