Background
He was born on 14 September 1820, at Château de Saulruit, near Saint Omer. He was the second son of John Woodford Chase of Cosgrave, Northamptonshire.
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Drummond Percy Chase
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He graduated Bachelor of Arts on 25 November 1841, proceeding Master of Arts
Career
He matriculated at Pembroke College, Oxford on 15 February 1839. He became scholar of Oriel College on 22 May 1839, and was one of four who obtained first-class honours in classics in Michaelmas term, 1841. on 14 June 1844 and Doctor of Divinity in 1880, and was ordained deacon in 1844 and priest in 1849. He was tutor of Oriel from 1847 to 1849 and again from 1860 to 1866.
He was senior proctor of the University in 1853, and printed his Latin speech on going out of office on 26 April 1854.
He was a select preacher before the university in 1860, and was vicar of Saint Mary"s, Oxford, from 1855 to 1863 and again from 1876 to 1878. In 1848, Chase became vice-principal of Saint Mary Hall, Oxford, the principal being Philip Bliss.
In 1857, he was appointed principal on Bliss"s death, and set himself vigorously to reform the place. He would admit no idle or extravagant candidate who was seeking to migrate from a college.
But he welcomed diligent and frugal men, whose poverty excluded them from expensive colleges.
The institution of the non-collegiate body in 1868, and the foundation of Keble College in 1870, made other and better provision in the university for poor undergraduates. Chase therefore advised the university commissioners of 1877 to merge, on his death, Saint Mary Hall in Oriel College, with which it was connected both locally and personally. This suggestion was embodied in the Commissioners" Statutes in 1881, and accordingly, on Chase"s death in 1902, Saint Mary Hall ceased, after an independent existence of nearly six hundred years.
