71-543: Lytton may refer to: A number of important people have held the name Lytton, both as a surname and as a first name, as in Lytton Strachey . Lytton Strachey Giles Lytton Strachey ( / ˈ dʒ aɪ l z ˈ l ɪ t ən ˈ s t r eɪ tʃ i / ; 1 March 1880 – 21 January 1932) was an English writer and critic. A founding member of the Bloomsbury Group and author of Eminent Victorians , he established
142-455: A missionary chaplain in 1735. Indeed, he took to signing his publications as "John Wesley, Sometime Fellow of Lincoln College". A portrait of him hangs in the Hall, and a bust overlooks the front quad. The room where he is believed to have worked is also named after him, and was renovated by American Methodists at the beginning of the 20th century. As is common with Oxford colleges, the college has
213-452: A 15th century college than any other in Oxford". This is mainly because both the façade to Turl Street and the front quad are still of only two storeys (although the parapets and battlements are of the 19th century). The college also owns most of the buildings across Turl Street from the college proper, in whole or in part, which chiefly contain student accommodation. The creeper that covers
284-531: A commissioned portrait of two members of staff who were not fellows or benefactors of the college, in commemoration of their work. Chef Jim Murden and butler Kevin Egleston have worked in the college's kitchen and buttery for 33 and 28 years respectively, as of 2010. Artist Daphne Todd was commissioned for the painting, who has had such previous sitters as the Grand Duke of Luxembourg and Spike Milligan . As part of
355-414: A fellowship. Strachey was often ill and had to leave Cambridge repeatedly to recover from the palpitations that affected him. Strachey's years at Cambridge were happy and productive. Among the freshers at Trinity, there were three with whom Strachey soon became closely associated: Clive Bell , Leonard Woolf and Saxon Sydney-Turner . With another undergraduate, A. J. Robertson, these students formed
426-535: A few months, he was transferred to Leamington College , where he became a victim of savage bullying. Sir Richard, however, told his son to "grin and bear the petty bullying." Strachey did eventually adapt to the school and became one of its best pupils. In the 1960s one of the four 'houses' at the school was named after him. His health also seems to have improved during the three years he spent at Leamington, although various illnesses continued to plague him. When Strachey turned 17 in 1897, Lady Strachey decided that he
497-658: A full and varied programme of meetings, social events and sporting activities during term time and vacations. The MCR is located in the Berrow Foundation Building, completed in 2016 by design studio Stanton Williams . Notable former students of the college have progressed to careers in academia, business, politics and sports. Alumni include; John Radcliffe (renowned physician after whom the Radcliffe Camera , Radcliffe Infirmary , Radcliffe Observatory and John Radcliffe Hospital are named), Howard Florey (who
568-418: A great artist so she decided that he would receive the best education possible to be "enlightened." By 1887 he had begun the study of French, and he was to admire French culture throughout his life. Strachey was educated at a series of schools, beginning at Parkstone , Dorset. This was a small school with a wide range of after-class activities, where Strachey's acting skills exceeded those of other pupils; he
639-673: A group called the Midnight Society, which, in the opinion of Bell, was the source of the Bloomsbury Group . Other close friends at Cambridge were Thoby Stephen and his sisters Vanessa and Virginia Stephen (later Bell and Woolf respectively). Strachey also belonged to the Conversazione Society, the Cambridge Apostles to which Tennyson , Hallam , Maurice , and Sterling had once belonged. The Apostles formulated an elitist doctrine of "Higher Sodomy" which differentiated
710-505: A long-standing rivalry with neighbour Brasenose College (which was founded by a later bishop of Lincoln, William Smyth ). The two colleges share a tradition revived annually on Ascension Day . The story goes that, centuries ago, as a mob chased students at the university through the town, the Lincoln porter allowed in the Lincoln students but refused entry to the Brasenose member, leaving him to
