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91 Adelaide Road NW - A newspaper account claims Dr Maitland graduated from Trinity College in 1816, but this cannot be true since he lived next door to him in Taunton that year: ADM is certain that Maitland did not graduate since he was a non-conformist between 1817-20.

91 Adelaide Road - WW's information confirms ADM's recollection: Maitland was at Taunton when WW took his degree in 1816; tells the story of an undergraduate who was not found in the chapel lists or by tutors, but was instead remembered by the butler: 'An undergraduate may neither pray nor learn but he is sure to eat.' After the University College opened and courses were underway, a dinner was proposed and opposed by [Robert Edmond] Grant, who said he had never heard of such a thing as eating at a university.