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Univ is also a commonly used abbreviation for University
University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education....


University College (in full, the The Master and Fellows of the College of the Great Hall of the University of Oxford, colloquially referred to as Univ), 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

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Univ is also a commonly used abbreviation for University
University

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University College (in full, the The Master and Fellows of the College of the Great Hall of the University of Oxford, colloquially referred to as Univ), 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...
. It is a contender for being the oldest of the colleges of the university, and is amongst the largest in terms of population.

Univ has the highest proportion of old members offering financial support to the college out of any in either Oxford or Cambridge (28% in 2007, the highest rate in the UK). 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 £90.5m , which is slightly above average by comparison to other Oxbridge colleges.

Univ was founded by William of Durham
William of Durham

William of Durham , who is said to have founded University College, Oxford, England, probably came from Sedgefield, County Durham and was educated at Wearmouth monastery and in Paris....
 in 1249 (not King Alfred as has been claimed in the past), and until the 16th century was only open to Fellows studying theology
Theology

Theology is the study of the existence or attributes of a deity or gods, or more generally the study of religion or spirituality. It is sometimes contrasted with religious studies: theology is understood as the study of religion from an internal perspective , and religious studies as the study of religion from an external perspective....
. As Univ grew in size and wealth, its medieval buildings were replaced with the current Main Quadrangle in the 17th Century. Although the foundation stone was placed on 17 April 1634 the disruption of the English Civil War
English Civil War

The English Civil War was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Roundhead and Cavalier. The First English Civil War and Second English Civil War civil wars pitted the supporters of Charles I of England against the supporters of the Long Parliament, while the Third English Civil War saw fighting between supporters...
 meant it was not completed until sometime in 1676.. Radcliffe Quad
Radcliffe Quad

Not to be confused with the Quadrangle at Harvard University.The Radcliffe Quadrangle is the second Quadrangle of University College, Oxford, University of Oxford, England....
 followed more rapidly by 1719, and the Library was built in 1861. Univ only began to accept female undergraduate students in 1979. It is on the south 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....
, between the university's examination schools and Magpie Lane
Magpie Lane, Oxford

Magpie Lane is a very narrow historic lane in central Oxford, England. It leads south from the High Street, Oxford where it is at its narrowest, now completely pedestrianised as a pavement, and north from the cobbled Merton Street....
. The Queen's College, Oxford
The Queen's College, Oxford

The Queen's College, founded 1341, is one of the Colleges of the University of Oxford of the University of Oxford in England. Queen's is centrally situated on the High Street, and is renowned for its eighteenth-century architecture....
 is directly opposite on the north side of the High Street.

Former Master
Master (college)

A Master is the title of the head of some colleges and other educational institutions. This applies especially at some colleges and institutions at the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge ....
, Lord Butler of Brockwell, was appointed head of an inquiry into the 2003 Iraq War in February 2004. Previous Masters include John Albery
John Albery

Wyndham John Albery Fellow of the Royal Society is a United Kingdom chemist and academic.John Albery was educated at Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford, Oxford University....
, Kingman Brewster
Kingman Brewster, Jr.

Kingman Brewster, Jr., was an educator, president of Yale University, and United States diplomat.Brewster was born in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, the son of Florence Foster and Kingman Brewster Sr., a lawyer....
, Lord Goodman, Lord Redcliffe-Maud, Arthur Lehman Goodhart
Arthur Lehman Goodhart

Arthur Lehman Goodhart, Order of the British Empire, King's Council was an United Statesn-born Great Britain academic jurist and lawyer; he was professor of jurisprudence, University of Oxford, 1931?51, when he was also a Fellow of University College, Oxford....
, and William Beveridge
William Beveridge

William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge was a British economist and social reformer. He is perhaps best known for his 1942 report Social Insurance and Allied Services which served as the basis for the post-World War II Labour government's Welfare State, especially the National Health Service....
. In August 2008 Lord Butler was succeeded by Sir Ivor Crewe
Ivor Crewe

Sir Ivor Martin Crewe is the Master of University College, Oxford. He was previously Vice-Chancellor of the University of Essex and Professor in the Department of Government....
.

