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The college was founded in 1878 as the first women's college in Oxford,
and began admitting men in 1979.[2] The college has just under 400
undergraduate students, around 200 post graduate students and 24
visiting students.[4] In 2016, the college began offering a Foundation
Year for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
The college's colours are blue and yellow (sometimes also with white).
The college uses a coat of arms; it did not have to have it granted
because of an exemption held by all University Colleges from the Blazon: Or, on a chevron between in chief two
authority of the College of Arms.[6] The college's motto is "Souvent me talbots passant and in base a bell azure a
Souviens", an Old French phrase meaning "I often remember" and the portcullis of the field.
motto of Lady Margaret Beaufort, for whom the college is named.
The current principal of the college is Alan Rusbridger.[7] Notable Coordinates 51.76483°N 1.254036°W
students at Lady Margaret Hall include Benazir Bhutto, Michael Gove,
Motto Souvent me Souviens
Nigella Lawson, Josie Long, Ann Widdecombe and Malala Yousafzai.
("I often remember")
Established 1878
Named for Lady Margaret Beaufort
Contents Sister college Newnham College,
Cambridge
History
Buildings, grounds and architecture Principal Alan Rusbridger
Leatare Quadrangle Undergraduates 391[1] (2016/2017)
Wolfson Quadrangle
Postgraduates 201
Lannon Quadrangle
Chapel and Deneke Website www.lmh.ox.ac.uk
Gardens and grounds Boat club www.lmhbc.com
Recent developments
Map
Student life
Accommodation
Facilities
Sports
Rowing
Football
Other sports
Foundation year
Art collection
Coat of arms
Culture and traditions
Quadrangle
Grace
Steam Locomotive
Royal Visits
Notable people
Notable fellows and academics
Visiting fellows
Principals
Notable members
See also Location in Oxford city centre
References
External links
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
.
It was founded by Edward Stuart Talbot, then Warden of Keble College, and his wife
Lavinia.[8] The college was named after Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of King Henry VII,
patron of scholarship and learning. The first principal was Elizabeth Wordsworth, the great-
niece of the poet William Wordsworth and daughter of Christopher Wordsworth, Bishop of
Lincoln.
With a new building opening in 1894 the hall expanded to 25 students, and by 1982, there
were 41 students at the college.[9][10]
The land on which the hall is built was formerly part of the manor of Norham which belonged Lady Margaret Beaufort, for
to the St John's College. The hall bought the land on which it sits from St Johns in 1894, the whom the college is named
other institution driving a hard bargain and requiring a development price not only on the
practical building land but also on the undevelopable water meadows. However, this land
purchase marked a change in ambition from occupying residential buildings for teaching purposes to buildings fitting educational
institution with buildings worthy of that ambition.
In 1897, members of Lady Margaret Hall founded the Lady Margaret Hall Settlement,[11] a charitable initiative, originally a place for
graduates from the college to live in North Lambeth where they would work with and help develop opportunities for the poor.[12][13]
It continues to operate to this day.
In 1919 J. R.R. Tolkien started to give private tuition to students at Oxford, including members of students from LMH.[14] Later his
daughter, Priscilla Tolkien, attended the college, graduating in 1951.[15] Her portrait hangs in the college.[16]
Before 1920, the university refused to give degrees to women and would not acknowledge them as full members of the university. In
1920 the first women graduated from the college at the Sheldonian Theatre and the principal at the time, Henrietta Jex-Blake, was
given an honorary degree.[17]
In 1933, Albert Einstein lectured in the college at the yearly Deneke Lectures, concluding the address as follows: "The deeper we
[18][19]
search, the more we find there is to know,and as long as humanity exists I believe it will always be so."
Between 1973 and 1977 the future Prime Minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto, was
a student at the college, reading Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, in addition to
courses in International Law and Diplomacy.[20] A room of the Clore Graduate
Centre is bears her name and a portrait of her hangs on the wall.
In 1979, one hundred years after its foundation, the hall began admitting men as well
as women; it was the first of the women's colleges to do so, along with St.
