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Dorothy Wadham

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Dorothy Wadham

Founder of an Oxford College; (1534-1618)

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About Dorothy Wadham

Dorothy Wadham was an English landowner and the founder of Wadham College, Oxford, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford. Wadham was the first woman who was not a member of the royal family or titled aristocracy to found a college at Oxford or Cambridge. Her husband was Nicholas Wadham (1531–1609) of Merryfield in the parish of Ilton, Somerset and of Edge in the parish of Branscombe, Devon.

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Born: 1534
Died: May 16, 1618

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