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Lady Margaret Hall
Oxford
File:LMH crest.png
Established1878
Named forLady Margaret Beaufort
Colours
Sister collegeNewnham College, Cambridge
PrincipalDr Frances Lannon
Undergraduates424
Postgraduates174
WebsiteHomepage
MCR[1]
Boat clubBoat club
Sunken gardens outside Talbot Hall, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
Giles Gilbert Scott's Deneke Building, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
Fellows' Garden, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
Gardens outside Wordsworth Building, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
Sir Reginald Blomfield's Talbot Hall, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.

Lady Margaret Hall is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England, located at the end of Norham Gardens in north Oxford. As of 2006 the college had an estimated financial endowment of £34m.[2]

Lady Margaret Hall accepts both undergraduate and graduate students.

History

Lady Margaret Hall, the first women's college in Oxford, was founded in 1878 and opened its doors to its first nine students the following year. The college was named after Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of King Henry VII, renowned patron of scholarship and learning. Its first principal was Elizabeth Wordsworth, the great-niece of the poet William Wordsworth and daughter of Christopher Wordsworth, Bishop of Lincoln. In 1979, one hundred years after its foundation, LMH admitted men as well as women. LMH and St Anne's were the first of the women's colleges to do so.

Key to the LMH shield and logo: the portcullis is from the family arms of Lady Margaret Beaufort; the bell is a family symbol of Elizabeth Wordsworth, the first Principal; the Talbot dogs are for Edward Talbot, the College’s founder.

The College

Lady Margaret Hall is one of the few Oxford colleges on the River Cherwell and is known for its lovely gardens set in spacious grounds (about 12 acres (49,000 m2)). The college's original house, now known as Old Old Hall, is still in use. Just behind the main buildings, which are neo-Georgian in style, made from red brick with white trim, are a set of playing fields and tennis courts, as well as a manicured Fellows' Garden, hidden from view by tall hedgerows. Giles Gilbert Scott, famous for designing Liverpool Cathedral and the K2 red telephone box designed the college's Byzantine-style chapel.

Its newest building, Pipe Partridge Building was completed in early 2010. This building includes a 120-seat lecture theatre, a dining hall, seminar rooms, JCR common rooms, and 60 new undergraduate study bedrooms. It was opened by the Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Lord Patten of Barnes, in April 2010.[3]

In the summer of 2006 a new law library was constructed beneath the extant library; it was opened that year by Cherie Blair.[4]

Members of the college refer to Lady Margaret Hall as LMH. Its colours are blue and yellow (sometimes also with white), and its motto is "Souvent me Souviens", an Old French phrase meaning "I remember often". The bell in the clock above the lodge rings hourly between 08:00 and 22:00.

Notable alumni

See also

Students in the quadrangle

References

  1. ^ http://www.lmh-mcr.org/news.php
  2. ^ Oxford College Endowment Incomes, 1973-2006 (updated July 2007)
  3. ^ "opening of the Pipe Partridge Building". Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. 26 April 2010. Retrieved 2 July 2010.
  4. ^ "LMH Library". Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Retrieved 17 January 2010.
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