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Exeter College 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
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
 and the 4th oldest college of the University. The main entrance is on the east side of Turl Street
Turl Street

Turl Street is a street in Oxford, England. It is located in the city centre, linking Broad Street, Oxford at the north and High Street, Oxford at the south....
. As of 2006, the college had an estimated 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 £47m.

l situated in its original location on Turl Street, Exeter College was founded in 1314 by Walter de Stapeldon of Devon
Devon

Devon is a large Counties of England in South West England. The county is also referred to as Devonshire, but that is an entirely unofficial name, rarely used inside of the county but often indicating a shire....
, Bishop of Exeter
Exeter

Exeter Exeter was the most south-westerly Roman fortified settlement in Roman Britain and has existed since time immemorial. Exeter Cathedral, founded in 1050 is Anglicanism....
 and later treasurer to Edward II
Edward II of England

Edward II, of Caernarfon, was Kingdom of England from 1307 until he was deposition in January 1327. His tendency to ignore his nobility in favour of low-born favourites led to constant political unrest and his eventual deposition....
, as a school to educate clergy.






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Exeter College 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
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
 and the 4th oldest college of the University. The main entrance is on the east side of Turl Street
Turl Street

Turl Street is a street in Oxford, England. It is located in the city centre, linking Broad Street, Oxford at the north and High Street, Oxford at the south....
. As of 2006, the college had an estimated 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 £47m.

History

Still situated in its original location on Turl Street, Exeter College was founded in 1314 by Walter de Stapeldon of Devon
Devon

Devon is a large Counties of England in South West England. The county is also referred to as Devonshire, but that is an entirely unofficial name, rarely used inside of the county but often indicating a shire....
, Bishop of Exeter
Exeter

Exeter Exeter was the most south-westerly Roman fortified settlement in Roman Britain and has existed since time immemorial. Exeter Cathedral, founded in 1050 is Anglicanism....
 and later treasurer to Edward II
Edward II of England

Edward II, of Caernarfon, was Kingdom of England from 1307 until he was deposition in January 1327. His tendency to ignore his nobility in favour of low-born favourites led to constant political unrest and his eventual deposition....
, as a school to educate clergy. During its first century, it was known as Stapeldon Hall and was significantly smaller, with just twelve to fourteen students. The college grew significantly from the 15th century onward, and began offering rooms to its students. The College motto is "Floreat Exon", meaning "Let Exeter Flourish".

In the 16th century, donations from Sir William Petre
William Petre

Sir William Petre was born in Devon in 1505 and educated as a lawyer at Exeter College, Oxford. He became a public servant, probably through the influence of the Boleyns, one of whom, George, he had tutored at University of Oxford and another of whom, Anne, was married to the Henry VIII of England....
, a former Exeter graduate, helped to expand and transform the college. As a result, Exeter College became one of the leading colleges in the University. The present Hall was built in the year 1618 with the rest of the college completed by 1710, with the exception of the old gatehouse, Palmer's Tower, which dates from 1432. In the 18th century the college experienced declining popularity, as did all of Oxford's other colleges. University reforms in the 1850s helped to end this period of stagnation.

The college saw much building work during the 1850s to the designs of Sir George Gilbert Scott
George Gilbert Scott

Sir George Gilbert Scott was an England architect of the Victorian Age, chiefly associated with the design, building and renovation of Church , cathedrals and workhouses....
, including the chapel (1854-60, inspired by the Sainte Chapelle in Paris), the library 1856, also in a 13th century style, the rector's lodgings from 1857 in Georgian
Georgian architecture

Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking world to the set of architectural styles current between 1720 and 1840. It is eponymous for the first four Monarchy of the United Kingdom of the House of Hanover—George I of Great Britain, George II of Great Britain, George III of the United Kingdom, and George IV of the...
 style, and the Broad Street
Broad Street, Oxford

Broad Street is a wide street in Oxford, England. It is famous for its bookshops, including the original Blackwell's bookshop at number 50....
 range from 1856.