Anne's.[21]
In 2017 Malala Yousafzai, the youngest-ever Nobel Prize Peace laureate and
Pakistani campaigner for girls' education, became a student of the college;[22] she
described the interview as "the hardest interview of [her] life", and received an offer
of AAA in her A Levels.[23] In the same year, prospective Chemistry student Brian
White faced deportation at the hands of the Home Office,[24] but was able to take up
his place at the college.[25] Also in 2017, alumnus Paul McClean, a 24-year-old
Financial Times journalist who had reported on the scale of treaty renegotiation
Albert Einstein, who lectured at Lady
necessitated by Brexit, was killed by a crocodile while on holiday inSri Lanka.[26] Margaret Hall in 1933
Leatare Quadrangle
The entrance quad was completed in March 2017 and includes both the college's
newest and oldest buildings. The main entrance consists of the front gates flanked by
classical columns along with the porters lodge (2017). On the North West side the
Donald Fothergill Building (2017) contains student accommodation while the Clore
graduate centre (2017) extends further out to the South East towards university
parks.[27]
Entrance to Lady Margaret Hall
The college's oldest buildings are along the South East side of the Leatre
Quadrangle. The college's original house, a white brick gothic villa, is now known
[10]
as Old Old Hall (1879), while the adjoining red brick extension is known as New Old Hall (1884).
Opposite the entrance is the imposing Wolfson West (1964) which was previously the entrance to the college.
Old Old Hall, which had been as a speculation property on land leased from St John's College, was described as an "ugly little white
villa" by the college's founder, Bishop Talbot in his 1923 history of the college.[28] On several occasions in the twentieth century
consideration was given to demolishing the earliest buildings of the college, but the temptation was resisted.
Wolfson Quadrangle
The architect of the main early college buildings was Sir Reginald Blomfield,
including Lodge and Talbot and Wordsworth (Blomfield had earlier worked on other
educational commissions such as Shrewsbury School, and Exeter College, Oxford)
used the French Renaissance styleof the 17th century and chose red brick with white
stone facings, setting a tone the college was to continue to follow in later work.
These buildings describe the south and east of the Wolfson Quadrangle and run out
into the gardens to the east.
The central block, the Talbot Building (1910) on the North East of the main quad The Wolfson Quadrangle outside
houses Talbot Hall and the Old Library (currently a reception and lecture room),[29] Talbot Hall
while the accommodation for students and tutors is divided between three wings, the
Wordsworth Building (1896), the Toynbee Building (1915) and the Lodge Building
(1926).[30]
Talbot Hall contains some fine oak panelling donated by former students to honour Elizabeth oW
rdsworth.
The portraits in the Hall include the work of notable artists; among the portraits of
principals are:
In recent years the Wolfson Quadrangle has, in contrast to many Oxbridge Quadrangles, has had wild flowers instead of the
intensively managed, striped quadrangle lawns found elsewhere.
Lannon Quadrangle
The back of Lynda Grier forms another quad consisting of an accommodation tower block Sutherland (1971) and the Pipe Partride
Building (2010).[35]
The Pipe Partridge Building includes the 136-seat Simpkins Lee theatre,[36] a dining hall, seminar rooms, JCR common rooms, and
64 new undergraduate study bedrooms.[37]
[38]
It won the Georgian Group award for the best new building in the classical tradition
Chapel and Deneke
To the north-east extends the large Deneke block (1932) along with the hall and the
college's Byzantine-style chapel where the choir practises and annual carol services
are performed. The chapel has simple decoration with several paintings on the walls,
and a statue of Margaret Beaufort which lies in the central section of the chapel.
The chapel is in the form of a Greek cross was dedicated by the college's founder
Edward Stuart Talbot, in January 1933.[39]
Lannon Quadrangle Lady Margaret
These were designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, famous for designing Liverpool Hall
Cathedral and the K2 red telephone box.
The first phase, the Pipe Partridge Building, was completed in early 2010 and was opened by the Chancellor of the University of
Oxford, Lord Patten of Barnes, in April 2010.[41]
A new porters lodge, graduate centre and further accommodation was finished in March 2017[27] , modelled after the Porta Maggiore
in Rome, in conjunction with the simple façade of the W
olfson West building.
Student life
The Junior Common Room ('JCR') is a physical room as well as being the association of the undergraduate members of the hall. It
represents its members to the college authorities and facilitates activities, budgets as well as clubs and societies.
Graduate students have similar support from that for the JCR in the Middle Common
Room ('MCR').
The Senior Common Room ('SCR') performs similar functions for the dons.
Accommodation
As well as rooms for accommodation, the buildings of Lady Margret Hall include a
chapel, a hall, a library, a bar, a gym and common rooms for groups of membership
of the college community as described above. Accommodation is usually provided
for undergraduates during every year of their study, and provided for some The 2017 Graduate Centre including
MCR
graduates. Members often dine in hall, in which there are informal and formal meals.
In contrast to some other colleges, gowns are not worn to formal hall but are at
special occasions such as the Scholars' dinner
.
