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Arthur Augustus Tilley

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765: 70: 54: 576:(Longmans, Green, 1943), p. 452: "Dr. Arthur Augustus Tilley, distinguished Renaissance scholar, was born on December 1, 1851, son of Sir JA Tilley, Secretary of the Post Office. After being educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, he studied Law and was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1876." 236:
Tilley married Margaret, daughter of J. A. Clutton-Brock, and they had one son and three daughters. Their son, Captain John Tilley, 7th Bn. Norfolk Regiment, died on 28 November 1916 and was buried at Faubourg D'Amiens Cemetery, Arras, France. Arthur died on 4 December 1942, three days after his 91st
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of his old college, King's, in 1876 and later was also a lecturer there. He did not turn his back on the law until 1882, when Anthony Trollope wrote to his wife Rose: "Arthur has given up the bar for good & all: – is to live at Cambridge." In 1883, he became Junior Tutor of King's. Although not a
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the most striking feature is its desultory character... an amalgam of assertions of broad principles with antiquarian observation of detail, in which the structure of society and politics was all but ignored... In short, the Renaissance is neither explained nor interpreted".
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The old type of scholarship, the name by which we have been accustomed to know 'a minute acquaintance with the niceties of the dead languages', is rapidly passing away from us. No longer is the skilful emendation of a
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In 1890, Tilley resigned as Junior Tutor of King's College after being held responsible for inciting the throwing into the college fountain of the "long-haired Kingsman"
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Tilley is remembered at Cambridge for resisting the modernisation of behaviour and dress which he observed, describing the new elements in his college as "bounders".
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play the royal road to a bishopric; no longer do grave statesmen and men of learning beguile their leisure moments with doing
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Historikerdialoge: Geschichte, Mythos und Gedächtnis im deutsch-britischen kulturellen Austausch 1750–2000
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birthday, and at the time of his death was living at number 2, Selwyn Gardens, Cambridge.
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to Rose Trollope dated 3 October 1882, in N. John Hall & Nina Burgis, eds.,
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Birth Certificates: William George Tilley, 1863; John Anthony Cecil Tilley, 1869
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as a result of the incident and subsequently left Cambridge without graduating.
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Apart from a number of important literary studies, Tilley was editor of the
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The Annual register of world events: a review of the year: Volume 184
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The decline of the age of Louis XIV: or, French literature, 1687–1715
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is almost an event; a false quantity falls there on unheeding ears.
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for Classics and the Tomline Mathematical Prize. Tilley went on to
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later commented that "Looking back on this presentation of the
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Anthony Trollope, His Work, Associates and Literary Originals
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A. A. Tilley, "The Development of Classical Learning", in
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Madame de Sévigné: some aspects of her life and character
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In 1884, Tilley was still a tutor and lecturer for the
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In 1903 he published a history of the 584: 582: 387: 280:Cambridge Readings in French Literature 790:(1903), text online at uni-mannheim.de 415: 413: 411: 112:, where in 1875 he came second in the 409: 407: 405: 403: 401: 399: 397: 395: 393: 391: 34:, after which he began a career as a 30:, his first subject at Cambridge was 7: 829:Fellows of King's College, Cambridge 544:"Tilley, Arthur Augustus (TLY871AA)" 169:verse; a classical quotation in the 814:Alumni of King's College, Cambridge 696:Commonwealth War Graves Commission 499:(London: Hutchinson, 1992), p. 393 455:(London: Hutchinson, 1992), p. 187 272:The Dawn of the French Renaissance 220:(in volume 7, 1932) and the other 14: 611:M. R. James, an informal portrait 296:Studies in the French Renaissance 100:The young Tilley was educated at 519:"Eton Collections | COLL BEN 25" 834:People educated at Eton College 819:20th-century English historians 594:The letters of Anthony Trollope 484:A century of King's: 1873–1972 116:. 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University of Cambridge
Old Etonian
Classics
barrister
French literature
literary critic
historian


Sir John Tilley
General Post Office
Anthony Trollope
Cumberland
John Anthony Cecil Tilley
Eton College
Newcastle Scholarship
King's College, Cambridge
Classical Tripos
Inner Temple
called to the Bar
Fellow
reactionary
Arthur Benson
Classical Tripos
Greek
Humpty Dumpty
Latin
House of Commons
Robbie Ross
pneumonia

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