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of East Ilsley, Berks, under letters patent,
16anted bv James I- 29 June, 1624, in response to a
ifv>n to the Crown from the mayor, bailiffs and
finesses of Abingdon. Mr. Tesdale, who had been the
Tit scholar placed in Abingdon School by its founder,
Tnhn Roysse, i
n 15 6 3 » anxious to provide the boys of
ih tschool with the means of University education, had
’ his will left in trust to George Abbot, archbishop of
Tinterbury, and others, a sum of £5,000, to endow
tain fellowships and 13 scholarships for boys from
Abintrdon School in any college in the University of Oxfrd-S after his death, which occurred 13 June, 1610, his
trustees, in accordance with his will, made the offer to
Balliol College, and it was accepted by that society, and
• scholars w'ere thereupon entered at Balliol, and
lodeed in buildings specially purchased for them: but
■n-hffe the articles of agreement between the college and
the Corporation of Abingdon, as trustees of the school,
were still unsettled, the latter conceived the idea of
founding a new college at Oxford, and placing Tesdale’s
scholars^in it, and “ with the promise of the charity of
Mr Richard Wightwick, who also had intentions to
found fellowships and scholarships in some colleges in
Oxford,” they determined to found a new college in the
old society of Broadgates Hall, which had in former
rears belonged in part to the Abbey of Abingdon; and
they accordingly petitioned James I. with the assent of
the Chancellor, to re-constitute Broadgates Hall as Pem­
broke College, so naming it after the Earl of Pembroke,
at that time Chancellor of the University, who also
aave his sanction to the nomination of a Master by the
trustees, instead of claiming his own right to nominate
a Principal of the still existing society of Broadgates
Hall: the king, accordingly, in view of these endow­
ments, issued letters-patent, dated 29 June, 1624
ordaining the college as prayed, the foundation so con­
stituted to consist of a master, ten fellows and ten
scholars, who were in future to be elected from Abing
don School, the scholars to succeed to fellowships as
vacancies occurred, but with a preference to those of
the kin of the founders, in case any presented them­
selves for election. On the settlement of the College,
the scholars already at Balliol were transferred, and
included in the first 10 scholars of the new foundation,
by an ordinance of the University Commissioners, under
the Statute 17 and 18 Viet. c. 81 (1854), and amended
by the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge Act, 1877
(40 and 41 Viet. c. 48), the foundation is, in future, to
consist of a master, not less than ten fellows and not
less than twelve scholars; and there are now (1915) 32
scholars and exhibitioners. The fellowships are now
entirely open, as well as many of the scholarships,
except four, which are to be filled up from Abingdon
School, and four or more by the election of persons
born in Guernsey. Jersey, or the adjacent islands
or educated for the two years last preceding the
election in Elizabeth College or Victoria College. There
are also scholarships to which Eton, Charterhouse,
Cheltenham College and certain schools in Gloucester­
shire have a preference. The succession of the Abing­
don scholars to fellowships, together with the claims
of founders’ kin, has been abolished. The principal
front, rebuilt in the Perpendicular style, in 1829-30,
consists of two portions, each of three storeys, with
a battlemented parapet, at right angles of each other,
and facing respectively north and east; in the angle,
on the north front, is a gateway tower of four
stages, with an oriel above the entrance and an em­
battled parapet, enriched with panelling; the eastern
front includes the entrance to the master’s lodgings;
the remaining buildings form two quadrangles, of which
the first, entered by the gateway, occupies the site of
the ancient Broadgates Hall; immediately on the right,
of the entrance is the library, formerly the hall, and in
part identical with the original refectory of the older
foundation; it contains a bust of Dr. Johnson, who
ma ncuiatecl here, 16 Dec. 1728; and incorporates the
lbrary °f Dr j0hn Hall, sometime master and Bishop
ristol, 1691-1710, bequeathed by him to the college:
^ 1890, in order to provide for the library of the late
rc1e>sor H. W. Chandler M.A. also a fellow here, a
gaiep- was added from designs by Mr. H. W. Moore.
