Wadham College
Wadham College (Oxford) or Wadham College is a 1610 at the University of Oxford by the widow of a landowner Nicholas Wadham (1531 / 1532-1609) from the County of Somerset vested College .
history
Dorothy Wadham used the property left with her to set up a college at Oxford, and within four years obtained both governmental and ecclesiastical approvals. During the same period, she bought the land for the college buildings and commissioned the Somerset architect William Arnold with the planning and construction. Furthermore, she had the statutes of the college drawn up and appointed the first head of the college, the warden, teachers (fellows and scholars) and the staff including the cook. Until her death in 1618, the builder exercised tight control over her college and its finances.
Wadham College is still one of the best financially resourced colleges in Britain today .
building
The main building of the college including the chapel was constructed from 1610 to 1613. The chapel has had an organ built by the London organ builder Henry Willis since 1862 , which can still be heard today in the original pitch of the time it was built.
Well-known former students
- Monica Ali , British writer.
- Robert Blake , English admiral.
- Alan Bullock , historian.
- Cecil Day-Lewis , Poet Laureate .
- William Fox , 19th century New Zealand Prime Minister .
- Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah (1927–2017), Malaysian electoral king .
- William Walsham How , Anglican bishop, hymn poet.
- Felicity Jones , English actress.
- Michael Kenyon , writer.
- Graham Moore (born 1981), writer.
- Iain Pears , writer.
- Rosamund Pike (* 1979), English actress.
- Ben Rice (born 1972), writer.
- Marcus du Sautoy , mathematician,
- Wasim Sajjad , Pakistani politician.
- Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead , British politician.
- Rowan Williams , Archbishop of Canterbury .
Well-known Wardens, Fellows, and former Fellows
- Wardens
- Maurice Bowra , scientist, from 1938 to 1970
- Claus Adolf Moser , British economist, from 1984 to 1993
- Robert Thistlethwayte, English cleric of the Church of England , 1723-1739
- John Wilkins , co-founder, bishop and scholar, from 1648 to 1659
- Fellows
- Alfred Jules Ayer , English philosopher
- Charles Coulson , English chemist
- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell , Winston Churchill's scientific advisor in World War II
- John Bryce McLeod , British mathematician, from 1960
- Graham Ross , physicist, from 1983
- Marcus du Sautoy , mathematician
Web links
- Staff of the college (English)
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