Charles Stuart Calverley
Charles Stuart Calverley was an English poet and wit. He was the literary father of what has been called the university school of humour.
He was born at Martley, Worcestershire, and given the name Charles Stuart Blayds. In 1852, his father, the Rev. Henry Blayds, resumed the old family name of Calverley, which his grandfather had exchanged for Blayds in 1807. Charles went up to Balliol College, Oxford from Harrow School in 1850, and was soon known in Oxford as the most daring and highspirited undergraduate of his time. He was a universal favourite, a delightful companion, a brilliant scholar and the playful enemy of all dons. In 1851 he won the Chancellors prize for Latin verse, but it is said that the entire exercise was written in an afternoon, when his friends had locked him into his rooms, refusing to let him out until he had finished what they were confident would prove the prize poem.
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