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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.
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 ...
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
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.
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 ...
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Archaeologists discovered a wooden Celtic burial chamber inside a southern Germany burial mound. Dated to between 620 and 450 B.C., these mounds were reserved for high-ranking individuals. Experts ...
Royal Holloway acquired the site in July 2016, but leased it back to P&G and Coty. According to current planning application with Runnymede, the plans are for the demolition of existing buildings and erection of purpose built student accommodation up to 1,400 study bedrooms, energy centre and ancillary uses, including a pedestrian footbridge over the railway, and associated landscaping - ("a ...