St John's College is a constituent college

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 of the University of Oxford

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, one of the larger Oxford colleges with approximately 390 undergraduates, 200 postgraduates and over 100 academic staff. It was founded by Sir Thomas White

Thomas White (merchant)

Sir Thomas White was an English cloth merchant, civic benefactor and founder of St John's College, Oxford.He was born in Reading, Berkshire, the son of William White, a clothier of Reading, and his wife, Mary, daughter of Henry Kibblewhite of South Fawley, also in Berkshire. He was brought up in...

, a merchant, in 1555, whose heart is buried in the chapel of the College. St. John's is reputed to be the wealthiest in Oxford, with an estimated financial endowment

Financial endowment

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 of £304 million as of 2006, and its undergraduate finals

Final examination

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 results regularly place it at or near the top of the University's Norrington Table

Norrington Table

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, in which it currently ranks 4th.

History

On 1 May 1555, Sir Thomas White

Thomas White (merchant)

Sir Thomas White was an English cloth merchant, civic benefactor and founder of St John's College, Oxford.He was born in Reading, Berkshire, the son of William White, a clothier of Reading, and his wife, Mary, daughter of Henry Kibblewhite of South Fawley, also in Berkshire. He was brought up in...

, lately Lord Mayor of London

Lord Mayor of London

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, obtained a Royal Patent of Foundation to create an eleemosynary institution for the education of students within the University of Oxford. White, a Roman Catholic, originally intended St John's to provide a source of educated Roman Catholic clerics to support the Counter-Reformation under Queen Mary

Mary I of England

Mary I was queen regnant of England and Ireland from July 1553 until her death.She was the only surviving child born of the ill-fated marriage of Henry VIII and his first wife Catherine of Aragon. Her younger half-brother, Edward VI, succeeded Henry in 1547...

, and indeed Edmund Campion

Edmund Campion

Saint Edmund Campion, S.J. was an English Roman Catholic martyr and Jesuit priest. While conducting an underground ministry in officially Protestant England, Campion was arrested by priest hunters. Convicted of high treason by a kangaroo court, he was hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn...

, the Roman Catholic martyr, studied here.

White acquired buildings on the east side of St Giles'

St Giles', Oxford

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, north of Balliol

Balliol College, Oxford

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 and Trinity

Trinity College, Oxford

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 Colleges, which had belonged to the former College of St Bernard, a monastery and house of study of the Cistercian order that had been closed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries

Dissolution of the Monasteries

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. Initially the new St John's College was rather small and not well endowed financially. During the reign of Elizabeth I the fellows lectured in rhetoric, Greek, and dialectic, but not directly in theology. However, St John's initially had a strong focus on the creation of a proficient and educated priesthood.

White was Master of the Merchant Taylors' Company

Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors

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, and established a number of educational foundations, including the Merchant Taylors' School

Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood

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. Although the College was closely linked to such institutions for many centuries, it became a more open society in the later 19th century. (Closed scholarships for students from the Merchant Taylors' School, however, persisted until the late 20th century.) The endowments which St John's was given at its foundation, and during the twenty or so years afterward, served it very well and in the second half of the nineteenth century it benefited, as ground landlord, from the suburban development of the city of Oxford

Oxford

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 and was unusual among Colleges for the size and extent of its property within the city.

Although primarily a producer of Anglican clergymen in the earlier periods of its history, St John's also gained a reputation for both law and medicine. Fellows and alumni have included Archbishop William Laud

William Laud

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, Jane Austen

Jane Austen

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's father and brothers, the early Fabian

Fabian Society

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 intellectual Sidney Ball, who was very influential in the creation of the Workers' Educational Association

Workers' Educational Association

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 (WEA), Rushanara Ali

Rushanara Ali

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, Labour Politician and one of the first Bangladeshis to gain a PPE degree at St. John's College and more recently, Tony Blair

Tony Blair

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, former prime minister of the United Kingdom.

The patronage of the parish of St Giles was included in the endowment of the college by Thomas White. Vicars of St Giles were formerly either Fellows of the College, or ex-Fellows who were granted the living on marriage (when Oxford fellows were required to be unmarried). The College retains the right to present candidates for the benefice to the bishop.

