| Evidence: | John Wilson Croker to his wife, whilst in Oxford for the installation of the Duke of Wellington as Chancellor of the University, 12 June 1834:
'The dinner at Christ Church was very fine [...] we dined at five, and got away by daylight [...] The Master and his wife had dined at Brasenose, and did not come back till I had come to Ned [Edward Giffard]'s rat-hole, where I read till eleven o'clock, and then went to bed.' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 12 Jun 1834 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | evening | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Oxford county: Oxfordshire specific address: Pembroke College |
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| Reader: | John Wilson Croker |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1780 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Politician |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | Ireland |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | |
| Title: | n/a |
| Genre: | Unknown |
| Form of Text: | Print: Unknown |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 24444 | |
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| Author: | n/a | |
| Editor: | Louis J. Jennings | |
| Title: | The Croker Papers. The Correspondence and Diaries of the Late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker, LL.D., F.R.S, Secretary to the Admiralty from 1809 to 1830. | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1884 | |
| Vol: | 2 | |
| Page: | 229 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Louis J. Jennings (ed.), The Croker Papers. The Correspondence and Diaries of the Late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker, LL.D., F.R.S, Secretary to the Admiralty from 1809 to 1830. (London, 1884), 2, p. 229, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=24444, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
| Edward Giffard had recently entered Pembroke College; see note on p.225 in source. |
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