Academic records of Keble College, Oxford 1873-1995

Keble College Archives

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Hayes, Paul

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Keble College (Oxford)

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Keble College, Oxford, England

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John Keble, author of The Christian Year and preacher of the "National Apostasy" sermon that in Newman's view began the Oxford Movement, died on 29 March 1866. As soon as his funeral was over, a group of his friends met at Hursley Park, the home of Sir William Heathcote, to discuss a memorial: the founding of a new Oxford college to bear his name. The idea for a new college had first been mooted some twenty years previously, but Keble's death provided an opportunity to develop the project. Unive...