 As only a Junior Freshman, he was elected as a Scholar of the College, the greatest undergraduate achievement, and as a Senior Freshman was awarded the Bishop Berkeley Gold Medal for Greek.As a Sophister, he achieved a First in the Moderatorship Part I along with a Mullins Classical Exhibition, before finally taking a first class Moderatorship II in Classics and a Gold Medal, and graduating B.A., incepting to M.A.in 1982.