Facilities
Most undergraduate tutorials are carried out in the college, though for some
Talbot Hall LMH
specialist subjects undergraduates may be sent to tutors in other colleges. The
college contains lecture theatres, halls, and seminar and coaching rooms.
Sports
There are various sports clubs including a Rowing Club with a boat house shared
with Trinity College on Boat House Island.
In addition to university-wide societies, students at Lady Margaret Hall can also join
societies specific to the college[42]
Rowing
LMH's rowing club, Lady Margaret Hall Boat Club ('LMHBC') is the largest sports LMH 1st VIII racing in Eights Week -
club within the college. In recent years, the club has won blades in OURCs events rowing is one of the sporting
multiple times. The Men’s 1st VIII have raced in the Temple Challenge Cup at activities of students at Oxford
Henley Royal Regatta on several occasions.[43] On occasion, members of the club
have rowed in the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race.[44]
The college's boat club has, like other UK Rowing Clubs, distinctive blazers which
can be awarded by the club to members who attain membership of certain VIIIs or
race with distinction in Summer Eights or Torpids. These blazers have blue and
yellow trim and a blue Beaufort portcullis on them, which is the emblem of the boat
club and increasingly other sports clubs.
Chalk Arms recording rowing
successes at LMH
Rowing blades commemorating success in the intercollegiate rowing competitions
decorate the walls of the bar - the most recent of which being from 2017 in which
the Women's 1st team (W1) bumped on each of the four days of the competition.
Football
There are three men’s football teams as well as ajoint LMH-Trinity women’s team.
Other sports
The other sports the hall has teams for, which represent the institution in internal Oxford University competitons, often called
'Cuppers' are:
Badminton
Cricket
Tennis
Croquet
Rugby
Football
Hockey
Pool
Netball
Squash
Foundation year
Lady Margaret Hall is the only Oxford college to offer a foundation year; the
scheme recruits students from minority backgrounds with A level grades lower than
Oxford entry requirements. Students choose a subject to specialise in, and also take
courses in study skills and other general subject areas,[45][46] with the aim that they
progress to an undergraduate degree at the college after a year of study.[47] Pupils
live on campus and have access to the same university facilities, both academic and
social, as other students.[46]
Art collection
In light of its history, the hall has a collection of portraits of early/distinguished
women academics. Early Principals Lynda Grier, Dame Lucy Sutherland and Sally
Chilver, along with other members of the college, were keen collectors of
contemporary art and bequeathed many of these works to the College.
Members of LMH JCR in punts on an
open day
A Fellow in Fine Art, Elizabeth Price, was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in
2012.[50]
Maggi Hambling
John Singer Sargent
Sir Stanley Spencer
Philip de László
Coat of arms
Simpkins Lee Theatre LMH
The college's coat of arms features devices that recall those associated with its
foundation:
Quadrangle
Students may not walk on the quadrangle, however there is a custom of permitting them to do so on completion of their final
examinations.
Grace
LMH is one of nine Oxford colleges to use the 'two-word' Latin grace, this grace is also used by five colleges at the University of
Cambridge. The person presiding at High Table says the grace in two parts at formal meals. The first half of the grace, the ante
cibum, is said before the meal starts and the second, thepost cibum, once the meal's conclusion. It is as follows:
Benedicto benedicatur- "Let praise be given to the Blessed One" or "Let a blessing be given by the Blessed One"
Steam Locomotive
A Great Western Railway 6959 Class locomotive named "Lady Margaret Hall", number 7911, was built in 1950.
[53]
It was one of the 'Modified Hall' class and it was in service in the South East until December 1963.
Royal Visits
HM the Queen visited the hall in 1961.[54] HRH Prince Charles visited the college in 2006.[55] HRH The Princess Royal visited the
college in 2014.[56]
Notable people
Notable fellows and academics
Notable fellows of the college include:
Emma Watson
Benedict Cumberbatch
Malorie Blackman
Cornelia Parker
Francis Habgood
Sir Rabinder Singh QC
Mark Simpson
Jennifer Rohn
Henry Marsh
Neil Tennant
Beeban Kidron
Emma Watson, one of the visiting
The fellowships are intended to form a bridge between the academic community and fellows of the college
the worlds they inhabit.[57]
Principals
Notable members
Alumni of the college (which are termed Senior Members) include:
See also
Former students of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
Current student Malala Yousafzai
won the Nobel Peace Prize aged 17
References for activism in women's education.
External links
Lady Margaret Hall Home Page – Official Site
Lady Margaret Hall MCR
Lady Margaret Hall JCR
Lady Margaret Hall Boat Club
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