PEEL

(Sir Robert, 1788-1850, Prime Minister)

Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent,

thanking him for sending me the inclosed letter and obliged also to the Dean of Wells for his kind consideration of my wishes. I rejoice that there is a strict rule as to preliminary examination of Candidates for admission and should be the best person to wish for a partial application of in any case whatever... with a long postscript that he has earnestly entreated Arthur to prepare himself with the utmost diligence for his Oxford Examination. You probably will have the goodness to direct him as to the particular subjects to which he should apply himself..., 4 sides 8vo, Whitehall, 8th February no year circa

Item Date: 1844

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He is referring to his son Arthur PEEL (1829-1912), later 1st Viscount Peel and Speaker of the House of Commons. It is possible that he is writing to the Master of Balliol as he is talking about how best his son can prepare himself and position himself to get into Balliol but it could just be that he is referring to his correspondence with the Dean of Wells. Arthur did get into Balliol and matriculated on April 6th 1848, at the age of 18. At the time of this letter Arthur would still have been a student at Eton, but was gearing up for Oxford. At this time, the middle of the nineteenth century, Balliol was rising up, under the mastership of Richard Jenkyns and later under that of Benjamin Jowett, to be the top college at the University of Oxford. Jenkyns was appointed to be Dean of Wells by Peel in 1845, when he was Prime Minister.

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