Lincoln College, Oxford facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Lincoln College |
||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Blazon: see below
|
||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||
University | Oxford | |||||||||||
Location | Turl Street | |||||||||||
Coordinates | 51°45′12″N 1°15′21″W / 51.75326°N 1.255905°W | |||||||||||
Full name | The College of the Blessed Mary and All Saints, Lincoln | |||||||||||
Latin name | Collegium Lincolniense | |||||||||||
Established | 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 | |||||||||||
Map | ||||||||||||
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.
Images for kids
-
All Saints Church, now Lincoln College's library, on the High Street
-
Lord Florey, Nobel Prize-winning pharmacologist and physiologist
-
John le Carré, author
-
David Lewis, former leader of the New Democratic Party
-
Rachel Maddow, television host
-
Emily Mortimer, actress and screenwriter
-
John Radcliffe, physician
-
Dr. Seuss, author and illustrator
-
Rishi Sunak, MP and previous Chancellor of the Exchequer
-
John Wesley, cleric and theologian
See also
In Spanish: Lincoln College para niños