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- The college was founded by Dorothy Wadham (née Petre) in 1610, according to the wishes set out in the will of her husband Nicholas Wadham.
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Wadham College was founded in 1610 by Dorothy Wadham, according to the will of her late husband Nicholas Wadham, a member of an ancient Devon and Somerset family. The central buildings, a notable example of Jacobean architecture, were designed by the architect William Arnold and erected between 1610 and 1613. They include a large and ornate Hall.
The College has two Fellows in Economics in residence, Dr Alan Beggs and Dr Francesco Zanetti, who are responsible for the economics component of the degree. The Fellow in Management Studies, Dr Oren Sussman, is responsible for this aspect of the course.
Wadham College was founded in 1610 in the reign of King James I by Nicholas and Dorothy Wadham. Nicholas Wadham, a member of an ancient Somerset family, died in 1609 leaving his fortune to endow a college at Oxford.
'Wadham is the only college [in Oxford] which was built all at one go and has remained virtually unchanged since....' (or at least had when Sherwood and Pevsner first published their survey of Oxfordshire in 1974). 'The foundation date is 1610; building began in the same year and was completed in 1613.'
Francesco Zanetti is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Oxford and the David Richards Fellow of Wadham College. He holds a PhD in Economics from Boston College, and a PhD in Economic Theory and Institutions from the University of Bologna.
Jul 4, 2024 · WADHAM COLLEGE Circumstances Of The Foundation. Nicholas Wadham, the founder of this college, was born in 1532 of a good Somerset family of Merifield, near Ilminster, and was educated at Oxford, at either Corpus Christi or Christ Church.
Founded in 1610 by Dorothy Wadham, the College is one of the largest in Oxford with 250 graduate students and 450 undergraduates.