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Entered St John's in 1851 and lived in the Labyrinth for about 6 months before moving to C New Court until 1854. Was preceded by a man called Wood.

List of seven rooms in Second Court and one in Third with dates ranging from 1841 to 1843 and room occupants. Author and date unknown.

Gives details for one room in Second Court and four in Third Court with names and dates. Author and date unknown.

Itemised list, with two pages covering First Court, two Second Court and one Third Court. Dates range widely. Author and date of composition unknown.

Has not found his name (which was then Snow) on the list of occupants of Third Court. Gives description of his rooms and the dates occupied.

His brother C. Foxley preceded him in O.3 Second Court from 1883-88, and was himself preceded by W.E. Butcher.Their father, J. Foxley (BA 1854) occupied one of the garrets on E Third Court.

Provides a correction: A10 New Court, Easter 1846, should be Mr Churchill Babington, not C.C. Babington. Freeman succeed Mr Churchill Babington in the occupation of A10 at the end of the Easter term 1866, when he took the College living of Cockfield. In Michaelmas 1879 Freeman changed with P.T. Main who had I2. Mr J.B. Haslam was only his subtenant from Easter term 1868 to the end of the long vacation 1869 when he was out of residence, partly in Ireland. Believes that C.C. Babington was always in A15, never A10, and that Churchill Babington was in A10 for a long time before 1861.

Corrects his residency of F.1 Second Court from 1861 to 1862, as he was in lodgings from October 1861 until his degree in June 1862, as was customary. Notes that he had made an attempt to trace the succession of rooms through the earliest prizing books and had left the result in manuscript with the prizing books in the Treasury.

Claims to have forgotten a great deal about his Cambridge years after a gap of 40 years, then goes on to give biographical details of a large number of his contemporaries. Was sad to see a decline in influence and numbers at St John's when he visited Cambridge recently.

His rooms and those of Barlow Coombes (and some before them) are not mentioned as occupying part of Sandys rooms, as they were not held quite the same as other rooms. He was there October 1890 to June 1893. Is sorry to hear that Moore Smith has given up the Press editorship, and hopes his successor will be inspired with the same spirit. Is delighted that the Concert, Ball, and other sports have been so successful, though the accident at the races is very deplorable.