double-first-class

Updated: May 15, 2025

Although he had no prizes at Oxford of the highest class, unless honors in the schools be so called and in this respect he achieved a success which falls to the lot of but few students. In the year 1831, when he went up for his final examination, he completed his academical education by attaining the highest honors in the university graduating double-first-class.

Richard B. (Richard Briscoe) Cook - The Grand Old Man