[6] This was in a house in St Aldate's, Oxford, shared with James Mozley and Mark Pattison, as well as his brother.
[7] As a Fellow Christie worked on the church history of Claude Fleury, with John Henry Newman.
Edward Hawkins, Provost of Oriel, acted on the disquiet of others to put pressure on Christie, often absent from the college.
[3] He failed to take deacon's orders from the Bishop of Oxford, for that reason, a decision by Hawkins connected with Tractarian opposition to Renn Hampden.
[8] Christie in 1844 divided his time between St Bartholomew's Hospital, as a medical student, and Littlemore, Newman's small place of retreat just south of Oxford.