admissus est pensionarius minor sub Magistro Shaw

[Zahraa Samy]

Hello,

Would you please help me understand this sentence in English?
[My father] admissus est pensionarius minor sub Magistro Shaw.

Your help is much appreciated.

 

[Snodv]

Hello,
I'll give this a whirl, although some of the Latin is ambiguous. My father has been admitted as a junior employee / a lesser pensioner?? under Master [Teacher] Shaw. Hope this helps.

 

[exgerman]

I believe that this is Francis Darwin writing about his father Charles, who had been a student at Cambridge. It's helpful if you give your source when asking questions like this.

A pensionarius minor was a student paying reduced fees in return for working. The English word for that was sizar:

By the 16th and 17th centuries ‘sizarships’ – a kind of early bursary system – were flourishing. Sizars were granted reduced fees and in repayment were obliged to act as college servants. Colleges were sure to make a sizar’s economic inferiority clear: he would eat meals only after serving the masters and other students (quite possibly eating leftovers) and was marked out by wearing different academic dress to his full-fee-paying peers.

 

[Zahraa Samy]

Thank you so much for your help