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- In 1874, Magdalen Hall was incorporated as a college, reviving the name Hertford College.
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In 1740, Principal Newton, against two decades of furious opposition, managed to secure a charter and statutes incorporating Hart Hall as a full college of the university, Hertford College. The Fellows of Exeter College, who still claimed ownership of part of the site, were particularly angry.
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In 1820, the site was taken over by Magdalen Hall, which had emerged around 1490 on a site adjacent to Magdalen College. In 1874, Magdalen Hall was incorporated as a college, reviving the name Hertford College. In 1974, Hertford was part of the first group of all-male Oxford colleges to admit women. [4]
Hertford became known as the college for working class boys and from that point onward has had access and diversity at the heart of its academic and social mission. In gender too, Hertford was at the forefront by being one of the first clutch of colleges to embrace co-education and co-residence in 1974.
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Hertford College, as it at present exists,derives from two ancient halls of theUniversity. Its site, some of its buildings,and its name it owes to Hart Hall, but its continuity toMagdalen Hall. This is doubly unfortunate for thehistorian. Halls kept few records. Their governmentwas entirely in the hands of the Principal, and the recordof his arrang...
The college library includes twoearlier collections, that of the first Hertford college,and that of Magdalen Hall. The history of the latterlibrary is recorded in its registers which run from 1656to 1740. Dr. Wilkinson was its first benefactor. Hegave amongst other books, a 'Mathew's' Bible of 1549.Dr. Hyde, Dr. Wilkinson's successor, gave a largen...
Pointed oval 68 mm. by 46 mm. In the uppercentre a scroll with the legend 'Fund. A.D. 1874' andbelow it a shield of arms of the college: (hatched) gulesa hart's head caboshed argent the antlers or and betweenthe antlers a cross paty fitchy or. Legend: † Sigillum Coll. Hertford Oxon †
The original tenement, mentioned inthe deed of 1283, which was boughtby Elias de Hertford from Walter deGrendon, mercer, (fn. 45) lay between atenement of the University (Blackhall) on the west,and a tenement of the Prioress of Studley on the east.In the deed by which Elias de Hertford sells it to Johnde Dokelynton in 1301, this last tenement is ca...
By some reckonings, 2014 represents the 730th anniversary of Hertford College. This essay will trace some of the key features of the history of Hertford College and show a few of the artefacts that represent key moments in the College’s past.
- Daniel Valentine
Hertford College was established in the 1280s as Hart Hall and became a college in 1740 (although it was dissolved in 1816 and revived in 1874). The first Hertford College began life as Hart Hall or Aula Cervina, a small tenement bought by Elias de Hertford from Walter de Grendon.
Nov 1, 2021 · Today’s Hertford College is the successor of two medieval halls of the University of Oxford. The site has been the home of Hart Hall, Magdalen Hall (not to be confused with the separate institution of Magdalen College) and a previous ‘Hertford College’ which existed from 1740–1818.
