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All Souls College (in full: The Warden and College of the Souls of all Faithful People deceased in the University of Oxford) is one of the constituent colleges
Colleges of the University of Oxford

The University of Oxford comprises 38 Colleges and 6 religious Permanent Private Halls , which are autonomous self-governing corporations within the university....
 of the University of Oxford
University of Oxford

The University of Oxford , located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation in the English-speaking world....
 in England.

Unique to All Souls, all of its members automatically become Fellows, i.e., full members of the College's governing body. It has no undergraduate members.

Every year, the top finalists of the University in the humanities are invited to sit the examination in Classics, English, Economics, History, Law, Philosophy and Politics for fellowship of the College.






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All Souls College (in full: The Warden and College of the Souls of all Faithful People deceased in the University of Oxford) is one of the constituent colleges
Colleges of the University of Oxford

The University of Oxford comprises 38 Colleges and 6 religious Permanent Private Halls , which are autonomous self-governing corporations within the university....
 of the University of Oxford
University of Oxford

The University of Oxford , located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation in the English-speaking world....
 in England.

Unique to All Souls, all of its members automatically become Fellows, i.e., full members of the College's governing body. It has no undergraduate members.

Every year, the top finalists of the University in the humanities are invited to sit the examination in Classics, English, Economics, History, Law, Philosophy and Politics for fellowship of the College. About two are elected to fellowship each year. These Fellows are known as Prize Fellows, their term of office is seven years and roughly a dozen are at the college at any one time. Other categories of fellowship include Senior Research Fellows, Post-Doctoral Research Fellows, Fifty-Pound Fellows (open only to former Fellows no longer holding posts in Oxford) and Distinguished Fellows. There are also many Professorial Fellows who hold their fellowships by reason of their University post.

It is one of the wealthiest colleges with a financial endowment
Financial endowment

A financial endowment is a transfer of money or property donated to an institution, usually with the stipulation that it be invested, and the :wikt:principal remain intact in perpetuity or for a defined time period....
 of £236m (2007) but because the College's only source of revenue is its endowment, it ranks nineteenth among Oxford colleges with respect to total income.

The college is located on the north side of the High Street
High Street, Oxford

The High Street in Oxford, England runs between Carfax, Oxford, generally recognized as the centre of the city, and Magdalen Bridge to the east....
 and also adjoins Radcliffe Square
Radcliffe Square

Radcliffe Square is a square in central Oxford, England. It is completely surrounded by historic Oxford University and college buildings. The square is cobbled, laid to grass surrounded by railings in the centre, and is pedestrianised except for access....
 to the west. To the east is The Queen's College and to the north is Hertford College
Hertford College, Oxford

Hertford College is one of the Colleges of the University of Oxford of the University of Oxford in England. It is located in Catte Street, directly opposite the main entrance of the original Bodleian Library....
.

History

The College was founded by Henry VI of England
Henry VI of England

Henry VI was Kingdom of England 1422?1461 and then 1470?1471, and King of France as the de jure monarch from 1422 to 1429....
 and Henry Chichele
Henry Chichele

Henry Chicheley , Archbishop of Canterbury, founder of All Souls College, Oxford, was born at Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire, in 1363 or 1364....
 (fellow of New College
New College, Oxford

New College is one of the Colleges of the University of Oxfords of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Its official name, College of St Mary, is the same as that of the older Oriel College, Oxford; hence, it has been referred to as the "New College of St Mary", and is now almost always called "New College"....
 and Archbishop of Canterbury
Archbishop of Canterbury

The Archbishop of Canterbury is the chief bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the Diocesan Bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury, the Episcopal see that churches must be in communion with in order to be a part of the Anglican Communion....
), in 1438. The Statutes provided for the Warden and forty fellows — all to take Holy Orders; twenty-four to study arts, philosophy and theology; and sixteen to study civil or canon law. The College's Codrington Library
Codrington Library

The Codrington Library is a library in All Souls College, Oxford, one of the colleges forming part of Oxford University in England.The library was founded through a bequest by Christopher Codrington , a Fellow of the College....
 was built with the bequest of Christopher Codrington
Christopher Codrington

Christopher Codrington , Kingdom of Great Britain soldier and colonial governor, whose father was captain-general of the Leeward Islands, was born in the island of Barbados, West Indies, in 1668....
, sometime governor of the Leeward Islands
Leeward Islands

The Leeward Islands are the northern islands of the Lesser Antilles chain of islands, part of the West Indies. They are situated where the Caribbean Sea meets the western Atlantic Ocean....
. Today the College is primarily an academic research institution.

