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James Thursfield

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in Fisher's campaign for navy reforms. Fisher regarded Thursfield as "a great student of naval affairs", saying that his articles were "close and precisely reasoned, unadulterated by vituperation". Prince Louis of Battenberg, who served for a time as director of naval intelligence, praised
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in 1877 to ask if he would be prepared to stand for the position of Professor of Poetry at Oxford. Morris declined the invitation. After leaving Oxford, Thursfield was appointed by
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in 1864, holding this until 1881, when he was obliged to resign because of his marriage in 1880. While at Oxford he approached
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Thursfield worked in other areas apart from naval matters, taking charge of
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in 1891. He was made an honorary fellow of Jesus College in 1908. He was
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in 1902, of which he was the first editor. He wrote a biography of
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on 22 November 1923. His son, Henry George Thursfield, became a
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Thursfield for never being afraid to state a contrary view.
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and later followed his father as naval correspondent for
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People educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood
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James Hugh Thursfield
Times Literary Supplement
Kidderminster
Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood
Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Literae Humaniores
fellowship
Jesus College, Oxford
William Morris
Thomas Chenery
The Times
Staff College, Camberley
Royal United Service Institution
First Lords of the Admiralty
Jackie Fisher
Times Literary Supplement
Robert Peel
knighted
Golders Green
Rear-Admiral




Morris, A. J. A.
"Thursfield, Sir James Richard (1840–1923)"
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
doi
10.1093/ref:odnb/36520
UK public library membership

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