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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 ...
Map of the University of Oxford St Anne's College. Balliol College. ... Wadham College: Collegiun de Wadham, [21] Collegium Wadhami: 1610: Christ's College: £ ...
Parks Road is a road in Oxford, England, with several Oxford University colleges along its route. [1] [2] It runs north–south from the Banbury Road and Norham Gardens at the northern end, where it continues into Bradmore Road, to the junction with Broad Street, Holywell Street and Catte Street to the south.
Below is a list of the Deans of Wadham college in chronological order, together with their time in office. John Pitt 1613, 1616–17 [ 2 ] John Goodridge 1613, 1618 [ 2 ]
The Holywell Music Room, which is part of Wadham College, Oxford, was one of the earliest purpose built concert venues in the world and the first in Europe. [1] Prior to the advent of concert halls, recitals would happen at private aristocratic venues, royal courts, or in churches. [2]
College code College/Hall aso All Souls: bal Balliol: bla Blackfriars: bra Brasenose: chr Christ Church: cor Corpus Christi: cph Campion Hall: ext Exeter: grt Green Templeton: hrm Harris Manchester: her Hertford: jes Jesus: keb Keble: kel Kellogg: lmh Lady Margaret Hall: lna Linacre: lin Lincoln: mag Magdalen: man Mansfield: mer Merton: new New ...
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.
Emblem of the 17th-century English Invisible College. Wadham College, founded in 1610, was the undergraduate college of Sir Christopher Wren. Wren was part of a brilliant group of experimental scientists at Oxford in the 1650s, the Oxford Philosophical Club, which included Robert Boyle and Robert Hooke.