Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford (1883–1948)
Stallybrass in 1936
William Teulon Swan Stallybrass (formerlyWilliam Teulon Swan Sonnenschein; 22 November 1883 – 28 October 1948) was abarrister, Principal ofBrasenose College, Oxford, from 1936, andVice-Chancellor of theUniversity of Oxford from October 1947 until his death.[1]
He was the son of the publisherWilliam Swan Sonnenschein and the nephew of the classical scholarEdward Adolf Sonnenschein,[1] and was colloquially known at Oxford as "Sonners" for his former surname;[2] in 1917, together with his father, he took the surname of his great-grandfather, the ReverendEdward Stallybrass.[3][4]
As an undergraduate at Brasenose, he played cricket; he served as treasurer of theOxford University Cricket Club from 1914 to 1946.[1] He was abarrister when he was asked in 1912 to return to his college as a fellow, where he specialised incriminal law[4] and became Master of the college in 1936.[5] He was elected Vice-Chancellor of the university in October 1947.[4]
He died a year later in a railway accident when he stepped out of a moving train nearIver station inBuckinghamshire, the first death of an Oxford vice-chancellor while in office.[6] He was almostblind at the time.[2]
