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for seven years. Tutorial fellows may also be re-elected. Henry Julian Cunningham AI.A. tutor, leetn*,
Of the scholarships there are to be not more than five librarian.
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on Sir T. Cooke's foundation, for Bromsgrove School John Arthur Ransome Marriott M.A. lecturer inmnJ
in the first instance; four on Mrs. Eaton’s foundation,
history and economics.
for sons of clergymen; five on Dr. Clarke's; one on Roland Truslove M.A. lecturer.
Dr. Finney’s, all of which are open. The scholarships, There are also two lecturers not on the foundation
except that on the Barnes foundation, have the limit of
age fixed at nineteen. A studentship in Egyptology of
Hertford College.
the value of £150 per annum was founded here
Visitor, The Chancellor of the University
in 1899 by the late Mrs. Laycock for graduates.
There is also a varying number of exhibitions.
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The building consists chiefly of one large quadrangle principal entrance of the old schools, possesses a
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with some less uniform buildings surrounding a smaller neither u
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neventful nor uninteresting, especially ??
years of its existence, as involving indirect],
quadrangle or court on the south-east. The south side latter year
of the principal quadrangle consists of the quaint and of the old society of Hertford College on who,' ■
very interesting old buildings forming a portion of the at the corner of New College lane, it now partlS.11?
original buildings of Gloucester Hall: these were origin­ and some of the old buildings of which still..„l-FT“»
ally separate and distinct lodgings, erected by various
g the additions which they™»,;!“;
Benedictine abbeys as residences for their respective with the transfer of Magdalen Hall from its Z»
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students, and for the most part retain all their original localityy close to Magdalen College. From a
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features: the north and east sides, built in the Italian 1602, Alagdalen Hall (a hostel erected by William t
style, on a raised terrace, contain the provost’s lodg­ Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester, for the receDtinn °!
ings, a large number of rooms both for the fellows and students previously to their admission into Magdai!
undergraduates, the common room and the library, College) was used as a place of academical eduE
the chapel and hall projecting beyond the front of under the government of one of the fellows ofMa^ll
the college towards the east, on the north and south HUn aL theJ^t-named date it became an independent
sides of the entrance respectively, the court thus formed hall. The President and Fellows of Magdalen wishin!
being inclosed by railings and gates of ornamental iron however, to remove it from that site, procured Act
work, erected in 1871. The chapel, entered from the Parliament (56 Geo. HI. c. 95 & 56 Geo. IH. c ,-611
piazza on the interior of the east side, is 60 feet in the year 18x8, authorising them to repair the deo«!
length, and was magnificently restored in 1864-70, by buildings of Hertford College for the reception ofMar
the late Air. Burges, at a cost' of £5,000, in the style of dalen Hall, and a serious fire, which broke out inthe¿1]
the Renaissance; the exquisitely painted interior em­ early on the morning of 9 Jan. 1820, destroying almost
bodies a scheme of iconography, representing Man inthe the whole of the northern extremity, effected such
“ Te Deum,” and Nature in the “Benedicite,” combining damage as more than ever to necessitate a change oi
in the worship of God. Placed in niches in the angles locality. The history of the old Hertford College nm
of the chapel are statues of the four Evangelists; the be thus briefly related:— The Rev. Richard Newton DD
tall altar candlesticks and the lectern are of alabaster, of Christ Church, appointed in 1710 principal of Hart
and on the latter are placed copies of the Old and New Hall, which had existed as a hall for students from thTestament, splendidly bound in massive silver, with year 1282, obtained, in August, 1740, after much oppo<iscripture subjects in alto-relievo and elegant arabesques tion, a royal charter to erect Hart Hall into Hertford
in panel: these were presented by the Rev. C. H. 0 . College, the foundation to consist of a principal and four
Daniel D.D. provost; the silver candlesticks and cross senior fellows or tutors, and eight junior fellows, who
were presented as a memorial to R. J. F. Crofton however, were merely titular. The college, for varioni
AI.A. by his brother; the flooring of the vestibule reasons, but chiefly on account of its insufficient endowand chapel is laid down with various richly tinted ment, never flourished; and on the death of the fifth
marbles. The hall, at the south end of the piazza, and last principal, Dr. Hodgson, in 1805, since no one
is spacious, and panelled all round, nearly up to statutably qualified could be induced to undertake the
the windows; on one side is a fine mantel, in office, and a large portion of the buildings had, about
the Renaissance style, with a hood, elaborately orna­ 1816, become ruinous, the foundation ceased to exist.
