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SIR CHARLES GRANT ROBEBTSON, who had been principal and, after the amendment of the University Charter in 1927, vice-chancellor of the University of Birmingham from 1920 until 1938, died at his home at Ringwood in Hampshire on February 29. Born in 1869, he passed from Highgate School to Hertford College, Oxford. There he had a brilliant career, being elected a fellow of All Souls in 1893. At Oxford he earned a reputation as a distinguished historian. In 1920 he was appointed principal of the University of Birmingham, to succeed Sir Oliver Lodge, the first principal, who had retired in 1919.
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SHAKESPEAR, G. Sir Charles Grant Robertson, C.V.O. Nature 161, 510 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161510a0
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