The college expanded again in the 20th century when it acquired new buildings, thereby enabling it to accommodate more undergraduate students. Until 1979 the college did not allow women students, but in 1993 Exeter College became the first of the former all-male colleges to elect a woman, Marilyn Butler
Marilyn Butler

Marilyn Butler is a British literary criticism. She was Rector of Exeter College, Oxford from 1993 to 2004, and was King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge, from 1986 to 1993....
, as its Rector
Rector

The word rector has a number of different meanings, but all of them indicate an academic, religious or political administrator.The word "rector" also appears in many modern languages, such as Albanian, Dutch language, Spanish language, Catalan language and Romanian language....
. When Butler's tenure expired in October 2004, the college elected another woman – Frances Cairncross
Frances Cairncross

Frances Anne Cairncross CBE is a British economist, journalist and academic.Cairncross read Modern History at St Anne's College, Oxford, University of Oxford, graduating in 1965, and holds an Master of Arts in Economics from Brown University, Rhode Island....
, former Senior Editor of The Economist
The Economist

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 – as Rector.

Student life

As one of the smaller Oxford Colleges, Exeter has a reputation for having a close-knit student body, and Common Rooms
Common Room (university)

In some universities in the United Kingdom ? particularly Collegiate university such as Oxford University, Cambridge University and Durham University ? students and the academic body are organised into common rooms....
 that are noted for their friendliness and openness to new students. First year undergraduates are housed on-site in the College’s Turl St. site, and there is dedicated Graduate accommodation for the college on Iffley Road.

As the University’s fourth oldest college, a certain emphasis is placed on tradition, especially during special occasions such as the annual ‘Burns’ Night,’ a dinner in honour of the Scottish
Scottish people

The Scots people are a nation and an ethnic group indigenous to Scotland.Historically, as an ethnic group, they emerged from an amalgamation of Celts, Picts, Gaels and Brythons....
 poet
Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry....
 Robert Burns
Robert Burns

Robert Burns was a poet and a lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is also in English and a 'light' Scots dialect, accessible to an audience beyond Scotland....
, when a traditional meal of haggis
Haggis

Haggis is a traditional Scotland dish.There are many recipes, most of which have in common the following ingredients: sheep's 'Offal' , minced with onion, oatmeal, suet, spices, and edible salt, mixed with Stock , and traditionally Boilinged in the animal's stomach for approximately three hours....
 is always served. The College’s ties with Williams College
Williams College

Williams College is a private Liberal arts colleges in the United States located in Williamstown, Massachusetts, Massachusetts.Williams was established in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams as a men's college, located in the Berkshires in northwestern Massachusetts, at the foot of Mount Greylock....
 in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
, as well as the generally international composition of the MCR makes the annual Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving may refer to:*Thanksgiving , the holiday on the fourth Thursday in November.*Thanksgiving , the holiday on the second Monday in October....
 dinner a popular occasion as well. The MCR hosts a large number of married students, and non-studying spouses are encouraged to actively participate in the life of college.

The MCR hosts a large number of specialists in Law
LAW

LAW may refer to:* Anti-tank warfare, e.g. the US Army M72 LAW or the British Army LAW 80*Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights ...
 and Byzantine
Byzantine

The word Byzantine may refer to:Topics directly related to the Byzantine Empire* A citizen of Byzantine Empire, or native Greeks during the Middle Ages ....
 studies, and the JCR has a high concentration of students reading the popular Modern History and PPE (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) degrees
Academic degree

A degree is any of a wide range of status levels conferred by institutions of higher education, such as University, normally as the result of successfully completing a program of study....
. However, like most other Oxford colleges no single discipline can be said to dominate either common room, and the atmosphere is one of a great deal of interdisciplinary mingling.

