{{Short description|English classical scholar and academic administrator}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Use British English|date=February 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Charles Buller Heberden | image = Charles Buller Heberden Orpen.jpg | caption = | order = | title = [[Vice-Chancellor]] of the [[University of Oxford]] | term_start = 1910 | term_end = 1913 | predecessor = [[Thomas Herbert Warren]] | successor = [[Thomas Banks Strong]] | birth_date = {{birth date|1849|12|14|df=yes}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|1921|5|30|1849|12|14|df=y}} | death_place = | alma_mater = [[Balliol College, Oxford]] | profession = | footnotes = }} '''Charles Buller Heberden''' (14 December 1849 – 30 May 1921) was an English [[classical scholar]] and [[academic administrator]]. He was [[Principal (university)|principal]] of [[Brasenose College, Oxford]] (1889–1920)<ref>[http://www.bnc.ox.ac.uk/345/brasenose-college-archives-and-history-38/brasenose-people-216/principals-list-of-past-and-present-413.html Brasenose College, Oxford — Principals] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120213110804/http://www.bnc.ox.ac.uk/345/brasenose-college-archives-and-history-38/brasenose-people-216/principals-list-of-past-and-present-413.html |date=2012-02-13 }}.</ref><ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63882 Brasenose College], ''A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 3: The University of Oxford'' (1954), pp. 207–219.</ref> and served as [[vice-chancellor]] of [[Oxford University]].
==Life== He was born at [[Broadhembury]] in [[Devon]], the son of the Rev. William Heberden. He was educated at [[Harrow School]] and [[Balliol College, Oxford]], from 1868, where he was a contemporary of [[Benjamin Jowett]].<ref>''[http://www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/library/jowett/index2.asp Jowett Papers: Index of BJ's contemporaries] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080521015008/http://www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/library/jowett/index2.asp |date=2008-05-21 }}'', Balliol College Library, Oxford.</ref><ref>[[s:Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Heberden, Charles Buller]]</ref>
Heberden edited a book on the history of Brasenose College, published in 1909.<ref>{{citation|editor=Charles Buller Heberden|title=Brasenose College Register, 1509–1909 [Oxford Historical Series; no. 55]|location=Oxford|publisher=[[Blackwell Publishing|Blackwell]] for the Oxford Historical Society|year=1909|oclc=222963720}}.</ref> He funded a [[Harrow School|Harrow]] Scholarship for Brasenose College in 1916 and an Organ Scholarship in 1921 at his death.<ref>''[http://www.bnc.ox.ac.uk/downloads/freedominfo/statutes.pdf Statutes of the King's Hall and College of Brasenose in Oxford]'', Brasenose College, Oxford, 28 April 1954. (Last amended December 1999.)</ref> He also left £1,000 to the university, which was used for the Coin Room at the [[Ashmolean Museum]].<ref>C.M. Kraay and C.H.V. Sutherland, ''[http://www.ashmolean.org/documents/HCRhistory.pdf The Heberden Coin Room: Origin and Development] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061103114708/http://www.ashmolean.org/documents/HCRhistory.pdf |date=2006-11-03 }}'', [[Ashmolean Museum]], Oxford, 1972. (Revised 1989 and 2001.)</ref>
He was on the governing body of [[Abingdon School]] from 1914 to 1921.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.abingdon.org.uk/uploads/school/files/abingdonian/1935_May_V007_N014.pdf#page=2|title=School Notes|publisher=The Abingdonian}}</ref>
Heberden is buried in [[Holywell Cemetery]], [[Oxford]].
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20071110010529/http://www.ashmolean.org/departments/heberdencoinroom/ Heberden Coin Room], Ashmolean Museum, Oxford {{s-start}} {{s-aca}} {{s-bef|before=[[Albert Watson (principal)|Albert Watson]]}} {{s-ttl|title=[[Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford]]|years=1889–1920}} {{s-aft|after=[[Charles Henry Sampson]]}} {{s-bef|before=[[Thomas Herbert Warren]]}} {{s-ttl|title=[[Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University]]|years=1910–1913}} {{s-aft|after=[[Thomas Strong (bishop)|Thomas Strong]]}} {{s-end}}
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