781-604: A model. Landmarks in French Literature , dedicated to "J[ane] M[aria] S[trachey]," his mother, was published on 12 January 1912. Despite almost a full column of praise in The Times Literary Supplement of 1 February and sales that by April 1914 had reached nearly 12,000 copies in the British Empire and America, the book brought Strachey neither the fame he craved nor the money he badly needed. Soon after
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#1732838192827852-544: A new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit. His biography Queen Victoria (1921) was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize . Strachey was born on 1 March 1880 at Stowey House, Clapham Common , London, the fifth son and 11th child of Lieutenant General Sir Richard Strachey , an officer in the British colonial armed forces, and his second wife,
923-415: A one-time spy, revealed that fictional spymaster George Smiley was partly modelled on former Lincoln rector Vivian H. H. Green . At least one other recent Lincoln Rector, Sir Maurice Shock , enjoyed a prior career in British intelligence, although there is little evidence to substantiate the college's reputation as a recruiting ground for spies. In 1955, Paul Shuffrey , the civil servant and editor, and
994-521: A pointed sermon from the incumbent rector, Thomas Rotherham was compelled to give his support and effectively re-founded it in 1478, with a new charter from King Edward IV . In the 18th century, Lincoln became the cradle of Methodism when John Wesley , a fellow there from 1726, held religious meetings with his brother Charles and the rest of Wesley's 'Holy Club', whom the rest of the university took to calling 'Bible-moths'. His appearances at College became less frequent after he departed for Georgia as
1065-512: A strong but platonic relationship thereafter until his death. They eventually established a permanent home together at Ham Spray House, where Carrington would paint and Strachey would educate her in literature. In 1921, Carrington agreed to marry Partridge, not for love but to secure a three-way relationship. Partridge eventually formed a relationship with Frances Marshall , another Bloomsbury member. Shortly after Strachey died, Carrington took her own life. Partridge married Marshall in 1933. Strachey
1136-560: A summer graduate course using Lincoln's facilities during the University of Oxford's long summer vacation. A clock donated by Middlebury stands in the Porters' Lodge. The college grace is read aloud at every formal hall , usually by a student. To encourage readers, students who read the grace twice in a term receive a bottle of wine. The college grace is in Latin. The college arms incorporate (1)
1207-522: A television, kitchen, vending machine, daily newspapers, a DVD library and sofas) as well as the name of the body that represents said undergraduates to the senior members of college and on a university-wide basis. All undergraduate members of the college are automatically members of the JCR, unless they specifically express a desire not to be a part of it. Honorary membership to others is sometimes extended, but have limited rights compared to other members. The JCR
1278-555: A term, in 2nd week, 5th week and 8th week of each. The JCR was founded in 1854 as the Lincoln College Debating Society but was renamed in 1919 (although it continued to be referred to by its former name for some time after). From 1886, the society provided members of the Common Room with tobacco and cigarettes from its funds, as well as tea and coffee; however, "The President shall have the power to stop smoking while
1349-496: A while in a cottage on Dartmoor and about 1911–12 spent a whole winter at East Ilsley on the Berkshire Downs . During this time he decided to grow a beard, which became his most characteristic feature. On 9 May 1911 he wrote to his mother: The chief news is that I have grown a beard! Its colour is very much admired, and it is generally considered extremely effective, though some ill-bred persons have been observed to laugh. It
1420-661: Is a red-brown of the most approved tint and makes me look like a French decadent poet—or something equally distinguished. In 1911 H. A. L. Fisher , a former President of the British Academy and the Board of Education, was in search of someone to write a short one-volume survey of French literature. Fisher had read one of Strachey's reviews ("Two Frenchmen," Independent Review (1903)) and asked him to write an outline in 50,000 words, giving him J. W. Mackail 's Latin Literature (1909) as
