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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Wadham College was founded in 1610 by Nicholas and Dorothy Wadham, a childless husband and wife from the West country, where he was a prominent landowner. Dorothy was from an Essex family. There is a pedigree in Jackson’s Wadham College.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. Wadham College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, located at the southern end of Parks Road in central Oxford. It was founded by Nicholas and Dorothy Wadham, wealthy Somerset landowners, during the reign of King James I.

  7. One such case is that of Dorothy Wadham, entrusted by her husband Nicholas Wadham on his deathbed in 1609 with carrying through his ill-formulated design for the foundation of a college at Oxford. The responsibility for the actual foundation fell entirely on Dorothy, and both husband and wife were officially designated as 'founders'. She left

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