Rapid changes among the fellows found him, at age 26, "the senior and most responsible of the four Balliol tutors." The experience gained during this period stood him in good stead afterwards as a member of the first Oxford University Commission (1850–52). He never sympathised with the principles of the Oxford Movement and, on the appearance of Tract 90 in 1841, he drafted the famous protest of the "Four Tutors" against it; but this was his only important contribution to the controversy. On the other hand, although his sympathies were on the whole with the liberal movement in the university, he never took a lead in the matter.
rapid changes among the fellows found him at age 26 "the senior and most responsible of the four balliol tutors" the experience gained during this period stood him in good stead afterwards as a member of the first oxford university commission (1850–52) he never sympathised with the principles of the oxford movement and on the appearance of tract 90 in 1841 he drafted the famous protest of the "four tutors" against it; but this was his only important contribution to the controversy on the other hand although his sympathies were on the whole with the liberal movement in the university he never took a lead in the matter