A specially constructed building in the College, the Shelley Memorial
Shelley Memorial

The Shelley Memorial is a memorial to the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley at University College, Oxford, Oxford, England, the college that he briefly attended and from which he was expelled for writing a pamphlet on The Necessity of Atheism....
, houses a statue by Edward Onslow Ford
Edward Onslow Ford

Edward Onslow Ford , England sculpture, was born in London. He received some education as a painting in Antwerp and as a sculptor in Munich under Professor Wagmuller, but was mainly self-taught....
 of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major England Romantic poets and is widely considered to be among the finest Lyric poetry in the English language....
 — a former member of the college, who was expelled for writing The Necessity of Atheism
The Necessity of Atheism

The Necessity of Atheism is a treatise on atheism by Percy Bysshe Shelley, published anonymously in 1811 while he was a student at University College, Oxford....
 — depicted lying dead on the Italian seashore. Rumour has it that the sunken area around the statue was once filled with water and live goldfish as a student prank. Another apparently common student prank involving the statue has been to paint his genitalia bright colours; for this reason, the statue's appendage is somewhat smaller than it used to be.

Notable former students and fellows


See also: Former students of University College, Fellows of University College, Oxford and





Politicians and civil servants


  • Clement Attlee
    Clement Attlee

    Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, Order of the Garter, Order of Merit, Order of the Companions of Honour, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Fellow of the Royal Society was a British people politician, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, and leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955....
    , British Prime Minister
  • Sir Jeremy Beecham
    Jeremy Beecham

    Sir Jeremy Beecham, Deputy Lieutenant is a British Labour Party politician and a senior figure in English local government. He was leader of Newcastle City Council and the first Chairman of the...
    , Labour politician
  • Robert Cecil
    Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood

    Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood Order of the Companions of Honour, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Queen's Counsel , known as Lord Robert Cecil from 1868 to 1923, was a lawyer, politician and diplomat in the United Kingdom....
    , a founder of the League of Nations
    League of Nations

    The League of Nations was an inter-governmental organization founded as a result of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919?1920. At its greatest extent from 28 September 1934 to 23 February 1935, it had 58 members....
  • Bill Clinton
    Bill Clinton

    William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He was the fifteenth Democrat elected to that office....
    , 42nd President of the United States of America (also Chelsea Clinton
    Chelsea Clinton

    Chelsea Victoria Clinton is the daughter and only child of former Arkansas Governor and President of the United States Bill Clinton and former United States Senator and current United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton....
    , daughter)
  • William de Silva
    William de Silva

    P. H. William de Silva was a 20th century Ceylonese politician.De Silva was educated at University College, Oxford. He was a member of the Viplavakari Lanka Sama Samaja Party, with Marxist/Trotskyist leanings....
    , Ceylonese politician
  • Andrew George, Liberal Democrat
    Liberal Democrats

    The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems or just Lib Dem, are a Liberalism political party in the United Kingdom, formed in 1988 by merging the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party ; the two parties had been SDP-Liberal Alliance for seven years, from shortly after the formation of the SDP....
     MP
    Member of Parliament

    A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative of the voters to a parliament. In many countries the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a unique title, such as senate, and thus also have unique titles for its members, such as senators....
  • Philip Hammond
    Philip Hammond

    Philip Hammond is a United Kingdom politician. He is the Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Runnymede and Weybridge and the Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet Chief Secretary to the Treasury....
    , Conservative
    Conservative Party (UK)

    The Conservative and Unionist Party, more commonly known as the Conservative Party, is a conservative political party in the United Kingdom....
     MP
    Member of Parliament

    A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative of the voters to a parliament. In many countries the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a unique title, such as senate, and thus also have unique titles for its members, such as senators....
  • Bob Hawke
    Bob Hawke

    Robert James Lee Hawke, Order of Australia was the 23rd Prime Minister of Australia and longest serving Australian Labor Party Prime Minister....
    , Australian Prime Minister (Labor)
  • Colin Moynihan
    Colin Moynihan

