“ The work is really Fowler's own in the form in which it was given to the world. But it was largely inspired by Wilson, and in some few parts it was written by him. This is no inconsiderable output, whether in quantity or in quality, for a man who was absorbed all his life in University business and gave lavishly of his time, energy, and intellect to its efficient conduct. There have been more brilliant sons of University than Thomas Fowler; there have been none more loyal, and few who have devoted more of their life to its faithful service. ”

“ Since his retirement from that office his health had seemed to his friends to be gradually failing, and though the end has come rather suddenly, yet, it has been only too plain for some time past that his days were drawing to a close. ”

“ Thomas Fowler, for more than 20 years President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, was born at Burton-Strather, in Lincolnshire, on September 1, 1832. He was educated at King William's College in the Isle of Man, and obtained a Postmastership at Merton College, Oxford. In 1852 he took a second class in Classical moderations and a first class in mathematics, but he bettered that position in the final schools by taking a first class in classics followed by a first in mathematics in 1854. In the following year he was elected to a Fellowship in Lincoln College, and was forthwith appointed tutor. ”