Word: stallybrass
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...appointment came as a surprise to Oxonians, probably including John Lowe himself. When Vice Chancellor W.T.S. Stallybrass was killed in an accident a fortnight, ago (he was the first ever to die in office), his job should normally have gone to the next senior college head-Dr. John R. H. Weaver, president of Trinity. Dr. Weaver declined the appointment for reasons of health. Next in line: Dr. Cecil Maurice Bowra, warden of Wadham, who was at Harvard as a visiting professor and did not want to interrupt his visit to return to England. So the appointment fell to Lowe...
Died. Dr. William Teulon Swan ("Sonners") Stallybrass, 64, Vice Chancellor of Oxford University,* longtime Principal of Oxford's Brasenose College; in an accident when he stepped out of a moving train (he was almost blind); near Iver Station, Buckinghamshire, England...
...young London barrister had no intention of switching careers when he went back to Oxford, that day in 1912, to visit his old tutor. But the fellows of Brasenose College asked him to lunch. "It was a marvelous lunch," W.T.S. Stallybrass remembers, "with Château Yquem and green Chartreuse." When it was over, the fellows asked him to stay and join them. He said yes-if he could always dine that well...
...Stallybrass is unfailingly cordial to undergraduates when they first "come up," unfailingly remote for some time after. Yet he often stays up late at night, writing letters that follow his favorites-to imperial outposts, to careers in politics and science. When they come back for a visit, he insists on snapping their pictures and putting the pictures in his already cluttered study. His dinners, embellished with gleaming silver from three huge chests and the best of wines, are famous. Over such a dinner, paunchy W.T.S. Stallybrass, with a puff on his filter-tip cigaret, likes to repeat the words...
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