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Royal Holloway, University of London (RH), formally incorporated as Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, is a public research university and a member institution of the federal University of London. It has six schools, 21 academic departments and approximately 10,500 undergraduate and postgraduate students from more than 100 countries. [5]
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.
Holloway is an area of north London in the London Borough of Islington, England, 3.3 miles (5.3 km) north of Charing Cross, which follows the line of the Holloway Road . At the centre of Holloway is the Nag's Head commercial area which sits between the more residential Upper Holloway and Lower Holloway neighbourhoods.
c College of the University of London until 2007. In addition to the institutions in London, Royal Holloway, University of London in Surrey, and the University of Reading in Berkshire are members of the London Higher membership organisation for London universities. [12] Royal Holloway is also a member institution of the University of London
As of August 2017, there were 106 universities in England and 5 university colleges [1] out of a total of around 130 in the United Kingdom.This includes private universities but does not include other Higher Education Institutions [Note 1] that have not been given the right to call themselves "university" or "university college" by the Privy Council or Companies House (e.g. colleges of higher ...
The present house dates back to 1737, although its fronts are largely c. 1830.. In 1869, the property was owned by Thomas Holloway, [3] philanthropist and founder of two large institutions which he built nearby: Holloway Sanatorium in Virginia Water, Surrey, and Royal Holloway College, now known as Royal Holloway, University of London in Englefield Green.
Lilian Faithfull CBE, university administrator; Giles Foden, fellow in creative and performing arts; Sir Gregory Foster, former vice-chancellor of the University of London; Mary Fowler, professor of geology, now Master of Darwin College, Cambridge; Harold Munro Fox, Fellow of the Royal Society; Dame Jane Francis, director of the British ...
In 1996, the university celebrated its centenary, dating from the year of the Northern Polytechnic's founding. UNL existed until 2002, when it merged with London Guildhall University to form London Metropolitan University. Its former premises now form the university's north campus, on Holloway Road and Highbury Grove, Islington.