    Colin Berkeley Moynihan, 4th Baron Moynihan is a former Olympic Coxswain who became a politician....
    , Conservative
    Conservative Party (UK)

    The Conservative and Unionist Party, more commonly known as the Conservative Party, is a conservative political party in the United Kingdom....
     MP
    Member of Parliament

    A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative of the voters to a parliament. In many countries the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a unique title, such as senate, and thus also have unique titles for its members, such as senators....
  • Robert Reich
    Robert Reich

    Robert Bernard Reich is an American politician, academic, writer, and political commentator. He served as the twenty-second United States Secretary of Labor, serving under President of the United States Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997....
    , former U.S. Secretary of Labor
  • David Renton, Baron Renton
    David Renton, Baron Renton

    David Lockhart-Mure Renton, Baron Renton, Order of the British Empire, Queen's Counsel, Territorial Decoration, Deputy Lieutenant, Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a United Kingdom politician....
    , MP
    Member of Parliament

    A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative of the voters to a parliament. In many countries the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a unique title, such as senate, and thus also have unique titles for its members, such as senators....
  • John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon
    John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon

    John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon , Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, was born in Newcastle upon Tyne. His grandfather, William Scott of Sandgate, a suburb of Newcastle, was clerk to a fitter, a sort of water-carrier and broker of coals....
    , Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
  • Roger Short
    Roger Short

    Roger Short MVO was a veteran United Kingdom diplomat who was killed in a 2003 Istanbul bombings in Istanbul while serving as the British Diplomatic consulate in Turkey....
    , British consul-general to Turkey
  • Henry Thrale
    Henry Thrale

    Henry Thrale was an 18th century English Member of Parliament and a close friend of Samuel Johnson. Like his father, he was the proprietor of the large London brewery, H....
    , MP
    Member of Parliament

    A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative of the voters to a parliament. In many countries the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a unique title, such as senate, and thus also have unique titles for its members, such as senators....
  • William Weld
    William Weld

    William Floyd Weld was the United States Republican Party Governor of Massachusetts of Massachusetts from 1991 to 1997. From 1981 to 1988, he was a federal prosecutor in the United States Justice Department....
    , governor of Massachusetts
    Massachusetts

    The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a U.S. state located in the New England region of the Northeastern United States United States. It borders Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north....
  • Sir Rowland Whitehead
    Sir Rowland Whitehead, 3rd Baronet

    Sir Rowland Edward Whitehead, 2nd Baronet King's Counsel member of parliament was a United Kingdom barrister and Liberal Party politician....
     KC MP
    Member of Parliament

    A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative of the voters to a parliament. In many countries the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a unique title, such as senate, and thus also have unique titles for its members, such as senators....


Writers, philosophers, actors, journalists and broadcasters


  • John Finnis
    John Finnis

    John Finnis , is an Australian philosopher, specializing in the philosophy of law. He is Professor of Law at University College, Oxford and at the University of Notre Dame, teaching jurisprudence, political theory, and constitutional law....
    , natural law philosopher, Professor of Law and Legal Philosophy
  • Edwin Arnold
    Edwin Arnold

    Sir Edwin Arnold, Order of the Star of India, Order of the Indian Empire , was an England poet and journalist, who most known for his work, The Light of Asia....
    , poet, journalist, translator from Hindi
  • Paul Foot
    Paul Foot

    Paul Mackintosh Foot was a United Kingdom investigative journalist, political campaigner, author, and long-time member of the Socialist Workers Party ....
    , journalist and socialist
  • Paul Gambaccini
    Paul Gambaccini

    Paul Matthew Gambaccini is a radio and television presenter in the United Kingdom. He has dual United States and United Kingdom nationality, having become a British citizen in 2005....
    , presenter of and writer on pop music
  • Maurizio Giuliano
    Maurizio Giuliano

    Maurizio Giuliano is an Italy-United Kingdom traveller, author and journalist. As of 2004 he was, according to the Guinness World Records, the youngest person to have visited all sovereignty nations of the world....
    , writer, traveller, and United Nations
    United Nations

