 Bosanquet studied at Harrow (1862–1867) and at Balliol College, Oxford (1867–1870), where he came under the influence of German idealist philosophy, principally through his teacher T.H. Green and the work of Benjamin Jowett. (Green reputedly described Bosanquet as “the best equipped man of his generation” [Muirhead 1935, p. 21; McBriar 1987, p. 3].) Bosanquet received first class honors in classical moderations (1868) and literae humaniores (1870) and, upon graduation, was elected to a Fellowship of University College, Oxford, over F.H. Bradley. While at University College, Bosanquet taught the history of logic and the history of moral philosophy; his only published work during this time was a translation of G.F. Schoemann’s Athenian Constitutional History.