Background
COOLIDGE, William Augustus Brevoort was born on August 28, 1850 in 28 August 1850. Son of Frederic,William Skinner Coolidge and Elisabeth Neville Brevoort.
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William Augustus Brevoort COOLIDGE
William Augustus Brevoort COOLIDGE, British Professor.
Education
Studied at St. Paul’s School, Concord, New Hampshire (United States of America). Elizabeth College Guernsey. Exeter College Oxford (Taylorian University Scholar for French, 1871.
1st class Modern History, 1873. 2nd class Jurisprudence, 1874. Bachelor of Arts, 1874.
Master of Arts, 1876). Honourable Doctor Philos. (University of Bern), 1908.
Career
Deacon, 1882; Priest, 1883. Professor English History, St. David’s College, Lampeter, 1880-1881. Modern History Tutor Magdalen College Oxford, 1SS1-S5.
Honorary curate of S. Hinksey, 1883-1895. Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society 1890. Member English Alpine Club, 1870-1899.
Swiss Alpine Club, 1895-1905. Honorary member of the French and the Italian Alpine Clubs, 1898, of the English Alpine Club, 1904. Corresponding member of the Swiss Hist.
Society, 1891, lion, member 190S. Honorary member Bernese Historical Society, 1905. Silver medallist Paris Geographical Society, 1905.
Honorary member of the Maurienne Historical Society, 1905. Lion, member of the Lyons Section of the French Alpine Club, 1910. Life Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, since 1875 (though still in law an American).
Works
Interests
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Swiss history, history of the Alps, (formerly) mountaineering.
Connections
- Father:
- Frederic
