James Bellamy (British academic)

James Bellamy (1819–1909) was a British academic and administrator at the University of Oxford.^[1]

James Bellamy

James Bellamy by "Spy" in Vanity Fair, 1 April 1893.

Bellamy was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and St John's College, Oxford, where he graduated BA in 1841 and MA in 1845. He was ordained in 1843 and was awarded a Bachelor of Divinity in 1850 followed by a Doctor of Divinity in 1872. He was President of St John's College from 1871 to 1909.

At Oxford University, Bellamy was a member of the University Commission from 1877 to 1879 and Vice-Chancellor from 1886 to 1890. He was also a conservative and musician.

See also

• List of Vanity Fair (British magazine) caricatures

References

1. "Bellamy, James". The Concise Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. I: A–F. Oxford University Press. 1995. p. 202.

Further reading

• Hutton, W. H.; Curthoys, M. C. "Bellamy, James (1819–1909)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30695. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
• Hutton, William Holden (1912). "Bellamy, James" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.

Academic offices
Preceded by Philip Wynter	President of St John's College, Oxford 1871–1909	Succeeded by Herbert Armitage James
Preceded by Benjamin Jowett	Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University 1886–1890	Succeeded by Henry Boyd