Corpus Christi College (Oxford)
Corpus Christi College (The President and Scholars of the College of Corpus Christi in the University of Oxford) |
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founding | 1517 |
Sponsorship | Oxford University |
place | Oxford , UK |
president | Helen Moore |
Students | 252 postgraduates : 93 |
Annual budget | £ 160.7 million (2018) |
University sports | Rowing club |
Website | Homepage |
The Corpus Christi College ( CCC ) is a college of the University of Oxford .
Richard Fox , the Bishop of Winchester , founded this small college in 1517 for the study of theology , Latin, and ancient Greek . In the main courtyard there is a sundial constructed in 1581 by Charles Turnbull . The tip is adorned by a pelican, which symbolizes the body of Christ (Corpus Christi).
The presidents of Corpus Christi College in Oxford were from 1881 to 1904 the John Locke biographer Thomas Fowler (1832-1904), from 1904 to 1924 the philosopher Thomas Case (1844-1925), from 1924 to 1933 the Erasmus researcher Percy Stafford Allen and, since 1933, the Graecist Richard Winn Livingstone (1880–1960).
Well-known former students
- Al Alvarez , poet, writer and literary critic
- Max Beloff, Baron Beloff , historian
- Isaiah Berlin , political philosopher and historian of ideas
- Charles Otto Blagden , orientalist and linguist
- Ian Bostridge , opera singer
- Robert Bridges , poet
- William Buckland , theologian, geologist and paleontologist
- John Y. Campbell , economist and professor
- Edmund Kerchever Chambers , literary critic and Shakespearean scholar
- Geoff Dyer , author
- Henry Fairlie , journalist and author
- Paul Grice , philosopher
- Richard Hooker , theologian
- Alfred William Hunt , painter
- Clyde Kluckhohn , ethnologist and sociologist
- Robert Liddell , writer and literary scholar
- David Miliband , United Kingdom Secretary of State from 2007 to 2010 . Since 2013 he has been President of the International Rescue Committee based in New York
- Ed Miliband , Labor Party leader from 2010 to 2015
- Thomas Nagel , philosopher
- Henry Nettleship , classical philologist
- Henry Newbolt , poet, writer and historian
- James Innell Packer , theologian
- Edward Pococke , orientalist and theologian
- John Ruskin , author, painter, art historian and social philosopher
- Vikram Seth , author
- Nicholas Udall , playwright, educator and canon
- Juan Luis Vives , humanist, philosopher and teacher
- William Waldegrave , British politician of the Conservative Party , a member of the House of Lords
See also
- List of Presidents (article on Wikipedia)
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 51 ° 45 ′ 2 ″ N , 1 ° 15 ′ 13 ″ W.