DUDLEY JULIUS
MEDLEY
THE Professor of History in Glasgow University was born in
London, 31st March, 1861, and is a son of Lieut.-General J. G. Medley, R.E., and
of Adelaide Charlotte, daughter of Brigadier-General J. Steel, C.B. In 1875 he
entered Wellington College, where he won the Prince Consort's gold medal, and
was Senior Prefect and a member of the cricket eleven. In 1880 he proceeded to
Keble College, Oxford, and having distinguished himself by taking first-class
honours in the School of Modern History in 1883, he successively held the
appointments of Lecturer from 1884 to 1887 and Tutor from 1887 to 1899. He was
Examiner in the Honours School of Modern History at Oxford from 1897 to 1899,
and in the Cambridge Historical Tripos in 1904 and 1905. Meanwhile in 1899 he
received the appointment to the Chair of History in Glasgow University, and
since that date he has taken an active part in the public affairs of Glasgow,
both within the University and outside. He is Dean of the Faculty of arts,
Convener of the Committee on Military Education, and of the External
Examinations and Appointments Committee, representative of the University on the
Glasgow General Educational Endowments Board, and Honorary President of the
University Athletic Club. He is also the University representative on the
Territorial Force Association, was a member of Glasgow School Board from 1906
till 1909, and is a Member of Council of Glasgow Athenaeum Commercial College.
He is the author of "A Students' Manual of Constitutional
History," first published in 1894, of which a fourth edition was issued 1907. He
also contributed to Wakeman and Hassall's "Constitutional Essays" (Longmans),
and to the illustrated edition of "Social England" (Cassell & Co.).
Professor Medley married Isabel Alice, daughter of the Rev.
J. L. Gibbs, and has four sons and three daughters.
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