Professor Hugh Walker Papers 1903-1934

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Professor Hugh Walker Papers 1903-1934

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St David's College was founded by Bishop Thomas Burgess in 1822, and admitted its first students on March 1st 1827. It has the distinction of being the oldest university institution in England and Wales after Oxford and Cambridge. In 1971 the College became a full member of the University of Wales, and was thereafter known as St. David's University College. This title of the institution was again changed in 1996 when it was re-named the University of Wales, Lampeter, (in order that it should be ...

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Walker, Hugh, 1855-1939

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Walker, Hugh, 1910-

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Hugh Walker was born in Kilbirnie, Scotland, on January 7th 1855. Educated at Glasgow High School, he went on to study at the city's university, where he was awarded their medal in logic and moral philosophy, and achieved his MA. Walker then went on to study at Balliol College, Oxford, as Snell Exhibitioner, graduating with first class honours in Literary Humanities in 1883. He would go on to receive and Honorary LLD from Glasgow and an Honorary DLitt from the University of Wales. ...