Browning, Oscar, 1837-1923 (historian and educational reformer)
Dates and places
1837-1923; Born Langley, Bucks. 1837; School Eton; admitted at King's College, 1856; matriculated 1856; B.A. 1859; M.A. 1863; Fellow of King's College from 1859; assistant master at Eton, 1860-75; University work in Cambridge, 1875-1909; Senior Proctor, 1881-2; Secretary of the Teachers' Training Syndicate, 1878-1909; cofounder of the Cambridge University Day Training College and first Principal, 1891-1909; founder of the Political Society, 1876 and the Eighty Club, 1878; settled in Bexhill 1909; lived latterly in Rome where died.
Geographical areas
Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Legal status / Nationality
British
Sphere of activity
History, teacher training
Other information
Known as 'The OB'
Biography
Charles Ryle Fay (1884-1961) entered King's College from Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby, in 1902 and took a First in both parts of the Historical Tripos. After two years (1906-08) as research student at the London School of Economics (where he gained a DSc), he became a fellow and lecturer in history at Christ's College. In 1921 he was appointed Professor of Economic History at the University of Toronto, returning to Cambridge in 1930 as Reader in Economic History. Oscar Browning was one of Fay's tutors at King's. He left Cambridge in 1909. Browning was in Italy when the First World War broke out, and settled at the Palazzo Simonetti in Rome until his death there in 1923.
Found in 41 Collections and/or Records:
Abraham, Charles John, 1898-05-21 - 1902-12-25
3 ALS from Abraham to WCG.
Account of Oscar Browning's life in Cambridge
An autograph manuscript account in the form of a draft letter to the 'Editor' to comment upon Browning's 'Memories of Later Years'. Contains a note in John Saltmarsh's hand, 'Wedd on O.B. (Not part of the Memoirs). JS'.
Archives of the Department of Education, its predecessor, successor and allied bodies, 1870 - 2003
Assorted letters received, in the main, by Oscar Browning, 1878 - 1898
Cover, chiefly, enquiries about lectures and courses of study, syllabi, enrolment and certification.
Assorted papers relating, among other things, to examinations, Oscar Browning's resignation, 1909 and the vote on the admission of women to the University, 1919, 1909 - 1920
Folder numbered III.
Browning: The Papers of Oscar Browning
Cartoon of Oscar Browning, King's College, aged 51, 1888-11-24
Correspondence and papers on the education and early career of Charles Ryle Fay (1884-1961), economic historian.
The letters and papers catalogued below were preserved by C. R. Fay's father, who pasted them into an unused copy of Smith's commercial scribbling diary for 1902; Mr Fay adopted a generally chronological arrangement, but does not seem to have felt himself to be bound strictly by this. Many of the documents are addressed to the elder Fay, and the collection can be regarded as being as much the papers of the father as of the son.
Correspondence between J.M. Keynes and Oscar Browning
13 autograph letters, signed, 1 typed letter, signed, and 1 autograph postcard, signed to J.M. Keynes. 1910-20.
1 carbon typed letter, signed, from J.M. Keynes. 16 Dec. 1920.
This file also contains: printed verses celebrating Oscar Browning's 70th birthday, by 'A.C.B.', 1907, and his 80th, by Claude Greening, 1917; and a typescript copy of a letter from Walter Durnford to Oscar Browning, 10 June 1920.
Extracts from letters from JHC to Oscar Browning, 1897 - 1913
The file comprises photocopies of typescript extracts from letters.
From Oscar Browning [Historian and Educationalist], Jan. 1917-9 Oct. 1919
Journals, 1884 - 1941
This series comprises diary entries by Charles Ashbee and his wife Janet, letters to both, photographs, picture postcards, cartoons, poems, newspaper cuttings and other printed ephemera.
Journals, 1906 - 1938
Letter and list relating to certified teachers, 1908
Letter from Oscar Browning, as Secretary to the Teachers' Training Syndicate, to Vice-Chancellor notifying him of appointment of lecturers, etc., 1879-05-09
The correspondence includes items inherited by Power from his predecessors and added by Vice-Chancellors Cookson (1848, 1863-4, 1872-3), Porter (1881-4) and, perhaps, others.
Letter from Oscar Browning to Cambridge University Musical Club, 1893-09-14
1 typed letter signed, resigning as treasurer of the club. The file also contains a letter relating to the donation of the letter.
Letter from Oscar Browning to MRJ, 1920-02-09
1 autograph letter signed, concerning books by MRJ, Browning's world history and life in Rome; with a long postscript on the Cambridge Reform Committee, education and literature.
Letter to Porter from Oscar Browning, King's College, Cambridge, 1 May 1883
Most of the letters are replies to appeals by Porter for contributions to a memorial to Henry Fawcett and the cost of portraits of the seventh Duke of Devonshire, J.B. Lightfoot and B.F. Westcott; or replies to his invitations to a dinner in honour of recipients of honorary degrees (1883), and the celebration of the six hundredth anniversary of the foundation of Peterhouse (1884); or concern an address of support from members of Senate to the Liberal Unionist leadership (1887).
Letters from Oscar Browning to Charles Ryle Fay
The letters comment on Fay's career, Browning's health and historical writing, other historians and their works, and Cambridge affairs (including adverse remarks on M.R. James). All but the first were written after Browning's departure from Cambridge in 1909, The place named in the each letter's description is the place of dispatch of the letter.
Letters from Oscar Browning to Edward Dent, 1919-04-22 - 1919-09-10
1 autograph letter signed and 1 autograph postcard signed.
Letters from Oscar Browning to E.M. Forster, 1923
2 typed letters to E.M. Forster.
To request these documents, please use the following call mark: vol. 8/24
Letters from Oscar Browning to GLD, 1916 - 1920
Four autograph letters signed.
Letters from Oscar Browning to HB, 1861 - 1881
4 autograph letters signed, with 1 autograph letter signed from H. Sidgwick to Oscar Browning, [1876], enclosed.
Letters from Oscar Browning to JTS, 1901 - 1922
8 autograph letters signed and 3 typed letters signed. The file also contains a menu card for a dinner given at King's College to celebrate Browning's 70th birthday, 19 Jan. 1907, and a typescript Latin verse 'Ara' by Browning, 1916.
Letters from Oscar Browning to Nathaniel Wedd, 1887-12-01 - 1923-01-15
25 autograph letters, signed, and 1 typed letter.
Additional filters:
- ARCHON code (for CUL materials)
- Archives and MSS Dept. (GBR/0012) 12
- University Archives (GBR/0265) 10
- Type
- Archival Object 37
- Collection 4
- Subject
- letter 3
- Diary 1
- Educational evaluation 1
- Literature 1
- Memoir 1