Charles Buller Heberden (14 December 1849 – 30 May 1921) was an English classical scholar and academic administrator. He was principal of Brasenose College, Oxford (1889–1920)Brasenose College, Oxford — Principals .Brasenose College, A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 3: The University of Oxford (1954), pp. 207–219. and served as vice-chancellor of Oxford University.
Life He was born at Broadhembury in Devon, the son of the Rev. William Heberden. He was educated at Harrow School and Balliol College, Oxford, from 1868, where he was a contemporary of Benjamin Jowett.Jowett Papers: Index of BJ's contemporaries , Balliol College Library, Oxford.s:Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Heberden, Charles Buller
Heberden edited a book on the history of Brasenose College, published in 1909.. He funded a Harrow Scholarship for Brasenose College in 1916 and an Organ Scholarship in 1921 at his death.Statutes of the King's Hall and College of Brasenose in Oxford, Brasenose College, Oxford, 28 April 1954. (Last amended December 1999.) He also left £1,000 to the university, which was used for the Coin Room at the Ashmolean Museum.C.M. Kraay and C.H.V. Sutherland, The Heberden Coin Room: Origin and Development , Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1972. (Revised 1989 and 2001.)
He was on the governing body of Abingdon School from 1914 to 1921.
Heberden is buried in Holywell Cemetery, Oxford.
References
External links Heberden Coin Room, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford