Dr Joseph Phillimore, who had held the Chair since 1809 and who continued to hold it until his death in 1855 at the age of eighty, admitted in a series of evasive replies to the Select Committee that his subject had not been taught at Oxford for almost a hundred years.
Joseph Phillimore, der die Professur 1809 übernommen hatte und bis zu seinem Tod 1855, im Alter von 80 Jahren hielt, gestand nach einer Reihe ausweichender Antworten gegenüber dem Ausschuss ein, dass das Fach in Oxford fast 100 Jahre nicht mehr gelehrt worden war.