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Oscar Browning (January 17, 1837 in London – October 6, 1923 in Rome) was an English writer, historian, and educational reformer. His greatest achievement was the cofounding, along with Henry Sidgwick, of the Cambridge University Day Training College〔Pam Hirsch, Mark McBeth, ''Teacher Training at Cambridge'', p. 71.〕 in 1891. This was one of the earliest institutions in Great Britain to focus on the training of educators, preempted only by the founding of the Cambridge Teaching College for Women by Elizabeth Hughes in 1885.〔Pam Hirsch, Mark McBeth, ''Teacher Training at Cambridge'', p. 128.〕 ==Life== Browning was born in London, the son of merchant William Shipton Browning, and educated at Eton College, where he was a pupil of William Johnson Cory〔Pam Hirsch, Mark McBeth, ''Teacher Training at Cambridge''.〕 and at King's College, Cambridge, where he became fellow and tutor, graduating fourth in the classical tripos of 1860, and where he was inducted into the exclusive Cambridge Apostles, a debating society for the Cambridge elite. For 15 years Browning was a master at Eton College, until he was dismissed in the autumn of 1875 following a major homosexual scandal involving several of his pupils at Eton.〔http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VV56dunio2EC&lpg=PA173&ots=A0kzPXPauQ&dq=oscar%20browning%20homosexualiyu&pg=PA173#v=onepage&q=oscar%20browning%20homosexualiyu&f=false〕 His parents' church, St. Andrew's, in Clewer, describes the reasons for his dismissal as "his injudicious talk, his favourites, and his anarchic spirit."〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.clewervillage.co.uk/standrewschurch.htm#_Toc438038547 )〕 After Eton Browning returned to King's College, Cambridge, where he took up a life fellowship and achieved a reputation as a wit, becoming universally known as "O.B.". He travelled to India at George Curzon's invitation after the latter had become Viceroy. In 1876 he resumed residence at Cambridge, where he became university lecturer in history. He soon became a prominent figure in college and university life, encouraging especially the study of political science and modern political history, the extension of university teaching and the movement for the training of teachers. Browning served as principal of the Cambridge University Day Training College (1891–1909), treasurer of the Cambridge Union Society (1881–1902), founding treasurer of the Cambridge University Liberal Club (1885–1908), and president of the Cambridge Footlights (1890–1895). Browning stood for Parliament three times as a Liberal: in Norwood in 1886, East Worcestershire in 1892, and West Derby in 1895. Browning left Cambridge in 1908 and retired to Bexhill-on-Sea. In 1914 he was visiting Italy when World War I broke out. He decided to stay there and spent his later years in Rome, where he died in 1923 at the age of eighty-six. He was a member of the Athenaeum, the Alpine Club, and the Bath Club. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Oscar Browning」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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