William Henry Charsley

Who is William Henry Charsley?

William Henry Charsley was an English academic, Master of Charsley's Hall, Oxford from 1865 to 1891.

Born at Beaconsfield in 1820, Charsley was a boy at Uppingham School, from where he matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford. He migrated to St Mary Hall after being blinded in an accident, and from there he graduated, to become a well-regarded tutor. He founded Charsley's Hall, a new Permanent Private Hall at Oxford in 1856 and was the licensed Master of it until 1891, when he was succeeded by Charles Abdy Marcon.

The History of the University of Oxford states that

Charsley died at Great Malvern on 2 November 1900. The Oxford Magazine noted that he had been well known in the University. In R. W. Hiley's Memories of Half a Century, Charsley is described as "honoured, respected and beloved by all... a fine man in person, of superior mind, a good scholar".