¹ Eric Mascall (1905–93), a mathematical wrangler at Cambridge who became an Anglo-Catholic priest, was sub-warden of Lincoln Theological College 1937–45; then a Student of Christ Church 1945–62, and University Lecturer in the Philosophy of Religion, before becoming Professor of Historical Theology at King’s College London. Among his profuse writings was a volume of verses, Pi in the High (1959).

¹ Actually Duncan Black (1908–91), Lecturer at Glasgow University 1946–53 and Professor of Economics at the University of Wales, Bangor, 1953–68. He was author of The Incidence of Income Taxes (1939) and The Theory of Committees of Elections (1958), but numerous articles and treatises that he wrote in the intervening period were rejected by refereed journals or academic publishers. A Mathematical Approach to Proportional Representation: Duncan Black on Lewis Carroll appeared posthumously.

² 17th-century republicans.

¹ Michael Foster (1903–59) was Student in Philosophy at Christ Church from 1930 until he gassed himself in his college rooms. His stinting of pleasures and austere, self-mortifying Christianity were often derided by T-R.

² Girolamo Savonarola (1452–98), Dominican friar and zealous Florentine preacher against luxury, whom T-R likened in Renaissance Essays to a grim ayatollah. In 1497 he organized the public incineration of books, art works, and ornaments in the most famous of the bonfires of the vanities; but a year later his body was burned after a public hanging, and his ashes cast into the river Arno.

¹ Robert Browning, ‘The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St Praxed’s Church’: ‘And marble’s language, Latin pure, discreet’.

² ‘Under this mound | Alan Yorke-Long | born in the sect of Plymouth Brethren | after an epicurean life | and a sceptic death | was buried in the proper Anglican manner | by his inconsolable friends.’