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