Oxford – Colin Brady

Bowen in Convocation

I’ve come into Oxford on a quiet August day and as I’ve been reading Elizabeth Bowen’s A Time in Rome over these days of excessive heat, my mind has wandered to her links with this city and its university, remembering that I have previously said that some day I’ll take time to dig into theContinue reading “Bowen in Convocation”

A Brag for Summer

I admit that it wasn’t my idea but as my life in philanthropy and development has featured a lot of beer I was very pleased when a cheering summer brew crossed my desk at Campion Hall in Oxford. The Hall is named after Edmund Campion, the foremost scholar in Oxford of his time who becameContinue reading “A Brag for Summer”

Charles Plater SJ and the Lamb and Flag

I am not the landlord of the historic Lamb and Flag pub on St Giles’ in the heart of Oxford. Owned by St John’s College and on its current site since 1613, the pub featured in episodes of Morse, was a favoured watering hole for Graham Greene in his student days, and might be theContinue reading “Charles Plater SJ and the Lamb and Flag”