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      • Dorothy Wadham (/ ˈwɒdəm /; née Petre) (1534/1535 – 16 May 1618) was an English landowner and the founder of Wadham College, Oxford, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford.
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  2. Dorothy Wadham (/ ˈ w ɒ d ə m /; née Petre) (1534/1535 – 16 May 1618) was an English landowner and the founder of Wadham College, Oxford, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford.

  3. Mar 10, 2021 · 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. Dorothy was a determined and driven woman of 75, she fought hard against claims to the family fortune by Nicholas’s relations; she purchased a suitable ...

  4. Dorothy Wadham (/ ˈ w ɒ d ə m /; née Petre) (1534/1535 – 16 May 1618) was an English landowner and the founder of Wadham College, Oxford, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford.

  5. 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.

  6. Sep 1, 2003 · Dorothy Wadham as founder of an Oxford college left documentation which illustrates her strategies in this situation. Aged 74, she was entrusted by her dying husband Nicholas with an...

  7. Our undergraduate accommodation is divided over three sites, Wadham College main site, Merifield and the Dorothy Wadham Building. Rooms are allocated to all freshers and, selected according to a ballot system, to all undergraduates.

  8. Dorothy Wadham, co-founder of Wadham College, Oxford, with her husband, Nicholas. From their brass dated 1618, Ilminster, Somerset. The clothing depicted on the brass is similar to that shown in a 1595 portrait of Dorothy Wadham now in the collection of Petworth House, West Sussex.

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