The Queen's College, Oxford

The Queen's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford, England.^[2] The college was founded in 1341 by Robert de Eglesfield in honour of Philippa of Hainault, queen of England.^[3] It is distinguished by its predominantly neoclassical architecture, primarily dating from the 18th century.

The Queen's College

High Street, Oxford

51°45′12″N 01°15′04″W / 51.75333°N 1.25111°W / 51.75333; -1.25111

The Queen's College in the University of Oxford

Collegium Reginae

Reginae erunt nutrices tuae

1341 (1341)

Philippa of Hainault

Pembroke College, Cambridge

Claire Craig

343^[1] (2019–20)

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www.queens.ox.ac.uk

www.qcbcoxford.com

In 2018, the college had an endowment of £291 million,^[4] making it the fourth-wealthiest Oxford college (after Christ Church, St. John's, and All Souls).

The Queen's College, view from the High Street

View of the Upper Library, featuring the last remaining part of the medieval college

The Queen's College, Back Quad

Back Quad, detail

28th Prime Minister of Australia

Tony Abbott

Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana

Barbara Frances Ackah-Yensu

co-founder of The Spectator

Joseph Addison

actor and comedian, known for Blackadder and Mr. Bean

Rowan Atkinson

FRS, chemist and mass spectrometrist

Michael Barber

English philosopher, and legal and social reformer

Jeremy Bentham

inventor of the World Wide Web and director of the World Wide Web Consortium

Tim Berners-Lee

British psychoanalyst^[42]

Wilfred Bion

British businessman and politician

Christopher Bland

United States Senator from New Jersey

Cory Booker

Archaeologist, socialist, excavator of Skara Brae and Maes Howe

Vere Gordon Childe

American business academic known for coining "disruptive innovation"

Clayton Christensen

2nd President of Columbia University

Myles Cooper

English yachtsman and author

Frank Cowper

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for The New York Times

John Crewdson

English poet and prose writer

Ernest Dowson

English actor

Alfred Enoch

Lord Florey, Nobel Laureate and co-developer of penicillin, later Provost of the College

Howard Florey

civil servant and philosopher, Provost of The Queen's College, later Provost of Worcester College

Oliver Franks, Baron Franks

Mayor of Los Angeles

Eric Garcetti

educationalist

Herbert Branston Gray

English jurist and judge

Leonard Hoffmann, Baron Hoffmann

English astronomer

Edmund Halley

Irish academic, Fellow of the British Academy, Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at London School of Economics

Fred Halliday

English poet and editor

John Heath-Stubbs

King

Henry V of England

American astronomer^[43]

Edwin Powell Hubble

former UK Cabinet and Government Minister

Ruth Kelly

twentieth-century English composer

Kenneth Leighton

nineteenth-century English composer

John Henry Mee

English Jacobean playwright and poet

Thomas Middleton

Anglican Theologian

John Milbank

twentieth-century English composer

David Moule-Evans

Geriatrician. Professor of Medicine for Older People at City University. Former National Clinical Director for Older People Department of Health. President British Geriatrics Society. Visiting Fellow The King's Fund

David Oliver

seventeenth-century English theologian

John Owen

twice Liberal Democrat candidate for Mayor of London

Brian Paddick

English essayist

Walter Horatio Pater

barrister in high-profile cases such as Irving v Penguin Books and Lipstadt, which was the subject of the film Denial

Richard Rampton

Art Historian

Benedict Read

United States Ski Team skier

Ryan Max Riley

British philosopher

Gilbert Ryle

neurologist and writer

Oliver Sacks

conductor

Leopold Stokowski

English cricketer

Claire Taylor

Archbishop of York

William Thomson

British computer scientist and security specialist

Phil Venables

English theologian

John Wycliffe

historian and author

Adam Zamoyski

Member of Parliament

Peter Daniell MP

Fellows of the Queen's College, Oxford

List of Provosts of The Queen's College, Oxford

Queens' College, Cambridge

and The Constant in Lost

Daniel Faraday

List of Honorary Fellows of The Queen's College, Oxford

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