tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post3186321391263213532..comments2024-03-28T09:36:30.991+00:00Comments on David Lindsay: Majors and MinorsDavid Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-31751227129013469022008-08-26T17:09:00.000+01:002008-08-26T17:09:00.000+01:00Grey (or was it Russell) - probably was Grey as Ed...Grey (or was it Russell) - probably was Grey as Edinburgh would have been his "local".<BR/><BR/>Whoever also went to Oxbridge as well as Edinburgh.<BR/><BR/>However Bute stands alone with no Oxbridge degree before Brown.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-70161840293722986112008-08-26T16:23:00.000+01:002008-08-26T16:23:00.000+01:00I'd have to check on Grey, although I have to say ...I'd have to check on Grey, although I have to say that I'd be extremely surprised if his only degree were non-Oxbridge. And of course you can get away with foreign degrees, at least of they are from Europe.<BR/><BR/>Campbell-Bannerman would not have become PM without an Oxbridge degree unless, like Churchill or Lloyd George, he had had no degree at all.<BR/><BR/>Even John Buchan felt it necesasry to get a second degree from Oxford, even though he had a Who's Who entry by the time he finished it. And of course, like anyone else picked out that young as a future PM, he never actually got to Number 10.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-66800097370849875102008-08-25T09:32:00.000+01:002008-08-25T09:32:00.000+01:00Actually the Earl of Bute did not go to Oxbridge e...Actually the Earl of Bute did not go to Oxbridge either but was a graduate - he graduated from Leiden in the Netherlands. Scotland had strong historic and academic links with that university and its thinking had a very strong influence on Scottish jurisprudence through Romano-Dutch law.<BR/><BR/>Also several Prime Ministers held degrees other than Oxbridge institutions. Campbell-Bannerman went first to his local university - Glasgow before he went to Oxbridge for a second degree and I think it was Earl Grey or someone from that period who went to Edinburgh.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com