Daniel Harper (headmaster)

Hugo Daniel Harper (3 May 1821[1] – 8 January 1895) was Principal of Jesus College, Oxford, from 1877 to 1895.

He went to school at Christ's Hospital[1] and was first admitted as a sizar at St John's College, Cambridge on 25 May 1840 but less than a month later transferred to Jesus College, Oxford,[2] where he was awarded a scholarship and obtained a second in classical moderations, followed by a first in mathematics in 1844.

[6] Around the beginning of 1893 he became too ill to continue as Principal of Jesus College, and was relieved of his duties by the Visitor.

He went to live at The Grove, Impington, Cambridgeshire and died there two years later on 8 January 1895.

[10] He was buried in Holywell Cemetery, Oxford in the grave of his son William Jevon Harper, who had died at the age of 17.