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Tutor

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One of his tutorial pupils from outwith Balliol was the young AJP Taylor, whose autobiography pays tribute to Urquhart as a tutor. Taylor also made Urquhart's father, David, the subject of one of his Ford Lectures, published as "The Troublemakers".Delahays (talk) 17:37, 28 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Clarify, please

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He is often taken as having influenced the fictional characters of Mr Samgrass in Waugh's Brideshead Revisited and, more closely, Sillery in Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time, as well as a character of Walter Pater.

What is 'a character of Walter Pater'? Valetude (talk) 10:17, 21 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]