All Souls College, Oxford facts for kids
Quick facts for kids All Souls College |
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University | Oxford |
Location | High Street, Oxford |
Coordinates | 51°45′12″N 1°15′11″W / 51.753279°N 1.253041°W |
Full name | College of All Souls of the Faithful Departed |
Latin name | Collegium Omnium Animarum Fidelium Defunctorum de Oxonia |
Established | 1438 |
Named after | Feast of All Souls |
Sister college | Trinity Hall, Cambridge |
Warden | Sir John Vickers |
Undergraduates | None |
Postgraduates | 8 (2017) |
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All Souls College (official name: College of the Souls of All the Faithful Departed) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Unique to All Souls, all of its members automatically become fellows (i.e. full members of the college's governing body). It has no undergraduate members, but each year recent graduate and postgraduate students at Oxford are eligible to apply for a small number of examination fellowships through a competitive examination (once described as "the hardest exam in the world") and, for those shortlisted after the examinations, an interview.
The college entrance is on the north side of the High Street whilst it has a long frontage onto Radcliffe Square. To its east is The Queen's College whilst Hertford College is to the north of All Souls.
The current warden (head of the college) is Sir John Vickers, a graduate of Oriel College, Oxford.
Images for kids
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Isaiah Berlin – philosopher
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T. E. Lawrence – "Lawrence of Arabia"
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Baron Hugh Trevor-Roper – historian
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Robert Recorde – inventor of the Western "equals sign" (=).
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George Nathaniel Curzon by John Cooke – British Conservative statesman who was Viceroy of India and Foreign Secretary. Portrait after John Singer Sargent.
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The gates on Radcliffe Square
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A view of All Souls from the Radcliffe Square gate, showing Nicholas Hawksmoor's 'gothicised classical' elevation.
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All Souls Quad abutting High Street
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View from St Mary the Virgin's tower (with All Souls on the right)
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