The universities Author:Thomas Wright Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE HALL, KINO'S COLLEGE. The first provost of the college appointed by the royal founder was Dr. William Millington, who, in 1443, was removed to this s... more »ociety from that of Clare Hall, " whither," observes Fuller, " after three years he was remanded for his factious endeavouring to prefer his countrymen of Yorkshire." A more correct account of this personage is given by Cole in the following words: the college to be ' placed ' for King's. A subscription was raised by Etonians to pay his expenses at Cambridge. He wrote the same elegant hand at school as at the University. He read Chambers's Encyclopaedia all through, and mastered the algebraical parts of it by the force of his own genius. The Marquis of Wellesley was reckoned a better scholar than Person in the school at composition." Commons' Reports, vol. 100, p. 412. See Cole's MSS. vol. xiii. We may here remark that there is an immense mass of materials for a complete history of King's Collegecontained in the MSS. of Hatcher and Cole (both members of the college), and in other MSS. in the British Museum and in the College Library. The collections of Cole are peculiarly interesting from the valuable heraldic and antiquarian remarks with which they are interspersed. Rich as King's College is in a list of illustrious men, few societies possess such ample materials for a general College Biography. " William Millington was born at Pocklinton in ye county of York, and received his education at Clare Hall, from whence he was elected by ye royal founder of this college to be provost of his noble foundation on ye 10 of April, 1443. He was doctor of divinity and was a person of great judgement, as should seem by his being appointed jointly with ye king's council to form a body of statutes for ye government of ye colleg...« less