The Dream of Gerontius #270740

Born in 1801, he was the son of a London banker, and was educated at a private school in Ealing, leaving there at the age of sixteen for Trinity College, Oxford. On 12 April, 1822, a day which he ever felt to be the turn ing point of his life, of all the most memorable, he became a Fellow of Oriel College, occupying rooms on No. 3 stair case, near the chapel.