1491-465: Is also said to have been the inspiration behind the character of St John Hirst in her novel The Voyage Out . Michael Holroyd describes Strachey as the inspiration behind Cedric Furber in Wyndham Lewis 's The Self-Condemned . In Lewis's novel The Apes of God he is seen in the character of Matthew Plunkett, whom Holroyd describes as "a maliciously distorted and hilarious caricature of Lytton". In
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#17328381928271562-414: Is made of cedar, and reportedly filled the chapel with the strong scent of cedar for around the first one hundred years of its existence. Much of the chapel was restored in a project beginning in 1999, having been deemed to be in unacceptable disrepair in the early 1990s, when a funding campaign began. The black slate and white marble tiles were repaired, cleaned and replaced where necessary, whilst most of
1633-654: Is run by an Executive of ten officers, headed by the President, which is ultimately responsible for the JCR, whilst the JCR Committee comprises forty-two members and fulfils a wide range of duties, all aimed at the general improvement of the lives of and facilities available to the undergraduate body of the college. Members of the JCR Committee are elected by popular vote. Shabana Mahmood , the MP for Birmingham Ladywood, served as JCR president in 2000–2001. JCR meetings are held three times
1704-484: Is stone and there is no modern accommodation annexe. To quote the Lincoln College Freshers ' Handbook, "Unlike most colleges, we have no grotty sixties annexe to spoil all the pretty bits". The college bar, Deep Hall (or Deepers ), is immediately below the great hall and used to be the college beer cellar. It is one of the oldest parts of the college, and the pillars inside it are perhaps the oldest feature of
1775-482: The Christ Church scholarship examination, wanting to get into Balliol College, Oxford , but the examiners determined that Strachey's academic achievements were not remarkable and were struck by his "shyness and nervousness." They recommended Lincoln College as a more suitable institution, advice that Lady Strachey took as an insult, deciding then that he would attend Trinity College, Cambridge , instead. Strachey
1846-487: The summum bonum lies in achieving a high quality of humanity, in experiencing delectable states of mind, and in intensifying experience by contemplating great works of art, was a particularly important influence. In the summer of 1903, Strachey applied for a position in the education department of the Civil Service. Even though the letters of recommendation written for him by those under whom he had studied showed that he
1917-500: The Bear Lane accommodation. On Museum Road near Keble College is a further accommodation complex. 12 terraced houses are officially called Lincoln Hall, but most commonly referred to as simply 'Mus Road'. The EPA Science Centre, named after Edward Abraham , was constructed behind them in the early 21st century and contains apartment-style accommodation, teaching facilities and the college's archives. A number of outlying houses make up
1988-616: The Blessed Mary and All Saints, Lincoln ) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford , situated on Turl Street in central Oxford . Lincoln was founded in 1427 by Richard Fleming , the then Bishop of Lincoln . Notable alumni include the physician John Radcliffe , the founder of Methodism John Wesley , antibiotics scientists Howard Florey , Edward Abraham , and Norman Heatley , writers Theodor Seuss Geisel ( Dr. Seuss ) and David John Moore Cornwell ( John le Carré ),
2059-599: The North Gate, having used it as a stand-in for the college chapel when necessary. Despite insufficient endowment and trouble from the Wars of the Roses (for their charter was from the deposed Lancastrian ), the college has survived and flourished thanks to the efforts of its fellows and the munificence of a second bishop of Lincoln, Thomas Rotherham . Richard Fleming died in 1431, and the first rector, William Chamberleyn, in 1434, leaving
2130-515: The Rector of the college was Walter Fraser Oakeshott , most famous for discovering the Winchester Manuscript of Sir Thomas Malory 's Le Morte d'Arthur in 1934 while an Assistant Master at Winchester College , and after whom Lincoln College's largest performance space is named. The academic Mark Pattison , elected as Rector of the college in 1861, is thought to have been the inspiration for
2201-653: The Terminus Note in E. M. Forster 's Maurice , Forster remarks that the Cambridge undergraduate Risley in the novel is based on Strachey. Strachey was portrayed by Jonathan Pryce in the film Carrington (1995), which won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival that year, while Pryce won Best Actor for his performance. In the film Al sur de Granada (2003), Strachey was portrayed by James Fleet . Strachey
