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St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford. [2] Founded as a men's college in 1555, it has been coeducational since 1979. [ 3 ] Its founder, Sir Thomas White , intended to provide a source of educated Roman Catholic clerics to support the Counter-Reformation under Queen Mary .
Most of the colleges forming the University of Cambridge and University of Oxford are paired into sister colleges across the two universities. [1] The extent of the arrangement differs from case to case, but commonly includes the right to dine at one's sister college, the right to book accommodation there, the holding of joint events between JCRs and invitations to May balls.
A list of alumni of St John's College, Oxford, former students of the college of the University of Oxford.The overwhelming maleness of this list is partially explained by the fact that for over 90% of its history (from its foundation in 1555 until 1979), women were barred from studying at St John's. [1]
People associated with St John's College, Oxford (3 C, 6 P) Pages in category "St John's College, Oxford" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.
At Oxford, Southern's mentors were Sir Maurice Powicke and Vivian Hunter Galbraith. He was a fellow of Balliol from 1937 to 1961 (where he lectured alongside Christopher Hill ), Chichele Professor of Modern History at Oxford from 1961 to 1969, and president of St John's College, Oxford , from 1969 to 1981.
St Hilda's College and St Cross College: St John's College: Bray, who studied Arabic and Persian at Oxford, studies the relationship between Arabic literary and social history. Before taking up the Laudian professorship, she was professor of Medieval Arabic Literature at Paris 8 University. [33] [34] Bray was the first woman to take up the ...
A list of presidents of St John's College, Oxford: Rev. Alexander Belsyre (1557–1559) Rev. William Eley (1559–1560) Rev. William Stock (1560–1564) Rev. John Robinson (1564–1572) Rev. Tobias Matthew (1572–1577) Rev. Francis Willis (1577–1590) Rev. Ralph Hutchinson (1590–1606) Rev. John Buckeridge, 1606–1611; Rev. William Laud ...
He then read Ancient and Modern History at St John's College, Oxford, [1] completing a D.Phil. in ancient military history from the University of Oxford in 1994. That dissertation laid the foundation of his first book, The Roman Army at War 100 BC – AD 200 .