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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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    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 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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    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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    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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  • Mildred K. Pope (category Fellows of Somerville College, Oxford)
    became the first woman to hold a readership at Oxford University, where she taught at Somerville College. Mildred Pope was educated at Edgbaston High School...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • Elan Closs Stephens (category Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford)
    educated at Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle before going up to read English at Somerville College, Oxford. Professor Emerita of Communications and Creative Industries at...
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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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  • Daphne Park (category Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford)
    Streatham and at Somerville College, Oxford, where she graduated with a B.A. in modern languages in 1943. She was further educated at Newnham College, Cambridge...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • Jean Medawar (category Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford)
    in Kent and she won a scholarship to study zoology. She joined Somerville College, Oxford, and earned her BSc in zoology in 1935. She continued to work...
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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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    Alison Wolf, Baroness Wolf of Dulwich (category Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford)
    at Oxford High School, an all-girls private school in Oxford, England. She studied at the University of Neuchatel and Somerville College, Oxford. Her...
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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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    Shriti Vadera, Baroness Vadera (category Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford)
    was educated at Northwood College before taking a degree in philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Somerville College, Oxford. For over 14 years Vadera...
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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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    Kathleen Kenyon (category Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford)
    was Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford, from 1962 to 1973, having undertaken her own studies at Somerville College, Oxford. Kathleen Kenyon was born...
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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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    Raja Zarith Sofiah (category Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford)
    as a member of the Perak royal family. While still attending Somerville College, Oxford, she married the heir to the throne of Johor. Now a mother of...
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