Like all Oxford Colleges Exeter prides itself on its athletic achievements as well as its academic: in 2005/2006 Exeter students competed at a University level on the varsity Lacrosse
Lacrosse

Lacrosse is a team sport originated by several tribes of Native Americans in the United States. There are four distinct versions of the modern game: men's field lacrosse, women's field lacrosse, men's box lacrosse and intercrosse ....
, football
Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players, and is widely considered to be the most popular sport in the world....
, Golf
Golf

Golf is a sport in which players using many types of Golf club including wood , iron , and putter , attempt to hit golf ball into each hole on a golf course in the lowest possible number of strokes....
, Fencing, Rugby
Rugby football

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, Powerlifting
Powerlifting

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, Gymnastics
Gymnastics

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, Darts
Darts

Darts refers to a variety of related sports, in which dart are thrown at a circular target hung on a wall. Though various different boards and games have been used in the past, the term 'darts' usually now refers to a standardized game involving a specific board design and set of rules....
, Ice Hockey
Ice hockey

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 and Wine Tasting
Wine tasting

Wine tasting is the sensory examination and evaluation of wine. While the practice of wine tasting is as ancient as its production, a more formalized methodology has slowly become established from the 14th century onwards....
 teams. It also fields several teams on an intra-university college level, particularly in rowing.

The college also places an emphasis on preparing students for their future careers once they leave the university. Unusually for an Oxford college, Exeter boasts a dedicated Careers Office and internship programme, with links to a wide range of companies around the globe. The college’s Development Office works not only to help fund the college but also to provide networking
Social network

A social network is a social structure made of nodes that are tied by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as values, visions, ideas, financial exchange, friendship, sexual network, kinship, dislike, conflict or trade....
 opportunities for students through its alumni contacts, and through its annual ‘City Drinks.’

Notable former students

See also Former students of Exeter College, Oxford

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    , President of Ghana
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    , journalist, editor of The Independent
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    , former editor of The Observer
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    , novelist
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    Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury Privy Council of England , known as Sir Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 2nd Baronet, from 1631 to 1661 and as The Lord Ashley from 1661 to 1672, was a prominent England politician of the Commonwealth of England and during the reign of Charles II of England....
    , politician
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    Roger Bannister

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    , first man to run the mile in less than 4 minutes
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    Correlli Barnett

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    , military historian
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    Alan Bennett

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    , author and actor
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    R. D. Blackmore

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    , author of Lorna Doone
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  • The Revd E. E. Bradford
    Edwin Emmanuel Bradford

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    , priest
  • The Revd Dr Thomas Bradley
    Thomas Bradley (priest)

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    , priest
  • Sydney Brenner
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    , 2002 Nobel Laureate in the category "physiology or medicine"
  • Edward Burne-Jones
    Edward Burne-Jones

    Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Baronet was an England artist and designer closely associated with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, who worked closely with William Morris on a wide range of decorative arts as a founding partner in Morris & Co.....
    , artist
  • Richard Burton
    Richard Burton

    Richard Burton, Order of the British Empire was a multi award-winning Wales actor. He was at one time the highest-paid actor in Hollywood....
    , actor
  • Robin Bush
    Robin Bush (historian)

    Robin Bush, born at Hayes, Middlesex in 1943, was the resident historian for the first nine series of Channel 4's archaeology series Time Team, appearing in 39 episodes between 1994 to 2003....
    , Time Team
    Time Team

    Time Team is a United Kingdom Television program that has aired on Channel 4 since 1994. Presented by the actor Tony Robinson, the series features a team of specialists doing an archaeology Excavation in three days, with Robinson explaining the process Wiktionary:in layman's terms....
     historian
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    Reeta Chakrabarti

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    , BBC Political Correspondent
  • Edgar F. Codd
    Edgar F. Codd

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    , inventor of the Relational Database
    Relational database

    A relational database is a database that groups data using common attributes found in the data set. The resulting "clumps" of organized data are much easier for people to understand....
  • Harold Davidson
    Harold Davidson

    Harold Francis Davidson , sometimes known as the "Prostitute's Padre", was a Church of England priest and was famous as the "Rector of Stiffkey"....
    , "The Prostitute's Padre"
  • Sir John Eliot
    John Eliot (statesman)

    Sir John Eliot , England statesman, son of Richard Eliot and Bridget Carswell , was born at Cuddenbeak, a farm on his father's Port Eliot estate at St Germans in Cornwall....
    , statesman
  • John Ford
    John Ford (dramatist)

