Francis Wylie

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Sir Francis James Wylie (18 October 1865 – 29 October 1952) was a British university academic and administrator. He was the first Warden of Rhodes House at the University of Oxford, England.[1][2]

Francis Wylie was educated at

Literae Humaniores in 1888.[2] He became a lecturer at Balliol College in 1891 and a Fellow of Brasenose College in 1892.[3] His research was in the area of English literature. He was coauthor of the book, The Poetry of Matthew Arnold
; A Commentary.

Wylie was supervisor of the

Rhodes Trust scheme at the University of Oxford and became Warden of Rhodes House in Oxford from 1903 to 1931.[4]
He presented
Museum of the History of Science in Oxford (saved by University dons on 16 May 1931) after Albert Einstein's series of three lectures at Rhodes House that year.[5][6]

He was knighted in 1929 and became an Honorary Fellow of Brasenose College in 1931.[2] In 1933, Wylie received an honorary degree from Bowdoin College in the USA.[3]

Wylie's fourth son, born in Oxford, was Shaun Wylie (1913–2009), a mathematician who worked at Bletchley Park during World War II.[7]

A portrait of Sir Francis Wylie hangs in Rhodes House, Oxford, and there are images of him held by the National Portrait Gallery, London.[8][9]

References

  1. National Register of Archives
    , UK.
  2. ^
    doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37048. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  3. ^ a b Frances Amicia de Biden Footner, Portrait of Sir Francis James Wylie, Art of the Print.
  4. ^ History Archived 16 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Rhodes House Trust, Oxford, UK.
  5. Museum of the History of Science
    , Oxford, UK.
  6. ^ Einstein' s Blackboard, Flickr.
  7. ^ Deaths Archived 21 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine, Rhodes House Trust, Oxford, UK.
  8. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37048. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  9. ^ "Person - National Portrait Gallery". Retrieved 8 February 2017.
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