Claim: Despite not finishing his degree, Samuel Rawson Gardiner—an English historian born near Alresford, Hampshire—was subsequently elected to fellowships at All Souls (1884) and Merton (1892) while he was also elected to give the first series of Ford Lectures at Oxford University in 1896.
Evidence: He was educated at Winchester College and Christ Church, Oxford, where he obtained a first class in Literae Humaniores. The Faculty of Classics, previously the Faculty of Literae Humaniores, is a subdivision of the University of Oxford concerned with the teaching and research of classics.