Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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]
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Pages for logged out editors learn more
Wadham College, in the centre of the city on Parks Road, was founded in 1610 by Dorothy Wadham, using money that her husband Nicholas had bequeathed for the establishment of an Oxford college. The main quadrangle was designed by William Arnold and constructed between 1610 and 1613, and includes a statue of King James I (in whose reign the ...
Kerry Washington portrays Lt. Col. Charity Adams in the Netflix film. The real-life leader was born in Kittrell, N.C., on Dec. 5, 1918, and raised in Columbia, S.C.
15th century alabaster effigy thought to represent Elizabeth Popham, heiress of Merryfield, Ilton Church. [13] She was the wife of Sir John III Wadham and the collar of roses worn around her neck is said to represent the crest of Wadham, [14] a rose argent between a pair of antlers (as visible on the monument to Nicholas II Wadham (died 1609) in Ilminster Church [15])
Positive cash flow is necessary for achieving financial stability and building wealth, but renters are disadvantaged compared to homeowners. Homeowners have nearly 40x the wealth of renters. But ...