Pembroke College, Oxford Facts for Kids

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Pembroke College

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University

Oxford

Location

Pembroke Square, Oxford

Coordinates

51°45′00″N 1°15′28″W / 51.750062°N 1.257827°W

Latin name

Collegium Pembrochianum

Established

1624; 399 years ago

Named for

William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke

Sister college

Queens' College, Cambridge

Master

Sir Ernest Ryder

Undergraduates

365 (2015/2016)

Postgraduates

227

Boat club

Pembroke College Boat Club

Map

Location in Oxford city centre

Pembroke College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford, is located at Pembroke Square, Oxford. The college was founded in 1624 by King James I of England, using in part the endowment of merchant Thomas Tesdale, and was named after William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, Lord Chamberlain and then-Chancellor of the University.

Like many Oxford colleges, Pembroke previously accepted men only, admitting its first mixed-sex cohort in 1979. As of 2020, Pembroke had an estimated financial endowment of £63 million. Pembroke College provides almost the full range of study available at Oxford University.

A former Senior President of Tribunals and Lord Justice of Appeal, Sir Ernest Ryder, has held the post of Master of Pembroke since 2020.

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Old Quad, with Tom Tower in the distance
College entrance from Pembroke Square, above which Samuel Johnson, as an undergraduate (1728), had rooms on the second floor.
The bridge connecting Pembroke's new quadrangle with the Chapel Quad.
Pembroke College Boathouse on the Isis (left, adjacent to St Edmund Hall Boathouse)
Dr Johnson's desk in Broadgates
Richard Wightwick, original benefactor of Pembroke College
Samuel Johnson, essayist, moralist, literary critic and lexicographer
James Smithson, English chemist, founder of the Smithsonian Institution
Sir William Blackstone, English jurist and legal scholar, famed for his Commentaries on the Laws of England
Sir Peter (later Lord) Ricketts, former British Ambassador to France and Chairman of Joint Intelligence Committee
Sir Roger Bannister, neurologist and former Master of Pembroke College; first man to run a sub four-minute mile
Michael (now Lord) Heseltine, former British Deputy Prime Minister
Abdullah II, King of Jordan, read Middle Eastern Affairs in 1982.
Viktor Orbán, Prime Minister of Hungary
Hilarion Alfayev, Archbishop of Russian Orthodox Church, took a DPhil in 1995.
George Whitfield, founder of evangelical Methodism, 18th-century American preacher
J. William Fulbright, former U.S. Senator from Arkansas, founder of the Fulbright Scholarships
Walter Isaacson, President & CEO of Aspen Institute, biographer
Richard Lugar, former Senator for Indiana, and Chairman of Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Pete Buttigieg, U.S. Secretary of Transportation, formerly Mayor of South Bend, Indiana
Paul Gérin-Lajoie, Canadian lawyer and politician

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