Corpus Christi College (Oxford)

Corpus Christi College (The President and Scholars of the College of Corpus Christi in the University of Oxford)
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

Corpus Christi College entrance area

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

1. ^ Corpus Christi College, Oxford: Annual Report & Financial Statements: Year ended 31 July 2018 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 45 ′ 2 ″  N , 1 ° 15 ′ 13 ″  W.