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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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  • Look up Somerville in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Somerville may refer to: Somerville, Victoria, a town Somerville, Western Australia, a suburb of...
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    was known and celebrated as a mathematician or a philosopher. Somerville College, a college of the University of Oxford, is named after her, reflecting...
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    College St John's College St Peter's College Somerville College Trinity College University College Wadham College Wolfson College Worcester College The...
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    Margaret Hall and Somerville College, becoming members of the University (and thus eligible to receive degrees) in 1920. Other women's colleges before integration...
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    Somerville College Chapel is the chapel of Somerville College, Oxford. The chapel is unique among Oxford colleges because it has no religious affiliation...
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    Brooklyn. Somerville studied Musical Theater at Boston College. At age 22 she moved to Los Angeles, assembled a band and got an agent. Somerville's first...
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  • Harriet Vane's alma mater, the all-female Shrewsbury College, Oxford (based on Sayers' own Somerville College), have invited her back to attend the annual Gaudy...
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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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    Emma Rothschild (category Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford)
    Society in 2002. She is a fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge. She is an Honorary Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford. In 1991, Rothschild married the...
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    Phyllis Jeanne Somerville (December 12, 1943 – July 16, 2020) was an American stage, film, and television actress. She is best known for her roles in Little...
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    Margaret Thatcher (category Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford)
    uncompromising politics and leadership style. Thatcher studied chemistry at Somerville College, Oxford, and worked briefly as a research chemist before becoming...
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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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    Susie Dent (category Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford)
    Catholic day school, with a term at Eton College to study for Oxbridge entrance exams. She went on to Somerville College, Oxford, for her BA in modern languages...
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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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  • 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...
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    Esther Rantzen (category Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford)
    independent school in Edgware, North London. She studied English at Somerville College, Oxford, where the Principal was Dame Janet Vaughan and one of her...
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    Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (category Fellows of Somerville College, Oxford)
    Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford, where her niece studied Modern History. A portrait of her by Edward Halliday hangs in the Somerville College Library...
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  • Kim Taplin (category Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford)
    was an English poet and non-fiction writer. She studied English at Somerville College, University of Oxford. Her death was announced on 10 April 2024. She...
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    A. S. Byatt (category Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford)
    household. She attended Newnham College, Cambridge, Bryn Mawr College (in the United States), and Somerville College, Oxford. Having studied French, German...
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    Xand van Tulleken (category Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford)
    then King's College School, an independent day school for boys in Wimbledon, London, with his twin Chris. He then went to Somerville College at the University...
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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...
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    Vera Brittain (category Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford)
    Newnham 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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  • century. The press is located on Walton Street, Oxford, opposite Somerville College, in the inner suburb of Jericho. For the last 400 years, OUP has focused...
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  • Mary Anna Marten (category Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford)
    Crichel House Estate in Dorset as a Minor. In 1948 she went up to Somerville College, Oxford, to read agriculture, where she met her future husband on...
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    Venki Ramakrishnan (category Fellows of Somerville College, Oxford)
    is also an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Somerville College, Oxford, and The Queen's College, Oxford. Ramakrishnan was knighted in the...
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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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    night soirées with their mutual friend, and Ada's private tutor, Mary Somerville. Between 1842 and 1843, Ada translated an article by the military engineer...
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