Charles Buller Heberden

{{Short description|English classical scholar and academic administrator}}

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| successor = Thomas Banks Strong

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Charles Buller Heberden (14 December 1849 – 30 May 1921) was an English classical scholar and academic administrator. He was principal of Brasenose College, Oxford (1889–1920)[http://www.bnc.ox.ac.uk/345/brasenose-college-archives-and-history-38/brasenose-people-216/principals-list-of-past-and-present-413.html Brasenose College, Oxford — Principals] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120213110804/http://www.bnc.ox.ac.uk/345/brasenose-college-archives-and-history-38/brasenose-people-216/principals-list-of-past-and-present-413.html |date=2012-02-13 }}.[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63882 Brasenose College], A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 3: The University of Oxford (1954), pp. 207–219. and served as vice-chancellor of Oxford University.

Life

He was born at Broadhembury in Devon, the son of the Rev. William Heberden. He was educated at Harrow School and Balliol College, Oxford, from 1868, where he was a contemporary of Benjamin Jowett.[http://www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/library/jowett/index2.asp Jowett Papers: Index of BJ's contemporaries] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080521015008/http://www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/library/jowett/index2.asp |date=2008-05-21 }}, Balliol College Library, Oxford.s:Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Heberden, Charles Buller

Heberden edited a book on the history of Brasenose College, published in 1909.{{citation|editor=Charles Buller Heberden|title=Brasenose College Register, 1509–1909 [Oxford Historical Series; no. 55]|location=Oxford|publisher=Blackwell for the Oxford Historical Society|year=1909|oclc=222963720}}.

He funded a Harrow Scholarship for Brasenose College in 1916 and an Organ Scholarship in 1921 at his death.[http://www.bnc.ox.ac.uk/downloads/freedominfo/statutes.pdf Statutes of the King's Hall and College of Brasenose in Oxford], Brasenose College, Oxford, 28 April 1954. (Last amended December 1999.) He also left £1,000 to the university, which was used for the Coin Room at the Ashmolean Museum.C.M. Kraay and C.H.V. Sutherland, [http://www.ashmolean.org/documents/HCRhistory.pdf The Heberden Coin Room: Origin and Development] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061103114708/http://www.ashmolean.org/documents/HCRhistory.pdf |date=2006-11-03 }}, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1972. (Revised 1989 and 2001.)

He was on the governing body of Abingdon School from 1914 to 1921.{{cite web |url=https://www.abingdon.org.uk/uploads/school/files/abingdonian/1935_May_V007_N014.pdf#page=2|title=School Notes|publisher=The Abingdonian}}

Heberden is buried in Holywell Cemetery, Oxford.

References

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20071110010529/http://www.ashmolean.org/departments/heberdencoinroom/ Heberden Coin Room], Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

{{s-ttl|title=Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford|years=1889–1920}}

{{s-ttl|title=Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University|years=1910–1913}}

Category:1849 births

Category:1921 deaths

Category:People from East Devon District

Category:Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford

Category:English classical scholars

Category:People educated at Harrow School

Category:Principals of Brasenose College, Oxford

Category:Vice-chancellors of the University of Oxford

Category:People associated with the Ashmolean Museum

Category:Governors of Abingdon School

Category:Burials at Holywell Cemetery