Names like Darcy, Mandeville and Neville have attended elite universities for 27 generations Tom Mendelsohn Wednesday, 30 October 2013 The same elite names have dominated Oxbridge as far back as the Norman Conquest– and there’s no sign that they’re about to be ousted any time soon. According to new research, old aristocratic names like Darcy, Percy, Mandeville and Montgomery have been represented on the rolls at Oxford and Cambridge for 27 generations, with grave implications for social mobility in Britain. Despite the many social and technological upheavals in the past millennium, the study found that More…![]()
