Hertford College
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| motto | Sicut cervus anhelat ad fontes aquarum |
| founding | 1282 Hart Hall, 1490 Magdalen Hall, 1740 and 1874 Hertford College |
| Sponsorship | Oxford University |
| place | Oxford |
| country | United Kingdom |
| Rector | Will Hutton |
| Students |
Undergraduates : 403 Postgraduates : 222 |
| Foundation assets | £ 69.9 million (2018) |
| Website | Homepage |
Hertford College (pronunciation: / ˈhɑːrtfərd /, the e in Hertford is like a ) is one of the colleges of Oxford University . It is located on Catte Street, opposite the main entrance to the Bodleian Library . Currently 376 undergraduates and 224 graduate students are studying at Hertford College.
history
The college was founded in 1282 as Hart Hall by Elias de Hertford on Catte Street. In the Middle Ages , the halls were mainly used as apartments for students and lecturers and thus did not have the same status as today's colleges. Hertford College was attended by famous personalities such as the poet John Donne , the satirist Jonathan Swift , the political theorist Thomas Hobbes and the first translator of the Bible into English, William Tyndale . What originally started as a residential complex grew into an official college over the centuries. Parts of the original building are still part of the college today, such as the 17th century entrance gate decorated with flower carvings and the old library with its collection of books from the same period.
In 1740 Hart Hall received the official title of Oxford College. Due to financial problems, Hertford College became part of Magdalen Hall in 1822 (not to be confused with today's Magdalen College ). In 1874, the merged Hertford College and Magdalen Hall complex was re-established as a college with the financial support of Sir Thomas Baring . Within just seven years, the newly established college's rowing team managed to win the prestigious title of Head of the River in the famous annual rowing races.
Hertford was one of the fifteen colleges that accepted women as students. Today the ratio between male and female students is roughly balanced. Hertford College has a reputation for being a progressive college and was one of the first colleges to sponsor applications from state schools in the 1960s. Today there are more students from state schools than from private schools.
The college library is now one of the best-stocked college libraries in Oxford with over 40,000 books. Some of them are extremely rare examples from the 17th century, such as an original manuscript of Hobbes' Leviathan , which he presented as a personal gift to the college where he completed most of his studies.
In recent years, several new residential complexes and sports facilities have been inaugurated. Hertford College is particularly known among students for its legendary College Bar, which is only open to students. Despite its image as a boisterous college, it usually ranks in the top third of all colleges in the Norrington Table , the ranking of exam results. In 2007, Hertford was ranked 9th out of 30 colleges.
The main building
The main building consists of three blocks: Old Quadrangle , New Quadrangle , and Holywell Quadrangle .
The Old Quadrangle is the oldest part of the building. This is where the porter's lodge, library, chapel, cafeteria and administration rooms are located . It is the only one of the three complexes that has a lawn. This must not be entered during the winter term (Michaelmas) and the Easter term (Hilary). In the summer term (Trinity), however, the students are allowed to stay on the lawn; Croquet can also be played on Fridays and Sundays .
The New Quadrangle residential complex is connected to the older block by the Hertford Bridge . This tourist magnet is best known as the Bridge of Sighs and was designed by Thomas Graham Jackson .
Well-known former students
- Richard Addinsell
- Bernard Ashmole
- Fiona Bruce, BBC news anchor
- Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles
- George Dangerfield
- Samuel Daniel
- John Donne
- Charles James Fox
- Nicholas Henderson
- Thomas Hobbes
- Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
- Jeffrey John
- Dom Mintoff , former Prime Minister of Malta
- Max Nicholson
- Henry Pelham , former British Prime Minister
- Jacqui Smith , former UK Home Secretary
- Jonathan Swift
- William Tyndale
- Ed Vulliamy , British journalist
- Evelyn Waugh
- Nathaniel Woodard , educator and founder of schools
- Tobias Wolff
- Byron White , Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
Known leaders of the college
- 1964–1967 Robert Lowe Hall, Baron Roberthall
- 1988–1996 Erik Christopher Zeeman
- since 2011 Will Hutton
Web links
- Virtual Tour of the College (English)
- Main College website - Official homepage of the college
- Hertford College Music Society (English)
- Hertford College Boat Club (English)
- Hertford College Alumni LinkedIn Group (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hertford College: Annual Report and Financial Statements: Year ended July 31, 2018 (PDF) Retrieved March 5, 2019.
- ↑ http://www.ox.ac.uk/about_the_university/facts_and_figures/undergraduate_degree.html
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