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  1. Sep 6, 2024 · Jesus College (in full: Jesus College in the University of Oxford of Queen Elizabeth's Foundation) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford [5] in England. It is in the centre of the city, on a site between Turl Street, Ship Street, Cornmarket Street and Market Street.

  2. 3 days ago · This provided for a college consisting of a Principal, eight fellows, and eight scholars to be known as 'Jesus College within the City and University of Oxford of Queen Elizabeth's foundation'.

  3. Sep 4, 2024 · The nunnery was suppressed in 1496 on the petition of John Alcock, Bishop of Ely 1486–1500, and replaced by the college of St. Mary the Virgin, St. John the Evangelist and St. Radegund, commonly called Jesus College.

  4. Sep 4, 2024 · The College of the Blessed Virgin Mary, St. John the Evangelist, and the glorious Virgin St. Radegund, commonly called Jesus College, was founded in 1496 (fn. 2) by John Alcock, Bishop of Ely, upon the site of the dissolved Priory of St. Radegund, and endowed with its property.

  5. Aug 30, 2024 · As Archbishop of Canterbury from 1532 until 1555, Thomas Cranmer orchestrated Henry VIII’s divorce from Katherine of Aragon and presided over England's separation from the Roman Catholic Church. He drafted the new English church’s 39 Articles and the Book of Common Prayer.

  6. Aug 30, 2024 · Dr Julian Huppert is the founding Director of the Intellectual Forum and a Jesus College Fellow. Julian is a former Member of Parliament for Cambridge and University Lecturer in Physics, where he worked on unusual structures of DNA.

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  8. Sep 4, 2024 · Fourteen Principals have been former students of the college, the first being Griffith Powell, elected in 1613, and the most recent being Alfred Hazel, elected in 1925. The longest-serving Principal was Henry Foulkes, from 1817 to 1857.