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Lincoln College
Lincoln College Quad, Oxford, UK - Diliff.jpg
Lincoln College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg
Blazon: see below
University Oxford
Location Turl Street
Coordinates 51°45′12″N 1°15′21″W / 51.75326°N 1.255905°W / 51.75326; -1.255905
Full name The College of the Blessed Mary and All Saints, Lincoln
Latin name Collegium Lincolniense
Established 1427; 595 years ago (1427)
Named for Richard Fleming (Bishop of Lincoln)
Sister college Downing College, Cambridge
Rector Prof. Henry Woudhuysen
Undergraduates 308 (2011–12)
Postgraduates 299
Boat club Boat Club website
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Lincoln College, Oxford is located in Oxford city centre
Lincoln College, Oxford
Location in Oxford city centre

Lincoln College (formally, The College of the Blessed Mary and All Saints, Lincoln) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford, situated on Turl Street in central Oxford. Lincoln was founded in 1427 by Richard Fleming, the then Bishop of Lincoln.

Notable alumni include John Radcliffe, John Wesley, antibiotics scientists Howard Florey, Edward Abraham, and Norman Heatley, Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss), David John Moore Cornwell (John le Carré), Rachel Maddow, and current UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak. Mensa was founded at Lincoln College in 1946. Lincoln College has one of the oldest working medieval kitchens in the UK.

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  • Archbishop Richard Fleming

    Richard Fleming, founder

  • Lincoln College Dining Hall, Oxford - Diliff

    The College dining hall

  • Oxford - Lincoln College - Chapel Quad - Chapel

    Chapel quad

  • All Saints Church Oxford (1)

    All Saints Church, now Lincoln College's library, on the High Street

  • Lincoln College Library tower and Brasenose College from the University Church of St Mary the Virgin - geograph.org.uk - 729890

    A view with Lincoln College Library Tower, formerly All Saints Church

  • Peter Durack(1948)

    Peter Durack, former Attorney-General of Australia

  • Howard Walter Florey 1945

    Lord Florey, Nobel Prize-winning pharmacologist and physiologist

  • John le Carre

    John le Carré, author

  • DavidLewis1944

    David Lewis, former leader of the New Democratic Party

  • Rachel Maddow in Seattle cropped

    Rachel Maddow, television host

  • Emily Mortimer 2011 Shankbone

    Emily Mortimer, actress and screenwriter

  • John Radcliffe

    John Radcliffe, physician

  • Ted Geisel NYWTS 2 crop

    Dr. Seuss, author and illustrator

  • Thomasportrait

    Edward Thomas, poet killed in action during the First World War

  • John Wesley by William Hamilton

    John Wesley, cleric and theologian

  • Lincoln College - Wesley Room 1

    Wesley Room

  • Lincoln College - Chapel View from Berrow Foundation Building

    View of chapel and Rector's Garden

  • Lincoln College - Front Quad in Evening

    Front gate in evening

  • Lincoln College Quad

    Front quad

  • Lincoln College - Chapel Interior from Altar

    College chapel

  • Lincoln College - Dining Hall View from High Table

    View of dining hall from High Table

  • Lincoln College - Fellows' Room 1

    Lower Senior Common Room

  • Oxford- Lincoln College SP5106

    Façade on Turl Street

  • Lincoln College - The Grove

    The Grove

  • Lincoln College - Oakeshott Room

    Oakeshott Room

  • Lincoln College - Senior Common Room

    Senior Common Room

  • Lincoln College Beckington Room

    Beckington Room

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