Oxford: the second quadrangle, which ex•nn S °( v •'!esfc
bas on the north side a
nge of buildings, about 150 feet in length, erected in
T 4° ai2/* 1846, under the direction of the Rev. Francis
BM?6 f J'-^ en master of the college and afterwards
Peterborough (1864-8); these contain a handf„11 c°mmon room and bursary, Tooms for several
ther>S 3 ^°r a^out twenty-four undergraduates: in
of fir°^Tn room is one of the finest existing portraits
onnson: on the south side is the chapel, a small

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structure in the Classical style, with Ionic pilaster«
between the windows, and a panelled parapet; it was
built partly at the cost of Bartholomew Tipping esq. of
Oxford, and consecrated 10 July, 1732, by Dr. Potter,
Bishop of Oxford; over the altar is a copy, by Cranke,
of Rubens’“ Christ after His Resurrection.” The interior
has been finely decorated, and the windows filled with
admirable stained glass, from designs by C. E. Kempe
esq. M.A. and hon. fellow of this college; the series
being completed in 1893 by the erection of two windows
commemorating respectively the founders and benefactors
of the college, and forming together a memorial to the
Rev. Evan Evans D.D. late master, 1864-91, d. 23 Nov.
1891. An organ was placed in the ante-chapel in 1893.
On the west side is the hall, a fine building in the
Perpendicular style, erected in 1848, from designs by
Mr. Hayward; it is of five bays, with an embattled
tower of three stages at the south-east angle, and an
elegant louvre in the centre of the roof; at the upper
end, on the south side, is a tall oriel, with three tiers
of lights, rising almost to the parapet, and filled with
heraldic glass: the walls are hung with a large number
of portraits, including those of the founders, Charles I.,
Queen Anne, Simon, Earl Harcourt, Lord Ossulstono,
Francis Rous, Dr. Johnson, and several bishops and
masters of the college and others. Queen Anne annexed
a canonry in the Cathedral Church of Gloucester to
the mastership for ever. The college presents to eight
benefices, and its estimated annual income is £6,214
12s. 6d.
Right Rev. John Mitohinson D.C.L., D.D. master (elected
in 1899).
Charles Leudesdorf M.A. vice-gerent.
George Wood M.A. senior bursar and librarian.
Walter Ramsden D.M.
Herbert Lionel Drake M.A. tutor and junior dean.
Rev. Gerald Burton Allen M.A. dean and chaplain.
John Rankine Brown M.A. lecturer in classics and
ancient history and junior bursar.
Robin George Collingwood B.A. lecturer in classics and
philosophy.
Rev. Edward Peake M.A. chaplain.
There are also four lecturers not on the foundation.
Worcester College.
Visitor, The Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.
Worcester College, situated at the western end of
Beaumont street, was founded in 1714 by the trustees of
Sir Thomas Cookes bart. who by his will left, in 1701,
£10,000 in trust to the Archbishop of Canterbury, the
Bishops of Worcester, Oxford, Lichfield and Gloucester,
the Vice-Chancellor and heads of the houses of Oxford,
to erect collegiate buildings with suitable endowments,
ortoendow some existing college or hall with fellowships
and scholarships. This sum accumulated till it reached
£15,000, when the trustees purchased Gloucester Hall,
an ancient Benedictine foundation, established in 1283,
by John Giffarde, 1st baron Giffard of Brimesfield.
Gloucestershire (d. 1299), and incorporated it into a
college with the name of Worcester (Sir T. Cooke’s
county), under a charter of Queen Anne, dated 29 July,
1714; Richard Blechvnden D.C.L. being then principal
of Gloucester Hall, and becoming the first provost of
the college. The Chancellor of the University retained
the right reserved to him to appoint the provost of
the college from amongst the fellows, or those who
bad been fellows, but under the statutes of 1882.
the provost is elected by the fellows. The original
foundation was for a Provost, six Fellows and six
Scholars. Subsequent benefactions by James Finney
D.D. canon, successively of York and Durham. Mrs.
Sarah Eaton and George Clarke D.C.L. fellow of All
Souls College, and M.P. for Oxford University, 1685-7,
added to the foundation, which, after various changes,
was made to consist of a Provost, fifteen Fellows and
sixteen Scholars, with some Exhibitioners and two Bibleclerks. Of the scholarships, the six of the original
foundation were appropriated ,to Bromsgrove School, in
Worcestershire; one, on the foundation of Dr. Finney,
to natives of Staffordshire; and five, on the foundation
of Airs. Sarah Eaton, to sons of clergymen of the Church
of England in need of assistance for their University
education. Dr. Clarke’s three scholarships are without
limitation, as also is one more recently founded by
Robert Barnes esq. of this college, of the present value
of £100, for classics and divinity. By the statutes of
1882, and later amendments of them, the college con­
sists of a provost, not fewer than six, nor more than
ten fellows, and not fewer than ten, nor more than
eighteen scholars, exclusive of the Barnes foundation.
The fellowships are open without restriction and tenable