User talk:Giles Short

John Morton
Hi! You reverted my edit to John Morton (cardinal) on the grounds that there's no reliable evidence that his college was Balliol - I took it from Alumni Oxonienses, his Britannica article also has it. LookLook36 (talk) 09:46, 13 November 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi! The seventeenth century antiquary Anthony à Wood said in his Athenae Oxonienses that Morton attended Balliol College and this claim is repeated in the sources you cite, the Alumni Oxonienses (1891) and the 1911 edition of the Encyclopaedia Brittanica. Both sources are outdated. Emden in his Biographical Register of the University of Oxford to AD 1500 (1958) noted that Wood did not support his statement with any evidence and Dr Stuart Bradley in his 2019 scholarly life of Morton observed that no contemporary evidence corroborates Wood’s statement. Giles Short (talk) 00:34, 14 November 2023 (UTC)