John Keble

KEBLE, John. b. Fairford, Gloucestershire, 25 April 1792; d. Bournemouth, 29 March 1866. The son of a clergyman, he was educated at home and at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, to which he won a scholarship in 1806, at the age of 14. He graduated with a ‘Double First’ (First Class in Honour Moderations and in Finals) in 1811. He took Holy Orders (deacon 1815, priest 1816), and became a Tutor at Oriel College in 1817. As a young and brilliant figure in Oxford, he exercised a considerable influence on those who met, studied or worked with him, most notably John Henry Newman* and Isaac Williams*. In 1823 he left Oxford to become a curate at Southrop, Gloucestershire, to care for his father and...