Thomas Arnold held a Fellowship at Oriel from 1815 to 1819; when he went about doing good, as he always did, but in no especially marked way. He lodged then at No. 115 High Street, in the rooms afterwards occupied by Arthur Stanley. John Henry Newman, a graduate of Trinity, became a Fellow of Oriel on the I2th of April, 1822, "a day which he ever felt to be the turning-point of his life, and of all days most memorable." In 1826 he became a Tutor, when he wrote to his mother how much he realized that there was always a danger of the love of literary pursuits assuming too pronounced a place in the thoughts of a college teacher. A danger which is not always realized, now, in a very serious way! Newman resigned his Tutorship in 1829, on account of some difficulty between the Provost and himself, regarding his duties and responsibilities. And that is the brief chronicle of his personal "Movement" out of the Oxford University life; except that he was at one time the incumbent at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, in the old University Town.
Newman occupied rooms at Oriel near the Chapel, on "No. Three Staircase." One account states that they were "on the middle floor to the left"; and a different account places them "on the first floor to the right."
