is said that he was in residence during 1752 and 1753, but never before, or after, for any perceptible length of time.
John Keble became a Fellow of Oriel in 1811, after leaving Corpus with all the honors of a Double First. In 1813 he was a Public Examiner, and a Tutor of Oriel. In 1823 he resigned, and left Oxford; but he returned to be Professor of Poetry from 1831 to 1841. A shy, homely man, and unambitious, he was, strangely enough, nevertheless, a prime factor in the great religious movement of his time; and Keble College, at Oxford, erected as a tribute to his memory, and opened in 1869, is his most enduring monument ; but it is too young in years yet to have Literary Landmarks of its own.
His rooms at Oriel are vaguely described as having been " up one flight of steps, on the left." But tradition does not say up which flight of steps, or on the left of what!
A Fellowship at Oriel was, and is, a coveted honor, obtained with difficulty and subject to much competitive examination. Only the fittest of the aspirants are selected; and the list of Fellows, naturally, is a brilliant one; although many of the men once Fellows of Oriel who have made their way upward in the World of Letters, did very little, while Fellows, that is worthy of record here.
