James Bellamy (British academic)

James Bellamy (1819–1909) was a British academic and administrator at the University of Oxford.^[1]

Bellamy was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and St John's College, Oxford, where he graduated BA in 1841 and MA in 1845. He was ordained in 1843 and was awarded a Bachelor of Divinity in 1850 followed by a Doctor of Divinity in 1872. He was President of St John's College from 1871 to 1909.

At Oxford University, Bellamy was a member of the University Commission from 1877 to 1879 and Vice-Chancellor from 1886 to 1890. He was also a conservative and musician.

See also

• List of Vanity Fair (British magazine) caricatures

References

Further reading

• Hutton, W. H.; Curthoys, M. C. "Bellamy, James (1819–1909)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30695. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
• Hutton, William Holden (1912). "Bellamy, James" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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