# William Henry Charsley

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'''William Henry Charsley''' (1820 – 2 November 1900) was an [English](/source/English_people) academic, Master of [Charsley's Hall](/source/Charsley's_Hall), [Oxford](/source/University_of_Oxford) from 1862 to 1891.

Born at [Beaconsfield](/source/Beaconsfield) in 1820, Charsley matriculated at [Christ Church, Oxford](/source/Christ_Church%2C_Oxford), but left after being blinded in an accident. He returned to [St Mary Hall](/source/St_Mary_Hall%2C_Oxford), with assistance from his brother Robert Harvey Charsley, and graduated from there to become a well-regarded tutor.<ref name=Hiley>Richard William Hiley, ''Memories of Half a Century'' (1899), p. 55: "The above description of some of the members that composed our body shall be closed with a slight biography of two men, honoured, respected and beloved by all who knew them..."</ref> He founded Charsley's Hall, a [private hall](/source/private_hall_of_the_University_of_Oxford) at Oxford, in 1862, continuing as its licensed Master until 1891, when he was succeeded by [Charles Abdy Marcon](/source/Charles_Abdy_Marcon).<ref>Christopher Hibbert (ed.), "Private halls" in ''The Encyclopaedia of Oxford'' (London: Macmillan, 1988),  p. 337</ref><ref>''Oxford University Calendar 1866'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=BLwUAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA346 p. 346]</ref><ref name=annual>''The Annual Register of World Events'' (Longmans, Green, 1901) p. 145</ref>

''The History of the University of Oxford'' states that {{blockquote|One small establishment, however, filled a niche in the market by receiving idle or incapable students removed from the colleges. For nearly thirty years W. H. Charsley presided over a hall in Parks Road whose members, though few in number, were distinguished for their athletic prowess.<ref>T. H. Aston, Brian Harrison, ''The History of the University of Oxford'', vol. 7, Nineteenth-Century Oxford, Part 2 (1994), p. 120</ref>}}
 
Charsley died at [Great Malvern](/source/Great_Malvern) on 2 November 1900.<ref name=annual/> The ''Oxford Magazine'' noted that he had "succeeded in founding a Hall and filling it most successfully, and it still flourishes under his successor".<ref>The Oxford magazine, Volume 19, p. 76</ref> In 
R. W. Hiley's ''Memories of Half a Century'' (1899), Charsley is described as "honoured, respected and beloved by all... a fine man in person, of superior mind, a good scholar".<ref name=Hiley/> 
 
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