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2272-715: The Torpid [a rowing eight entering a regatta in Hilary Term ] and the Eight [an eight entering a regatta in Trinity Term ] are in training." Tobacco and cigarettes are no longer available from the JCR, but tea and coffee are to be found in the JCR kitchen. The Lincoln MCR is the oldest (founded in 1960) of the Oxford MCRs. With around 350 graduate students in residence each year, the MCR organises
2343-426: The age damage was to be found in the woodwork, which was suffering greatly from poor ventilation and having been laid directly on to earth, resulting in worm and wet rot . Cracks in the enamel of the windows were also repaired where most obvious and disfiguring. The renovations were made with the intention of preserving the chapel's 17th-century character as much as possible. The chapel has remained much unchanged since
2414-486: The arms of Bishop Richard Fleming, the founder; (2) the arms of the See of Lincoln; (3) the arms of Bishop Thomas Rotherham, the second founder. The blazon is: The college guarantees all undergraduates three years of college-owned accommodation. Similarly, virtually all graduate students are provided housing for the duration of their studies. The college's housing stock is extensive and centrally located. About 50 students live on
2485-609: The building until 2.00 a.m. most nights; the Bodleian and faculty libraries have earlier closing times. It is kept up-to-date by regular purchases, and welcomes suggestions for books pertinent to studies. The upper reading room, or Cohen Room, has an elaborate plastered ceiling and the Senior Library (downstairs) holds some of the college's older books, including pamphlets from the English Civil War , Wesleyana, and plays dating from
2556-568: The character of Dr. Casaubon in George Eliot 's novel Middlemarch . The current Rector of Lincoln College is Henry Woudhuysen . He will retire at the end of the 2023/24 academic year. Lincoln was the first college in Oxford (or Cambridge) to admit a Jewish Fellow, the Australian-born philosopher Samuel Alexander (appointed 1882). Years after the success of his Cold War spy novels, novelist and Lincoln graduate John le Carré , himself
2627-516: The church spire collapsed in 1700, amateur architect and Dean of Christ Church Henry Aldrich designed a new church. It is believed, however, that on some of the later features of the church, particularly on the tower and spire, the work of Nicholas Hawksmoor , the Baroque architects , is to be found. The tower has a full peal of eight bells, which are regularly rung. Its library holds some 60,000 books. Graduates and undergraduates are able to work in
2698-422: The college was the first in Oxford or Cambridge to provide a Middle Common Room exclusively for the use of graduate students. Like many of Oxford's colleges, Lincoln admitted its first mixed-sex cohort in 1979, after more than half a millennium as a men-only institution. The MCR is now located in the Berrow Foundation Building, which was inaugurated in 2014. In 2007, the college took the rare step of unveiling
2769-419: The college with few buildings and little money. The second rector, John Beke, secured the college's safety by attracting donors. By 1436, the college had seven fellows. John Forest, Dean of Wells and a close friend of Beke's, donated such an amount that the college promised to recognise him as a co-founder; it did not keep this promise. His gifts saw the construction of a chapel, a library, hall and kitchen. After
2840-413: The college's commitment to environmental sustainability , a dedicated Green Impact team was set up in 2021, which has since won an Oxford University gold award. Biodiversity initiatives across the college's various properties have led to creation of a wild-flower garden outside the entrance to the college library. According to Nikolaus Pevsner , Lincoln College preserves "more of the character of
2911-507: The college's front quad walls is Virginia creeper ( Parthenocissus quinquefolia ), dark green in the summer, through to scarlet in autumn, whilst being bare in winter. There are three quads: the Front Quad (15th century), the Chapel Quad (1608–1631) and The Grove (19th century), as well as a number of irregular spaces. Unlike many other colleges, all of the architecture of the college proper
