viii PREFACE under that category. Tutors are appointed by the Principal, and not by the College, and hence there has not till lately been any official record of such appointments. Tutorships are therefore not recorded in the Register before the middle of the nineteenth century. A list ofthe chief College Clubs, ^ with the dates of their foundation, is given in this volume. There is no book containing the names ofmembers of the Vampires, and the record in the Register is therefore incomplete. Only those former members are recorded who have mentioned the fact of their having belonged to the Club in the letters which the Editor has received from them. The date given for appointment to a benefice, if it is one of the College livings, is generally that ofthe day on which the vote for presentation was passed by the College. In some cases it may be that of institution or induction, and, when this is known to be so, it is stated as such. The appointment to a College living is placed under the category of facts belonging to the College and University career. In the designation of Canons and Prebendaries the titles have been usually given in accordance with Le Neve's Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae, but in this, as in other matters, the Editor is conscious that complete uniformity has not been attained. His excuse must be that it has been difficult to secure such uniformity in work which has been done at intervals spread over many years. It has not been thought desirable to burden the Register by inserting all the facts which may be found in well- known and easily accessible books of reference, such as the Dictionary of National Biogi^aphy, a reference to which has ^ 'The Club' which is referred to e.g. under the name of Samuel Bethell (1774), was a University dining Club, which met first on April 8, 1790. Five of the ten original members were Brasenose men. ' The Club ' is said to have been founded to propagate the principles of the French Revolution. Besides the original members recorded in the Register, there have been only six Brasenose men who have belonged to 'The Club'; of the two now living, the Rev. E. T. Turner was elected in 1888 and Mr. F. Madan in 1908.