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    Somerville College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England, was founded in 1879 as Somerville Hall, one of its first two women's...
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    Somerville College, Oxford, including alumni and fellows of the college. This list consists almost entirely of women, due to the fact that Somerville...
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    Somerville College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford. It was founded in 1879 as Somerville Hall, one of the university's...
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    celebrated as a mathematician or a philosopher. Somerville College, a college of the University of Oxford, is named after her, reflecting the virtues of...
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  • Somerville (video game), a 2022 game from Jumpship Somerville College, Oxford, a constituent college of the University of Oxford Somerville College Boat...
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    University of Oxford portal Honorary fellows of Somerville College, Oxford. Irangani Abeysekera Bolanle Awe Alyson Bailes Caroline Barron Janet Bately...
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    The Choir of Somerville College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford, is mixed voice and is led by a Director of Chapel Music...
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    Somerville College Library is the college library of Somerville College, one of the 38 colleges of the University of Oxford. The library is one of the...
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  • May McKisack (category Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford)
    Westfield College and at the University of Oxford in Somerville College. She was the author of The Fourteenth Century (1959) in the Oxford History of...
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    Emma Rothschild (category Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford)
    in 2002. She is a fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge. She is an Honorary Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford. In 1991, Rothschild married the Indian...
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    Doreen Warriner (category Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford)
    Economics, she went on to receive a doctorate from Somerville College, Oxford in 1931, as a Mary Somerville Research Fellow since 1928. Warriner was described...
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    Van Tulleken brothers (category Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford)
    King's College School, an independent day school for boys in Wimbledon, southwest London, followed by St Peter's College (Chris) and Somerville College (Xand)...
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  • Suzanne Heywood (category Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford)
    her family as a child for a decade, she studied at Somerville College, Oxford and King's College, Cambridge. Her early career was spent as a civil servant...
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  • Patricia Davies (codebreaker) (category Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford)
    Oslo, Norway. She gained degrees at St Andrews University, and Somerville College, Oxford and had a study fellowship at Harvard. She was a journalist in...
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  • Testament of Youth (film) (category Films set in the University of Oxford)
    Brittain, an independent young woman who abandoned her studies at Somerville College, Oxford, to become a war nurse. The film was directed by James Kent and...
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  • Merton College, one of Oxford's oldest colleges (founded 1264), Peterhouse (Cambridge, 1284) is Cambridge's first college. Similarly, Somerville College, Oxford...
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    Fiona Caldicott (category Principals of Somerville College, Oxford)
    psychiatrist and psychotherapist who also served as Principal of Somerville College, Oxford She was the National Data Guardian for Health and Social Care...
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    Margaret Jay, Baroness Jay of Paddington (category Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford)
    and she was educated at Blackheath High School, Blackheath and Somerville College, Oxford. Between 1965 and 1977 she held production posts within the BBC...
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  • Calam Lynch (category Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford)
    Upper School in Hammersmith before going on to study classics at Somerville College, Oxford, graduating in 2017. Originally interested in football, he became...
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    Margaret Thatcher (category Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford)
    politics and leadership style. Thatcher studied chemistry at Somerville College, Oxford, and worked briefly as a research chemist before becoming a barrister...
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    Julia Aglionby (category Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford)
    economist, land agent, and politician. Having studied at Somerville College, Oxford and University College, London, Aglionby worked as an environmental economist...
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    Vera Brittain (category Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford)
    College, Cambridge. After two years as a "provincial debutante", Brittain overcame her father's objections and went up to Somerville College, Oxford,...
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    Ann Olivarius (category Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford)
    at Oxford University in 1978, the second year the program admitted women. At Oxford, Olivarius pursued a DPhil in Economics at Somerville College, where...
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    The University of Oxford has thirty-nine colleges, and four permanent private halls (PPHs) of religious foundation. Colleges (with the exception of three...
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    music at St Anne's College, Oxford and Somerville College, Oxford, and later studied for an MPhil degree in musicology at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Blackwood...
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  • Emma Smith (scholar) (category Fellows of Somerville College, Oxford)
    her undergraduate degree at Somerville College, Oxford, from 1988 to 1991. She was a Prize Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. As part of her work on Shakespeare's...
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    Janet Royall, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon (category Principals of Somerville College, Oxford)
    Lords and Lord President of the Council. She is the principal of Somerville College, Oxford. Royall grew up in Gloucestershire in Hucclecote and Newnham on...
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    Esther Rantzen (category Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford)
    studied English at Somerville College, Oxford, where the Principal was Dame Janet Vaughan and one of her tutors was Mary Lascelles. At Oxford she performed...
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  • Mary Keegan (category Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford)
    Born in 1953, she attended Brentwood County High School and Somerville College, Oxford, before working at Price Waterhouse from 1977; she was appointed...
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    east side of the street. Somerville College, one of the former women-only colleges, also backs onto the street. The Oxford University Press (just south...
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