These recollections of the aged President of Magdalen College, Oxford, were recorded by John William Burgon, who matriculated at Worcester College at the age of twenty-eight, became Vicar of St. Mary's, Oxford, in 1863, and Dean of Chichester in 1876. He managed to get the interview because he 'had been charged with a book for him, and having obtained his permission to bring it in person, presented [himself] at his gate'.
Note from Martin Joseph Routh, from Literary Anecdotes