Claim: A graduate from Winchester College and Christ Church, Oxford, Samuel Rawson Gardiner 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. He was subsequently elected to fellowships at All Souls (1884) and Merton (1892). In 1896 he was elected to give the first series of Ford Lectures at Oxford University.