    The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
     official
  • Gordon Honeycombe
    Gordon Honeycombe

    Ronald Gordon Honeycombe is an author, playwright and stage actor, well known in the United Kingdom as a national television news presenter.Gordon Honeycombe was born in Karachi, in British India, and educated at the Edinburgh Academy and at University College, Oxford, from which he graduated with an Master of Arts in English....
    , actor & playwright
  • Armando Iannucci
    Armando Iannucci

    Armando Iannucci is a Scotland comedian, writer, director, performer and radio producer....
    , comedian, writer, satirist and radio producer
  • Richard Ingrams
    Richard Ingrams

    Richard Ingrams was a co-founder and second editor of the British satire magazine Private Eye , taking over from Christopher Booker in 1963....
    , co-founder of     Private Eye
  • C. S. Lewis
    C. S. Lewis

    Clive Staples Lewis , commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as Jack, was an academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist....
    , writer, critic
  • Peter McDonald
    Peter McDonald (poet)

    Peter McDonald is a poet and academic, and currently lives in Oxford, England....
    , poet
  • Cecil Mercer, novelist
  • Andrew Motion
    Andrew Motion

    Andrew Motion, Royal Society of Literature, is an England poet, novelist and biographer, who is the current Poet Laureate in the United Kingdom....
    , British Poet Laureate
    Poet Laureate

    A Poet Laureate is a poet officially appointed by a government and is often expected to compose poems for State occasions and other government events....
  • Sir V. S. Naipaul
    V. S. Naipaul

    Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, Knight Bachelor, Trinity Cross , better known as V. S. Naipaul, is a Trinidad and Tobago-born United Kingdom writer of Indo-Trinidadian descent, currently resident in Wiltshire....
    , writer and Nobel Laureate
  • Nigel Playfair
    Nigel Playfair

    Sir Nigel Playfair was the actor-manager of the Lyric Hammersmith, Hammersmith, London, in the 1920s.Playfair studied at University College, Oxford....
    , actor and theatre manager
  • James Ridley
    James Ridley

    James Ridley was an author who was educated at University College, Oxford. He served as a chaplain with the British Army. Ridley wrote two novels, The History of James Lovegrove, Esquire and The Schemer, or the Universal Satirist, by that Great Philosopher Helter van Scelter ; but he is mainly remembered for his Oriental pastiche '...
    , author
  • Andrew Robinson
    W. Andrew Robinson

    W. Andrew Robinson is a United Kingdom author and former newspaper editor.Andrew Robinson was educated at the Dragon School, Eton College where he was a King's Scholar, University College, Oxford where he read Chemistry and finally the School of Oriental and African Studies in London....
    , author and former newspaper editor
  • Aubrey de Sélincourt
    Aubrey de Selincourt

    Aubrey de S?lincourt was an English writer, classical scholar and translator. Educated at Rugby School, he won an open classical scholarship to University College, Oxford....
    , writer & classicist
  • Ernest de Sélincourt
    Ernest de Sélincourt

    Ernest de S?lincourt was a United Kingdom literary scholar and critic. He is best known as an editor of William Wordsworth and Dorothy Wordsworth....
    , literary critic and editor
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley
    Percy Bysshe Shelley

    Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major England Romantic poets and is widely considered to be among the finest Lyric poetry in the English language....
    , poet
  • Peter Sissons
    Peter Sissons

    Peter George Sissons is a television news presenter in the United Kingdom.Originally from Liverpool, he attended the Dovedale Road Junior School with John Lennon and Jimmy Tarbuck and after the 11+ to the Liverpool Institute for Boys from 1953 to 1961 with Bill Kenwright, George Harrison and Paul McCartney....
    , television newsreader
  • Charles Sorley
    Charles Sorley

    Captain Charles Hamilton Sorley was a United Kingdom poet of World War I.Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, he was the son of William Ritchie Sorley....
    , poet
  • Stephen Spender
    Stephen Spender

