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The Founder's Building is the original building of Royal Holloway College, University of London (RHUL), in Egham, Surrey, England. It is an example of French-Renaissance-style architecture in the United Kingdom, having been modelled on French chateaus such as Château de Chambord. [1] Today it is the dominant building on the campus.
Royal Holloway College, originally a women-only college, was founded by the Victorian entrepreneur Thomas Holloway in 1879 on the Mount Lee Estate in Egham. [7] The founding of the college was brought about after Holloway, seeking to fulfil a philanthropic gesture, [8] began a public debate through The Builder [8] regarding "How best to spend a quarter of a million or more", at which point his ...
The campus of Royal Holloway, University of London is 1 mile (2 km) to the west of Egham town centre, close to Englefield Green. History.
The merged institution took Royal Holloway College's premises in Egham, Surrey, just outside London, as its main campus and took on the name of Royal Holloway and Bedford New College (RHBNC). The decision to drop the Bedford name from day-to-day use caused some discontent among graduates of Bedford College, who felt that their old college had ...
In addition to the institutions in London, Royal Holloway, University of London in Surrey, and the University of Reading in Berkshire are members of the London Higher membership organisation for London universities. [12] Royal Holloway is also a member institution of the University of London
Originally called Royal Holloway College, the establishment was founded by Thomas Holloway as a women-only college in 1879. It became part of the University of London in 1900. Males were first admitted in 1965. In 1985, the college merged with Bedford College and became Royal Holloway and Bedford New College (RHBNC).
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Street was acting principal of Royal Holloway College (RHC), University of London, from 1944 to 1945 when Edith Clara Batho took over. In September 2017, Richmond Adult Community College and Hillcroft College merged to form Richmond and Hillcroft Adult Community College. [6]