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1. www.wadham.ox.ac.uk › about › history-archivesHistory & Archives - Wadham College, Oxford

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   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.

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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.

3. historicengland.org.uk › listing › the-listWADHAM COLLEGE, Non Civil Parish - 1001293 - Historic England

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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 ...

4. www.british-history.ac.uk › rchme › oxonWadham College - British History Online

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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.

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   Mar 10, 2021 · The College was founded in 1610 during the reign of King James I by Nicholas and Dorothy Wadham. Nicholas Wadham came from a wealthy Somerset family, he died in 1609 leaving his fortune to his widow Dorothy, with strict instructions that she use the funds to endow a college at Oxford.

6. www.oxocn.org.uk › colleges › wadham-collegeWadham College - oxocn.org.uk

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   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.

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   Who founded Wadham College?

   • 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. The hard work of translating intentions into reality fell on his widow, Dorothy, a formidable woman of 75.

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   Where is Wadham College?

   • 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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   What is Wadham College Archive?

   • Wadham’s archive largely comprises internal college documents, and records of college estates, of which the largest collection were in Essex. A catalogue of the Muniments of Wadham College was produced by Lawrence Stone for the National Register of Archives in 1962, and reproduced in limited numbers.

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   What can you do at Wadham College?

   • In common with many Oxford colleges, Wadham has produced a wide range of graduates in the fields of economics, history, law, physiology, medicine, management, humanities, mathematics, science, technology, media, philosophy, poetry, politics and religion who have contributed significantly to public life.

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   Why is Wadham so difficult to climb into?

   • In the days when Oxford colleges locked their gates overnight, Wadham was regarded as a particularly difficult college to climb into after the gates closed. One route into the college was said to be via the Warden's Lodgings in the corner of the front quad.

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   Why did the British Academy build a new library in Wadham?

   • At the end of the 1960s, the Warden, Maurice Bowra, President of the British Academy and one of the first co-founders of the British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS), welcomed a donation to construct the building of the New Library in Wadham, where the emphasis would be given to Persian Studies and the post in Persian.

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8. archive.british-history.ac.uk › vch › oxonWadham College | British History Online

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   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.