    Sir Stephen Harold Spender Order of British Empire was an English poet, novelist and essayist who concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle in his work....
    , poet and writer
  • Rajiva Wijesinha
    Rajiva Wijesinha

    Rajiva Wijesinha , is a Sri Lankan literature writer in English, distinguished for his political analysis as well as creative and critical work, ex Senior Professor of Languages at the Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, former President/Leader of the Liberal Party of Sri Lanka and a Vice-President of Liberal International....
    , writer
  • Michael York
    Michael York (actor)

    Michael York, Order of the British Empire is an England actor. He is more recently known among mainstream audiences for his role as Basil Exposition in the Austin Powers series....
    , actor
  • Andy Zaltzman
    Andy Zaltzman

    Andrew Zaltzman is a British comedian who largely focuses on political material. He is a graduate of University College, Oxford.He has written for Bremner, Bird and Fortune and appeared on BBC4's Never Mind the Full Stops and The Late Edition....
    , political comedian
  • Rajdeep Sardesai
    Rajdeep Sardesai

    Rajdeep Sardesai is an Indian journalist, political commentator and news presenter....
    , journalist


Scientists, inventors and engineers


  • Edmund Cartwright
    Edmund Cartwright

    Edward Cartwright was an England clergyman and inventor of the power loom. ...
    , clergyman and loom-inventor
  • Stephen Hawking
    Stephen Hawking

    Stephen William Hawking Companion of Honour, Commander of the British Empire, Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy is a British Theoretical physics....
    , physicist


Other


  • William Beveridge
    William Beveridge

    William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge was a British economist and social reformer. He is perhaps best known for his 1942 report Social Insurance and Allied Services which served as the basis for the post-World War II Labour government's Welfare State, especially the National Health Service....
    , socialist economist
  • Jonathan Bowen
    Jonathan Bowen

    Jonathan P. Bowen FBCS FRSA is a United Kingdom computer scientist. He is Chairman of Museophile Limited, an Emeritus Professor at London South Bank University where he has headed the , a Visiting Professor at King's College London and a former visiting academic at University College London....
    , computer scientist and academician
  • G.G. Bradley
    George Granville Bradley

    George Granville Bradley , was an England divine and scholar....
    , noted Latinist, college master
  • Lord Butler of Brockwell, civil servant, college master
  • Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare
    Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare

    Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare was a British orientalist, Fellow of University College, Oxford, and Professor of Theology at the University of Oxford....
    , orientalist and religious thinker
  • Kenneth Diplock, judge and Law Lord
  • David Gill
    David Gill (economist)

    David Gill is an Assistant Professor of economics at The University of Southampton.He holds a B.A., M.A., M.Phil. and D.Phil. from the University of Oxford, where he was a student at University College, Oxford and Nuffield College, Oxford....
    , economist and academician
  • Michael Hoban
    Michael Hoban

    Brian Michael Stanislaus Hoban , known as Michael, was a teacher of classics, and Headmaster of Harrow School from 1971 to 1981.He headed Harrow at a difficult time for British public school generally, with unfavourable political environment and many financial pressures....
    , headmaster of Harrow
    Harrow School

    Harrow School, commonly known as "Harrow", is a world-famous boys' independent school in United Kingdom. Harrow has educated boys since 1243 but was officially founded by John Lyon under a Royal Charter of Elizabeth I in 1572....
  • Kenneth Hamilton Jenkin
    Kenneth Hamilton Jenkin

    Alfred Kenneth Hamilton Jenkin was best known as a historian with a particular interest in Cornwall mining, publishing The Cornish Miner, now a classic, in 1927....
    , historian
  • Sir William Jones
    William Jones (philologist)

    Sir William Jones was an England Philology and student of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among Indo-European languages....
    , discoverer of Sanskrit
    Sanskrit

    Sanskrit is a historical Indo-Aryan language, one of the liturgical languages of Hinduism and Buddhism, and one of the 22 official languages of India....
    's relationship to Latin
    Latin

    Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
     & Greek
    Greek language

    Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
  • Nick Mallett
    Nick Mallett