There are now no undergraduate members, but All Souls did once have them, especially around the early 17th century, introduced by Robert Hovenden (who was Warden of the college from 1571 to 1614) to provide servientes. The downside of this soon appeared, and the college decided to get along without them again, although four Bible Clerks remained on the foundation until 1924. One such was the Rev. Thomas Forster Rolfe (born 1855), an undergraduate at All Souls from 1874–1878. Joseph Keble
Joseph Keble

Joseph Keble was an English barrister and law report. As well as recording more than four thousand sermons preached in the chapel of Gray's Inn, Keble reported every case heard by the Court of King's Bench from 1661 until his death....
 (1632-1710) was another undergraduate of the college.

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Customs


Every hundred years there is a commemorative feast after which the fellows parade around the College with flaming torches, singing the Mallard Song
Mallard Song

The Mallard Song is an ancient tradition of All Souls College, Oxford. It is sung once a century in a ceremony in which the Fellows parade around the College with flaming torches, led by a "Lord Mallard" who is carried in a chair, in search of a giant mallard that supposedly flew out of the foundations of the college when it was being built i...
 and led by a "Lord Mallard" who is carried in a chair, in search of a legendary mallard that supposedly flew out of the foundations of the college when it was being built. The last mallard ceremony was in 2001 and the next will be held in 2101.

Fellows


Past and current fellows of the College have included:

  • Leo Amery
  • Andrew Ashworth
    Andrew Ashworth

    Andrew Ashworth is the Vinerian Professor of English Law at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He gained his LLB in 1968 from the University of London, a BCL from Oxford in 1970, and a PhD in 1973 from the University of Manchester....
  • Max Beloff
  • Sir Isaiah Berlin
    Isaiah Berlin

    Sir Isaiah Berlin, Order of Merit was a philosopher and historian of ideas, regarded as one of the leading liberal thinkers of the twentieth century....
  • Peter Birks
    Peter Birks

    Peter Birks Fellow of the British Academy was the Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford from 1989 until his death and a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford....
  • Malcolm Bowie
    Malcolm Bowie

    Malcolm McNaughtan Bowie FBA was a United Kingdom academic, and List of Masters of Christ's College, Cambridge of Christ's College, Cambridge from 2002 to 2006....
  • Peter Brown (historian)
    Peter Brown (historian)

    Peter Robert Lamont Brown is a historian and professor of history....
  • Sir Raymond Carr
    Raymond Carr

    Sir Albert Raymond Maillard Carr British Academy Royal Historical Society Royal Society of Literature , known as Raymond Carr, is an England historian specializing in the history of Spain, Latin America, and Sweden who was Warden of St Antony's College, Oxford, from 1968 to 1987....
  • David Caute
    David Caute

    David John Caute is a United Kingdom author, journalist and historian.Caute was educated at Edinburgh Academy, Wellington, Wadham College, Oxford and St Antony's College, Oxford....
  • Alasdair Clayre
    Alasdair Clayre

    Alasdair George S. Clayre was a British man of many talents: author, broadcaster, singer-songwriter, and academic. He was educated at Oxford University and was a Prize Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford....
  • Christopher Codrington
    Christopher Codrington

    Christopher Codrington , Kingdom of Great Britain soldier and colonial governor, whose father was captain-general of the Leeward Islands, was born in the island of Barbados, West Indies, in 1668....
  • G. A. Cohen
    Gerald Cohen

    Gerald Allan "Jerry" Cohen is a marxist political philosopher, presently the Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, All Souls College, Oxford....
  • George Nathaniel Curzon
  • Matthew d'Ancona
    Matthew d'Ancona

    Matthew d'Ancona is a British journalist. A former deputy editor of The Sunday Telegraph, he was appointed editor of The Spectator in February 2006....
  • David Daube
    David Daube

    David Daube DCL, Fellow of the British Academy was Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford and later Professor-in-Residence at the University of California, Berkeley....
  • David Dilks
    David Dilks

    David N. Dilks, PhD, FRHistS, FRSL, is a British historian and emeritus Professor of International Relations at the University of Leeds. He was born in Coventry, foleshill in 1938 and attended RGS Worcester before winning a scholarship to Hertford College, Oxford to read History....
  • Sheppard Frere
    Sheppard Frere

