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This is a list of Balliol College academics, teachers and visitors who are, or who have been, senior members of Balliol College, Oxford.
The Ascension Parish Burial Ground, formerly known as the burial ground for the parish of St Giles and St Peter's, is a cemetery off Huntingdon Road in Cambridge, England. Many notable University of Cambridge academics are buried there, including three Nobel Prize winners.
Queen Elizabeth Grammar School (QEGS) is an independent, public school for boys in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. The school was founded by Royal Charter of Queen Elizabeth I in 1591 at the request of leading citizens in Wakefield 75 in total and some of whom formed the first governing body.
Paget Jackson Toynbee, FBA was a British Dante scholar. Robert Hollander has described Toynbee as 'the most influential Dantean scholar of his time'.
Wixenford School, also known as Wixenford Preparatory School and Wixenford-Eversley, was a private preparatory school for boys near Wokingham, founded in 1869. A feeder school for Eton, after it closed in 1934 its former buildings were taken over by the present-day Ludgrove School.
The Eldon Law Scholarship is a scholarship awarded to students from the University of Oxford who wish to study for the English Bar. Applicants must either have obtained a first class honours degree in the Final Honours School, or obtained a distinction on the BCL or MJur. It is a two-year scholarship presently funded at £9,000 a year.
Oswald Toynbee Falk was a stockbroker and economist, born in the Toxteth area of Liverpool on 25 May 1879 to Hermann John Falk and Rachel Russell Everard Toynbee. He was the nephew of social philosopher and economist Arnold Toynbee. Falk attended Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford where he trained as an actuary. He worked for the National Mutual Life Assurance Society and became a fellow of the Institute of Actuaries before leaving the profession in 1914. Afterwards he joined the London stock exchange and in 1917 was invited by John Maynard Keynes to work at the Treasury where he proved himself to be a gifted ‘practical economist’.