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Parents:
Jonathan BODINGTON
(1794 - 1875)
Sir John BARRAN Bt, LL.D, JP, MP
(1821 - 1905)
Anne REDFERN
(1818 - 1894)
Ann HURST
 

Married: 8 Aug 1907; Holy Trinity, Kensington, London UK
By the Revd. Lundy Edward William FOOTE (Eliza's brother-in-law) [402]
Sir Nathan BODINGTON Litt.D., LL.D.
(1848 - 1911)
Eliza BARRAN
(1853 - 1941)
 bd.  29 May 1848; Aston, Birmingham, Warwickshire UK
 dd.  12 May 1911, age 62; Woodbourne, North Hill Road, Leeds, Yorkshire UK
 brd.  Lawnswood Cemetery, Leeds, Yorkshire UK
 edu.  King Edward's School, Birmingham; 1867: Wadham College, Oxford (Scholar and Hody Exhibitioner); MA and Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford; Litt. D. Victoria University
 occ.  Principle and Professor of Greek at the Yorkshire College, Leeds, Yorkshire UK; First Vice Chancellor, Leeds University
 res.  Woodbourne, North Hill Road, Leeds, Yorkshire, UK
 src.   [351],[358],[402]
 bd.  1853; Hunslet, Leeds, Yorkshire
 dd.  21 Jan 1941, age about 87
 res.  UK
 src.   [359],[360],[391]

Sir Nathan Bodington b.1848 d.1911 Sir Nathan Bodington b.1848, signature

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Notes for Nathan BODINGTON Litt.D., LL.D.

1911, First Vice Chancellor of Leeds University, after he got Yorkshire College endowed and chartered to university in 1903.

Biography: See web link above.

His mother describes him when a year old as "very fair, with large blue eyes, and a bright colour." [358]

Nathan Bodington lived and died at Headingley, Leeds. He was cremated at Lawnswood cemetery about two miles up the road. Opposite the cemetery the OS map shows Bodington Hall. This was a hall of residence for Leeds University built in 1961 and demolished in 2013, and named in honour of Nathan Bodington, first Vice Chancellor of the university. [269]

Notes for Eliza BARRAN

Lady Eliza Bodington dedicated a piece of silver to Lincoln College, Oxford, in 1912 in memory of her late husband, who was once a Fellow. Lincoln College archive web site [391]

Sources

269.  Personal information, Tim Boddington (Webmaster)
351.  Document, Deborah Bodington, RI USA, March 2008
358.  Document, Revd William Henry Bodington, 1912, Sir Nathan Bodington: first vice-chancellor of the University of Leeds: a memoir, Macmillan & Company Ltd; London page 1
359.  Document, Charles Mosley, editor, 2003, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 07th edition, 3 volumes Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd Volume 1, page 269
360.  Document, Ann Johnston, 26 September 2009
391.  Email, Alice Parkin, Archivist, Lincoln College, Oxford, 19 January 2021
402.  Document, Frederick Arthur Crisp, 1911, Visitation of England and Wales, volume 17, copy #250, Privately printed, List of Pedigrees

Family record last updated: 21 March 2023

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