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The college was founded by Dorothy Wadham (née Petre) in 1610, [7] according to the wishes set out in the will of her husband Nicholas Wadham.Over four years, she gained royal and ecclesiastical support for the new college, negotiated the purchase of a site, appointed the West Country architect William Arnold, drew up the college statutes, and appointed the first warden, fellows, scholars ...
Dorothy Wadham (/ ˈ w ɒ d ə m /; née Petre) (1534/1535 – 16 May 1618) was an English landowner and the founder of Wadham College, Oxford, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford. Wadham was the first woman who was not a member of the royal family or titled aristocracy to found a college at Oxford or Cambridge. [1]
He was then commissioned in 1610–1613 by Dorothy Wadham, a Somerset resident, to design and oversee the building of Wadham College, Oxford. [6] Wadham College is widely [by whom?] regarded as the last major public building in the UK to have been built according to the mediaeval principles of a supervising master mason. [citation needed]
Michigan's attorney general said her office won't be the agency to conduct a school district's planned third-party investigation into the events at Oxford High School that occurred before last ...
Portal:University of Oxford/Selected picture/35 . Wadham College was founded in 1610 by Dorothy Wadham using money bequeathed for this purpose by her husband Nicholas Wadham. The main quadrangle, seen here, was built 1610–13 to designs by William Arnold.
Across the state, Michiganders will take a moment of silence at 12:51 p.m., while Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has ordered flags to be lowered at half-staff.
Authorities have said Ethan Crumbley opened fire shortly before 1 p.m. Tuesday at Oxford High School, roughly 30 miles (50 kilometers) north of Detroit. Parents of Michigan boy charged in Oxford ...
A judge sentenced a Michigan teenager to life in prison Friday for killing four students and terrorizing others at Oxford High School, after listening to hours of gripping anguish from parents and ...