sentences:  After considerable discussion within the University, the funds were assigned to fund an annual lectureship in English history by a lecturer who was to be chosen annually by a board of electors.The first Ford's Lecturer in English History was S. R. Gardiner, elected for the academic year beginning in 1896.In 1994, the University of Oxford formally changed the official title of the series from "Ford's Lectures in English History" to "Ford's Lectures in British History".