mented and carried on pilasters; the walls and the After the acquirement of the property by Magdalen HaH
coved ceiling are decorated in a corresponding style, the whole of the premises were completely renovated,
and the east window is filled with stained glass: placed and two new blocks of buildings were erected on the
between two fluted columns of the Corinthian order, west side, facing the Bodleian library, and in 1822 that
is a bust of De Quincey; at the upper end is a paint­ society took possession of the buildings thus restored;
ing, by Snyders, of a Dutch fish market; and there and re-named them as Magdalen Hall. In 1874 itwas
are portraits of the founder, by Kneller, Dr. Blechyn- resolved to revert to the original style of Hertford Col­
den, the first provost, Dr. Clarke, Airs. Eaton, Ladv lege, and by a special Act in 1874 (37 and 38 Viet.c.
Holford, Dr. Daniel. Dr. John Harding, bishop of Bom­ 55) the foundation of Afagdalen Hall was dissolved, and
bay, 1851-68 and Dr. Hibbert Binney, bishop of Nova the Principal and scholars thereof were, together with
Scotia, 1851-87; and others. In the provost’s lodgings certain Fellows mentioned in the Act, incorporated as3
are a celebrated landscape by Ruysdael, a portrait of college of the University of Oxford, under the name of
William Camden, the antiquary, and other portraits and “The Principal, Fellows and Scholars of Hertford Col­
pictures. The library, over the piazza, is 120 feet lege, in the University of Oxford,” the Principal being,
in length, and contains several unique bibliographical as previously, appointed by the Chancellor of the Uni­
treasures, including Inigo Jones's designs for White­ versity for the time being. The society now consistsof
hall, and a very choice collection of Civil War tracts a principal, 17 fellows, and 40 scholars. Of the fellow­
and pamphlets. The ancient battery still remains on ships, fifteen are of the annual value of £300; and two,
the south side, and the small quadrangular court ad­ tenable by married men, of the annual value of £250;
joining, though more or less altered, retains vestiges there are also thirty scholarships of £100 yearly for
of the separate lodgings of the Benedictines, but the f
ive years, besides a number of others on the Lncv,
shields of arms are much mutilated. In 1908-9 the Meeke,
Lusby and Macbride foundations, and two exhibi­
cornice roof of the chapel was repaired and partly re­ t
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ons. The buildings, apart from the detached exten­
constructed at a cost of about £7,000.
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New College lane, consist of a single quadrangle,
The extensive and well-kept gardens, lying to the west
the library on the north and the chapel on the
and south of the college buildings, are exceedingly beau­ with
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de; the west or principal front is in the Paltiful, and rival, if they do not excel, those of St. John’s ladian st
yle, and until 1888 comprised two distinct
and New College; their most attractive feature is, blocks of three storeys each, standing some distance
perhaps, the large semi-circular lake which occupies a apart, but united by a high wall with a central rusti­
large part of the north end; beyond the lake is a cated gateway and side entrances, erected in 1820 fro®
playing field, surrounded by a walk: at the other design by Air. Garbett, at the sole cost of Magdalen
extremity of the gardens an admirable view is obtained a
College; but in 1887-8 the space between these fw>
of the old buildings of Gloucester Hall. Bv the courtesy b
locks (the wall and gateway being removed) was
of the college, the gardens and grounds are at all time's wi
a new building 80 feet in length and 48 feet deep,
Teadily accessible to visitors. This college presents to m th
a similar but more elaborated style, from designsbr
ten benefices.
T. G. Jackson esq. D C.L., R.A., F.S.A. of Wadba»
Rev. Charles Henry Olive Daniel D.D. provost;appointed College, architect; the centre of the new front isoc­
in 1903.
cupied by the entrance gateway, a lofty arch flankedby
Henrv Tresawna Gerrans AI.A. lecturer.
fluted pilasters supporting a pediment adorned with *
Rev. Francis John Lys AI.A. bursar, tutor and chaplain. conventional shield bearing in relief the figure ofana
Reginald Herbert Owen M.A. dean, tutor and classical lapping at a brook; to the left are the messenger
lecturer.
room, bursary, and buttery; on the right the P°rter