You might be amused to note that the first Headmaster of City of London School was a Mr Giles.
Lecturers at Oxford at the period were known as Dons (still are, actually) and were required to be clergymen and celibate. It wasn't until late in the Victorian period that any College permitted married dons.
If I might suggest, you could put Spike's father into King's or University, both Colleges of London University technically but actually separate universities. Both started in the early 1830s, so would have been going strong by the time William's father was an undergraduate. He might well have secured a job teaching Classics at Westminster or one of the day schools (St Paul's, KCS or CLS for example) then secure a post at one of the London Colleges, which were new and lacked the social cachet of Oxford or Cambridge; that would make him, however affluent, socially slightly less secure.
Assuming William was born in about 1852, his father would have been a student in the 1840s or thereabouts. He might have dies in one of the cholera outbreaks which hit London mid-century.
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Lecturers at Oxford at the period were known as Dons (still are, actually) and were required to be clergymen and celibate. It wasn't until late in the Victorian period that any College permitted married dons.
If I might suggest, you could put Spike's father into King's or University, both Colleges of London University technically but actually separate universities. Both started in the early 1830s, so would have been going strong by the time William's father was an undergraduate. He might well have secured a job teaching Classics at Westminster or one of the day schools (St Paul's, KCS or CLS for example) then secure a post at one of the London Colleges, which were new and lacked the social cachet of Oxford or Cambridge; that would make him, however affluent, socially slightly less secure.
Assuming William was born in about 1852, his father would have been a student in the 1840s or thereabouts. He might have dies in one of the cholera outbreaks which hit London mid-century.
Yes, I over-think this stuff way too much. *g*