    Dr Sheppard Sunderland Frere is a United Kingdom historian and archaeologist studying the Roman Empire.Sheppard "Sam" Frere was a classics master and housemaster at Lancing College c.1949-52 when he was in charge of the excavations at Canterbury during his summer vacations....
  • Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
    Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

    Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Order of the Garter, Royal Victorian Order, Privy Council of the United Kingdom , known as Lord Robert Cecil before 1865 and as Viscount Cranborne from 1865 until 1868, was a United Kingdom statesman and thrice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, serving for a total...
  • Gabriel Gorodetsky
    Gabriel Gorodetsky

    Gabriel Gorodetsky is a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and the holder of the Rubin Chair for Russian Studies at Tel Aviv University. Prof....
  • Reginald Heber
    Reginald Heber

    Reginald Heber was a Church of England bishop, now remembered chiefly as a hymn-writer....
  • Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone
    Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone

    Quintin McGarel Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, Order of the Garter, Order of the Companions of Honour, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Queen's Counsel , formerly 2nd Viscount Hailsham , was a British judge and Conservative Party politician....
  • Christopher Hood
    Christopher Hood

    Professor Christopher Hood British Academy is Gladstone Professor of Government at Oxford University, and a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford....
  • John Hood
    John Hood

    John Hood has been the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford since 5 October 2004. He is the first Vice-Chancellor to be elected from outside Oxford's academic body, and the first to have addressed the scholars' congregation via a webcast.....
  • Sir Michael Howard
    Michael Howard (historian)

    Sir Michael Eliot Howard, Order of Merit, Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire, Military Cross is a retired United Kingdom military history, formerly Chichele Professor of the History of War and Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford University, and Robert A....
  • E. F. Jacob
    E. F. Jacob

    Ernest Fraser Jacob was a United Kingdom medievalist and scholar....
  • Sir Keith Joseph
    Keith Joseph

    Keith Sinjohn Joseph, Baron Joseph, Order of the Companions of Honour, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council was a United Kingdom barrister, politician, and Conservative Party cabinet of the United Kingdom under three different Ministries....
  • Colin Kidd
    Colin Kidd

    Professor Colin Craig Kidd Master of Arts , D.Phil, Royal Historical Society, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Royal Society of Edinburgh, is a historian specialising in United States and Scotland history....
  • Leszek Kolakowski
    Leszek Kolakowski

    Leszek Kolakowski is a distinguished Polish philosopher and history of ideas. He is best known for his critical analyses of Marxist thought, especially his acclaimed three-volume history, Main Currents of Marxism....
  • T. E. Lawrence
    T. E. Lawrence

    Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order , known professionally as T. E. Lawrence, was a British people soldier renowned especially for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt of 1916–18....
  • Sir Jeremy Lever
  • Sir Edward Chandos Leigh
    Edward Chandos Leigh

    Sir Edward Chandos Leigh, Order of the Bath, King's Counsel, was born in Stoneleigh Abbey, Warwickshire on December 22, 1832, died in London on May 18, 1915....
  • Thomas Linacre
    Thomas Linacre

    Thomas Linacre was an English Renaissance humanism and physician, after whom Linacre College, Oxford is named.Linacre was more of a scholar than a scientific investigator....
  • Vaughan Lowe
    Vaughan Lowe

    Alan Vaughan Lowe Queen's Counsel is a leading barrister and academic specialising in the field of international law. He has been Chichele Professor of Public International Law in the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, since 1999....
  • Sir Colin Lucas
  • Noel Malcolm
    Noel Malcolm

    Noel Robert Malcolm Fellow of the British Academy FRSL is an English historian, writer, and columnist....
  • George Molyneaux
  • Max Müller
    Max Müller

    Friedrich Max M?ller , more commonly known as Max M?ller, was a German Confederation philologist and Orientalist, one of the founders of the western academic field of Indology and the discipline of comparative religion....
  • Patrick Neill
  • Avner Offer
    Avner Offer

    Avner Offer is an Economic historian who currently holds the Chichele Professorship in Economic history at the University of Oxford, England. He is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and of the British Academy....
  • David Pannick
    David Pannick

    David Philip Pannick, Baron Pannick Queen's Counsel is a leading barrister in the United Kingdom, and crossbencher in the House of Lords. He practises mainly in the areas of public law and human rights....
     QC
  • Derek Parfit
    Derek Parfit

