List of founders of English schools and colleges
This is a list of the founders of English schools, colleges, and universities.
Oxford Colleges
Colleges of the University of Oxford were founded by:
Founder | College | Year of foundation |
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William of Durham | University College[1] | 1249 |
John I de Balliol | Balliol College | 1263 |
Walter de Merton | Merton College | 1264 |
Walter de Stapledon, Bishop of Exeter | Exeter College | 1314 |
Adam de Brome | Oriel College | 1324 |
Robert de Eglesfield, chaplain of Queen Philippa | Queen's College | 1341 |
William of Wykeham | New College | 1379 |
Richard Fleming, Bishop of Lincoln | Lincoln College | 1427 |
Henry Chichele | All Souls College | 1438 |
William Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester | Magdalen College | 1458 |
Richard Sutton and William Smyth | Brasenose College | 1509 |
Richard Fox, Bishop of Winchester | Corpus Christi College | 1517 |
King Henry VIII | Christ Church | 1546 |
Sir Thomas Pope | Trinity College | 1555 |
Sir Thomas White | St John's College | 1555 |
Hugh Price | Jesus College | 1571 |
Nicholas and Dorothy Wadham | Wadham College | 1610 |
King James I William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke Thomas Tesdale Richard Wightwick | Pembroke College | 1624 |
Sir Thomas Cookes | Worcester College | 1714 |
Richard Newton | Hertford College | 1740 |
Elizabeth Wordsworth | St Hugh's College | 1886 |
Dorothea Beale | St Hilda's College | 1893 |
Francis Chavasse | St Peter's College | 1929 |
Cambridge Colleges
Colleges of the University of Cambridge were founded by:
Founder | College | Year of foundation |
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Hugh de Balsham | Peterhouse | 1284 |
Margaret of Anjou | Queens' College | 1448 |
Elizabeth Woodville | Queens' College | 1465 (refounded) |
John Alcock | Jesus College | 1496 |
Lady Margaret Beaufort | Christ's College | 1505 |
Lady Margaret Beaufort & St John Fisher | St John's College | 1511 |
Thomas Audley | Magdalene College | 1542 (refounded) |
King Henry VIII | Trinity College | 1546 |
John Caius | Gonville and Caius College | 1557 (refounded) |
Frances Sidney, Countess of Sussex | Sidney Sussex College | 1596 |
Emily Davies Barbara Bodichon Lady Stanley of Alderley | Girton College | 1869 |
15th Duke of Norfolk | St Edmund's House, later College | 1896 |
English schools
English schools were founded by:
English schools and colleges outside England
- Sir Henry Lawrence - Lawrence Schools at Sanawar, Ooty
- Claude Martin - La Martiniere College Schools at Lucknow, Kolkata and Lyon
See also
- List of the oldest schools in the United Kingdom
- List of the oldest schools in the world
- Armorial of schools in the United Kingdom
- Armorial of British universities
References
- ^ Butterworth, Hugh Montagu (2011). Blood and Iron: Letters from the Western Front. Casemate Publishers. p. 24. ISBN 978-1-84884-297-7.
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