    John Ford was an English Literature in English#Jacobean literature and Literature in English#Caroline and Cromwellian literature playwright and poet born in Ilsington, Devon in Devon in 1586....
    , dramatist
  • Sir John Fortescue, jurist
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    John Gardner (composer)

    John Linton Gardner, Order of the British Empire is an English composer of European classical music.Gardner was born in Manchester, England and brought up in Ilfracombe, North Devon....
    , composer
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    John Gray (LSE)

    John N. Gray is a prominent British political philosopher and author, formerly School Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics....
    , philosopher
  • Russell Harty
    Russell Harty

    Russell Harty was an England television presenter, with a distinctly camp turn of phrase; his name has been used as Cockney rhyming slang for party....
    , television presenter
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    Sydney Kentridge

    Sir Sydney Kentridge KCMG, Queen?s Counsel is a prominent member of the Barristers in England and Wales, who previously played a leading part in a number of the most significant political trials in South Africa under apartheid South Africa....
    , barrister and judge
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    Liaquat Ali Khan

    For other people with the same or similar name, see Liaqat Ali Nawabzada Liaquat Ali Khan was a Pakistani politician who became the first Prime Minister of Pakistan and Defence Minister....
    , politician who became the first prime minister of Pakistan
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    Charles Lyell

    Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, Order of the Thistle, Fellow of the Royal Society was a Scotland lawyer, geologist, and protagonist of Uniformitarianism ....
    , geologist
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    Lady Flora McDonnell

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    , children's author
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    William Morris

    William Morris was an English architect, furniture and textile designer, artist, writer, and Socialism associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement....
    , writer, designer and socialist
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    Benjamin Wills Newton

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    , evangelist and theologian
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    Alfred Noyes

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    , poet
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    Joseph Nye

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     (as a Rhodes Scholar), political scientist and former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
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    Hubert Parry

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    , composer
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    Arthur Peacocke

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    , biochemist and theologian
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    . Philosopher and Son of Arthur Peacocke
    Arthur Peacocke

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    , social anthropologist
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    , author of His Dark Materials
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    , Chinese literary scholar
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    Robert Robinson (television presenter)

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    , novelist
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    , legal theorist
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    , actress
  • Rev Nicolas Tindal, historian
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    J. R. R. Tolkien

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    , author of The Lord of the Rings
    The Lord of the Rings

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    Wynford Vaughan-Thomas

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    , broadcaster
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    Claude Wilson

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     (1858– 1881), England
    England national football team

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     footballer
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    , Bishop of Durham
    Bishop of Durham

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    , Church of England
    Church of England

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  • Humayun Kabir, Education Minister
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     of India
    India

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Prominent academics/tutors


See also Fellows of Exeter College, Oxford

  • Frank Close
    Frank Close

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  • Raymond Dwek
    Raymond Dwek

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  • William Gould
    William Gould

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  • Michael Hart
    Michael Hart (Oxford)

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  • Elizabeth Jeffreys
    Elizabeth Jeffreys

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  • Eric Waldram Kemp
    Eric Waldram Kemp

    Eric Waldram Kemp was Bishop of Chichester 1974-2001. He was one of the leading Anglo-Catholics of his generation and one of the most influential figures in the Church of England in the last quarter of the twentieth century....
     — Fellow, Tutor, and Chaplain 1946-69, later bishop of Chichester
  • Jacob Klein
    Jacob Klein

    Professor Jacob Klein, former holder of the Herman Mark Chair of Polymer Physics in the Materials and Interfaces Department at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel, is the Dr Lee's Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford....
  • George Alfred Kolkhorst
    George Alfred Kolkhorst

    George Alfred Kolkhorst was an Oxford don.Kolkhorst was a member of Exeter College, Oxford. He was appointed University of Oxford Lecturer in Spanish in 1921 and Reader in Spanish in 1931, holding office until his death in 1958....
     — Reader in Spanish 1931-58
  • John Maddicott
    John Maddicott

    Dr John Maddicott has published works on the political and social history of England in the thirteenth and fourteenth century, and on Anglo-Saxon history....
     — History
    HIStory

    HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I is a double album by Michael Jackson, released on June 20, 1995, and is Jackson's ninth. The first disc, named "HIStory Begins" consists of a selection of Jackson's greatest hits from the singer's past fifteen years, while the second, named "HIStory Continues" features new songs, with the...
     fellow
  • George Rawlinson
    George Rawlinson

    Canon George Rawlinson was a 19th century England scholar and historian. He was born at Chadlington, Oxfordshire, and was the younger brother of Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet....
  • Andrew Steane
    Andrew Steane

    Andrew Martin Steane is lecturer of Physics at the University of Oxford. He is also a fellow of Exeter College, Oxford.He was a student at St Edmund Hall, Oxford where he obtained his MA and DPhil....
  • Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly
    Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly

    Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly is the Fellow and Tutor in German literature at Exeter College, Oxford. She specialises in the Early modern Europe, and is a distinguished scholar in this field, and in the field of German literature as a whole, in particular in relation to literature written by women; she currently co-directs the AHRC major research pr...
     — Official Fellow and Tutor in German
    German literature

    German literature comprises those literature texts written in the German language.This includes literature written in Germany itself as well as German-language Swiss literature and Austrian literature, and to a lesser extent works of the German diaspora....


Rectors of Exeter College

see List of Rectors of Exeter College
List of Rectors of Exeter College

The following is a list of rectors of Exeter College, Oxford....


In fiction

Exeter College is the real-life basis for the fictional Jordan College in Philip Pullman's
Philip Pullman

Philip Pullman Order of the British Empire is an England novelist. He is the best-selling author of His Dark Materials , and a number of other books....
 novel trilogy His Dark Materials
His Dark Materials

His Dark Materials is a trilogy of fantasy literature by Philip Pullman comprising Northern Lights , The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass ....
. The 2007 film version of the first novel, The Golden Compass (originally Northern Lights
Northern Lights (novel)

Northern Lights, known as The Golden Compass across North America, is the first novel in England novelist Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy....
), used the college for location filming.

In the 1997 novel Great Apes by Will Self
Will Self

William Self is an English novelist, reviewer and columnist. He received his education at the independent University College School, Christ's College Finchley and Exeter College, Oxford....
, an old Exonian, the author imagines an Earth where chimpanzees have evolved as the dominant, sentient species. One scene is set in Exeter College Hall, where the chimpanzee dons rampage around the High Table, showing in their conversation the very high intelligence to be expected of Oxford academics, but all the while exhibiting in their behaviour the manners and habits of chimpanzees.

In the final Morse episode, "The Remorseful Day", Inspector Morse
Inspector Morse

Detective Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse is a fictional character in a series of thirteen detective novels by United Kingdom author Colin Dexter, as well as the Inspector Morse produced by Central Independent Television from 1987?2000, in which he was portrayed by John Thaw....
 collapses from a heart attack in the front quadrangle as Fauré's
Gabriel Fauré

Gabriel Urbain Faur? was a French composer, organist, pianist, and teacher. He was the foremost French composer of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th century composers....
 In Paradisum
Requiem (Fauré)

Gabriel Faur? composed his Requiem in D minor, Op. 48 between 1887 and 1890. This choral?orchestral setting of the Roman Catholic requiem is the best known of his large works....
 is being sung in chapel.

Williams College

There has been a close relationship with Williams College
Williams College

Williams College is a private Liberal arts colleges in the United States located in Williamstown, Massachusetts, Massachusetts.Williams was established in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams as a men's college, located in the Berkshires in northwestern Massachusetts, at the foot of Mount Greylock....
 in the United States
United States

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 for many years, the Williams-Exeter Programme. Twenty six to thirty undergraduates from Williams spend their junior year at Exeter with full undergraduate privileges, but live together with a Williams faculty proctor in special housing in North Oxford
North Oxford

North Oxford, especially Central North Oxford between the city centre and Summertown, Oxford, is considered by many to be the most desirable and famous suburb of Oxford, England....
. Courses taken at Exeter College count for full credit at Williams.

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