“ He matriculated at Oxford from Balliol College in 1837, but left the university on receiving in 1839 a nomination for the East India Company’s civil service, and was completing his course of training at Haileybury when the entreaties of his mother, who had lost a son in India, prevailed upon him to relinquish his nomination and return to Oxford. As Balliol was full, he entered University College and, devoting himself to the study of Sanskrit, he gained the Boden scholarship in 1843. ”

“ Lord Brassey came to his aid with a donation of £9000, and in November 1880 the institute was adopted by the university, but the purchase of a site and the erection of a building were left to the professor. ”