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2982-525: The college. The wine cellar is accessed through Deep Hall, and extends completely beneath the Grove. The Rector's lodgings in Turl Street are neo-Georgian and were built in 1929–1930; they are reached from within college through a gate in Chapel Quad, but have a main door on Turl Street. The college is known as being the setting for many literary works. C. P. Snow was inspired for his novel The Masters by
3053-644: The family moved to 67 Belsize Gardens in Hampstead , and later to another house in the same street, he was assigned other bed-sitters. But, as he was about to turn 30, family life started irritating him, and he took to travelling into the country more often, supporting himself by writing reviews and critical articles for The Spectator and other periodicals. In 1909 he spent some weeks at a health spa in Saltsjöbaden , near Stockholm in Sweden. In this period he also lived for
3124-538: The first three parts of Eminent Victorians . Strachey's theory of biography was now fully developed and mature. He was greatly influenced by Dostoyevsky , whose novels he had been reading and reviewing as they appeared in Constance Garnett 's translations. The influence of Freud was important in Strachey's later works, most notably on Elizabeth and Essex , but not at this earlier stage. In 1916 Lytton Strachey
3195-492: The former Jane Grant , who became a leading supporter of the women's suffrage movement. He was named Giles Lytton after an early 16th-century Gyles Strachey and the first Earl of Lytton , who had been a friend of Richard Strachey's when he was Viceroy of India in the late 1870s. The Earl of Lytton was also Lytton Strachey's godfather. The Stracheys had thirteen children in total, ten of whom survived to adulthood, including Lytton's sister Dorothy Strachey and youngest brother,
3266-493: The homosexual acts of the intelligent from those of "ordinary" men. In these years Strachey was highly prolific in writing verse, much of which has been preserved and some of which was published at the time. Strachey also became acquainted with other men who greatly influenced him, including G. Lowes Dickinson , John Maynard Keynes , Walter Lamb (brother of the painter Henry Lamb ), George Mallory , Bertrand Russell and G. E. Moore . Moore's philosophy, with its assumption that
3337-588: The journalist Rachel Maddow , former British prime minister Rishi Sunak , Princess Elisabeth of Belgium , and Labour politician Shabana Mahmood . Mensa was founded at Lincoln College in 1946. Lincoln College has one of the oldest working medieval kitchens in the UK. Richard Fleming , the then Bishop of Lincoln , founded the college in order to combat the Lollard teachings of John Wyclif . He intended it to be "a little college of true students of theology who would defend
3408-579: The late 17th and early 18th centuries, as well as a small collection of manuscripts. The science library is also to be found downstairs. Access to the library is generally restricted to current students and staff at the college, although alumni may use the library if acceptable justification is provided. Lincoln College has visiting undergraduate student arrangements with Middlebury College , Simon's Rock College of Bard , Drew University , and National Taiwan University . The college also has ties to Middlebury College's Bread Loaf School of English , which runs
3479-428: The literary critic Stephanie Merritt ), a historical crime novel. The college chapel was built in late perpendicular style between 1629 and 1631; its windows are enamelled rather than stained, which is a process of painting the windows then firing them, a complicated procedure. They are the work of Abraham van Linge , who was an expert in this technique. The east window of the chapel depicts twelve biblical scenes:
3550-466: The mercy of the mob. An alternative is that a Lincoln man bested a Brasenose man in a duel. Either episode resulted in the Brasenose student's death, and ever since, on Ascension Day, Lincoln College has invited in members of Brasenose College every year through the one door connecting the two colleges, for free beer as penance. Since the nineteenth century, the beer has been flavoured with ivy so as to discourage excessive consumption. Academically, Lincoln
3621-418: The mysteries of Scripture against those ignorant laymen who profaned with swinish snouts its most holy pearls". . To this end, he obtained a charter for the college from King Henry VI , which combined the parishes of All Saints, St Michael at the North Gate , and St Mildred's within the college under a rector. The college now uses All Saints Church as its library and has strong ties with St Michael's Church at
