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Somerville College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford [3] in England, was founded in 1879 as Somerville Hall, one of its first two women's colleges.Among its alumnae have been Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi, Dorothy Hodgkin, Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot, Vera Brittain and Dorothy L. Sayers.
Somerville is the only Oxford college to have had exclusively female principals; St Hilda's, the last college other than Somerville to have been headed only by women, appointed its first male principal in 2014. [5] [6] The first principal of Somerville Hall was Madeleine Shaw Lefevre, who was appointed on 3 May 1879. [7]
The following is a list of notable people associated with Somerville College, Oxford, including alumni and fellows of the college.This list consists almost entirely of women, due to the fact that Somerville College was one of the first two women's colleges of the University of Oxford, admitting men for the first time in 1994. [1]
Somerville College, Oxford; Somerville College Boat Club; W. Walton Street, Oxford; Woodstock Road, Oxford This page was last edited on 15 November 2012, at 07:45 ...
She was recruited by Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania as a fellow and lecturer in 1894. [2] She returned in England in 1896, worked for a year with the philologist Joseph Wright on the English Dialect Dictionary. In 1897 she was appointed by Agnes Catherine Maitland as a Resident Tutor at Somerville College, Oxford. She was the first person ...
The library is one of the largest college libraries at the University of Oxford and has achieved 100% student satisfaction in several annual surveys. [1] Somerville College Library is situated north of the main quadrangle, facing the Chapel. It is open 24 hours a day, has Wi-Fi, several study rooms and computers, and the main student colour ...
St Ambrose's College: Tom Brown at Oxford by Thomas Hughes. Probably based on Oriel College: St Bride's College: Michaelmas Term at St Bride's, by Brunette Coleman (Philip Larkin), St Bride's is recognisably based on Somerville College [17] St Christopher's College: The Case of the Gilded Fly and The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin.
Dame Emily Penrose, DBE (18 September 1858 – 26 January 1942) was an ancient historian and principal of three early women's university colleges in the United Kingdom: Bedford College from 1893 until 1898, Royal Holloway College from 1898 until 1907, and Somerville College, Oxford University from 1907 until 1926.