Arthur Hugh Clough was a Fellow at Oriel from 1842 to 1848, but unfortunately there seems to be no available record of his life there.
Matthew Arnold went to Oriel as a Fellow in 1844; but his biographers dismiss his association with that College and with the University, by the remark that he made no post-graduate stay, of any length, in Oxford.
"Tom Brown at Rugby," in his "School Days" a boy's boy, is a much more interesting character than is "Tom Brown" a man's man, "at Oxford"; and his later educational experiences are not so highly regarded by the general masculine readers of his own country and University, as they are by the Boys and the Men who are his cousins across the Ocean. The "St. Ambrose" to which Tom Brown went is unquestionably the Oriel of his creator Tom Hughes.
In his first letter from Oxford to Arthur, dated Eighteen Hundred and Forty-blank, Tom Brown said: "Our college is a fair specimen. A venerable old front of crumbling stone, fronting the street, into which two or three other colleges look also. "These are, of course, Merton, Christ Church, and Corpus. "Over the gateway," he continued, "is a large room where the college examinations go on, when there are any. . . . The large Quadrangle into which you come first is bigger
