Benjamin Parsons Symons
Benjamin Parsons Symons (28 January 1785 – 12 April 1878) was an academic administrator at the University of Oxford in England.
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Life
Benjamin Symons was born in
MA degree
on 7 July 1810.
Symons was elected a Probationer Fellow at Wadham College on 30 June 1811 and was admitted as a
Oxford University from 1844 to 1848.[4] He resigned the wardenship on 18 October 1871, but continued to reside in Oxford
until his death in 1878.
Symons did not follow the
high-church Anglican Oxford Movement prevalent at Oxford, and was regarded as the leader of the evangelical wing in later life.[1] He changed the time of dinner at Wadham to inconvenience any students wishing to attend Newman's sermons.[5]
He was buried in the ante-chapel at Wadham College and bequeathed £1,000 to the College to establish an exhibition. His portrait was hung in the College hall.
References
- ^ a b Carlyle, Edward Irving (1898). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 55. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ "The Sherborne Register 1550-1950" (PDF). Old Shirbirnian Society. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
- ^ "Wardens of Wadham". Wadham College, Oxford, UK. Archived from the original on 19 April 2015. Retrieved 13 July 2011.
- ^ "Previous Vice-Chancellors". University of Oxford, UK. Retrieved 13 July 2011.
- ISBN 0304322199.
Further reading
- Davies, C.S.L. "Symons, Benjamin Parsons (1785–1878)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/26895. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- Gardiner's Registers of Wadham, ii. 224.
- Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- Ward's Men of the Reign, p. 867.
- The Times, 13 April 1878.
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