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#17328381928273692-518: The pseudonym "Ignotus", he also published several drama reviews. During the First World War, Strachey applied for recognition as a conscientious objector , but in the event, he was granted exemption from military service on health grounds. He spent much of the war with like-minded people such as Lady Ottoline Morrell and the Bloomsburys . His first great success, and his most famous achievement,
3763-416: The psychoanalyst, James Strachey . When Lytton was four years old the family moved from Stowey House to 69 Lancaster Gate , north of Kensington Gardens . This was their home until Sir Richard retired 20 years later. Lady Strachey was an enthusiast for languages and literature, making her children perform their own plays and write verse from an early age. She thought that Lytton had the potential to become
3834-474: The publication of Landmarks , Strachey's mother and his friend Harry Norton supported him financially. Each provided him with £100, which, together with his earnings from the Edinburgh Review and other periodicals, made it possible for him to rent a small thatched cottage, The Lacket, outside the village of Lockeridge , near Marlborough, Wiltshire . He lived there until 1916 and it was there that he wrote
3905-498: The remainder of the housing stock. Due to Lincoln's small numbers and tight-knit community, its Junior Common Room (JCR) plays a greater role in student life than do the JCRs of most other colleges. JCR elections, held in Trinity and Michaelmas Terms, attract one of the highest turnouts of any Oxford college. The JCR, like all JCRs in Oxford, is both a communal room for undergraduates (with
3976-493: The story of Mark Pattison , a fellow at Lincoln, whose enthusiastic hopes for Lincoln were frustrated by older, more conservative fellows of the college; Snow's story transposes the story to a Cambridge College. It was the setting for three episodes of Inspector Morse . Later, Lewis has used Turl Street in front of the college for filming. Lincoln College is the setting for much of the plot in Heresy by S.J. Parris (pseudonym for
4047-501: The three quads described above, with over 100 more living in rooms above the shops on the other side of Turl Street. These include the Mitre rooms, formerly guest rooms of the Mitre Inn , which has been owned by the college since the 15th century. The accommodation was incorporated into the college in 1969, but the restaurants were left to the inn. Lincoln House, directly across from the college,
4118-623: The top six depict scenes from Jesus' life (including the Last Supper ), whilst the six below depict corresponding scenes from the Old Testament (including Adam and Eve at Creation and the whale spitting out Jonah ). The north windows show the Twelve Prophets , and the south windows the Twelve Apostles . The screen separating the ante-chapel (containing the organ) from the chapel proper
4189-416: The wooden figurines (of Saint Peter , Saint Paul , Moses and Aaron ) were placed on the front pews and the carved ceiling was installed in the 1680s. Perhaps the college's most striking feature, its library, is located in the converted 18th-century All Saints Church handed over to the college in 1971. All Saints church tower is a feature of Oxford's skyline, one of the city's " dreaming spires ". After
4260-535: Was Eminent Victorians (1918), a collection of four short biographies of Victorian heroes. Unlike any biography of its time, Eminent Victorians examines the career and psychology of historical figures by using literary devices such as paradox, antithesis, hyperbole, and irony. This work was followed by another in the same style, Queen Victoria (1921). From then on, Strachey needed no further financial aid. He continued to live at Tidmarsh until 1924 when he moved to Ham Spray House near Marlborough, Wiltshire . This
4331-570: Was admitted as a Pensioner at Trinity College, Cambridge , on 30 September 1899. He became an Exhibitioner in 1900 and a Scholar in 1902. He won the Chancellor's Medal for English Verse in 1902 and was given a BA degree after he had won a second class in the History Tripos in June 1903. He did not however take leave of Trinity but remained until October 1905 to work on a thesis that he hoped would gain him
