Mastership, began to take that leading position in the University-system of Oxford which it still maintains.
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, the familiar "Arthur" of "Tom Brown's School Days," and the famous Dean of Westminster, gained, while at Rugby, a Scholarship at Balliol, which College he entered in 1834. In 1837 he won the Newdigate Prize; he was elected a Fellow of University College in 1839; in 1841 he became Regius Professor of Modern History. In 1845 he was appointed Select Preacher at Oxford; in 1851 he resigned the Fellowship of University College to accept the Canonry of Canterbury Cathedral; in 1857 he began his lectures in Oxford as Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History, lodging at 115 High Street, in the rooms formerly occupied by Dr. Arnold when he was Fellow at Oriel. Concerning the appointment of Matthew Arnold as Professor of Poetry in 1857, Stanley wrote to Mrs. Arnold: " Matt's election was an unmixed pleasure, and will be so to him. You heard, I dare say, that he spent two days with me in my lodgings at Wyatt's, I occupying the very rooms which you knew so well." Stanley might safely call Arnold "Matt"; but not many men would have attempted the familiarity, in later years.
In 1860 Stanley was appointed to a Canonry at
