It raised an
immediate commotion. It was denounced as heretical, and the senior tutor of
Exeter burnt it during a lecture in the College Hall. Froude resigned his
Fellowship, and his connection with the university was severed for
thirty-three years. He was one of the first to take advantage of the
alteration of the law which enabled a clergyman to resign his orders. In
1892 he went back to Oxford as Regius Professor of Modern History. "The
temptation of going back to Oxford in a respectable way," he said, "was too
much for me." He died on October 20, 1894, and on his tombstone he is
simply described, by his own wish, as Professor of Modern History in the
University of Oxford.
The writer is indebted for information with regard to Froude's life to Mr.
Pollard's article in the _Dictionary of National Biography_, and to Mr.
Herbert Paul's admirable _Life of Froude_ (Pitman).
W. LLEWELYN WILLIAMS.
_November_ 16, 1908.
The following is a list of the published works of J.A. Froude:
Life of St. Neot (Lives of the English Saints, edited by J.H. Newman),
1844; Shadows of the Clouds (Tales), by Zeta (_pseud._), 1847; A Sermon
(on 2 Cor. vii. 10) preached at St. Mary's Church on the Death of the
Rev. George May Coleridge, 1847; Article on Spinoza (_Oxford and
Cambridge Review_), 1847; The Nemesis of Faith (Tale), 1849; England's
Forgotten Worthies (_Westminster Review_), 1852; Book of Job
(_Westminster Review)_, 1853; Poems of Matthew Arnold (_Westminster
Review_), 1854; Suggestions on the Best Means of Teaching English
History (Oxford Essays, etc.
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