The book Social Life in England 1750 1850 was written by author F J Frederick John Foakes Jackson Here you can read free online of Social Life in England 1750 1850 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Social Life in England 1750 1850 a good or bad book?
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Gunning draws a striking picture of the Seniority of the college in the closing years of the eighteenth century. By its stat- utes Trinity was practically governed by the Master and the ten Senior Fejlows, the latter men who had lived for years in the college without generally doing any work, being content with holding their fellowship and living in celibate idleness. Their power was great ; and, as it may well be supposed, 158 SOCIAL LIFE IN ENGLAND they were not as a rule qualified to exercis...e it, especially when they claimed a right to select the fellows themselves without regard to the reports of the examiners. The tutors fought a hard battle to remove this abuse and were taunted by Milner and the Tory party with being Jacobites and supporters of the French Revolution. The matter was decided in the courts, and the tutors won, with the result that a fellowship at Trinity became, in Macaulay's words, a veritable "patent of nobility. " I abbreviate Gunning's description of the Seniority partly from a sense of propriety.
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