The Queen's College, Oxford facts for kids
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Blazon: Argent, three eagles displayed gules, beaked and legged or, on the breast of the first, a mullet of six points of the last.
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University | Oxford | ||||||||||||
Location | High Street, Oxford | ||||||||||||
Coordinates | 51°45′11″N 1°15′04″W / 51.753187°N 1.251043°W | ||||||||||||
Full name | The Queen's College in the University of Oxford | ||||||||||||
Latin name | Collegium Reginae | ||||||||||||
Motto | Reginae erunt nutrices tuae | ||||||||||||
Established | 1341 | ||||||||||||
Named for | Philippa of Hainault | ||||||||||||
Sister college | Pembroke College, Cambridge | ||||||||||||
Provost | Claire Craig | ||||||||||||
Undergraduates | 343 (2019/2020) | ||||||||||||
Postgraduates | 173 | ||||||||||||
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The Queen's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford, England. The college was founded in 1341 by Robert de Eglesfield in honour of Queen Philippa of Hainault (wife of King Edward III of England). It is distinguished by its predominantly neoclassical architecture, which includes buildings designed by Sir Christopher Wren and Nicholas Hawksmoor.
In 2018, the college had an endowment of £291 million, making it the fourth-wealthiest college (after Christ Church, St. John's, and All Souls).
Notable alumni
Main category: Alumni of The Queen's College, Oxford
- Tony Abbott, 28th Prime Minister of Australia
- Joseph Addison, co-founder of The Spectator
- Rowan Atkinson, actor and comedian, known for Blackadder and Mr. Bean
- Michael Barber FRS, chemist and mass spectrometrist
- Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher, and legal and social reformer
- Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and director of the World Wide Web Consortium
- Wilfred Bion, British psychoanalyst
- Christopher Bland, British businessman and politician
- Cory Booker, United States Senator from New Jersey
- Vere Gordon Childe, Australian archaeologist
- Clayton Christensen, American business academic known for coining "disruptive innovation"
- John Crewdson, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for The New York Times
- Ernest Dowson, English poet and prose writer
- Alfred Enoch, British actor
- Eric Garcetti, Mayor of Los Angeles
- Herbert Branston Gray, educationalist
- Leonard Hoffmann, Baron Hoffmann, English jurist and judge
- Edmund Halley, English astronomer
- Fred Halliday, Irish academic, Fellow of the British Academy, Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at London School of Economics
- John Heath-Stubbs, English poet and editor
- King Henry V of England
- Edwin Powell Hubble, American astronomer
- Ruth Kelly, former UK Cabinet and Government Minister
- Kenneth Leighton, twentieth-century English composer
- Thomas Middleton, English Jacobean playwright and poet
- David Moule-Evans, twentieth-century English composer
- David Oliver, Geriatrician. Professor of Medicine for Older People at City University. Former National Clinical Director for Older People Department of Health. President British Geriatrics Society. Visiting Fellow The King's Fund
- John Owen, seventeenth-century English theologian
- Brian Paddick, twice Liberal Democrat candidate for Mayor of London
- Walter Horatio Pater, English essayist
- Richard Rampton, barrister in high-profile cases such as Irving v Penguin Books and Lipstadt, which was the subject of the film Denial
- Ryan Max Riley, United States Ski Team skier
- Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher
- Oliver Sacks, neurologist and writer
- Leopold Stokowski, conductor
- Claire Taylor MBE, English cricketer
- William Thomson, Archbishop of York
- John Wycliffe, English theologian
- Adam Zamoyski, historian and author
Images for kids
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The choir performing in the Front Quad on Ascension morning 2009.
See also
In Spanish: The Queen's College (Oxford) para niños
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