Medfield College Medfield College Medfield College is a fictitious college used as the setting for several films by The Walt Disney Company. Among them are the two "Professor Brainard" movies, "The Absent-Minded Professor" (1961) and "Son of Flubber" (1963); and the "Dexter Reilly" trilogy: "The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes" (1969), "Now You See Him, Now You Don't" (1972), and "The Strongest Man in the World" (1975); as well as the remake of "The Absent-Minded Professor", "Flubber" (1997). The town of Medfield, the location of Medfield College, was the setting for another Disney film, "The Shaggy D.A." (1976), implying Medfield was also the
George Croft (priest) by whom he had a son and six daughters. In 1786, Croft was invited to give the Bampton Lectures. From his old college friend John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, he received in 1802 the rectory of Thwing in the East Riding, which he was allowed to hold, by a dispensation, with the vicarage of Arncliffe. He died in Birmingham on 11 May 1809, aged 62, and was buried in the north aisle of St. Martin's Church, Birmingham, where there is a monument to his memory. George Croft published: After his death appeared ‘Sermons, including a series of Discourses on