Charles Buller Heberden

Charles Buller Heberden
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford
In office 1910–1913
Preceded by	Thomas Herbert Warren
Succeeded by	Thomas Banks Strong
Personal details
Born	14 December 1849
Died	30 May 1921 (aged 71)
Alma mater	Balliol College, Oxford
Religion	Church of England

Charles Buller Heberden (14 December 1849 – 30 May 1921) was an English classical scholar and academic administrator. He was Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford (1889–1920)^[1][2] and served as Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University.

Charles Heberden was born at Broadhembury in Devon. He was educated at Harrow School and Balliol College, Oxford from 1868, where he was a contemporary of Benjamin Jowett.^[3]

Heberden edited a book on the history of Brasenose College, published in 1909.^[4] He funded a Harrow Scholarship for Brasenose College in 1916 and an Organ Scholarship in 1921 at his death.^[5] He also left £1,000 to the University, which was used for the Coin Room at the Ashmolean Museum.^[6]

Heberden is buried in Holywell Cemetery, Oxford.

References

1. Brasenose College, Oxford — Principals.
2. Brasenose College, A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 3: The University of Oxford (1954), pp. 207–219.
3. Jowett Papers: Index of BJ's contemporaries, Balliol College Library, Oxford.
4. Charles Buller Heberden, ed. (1909), Brasenose College Register, 1509–1909 [Oxford Historical Series; no. 55], Oxford: Blackwell for the Oxford Historical Society, OCLC 222963720.
5. Statutes of the King's Hall and College of Brasenose in Oxford, Brasenose College, Oxford, 28 April 1954. (Last amended December 1999.)
6. C.M. Kraay and C.H.V. Sutherland, The Heberden Coin Room: Origin and Development, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1972. (Revised 1989 and 2001.)

External links

• Heberden Coin Room, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford