Possible Clues:

• After teaching degree, lecturer initially gets teased about being scruffy
• Teased about large bottom at first — it's wet and messy
• Lost blood being stabbed by dagger, sadly not looking good
• Scruffy graduate teacher teased about student
• Sodden and dishevelled, get pulled round back of hovel
• Wet and untidy tatty clothing left on furniture
• Scruffy mattress in tatters, loot initially stuffed inside
• Unkempt educationist left in threadbare clothing
• It might be the doctor on a horse that led to his being in such a mess