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History in Brief. 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.
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The college was founded by Dorothy Wadham in 1613, using money left by her husband Nicholas Wadham for the purpose of endowing an Oxford college.
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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 ...