Rev. Herbert Edward Douglas Blakiston, D.D. (5 September 1862 – c. July 1942) was an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 academic who served as President of Trinity College, Oxford

Trinity College, Oxford

The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity in the University of Oxford, of the foundation of Sir Thomas Pope , or Trinity College for short, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. It stands on Broad Street, next door to Balliol College and Blackwells bookshop,...

 and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University.

Herbert Blakiston was the son of Rev. Douglas Yeoman Blakiston and Sophia Matilda Dent. He had three younger brothers, Charles, John and William. he attended Tonbridge School

Tonbridge School

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. He also studied at Trinity College, gaining a first class degree in Literae Humaniores

Literae Humaniores

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 in 1885. He was ordained and became Fellow, Chaplain

Chaplain

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, and Lecturer

Lecturer

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 at Trinity College in 1887. He then became Tutor

Tutor

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 in 1892, Senior Tutor and Junior Bursar

Bursar

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 in 1898, before becoming President of the College (1907–38). He also served as Estates Bursar (1915–38).

Blakiston wrote articles for the Dictionary of National Biography

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He was President of Trinity College from 1907 to 1938 and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University from 1917 to 1920.