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#17328381928274402-875: Was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 for his role in large scale production of penicillin ), Edward Abraham and Norman Heatley (biochemists also instrumental in the development of penicillin), Philip May (husband of former Prime Minister Theresa May ), Steph Cook (Olympic gold medalist), William Davenant (poet), John Hobson (economist and influential theorist of imperialism), John le Carré (author), Rachel Maddow (political commentator and author), Dr. Seuss (author and illustrator), Nevil Sidgwick (chemist), Rishi Sunak (British Prime Minister ), Adebayo Ogunlesi (lawyer and investment banker), Deborah Bowman (medical ethicist), Edward Thomas (poet) and John Wesley (theologian). From 1954 to 1972,
4473-522: Was back in London, living with his mother at 6 Belsize Park Gardens , Hampstead , where she had now moved. In the late autumn of 1917, however, his brother Oliver and his friends Harry Norton, John Maynard Keynes, and Saxon Sydney-Turner agreed to pay the rent on the Mill House at Tidmarsh , near Pangbourne , Berkshire. From 1904 to 1914 Strachey contributed book and theatre reviews to The Spectator . Under
4544-472: Was constructed in 1939 as an annexe. There were at one point vague plans for a bridge over Turl Street connecting the annexe to the college proper; these never materialised. Further accommodation is provided at Bear Lane (across High Street ). Donors Emily and John Carr gave to the college numbers 113 and 114 on the High Street, with land extending back to Bear Lane, which the college still owns and constitutes
4615-445: Was held in high esteem at Cambridge, he failed to get the appointment and decided to try for a fellowship at Trinity College. From 1903 through 1905 he wrote a 400-page dissertation on Warren Hastings , the 18th-century Indian imperialist, but the work failed to secure Strachey the fellowship and led to his return to London. After Strachey left Cambridge in 1905, his mother assigned him a bed-sitting room at 69 Lancaster Gate. After
4686-431: Was his home for the rest of his life. Strachey died of stomach cancer on 21 January 1932, aged 51. It is reported that his final words were: "If this is dying, then I don't think much of it." Strachey spoke openly about his homosexuality with his Bloomsbury friends and had relationships with a variety of men including Ralph Partridge . Strachey met the painter Dora Carrington during the First World War and they had
4757-535: Was mainly interested sexually in Partridge, as well as in various other young men, including a secret sadomasochistic relationship with Roger Senhouse , later the head of the publishing house Secker & Warburg . Strachey's letters, edited by Paul Levy, were published in 2005. Virginia Woolf 's husband Leonard Woolf said that in her experimental novel The Waves , "there is something of Lytton in Neville". Lytton
4828-594: Was one of the top ten in the Norrington Table each year from 2006 to 2015 (excluding 2010 and 2011). Lincoln ranked third in the Norrington Table in 2021 and second in 2022. The college is associated with the Goblin Club, an exclusive all-male dining society founded in 1902. In May 2019, the JCR voted to extend a ban on the society on the grounds that it was perceived to be both elitist and racist. In 1958,
4899-500: Was particularly convincing when portraying female parts. He told his mother how much he liked dressing as a woman in real life to confuse and entertain others. Lady Strachey decided in 1893 that her son should start his more serious education and sent him to Abbotsholme School in Rocester , Derbyshire, where pupils were required to do manual work every day. Strachey, who always had a fragile physique, objected to this requirement and after
4970-647: Was portrayed by Ed Birch in the 2015 mini-series Life in Squares . Strachey was portrayed by Nigel Planer as Lytton Scratchy in Gloomsbury , by Sue Limb , a parody of the Bloomsbury Group, 5 series, 2012-2018 on BBC Radio 4. Strachey was portrayed by Simon Russell Beale in the 2020 BBC Radio 3 play Elizabeth and Essex by Robin Brooks . Lincoln College, Oxford Lincoln College (formally, The College of
5041-425: Was ready to leave school and go to university, but because she thought he was too young for Oxford she decided that he should first attend a smaller institution, the University of Liverpool . There Strachey befriended the professor of modern literature, Walter Raleigh , who, besides being his favourite teacher, also became the most influential figure in his life before he went up to Cambridge . In 1899 Strachey took
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