Double-first Definition

Double-first Sentence Examples

• In 1842 he took a "double-first" and was elected fellow of B alliol, and lecturer in mathematics and logic. Four years later he took orders, and with the aim of helping forward the education of the very poor, he accepted the headship of Kneller Hall, a college which the government formed for the training of masters of workhouse and penal schools.

• He took his degree in January 1848, obtaining double-first honours.

• He took a double first in 1843, and became tutor of his college.

• A scholar of University College, Oxford, he graduated with a' double-first class in 1844, and in the same year he was elected fellow of Brasenose College.

• In Easter term r810 he had obtained double first class honours, a distinction which had been obtained only once before, by Sir Robert Peel.