| He matriculated at the age of sixteen, and supported himself as a sizar at Pembroke College. |
| He was the son of a barber, but was well educated, and was able to enter Caius College as a sizar at thirteen. |
| In a month he had passed his first examinations and was made a sizar. |
| The critical apparatus he erects approaches the shaky heights of Babel, yet the wealth and profusion of detail within it would purblind Larkin's own shivering sizar. |
| Sizar Elliott, who pioneered meat canning in Australia, was born in Essex in 1814 and brought up in New Brunswick. |
| At first he was a sizar but from his second year onwards he received a full scholarship. |
