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It is located in the centre of Oxford, at the intersection of Broad Street and Parks Road. 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.
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Nicholas Wadham, thefounder of this college,was born in 1532 of agood Somerset family ofMerifield, near Ilminster, and was educated at Oxford,at either Corpus Christi or Christ Church. (fn. 1) In 1555 hemarried Dorothy, daughter of Sir William Petre ofWrittle, Essex, and in 1578 succeeded his father. Hewas childless, but his means were large, alleg...
This consisted of a rough rectangle of about5½ acres, bounded south by Holywell St. as faras the present no. 33, and west by Parks Roadto just short of Wadham Cottages. The southernmost1½ acres was already let off to a number of tenants andcontained at least 18 houses. These were not disturbed,and this part of the site has until recently been let i...
The precise amount at thefoundation is uncertain. Thefounder seems to imply in theinterview of 16 Oct. 1609 that £400 a year derivedfrom land in Essex, with £6,500 to be similarly invested,was to provide endowment, the £600 spent on the siteand £11,360 on the buildings being paid by Dorothyout of the life interest she had in her husband's ampleesta...
The following are in the gift of thecollege: Fryerning, Hockley, and LittleBromley (Essex), Bourton-on-the-Waterwith Clapton and Lower Slaughter, and Eastleachwith Southrop (fn. 13) (Gloucestershire), Ingoldmells cumAddlethorpe (Lines.), (fn. 14) Fritwell (Oxon.), Limington(Somerset), Earl Soham (Suffolk), Esher (Surrey), andMilton Lilbourne with E...
It was the founder's intentionthat the college should be knownby his own name; the royallicence is for a foundation of Warden, 16 fellows, and30 scholars, more or less, but the statutes actually issuedprovided for a Warden, 15 fellows, 15 scholars, 2 chaplains, 2 Bible clerks, (fn. 16)and servants. The constitutionunder the statutes of 3 May 1882 w...
The first statutes consist of thirty-onechapters. (fn. 17) The Warden is to be unmarried (fn. 18) and to be or become a D.D. (fn. 19) He is to be an autocrat, during a vacancy the collegebeing velut apurn examen sine rectore. The fellows areto be chosen from among the scholars. (fn. 20) They need notbe in orders, and are to hold their fellowships f...
As might be expectedfrom the home of thefounder, Wadham was,at least for the first 250 years of its existence, a westcountry college; of the original foundation, 22 out of34 came from Somerset, Devon, and Dorset. (fn. 27) RobertWright, the first Warden, was a considerable scholar,but did not retain his post long, resigning in July1613 owing to the ...
A statute required newly admitted members to present the college with a piece ofplate, of which Wadham thus amassed aconsiderable amount in a short time. 100 lb. 1 oz.15 dwt. of silver and 23 lb. 4 oz. of gilt plate weresurrendered to the king in 1642–3, ranking Wadham ashigh as seventh among the colleges. (fn. 40) Even the foundress's own cup (fn....
Wadham has a large but not verydistinguished collection of pictures.It is probably the only one to haveportraits of both William III and George I, in keeping with its Whig sympathies. The founders, most ofthe wardens, and eminent members of the college arerepresented; portraits specially interesting by reason oftheir artists are those of Warden Wil...
The seal is still kept, as provided by thestatutes, in a little box with two keys. It is ovalin shape, measuring about 2¾ in. by 2 in., andbears figures of Nicholas, in armour, and Dorothy, withan angel holding the crest between and above them, andthe inscription Sigillum Collecii WadhaminensisOxoniae around the border. (fn. 43)
Wadham College, Oxford: Its Foundation, Architecture and History, with an Account of the Family of Wadham and Their Seats in Somerset and Devon Thomas Graham Jackson Creative Media Partners, LLC , Aug 11, 2015 - Education - 302 pages
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
Wadham College was founded by Dorothy Wadham (the wife of Nicholas Wadham, d 1609; together they are regarded as joint founders) in 1610, when building was begun, and completed by 1613. It was built just outside the city walls on the site of an Augustinian friary which had gone by the late C16, when the site seems to have been given over to ...
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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.