    Derek Parfit is a United Kingdom philosopher who specializes in problems of Personal identity , rationality and ethics, and the relations between them....
  • Anthony Quinton
  • Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
    Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

    Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Order of Merit, Fellow of the British Academy , , was an Indian philosopher and statesman.One of the popular scholars of comparative religion and philosophy, he was among the scholars of 20th century that built a bridge between Eastern and Western thought showing each to be comprehensible within the terms of th...
  • John Redwood
    John Redwood

    John Alan Redwood is a British Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament for Wokingham . Formerly Secretary of State for Wales in John Major UK cabinet, he challenged Major for the leadership of the Conservative Party in 1995....
  • A. L. Rowse
    A. L. Rowse

    Alfred Leslie Rowse, Companion of Honour FBA , known professionally as A. L. Rowse and to his friends and family as Leslie, was a prolific Cornish people historian....
  • Peter Salway
    Peter Salway

    Peter Salway is a British historian, who specialises in Roman Britain. He was a tutor for the Open University and later a fellow of Sidney Sussex College Cambridge and later at All Souls College Oxford....
  • Amartya Sen
    Amartya Sen

    Amartya Kumar Sen Order of the Companions of Honour , is a Bengali people Indian economist, philosopher, and a winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998, "for his contributions to welfare economics" for his work on famine, human development theory, welfare economics, the underlying mechanisms of poverty, and political C...
  • Gilbert Sheldon
    Gilbert Sheldon

    Gilbert Sheldon was an English Archbishop of Canterbury....
  • Boudewijn Sirks
    Boudewijn Sirks

    Adriaan Johan Boudewijn Sirks , known as Boudewijn Sirks and as A. J. B. Sirks, is a Dutch academic lawyer and papyrology specializing in Roman law....
  • Joseph E. Stiglitz
    Joseph E. Stiglitz

    Joseph Eugene Stiglitz is an United States economist and a professor at Columbia University. He is a recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences ....
  • Adam Thirlwell
    Adam Thirlwell

    Adam Thirlwell is a UK novelist. He was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, Elstree. He is assistant editor of Aret?, an arts tri-quarterly....
  • Sir Guenter Treitel
    Guenter Treitel

    Professor Sir Guenter Heinz Treitel, is a Germany England Doctor of Civil Law, Fellow of the British Academy, Queen's Counsel, who retired as Vinerian Professor of English Law in 1997, and has been awarded a knighthood for services to law....
  • Sir John Vickers
    John Vickers

    Sir John Vickers is Warden of All Souls College, Oxford. From 1991 to 2008, he was Drummond Professor of Political Economy at the University of Oxford, during which time he served on the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee from June 1998 to September 2000, and then was head of the Office of Fair Trading until 2005....
  • William Waldegrave
    William Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill

    William Arthur Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill, Privy Council of the United Kingdom , educated at Eton College, Corpus Christi College, Oxford and now a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford is a British Conservative Party politician who served in the Cabinet of the United Kingdom from 1990 until 1997 and is a Life Member of the Tor...
  • Richard Wilberforce
  • Sir Bernard Williams
    Bernard Williams

    Sir Bernard Arthur Owen Williams British Academy has been described as the most important United Kingdom moral philosopher of his time.Williams spent the bulk of his career at four academic institutions: Oxford, Cambridge, University College London, and the University of California, Berkeley....
  • E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
    E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

    Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, Order of the Garter, Order of Merit, Order of the Star of India, Order of St Michael and St George, Order of the Indian Empire, Privy Council of the United Kingdom , known as The Baron Irwin from 1925 until 1934 and as The Viscount Halifax from 1934 until 1944, was one of the mos...
  • Llewellyn Woodward
    Llewellyn Woodward

    Sir Llewellyn Woodward was a United Kingdom historian. He was educated at Merchant Taylor's School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford and after the First World War became a Lecturer in Modern History and fellow of All Souls College from 1919-1944 and a Fellow at New College, Oxford from 1922-1939....
  • Patrick Wormald
    Patrick Wormald

    Charles Patrick Wormald was an England historian.Patrick Wormald was born in Neston, Cheshire, son of historian Brian Wormald. He attended Eton College as a King's Scholar and studied Modern History at Balliol College where he was tutored by Maurice Keen....
  • Crispin Wright
    Crispin Wright

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  • R. C. Zaehner


See also Fellows of All Souls


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