St John's College, Oxford facts for kids
Quick facts for kids St John's College |
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Blazon: of St John's College, Oxford (arms of Sir Thomas White): Gules, an annulet in chief or on a canton ermine a lion rampant sable a bordure of the fourth charged with eight estoiles of the second
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University | Oxford | |||||||||||
Location | St Giles, Oxford OX1 3JP, UK | |||||||||||
Coordinates | 51°45′22″N 1°15′31″W / 51.75612°N 1.258605°W | |||||||||||
Full name | Saint John Baptist College | |||||||||||
Latin name | Collegium Sancti Johannis Baptistae | |||||||||||
Founder | Sir Thomas White | |||||||||||
Established | 1555 | |||||||||||
Named for | John the Baptist | |||||||||||
Sister college | Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge | |||||||||||
President | Margaret Snowling | |||||||||||
Undergraduates | 385 (2016) | |||||||||||
Postgraduates | 221 | |||||||||||
Boat club | SJCBC | |||||||||||
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St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford. Founded as a men's college in 1555, it has been coeducational since 1979. Its founder, Sir Thomas White, intended to provide a source of educated Roman Catholic clerics to support the Counter-Reformation under Queen Mary.
St John's is the wealthiest college in Oxford, with a financial endowment of £600 million as of 2020, largely due to nineteenth century suburban development of land in the city of Oxford of which it is the ground landlord.
The college occupies a central location on St Giles' and has a student body of approximately 390 undergraduates and 250 postgraduates. As well as over 100 academic staff, the college is supported by a similar number of other staff. It is amongst the most academic of all Oxford colleges; in 2018 St John's topped the Norrington Table, the annual ranking of Oxford colleges' final results.
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The Lamb & Flag (owned by the college)
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John Smith, Chancellor of the Exchequer
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William Laud, 76th Archbishop of Canterbury
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Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1997-2007)
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Poet and Classicist A. E. Housman
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Lester B. Pearson, 14th Prime Minister of Canada
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Alan Duncan, Conservative MP
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Geoff Gallop, 27th Premier of Western Australia
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Abhisit Vejjajiva, 27th Prime Minister of Thailand (2008-2011)
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Evan Davis, journalist and TV presenter
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Yannis Philippakis, musician
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