    Nicholas Vivian Howard Mallett is a South African rugby union coach and former player who is currently the head coach of the Italy's rugby union national team....
    , Rugby player and coach
  • Luke McShane
    Luke McShane

    Luke James McShane is an England chess player. His peak Elo rating was 2656 in April 2004, at which time he was ranked 42nd in the world. As of October 2007 his rating is 2592 and he is ranked fourth in England....
    , Chess Grandmaster
  • Warren Mitchell
    Warren Mitchell

    Warren Mitchell is an England actor....
    , actor
  • Monier Monier-Williams
    Monier Monier-Williams

    Sir Monier Monier-Williams studied, documented and taught Asian languages in England, and compiled one of the most widely-used Sanskrit-English dictionaries....
    , linguist
  • Gerald Graham Peel, composer
  • John Radcliffe, Royal Physician to William & Mary
  • Sophie Solomon
    Sophie Solomon

    Sophie Solomon is a British violinist, songwriter and composer who fuses many different musical influences into her music....
    , violinist, songwriter and composer
  • Adrian Stoop
    Adrian Stoop

    Adrian Stoop was an England rugby union player of Netherlands descent.He played 182 times for Harlequins between 1901 and 1939, and won 15 caps for England national rugby union team....
    , Rugby player
  • Sir Peter Strawson, philosopher
  • Felix Yusupov
    Felix Yusupov

    Prince Felix Felixovich Yusupov, Count Sumarokov-Elston , , was best known for participating in the murder of Grigori Rasputin, the mystic peasant faith healer whom Yusupov and other Russian nobles believed held undue sway over Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and especially over the Tsaritsa Alexandra Fyodorovna ....
    , participant in the murder of Grigori Rasputin
    Grigori Rasputin

    Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was a Russians mysticism who is perceived as having influenced the later days of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, his wife the Tsaritsa Alexandra of Hesse, and their only son the Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia....
  • William Stuart
    William Stuart

    William Stuart may refer to:*Lord William Stuart, naval commander, MP for Cardiff*Hod Stuart, William "Hod" Stuart", Canadian icehockey player...
    , famous Welsh Jazz musician
    Musician

    A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....


Other notable connections

Although not member of University College the scientists Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle

Robert Boyle was an Irish People theologian, natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, inventor, and early gentleman scientist, noted for his work in physics and chemistry....
 (sometime described as the "first modern chemist") and his assistant (Robert Hooke
Robert Hooke

Robert Hooke, Fellow of the Royal Society was an England natural philosopher and polymath who played an important role in the scientific revolution, through both experimental and theoretical work....
, architect, biologist, discoverer of cells) lived in Deep Hall (then owned by Christ Church and now the site of the Shelley Memorial). The former made a contribution to the completion of University College's current Hall in the mid-17th Century.

Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson was an English author. Beginning as a Grub Street journalist, he made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, novelist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer....
 (author of the A Dictionary of the English Language
A Dictionary of the English Language

Published on 15 April 1755 and written by Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language, sometimes published as Johnson's Dictionary, is among the most influential dictionary in the history of the English language....
 and a member of Pembroke) was a frequent visitor to the Senior Common Room at University College during the 18th Century).

Grace

Univ. has the longest grace
Grace (prayer)

Grace is a name for any of a number of short prayers said or an unvoiced intention held prior to partaking of a meal, thanking deity and/or the entities that have given of themselves to furnish nutrients to those partaking in the meal....
 of any Oxford (and perhaps Cambridge) College. It is read before every Formal Hall, which takes place every night except Saturday at Univ.

The reading is performed by a Scholar of the College, the same person doing it for a whole week, and whoever is sitting at the head of High Table
High Table

At Oxford University and University of Cambridge colleges - and other, similarly traditional, academic institutions - the High Table is a table for the use of fellows and their guests....
 (typically the Master, but maybe just the most senior Fellow
Fellow

A fellow in the broadest sense is someone who is an equal or a comrade. Historically, the term fellow was also used to describe a man, particularly by those in the upper social classes....
 at the table if the Master is not dining). The Scholar says the lines beginning "SCHOL."; the Fellow says the lines beginning "RESP.".

