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Royal Holloway College, originally a women-only college, was founded by the Victorian entrepreneur Thomas Holloway in 1879 on the Mount Lee Estate in Egham. [7] The founding of the college was brought about after Holloway, seeking to fulfil a philanthropic gesture, [8] began a public debate through The Builder [8] regarding "How best to spend a quarter of a million or more", at which point his ...
The Founder's Building is the original building of Royal Holloway College, University of London (RHUL), in Egham, Surrey, England. It is an example of French-Renaissance-style architecture in the United Kingdom, having been modelled on French chateaus such as Château de Chambord. [1] Today it is the dominant building on the campus.
The merged institution took Royal Holloway College's premises in Egham, Surrey, just outside London, as its main campus and took on the name of Royal Holloway and Bedford New College (RHBNC). The decision to drop the Bedford name from day-to-day use caused some discontent among graduates of Bedford College, who felt that their old college had ...
The campus of Royal Holloway and Bedford New College including the historic Founder's Building. The university also has several properties outside London, including a number of residential and catering units further afield and the premises of the University of London Institute in Paris , which offers undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in ...
Egham (/ ˈ ɛ ɡ əm / EG-əm) is a town in the Borough of Runnymede in Surrey, England, approximately 19 miles (31 km) west of central London.First settled in the Bronze Age, the town was under the control of Chertsey Abbey for much of the Middle Ages.
William Gilbert Chaloner, Fellow of the Royal Society; Justin Champion, professor of the history of early modern ideas; Alexey Chervonenkis, professor of computer science; Christopher Cocksworth, college chaplain, now Bishop of Coventry; Paul Cohn, Fellow of the Royal Society; Grenville Cole, Fellow of the Royal Society
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Martin-Holloway, who delivered the opening address, was Thomas Holloway's brother-in-law George Martin (1833–1895), who had married Sarah Anne Driver the sister of Jane Holloway. George and his brother Henry assisted Thomas Holloway in the foundation of the Sanatorium and Royal Holloway College.