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Jul 20, 2024 · The college was founded by Nicholas Wadham who died in 1609 but whose intentions were carried out by Dorothy (Petre) his widow. The buildings were begun on the site of the former house of Austin Friars, in April 1610 and finished in July 1613; the society was founded in 1612.
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 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.
Jul 4, 2024 · Wadham was, however, far from entirely Evangelical at this time, for it included among its members Dean Church of St. Paul's (1832) and Richard Congreve (1837), who as fellow (1849–54) made the college the originating point of English Positivism, Frederic Harrison (1849), E. S. Beesley (1849), and J. H. Bridges (1851) all being Wadham men.
'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.'
Wadham’s main building was designed by architect, or master mason, William Arnold and erected between 1610 and 1613.
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Wadham College is a relative late foundation by Oxford standards. It was founded in 1610 by Nicholas and Dorothy Wadham, making it unusual, though not unique, in having more than one founder. History