The Scholar does not need to know it by heart, although it is not unusual for people to do so.

Original version


GRATIARIUM ACTIO IN COLLEGIO MAGNAE AULAE UNIVERSITATIS QUOTIDIE ANTE MENSAM DICENDA.

SCHOL. Benedictus sit Deus in donis suis.
RESP. Et sanctus in omnibus operibus suis.
SCHOL. Adiutorium nostrum in Nomine Domini.
RESP. Qui fecit coelum et terras.
SCHOL. Sit Nomen Domini benedictum.
RESP. Ab hoc tempore usque in saecula.
SCHOL. Domine Deus, Resurrectio et Vita credentium, Qui semper es laudandus tam in viventibus quam in defunctis, gratias Tibi agimus pro omnibus Fundatoribus caeterisque Benefactoribus nostris, quorum beneficiis hic ad pietatem et ad studia literarum alimur: Te rogantes ut nos, hisce Tuis donis ad Tuam gloriam recte utentes, una cum iis ad vitam immortalem perducamur. Per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum.
RESP. Amen.
SCHOL. Deus det vivis gratiam, defunctis requiem: Ecclesiae, Reginae, Regnoque nostro, pacem et concordiam: et nobis peccatoribus vitam aeternam.
RESP. Amen.

English translation


The College renders the English translation of the Grace thus:

SCHOL. Blessed be God in his gifts.
RESP. And holy in all his works.
SCHOL. Our help is in the name of the Lord.
RESP. Who has made heaven and earth.
SCHOL. May the name of the Lord be blessed.
RESP. From this time and for evermore.
SCHOL. Lord God, the Resurrection and Life of those who believe, You are always to be praised as much among the living as among the departed. We give You thanks for all our founders and our other benefactors, by whose benefactions we are nourished here for piety and for the study of letters. And we ask you that we, rightly using these Your gifts to Your glory, may be brought with them to immortal life. Through Jesus Christ our Lord
RESP. Amen.
SCHOL. May God give grace to the living, rest to the departed; peace and concord to the Church, the Queen and our Kingdom; and to us sinners, eternal life.
RESP. Amen.

Publications


University College Record

The University College Record is the annual magazine sent to alumni of University College each autumn. The magazine provides College news, including clubs and societies such as the University College Players
University College Players

The University College Players are the theatrical society of University College, Oxford.The first production was in May 1941 when William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors was performed in cooperation with Merton College, Oxford....
 and the Devas Club
Devas Club

The Devas Club for Young People is a youth club in Battersea, south London, England, which provides sporting, educational and creative opportunities for disadvantaged youth....
. News about and obituaries
Obituary

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 of former students are included at the end of each issue.

Previous editors include Peter Bayley
Peter Bayley

Peter Bayley was an English literature Fellow#Oxford.2C_Cambridge.2C_and_Trinity at University College, Oxford.Peter C. Bayley was educated at University College, University of Oxford, England....
, A. D. M. Cox and Leslie Mitchell
Leslie Mitchell

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. The current editor is Dr Robin Darwall-Smith.

Paired Cambridge College

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List of Oxbridge sister colleges

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' with one another. University College is paired with Trinity Hall
Trinity Hall

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, Cambridge.

See also

  • University College Oxford Boat Club
  • University College Players
    University College Players

    The University College Players are the theatrical society of University College, Oxford.The first production was in May 1941 when William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors was performed in cooperation with Merton College, Oxford....
     (college dramatic society)
  • University Challenge
    University Challenge

    University Challenge is a United Kingdom game show that has aired since 1962. The format is based on the United States show College Bowl, which ran on NBC radio from 1953 to 1957, and on NBC TV from 1959 to 1970....
     television programme (winners in 1976)
  • List of Masters of University College, Oxford
    List of Masters of University College, Oxford

    The head of University College, Oxford, University of Oxford is known as the Master .University College was founded by William of Durham with a legacy in 1249....


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