William Charles Salter

Salter was a Fellow of his college from 1848 to 1862. In 1861, he was appointed as Principal of St Alban Hall, a medieval hall of the university with its origins in the 13th century.^[2] His life as a college fellow had required celibacy, and in 1862 at Bloxworth, Dorset, Salter married Emma Louisa Augusta Pickard-Cambridge, a younger sister of Octavius Pickard-Cambridge. They had two sons, William (1863–1948) and Henry Stuart Salter (1864–1939).

When he resigned as Principal of St Alban Hall in 1882, the hall was extinguished and merged into Merton College, Oxford, which then demolished its buildings.^[3]

Salter was also Rector of Brattleby, Lincolnshire, from 1861 to 1884.^[2] He died at Oxford in 1889.^[4]

• Drummond Percy Chase, William Charles Salter, Education for Frugal Men at the University of Oxford: An Account of the Experiments at St. Mary's and St. Alban's Halls (Oxford and London: John Henry and James Parker, 1864)