| Biographical Notes | Educated at New College, Oxford. Became college head at St. Edmund's Hall, Oxford, in 1676. Under his leadership the college attempted to attract sons of the gentry. This forms the context for his first work 'The Guardian's Instruction' (1688), which argued for the value of University education for sons of the gentry. His later 'New Instructions to the Guardian' (1694), expanded on this theme and urged that the professions of law, medicine, and divinity were not beneath gentlemen. See ODNB. |
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