Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Westcott, Brooke Foss
Westcott, Brooke Foss, scholar Trinity Coll., Cambridge, 1846-9 (25th wrangler, senior classic, chancellor's medallist and B.A. 1848, fellow 1849-52, M.A. 1851); adm. 'ad eundem' 17 Dec., 1860, B.D. 1864, D.D. 1870, and regius professor of theology 1870, fellow King's Coll., Cambridge, 1882, created D.C.L. (Oxon) 22 June, 1881, created D.D. Edinburgh 1884, chaplain in ordinary to the Queen 1879, hon. chaplain 1875-9, canon of Westminster 1884, of Peterborough 1869-83, assistant-master Harrow School 1852-69, rector of Somersham, Hunts, 1870-82, select preacher at Oxford 1877-80; for list of his works see Crockford.