Magdalen College, Oxford

Magdalen College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

Magdalen is one of the most visited colleges in the university. Its large square tower is a famous landmark, and it is from the top of this tower early on May morning that a choir sings. The college stands next to the River Cherwell, with Magdalen College School nearby. Within the grounds is a deer park.

Table of contents

1 History 2 Famous Former Students 3 Teachers/Academics 4 External Link

History

Magdalen College was founded 1458 in Oxford by William of Waynflete, bishop of Winchester, originally as Magdalen. New educational ideas of the Renaissance era as well as new methods of teaching were tried out.

Famous Former Students

• Richard Atkin
• Kenneth Baker
• John Betjeman
• Stephen Breyer
• Alfred Denning
• Alfred Douglas
• John Eccles
• Edward VIII of the United Kingdom
• Howard Walter Florey
• Malcolm Fraser
• Edward Gibbon
• William Hague
• Omar Hassan
• Seamus Heaney
• Keith Joseph
• Peter Medawar
• Dudley Moore
• Desmond Morris
• Ivor Novello
• Hormuzd Rassam
• John Redwood
• Robert Robinson
• Duncan Sandys
• Erwin Schrödinger
• John Sergeant
• Charles Sherrington
• David Souter
• Andrew Sullivan
• William Tyndale
• Oscar Wilde
• Thomas Wolsey

(P. G. Wodehouse attributes a Magdalen undergraduateship to his fictional literary character Bertie Wooster)

Teachers/Academics

• Joseph Addison
• C. S. Lewis

External Link

• Official website

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Note: Not to be confused with Magdalene College, Cambridge.