Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
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Template:Oxford College Infobox </div> Lady Margaret Hall is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
Lady Margaret Hall accepts both undergraduate and graduate students. However undergraduates form the significant majority of the student population of the college, and some student facilities operate at a more restricted level outside undergraduate dates.
History
Lady Margaret Hall, the first women's college in Oxford, was founded in 1879 by Elizabeth Wordsworth, a great-niece of the poet William Wordsworth. It was named for Lady Margaret Beaufort, a medieval noblewoman and mother of King Henry VII, known for her exceptional learning and high birth. The college's original house, Old Old Hall, is still in use. Its first nine students were (by rule) Anglicans, and Somerville College opened as a non-sectarian Oxford alternative a year later. In 1979, along with most of the other women's colleges, it decided to admit men as well as women.
The College
Lady Margaret Hall is one of the few Oxford colleges on the River Cherwell, and is known for its punting and its spacious grounds, which occupy about twelve acres. Just behind the main buildings, which are neo-Georgian in style, made from red brick with white trim, are a set of playing fields and tennis courts, as well as a manicured Fellows' Garden, hidden from view by tall hedgerows. Giles Gilbert Scott, famous for designing Liverpool Cathedral and the K2 red telephone box designed the college's Byzantine-style chapel. Members of the college refer to Lady Margaret Hall as L.M.H. Its colours are yellow and blue, and its motto is "Souvent me Souviens", a French phrase meaning "remember me often". The bell in the clock above the lodge rings hourly between 08:00 and 22:00.
In 2005, the architect firm John Simpson and Partners was selected to design a programme of significant developments to the college. [1]
Notable former students
- James Allen
- Josephine Barnes
- Gertrude Bell
- Benazir Bhutto
- Elisabeth Blochmann
- Katherine Mary Briggs
- Caryl Churchill
- Lindsey Davis
- Antonia Fraser
- Michael Gove
- Baroness Hogg
- Eglantyne Jebb
- Bridget Kendall (BBC diplomatic correspondent)
- Nigella Lawson
- Elizabeth Longford
- Eliza Manningham-Buller
- Barbara Mills
- Diana Quick
- Maude Royden
- Matthew Taylor
- Ann Trindade
- Margaret Turner-Warwick
- Baroness Warnock
- C. V. Wedgwood
- Samuel West
- Ann Widdecombe
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