College societies

The St John's College Boat Club is the largest college society; everybody is encouraged to try out the sport. In Summer Eights 2011, six SJCBC boats qualified for the racing, and both the Women's and Men's First Boat Won "Blades" (bumping the boat in front on each day of racing), making SJCBC one of the most successful boathouses on the river.

In 2006 St John's launched SJCtv, becoming the first Oxford college to start its own television station. The station shows two half-hour programmes a term, at college welfare nights. SJCtv's stated aim is to enhance community spirit, inform students of the college's welfare provisions and allow students a forum for creative expression.

St John's used to be the home of two dining societies, the King Charles Club ("KCC") and the Archery Club. Tony Blair has been pictured at a gathering of the latter in the St John's gardens.In recent years these societies have become largely defunct although are still celebrated by former members.

The college also has an active drama group, who operate under the banner of St. John's Mummers. They produce one performance per term, ranging from modern "in-yer-face" to Shakespearean garden plays. In 2010 they performed an adaptation of Alfred Jarry

Alfred Jarry

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's Ubu Roi

Ubu Roi

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, called "Ubu" at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe under the name "Awful Pie Theatre."

SASJO (the St John's and St Anne's Orchestra) both performs (every term) and rehearses in the St John's Auditorium. The orchestra is non-audition and open to all University of Oxford students, regardless of college.

College buildings

Most of the college buildings are organized around seven quadrangles (quads):

• Front Quadrangle: mainly the 15th-century buildings of the former St Bernard's monastery.
• Canterbury Quadrangle: the first example of Italian Renaissance architecture
  Renaissance architecture
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   in Oxford, substantially commissioned by Archbishop Laud. Much of the college library is here, including the Old Library on the south side, and the Laudian Library above the eastern colonnade, overlooking the garden.
• North Quadrangle: an irregularly-shaped mixture of 18th, 19th, and 20th century ranges. These include the 18th-century buttery staircase adjoining the hall, the block containing the Senior Common Room, the 19th-century range along St Giles'
  St Giles', Oxford
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  , and the "Beehive" (1958–60), made up of non-regular hexagonal rooms. The Senior Common Room ceiling, completed in 1742, features the craftsmanship of Thomas Roberts, who also worked on the Radcliffe Camera
  Radcliffe Camera
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   and the Codrington Library
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  .
• Dolphin Quadrangle: built in the early 20th century on the site of the old Dolphin Inn.
• Sir Thomas White Quadrangle: late 20th century (informally known as "Tommy White Quad"). The building is an early work by Ove Arup
  Ove Arup
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   which won the 1976 Concrete Society Award, but is considered a monstrosity by many members of the college. It is not actually a quadrangle, but an L-shaped building partially enclosing an area of garden.
• Garden Quadrangle: a modern (1993) neo-Italianate quadrangle including an auditorium and other conference facilities by MJP Architects
  MJP Architects
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  .
• Kendrew Quadrangle: the most recent quad, completed in 2010.

Other buildings on the site include the Holmes Building (a south spur off the Canterbury Quad, containing fellows' rooms), and Middleton Hall, a curious house, north of the North Quad and abutting the Lamb and Flag, which has a stone frontage in early 19th-century style, though the back part is in Victorian red brick and contains a Jacobean staircase (perhaps originally from another building).

In addition, the College accommodates a number of students, traditionally second-year undergraduates but nowadays also a significant number of final year undergraduates and graduate students, in the houses owned by the college on Museum Road

Museum Road

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 and Blackhall Road. These houses back onto Kendrew Quadrangle, completed in October 2010, named after Sir John Kendrew

John Kendrew

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, former President of the College, Nobel Laureate and the College's greatest benefactor of the twentieth century. This construction has been dubbed "the last great quad in the city centre" and is notable for its attempt to provide energy from sustainable sources: much of the energy required to heat the building is provided by a combination of solar panels on the roof, geothermal pipes extending deep below the basement and woodchips from the College wood used to fire the boilers.

As the first phase of The Kendrew Quadrangle project Dunthorne Parker Architects were appointed by the College to refurbish three Grade II Listed buildings fronting on to St Giles. Works were carried out to No 20 St Giles which became alumni residential accommodation, The Black Hall, a 17th century building, which became teaching accommodation and The Barn, which became an exhibition and performance space. This project was awarded an Oxford Preservation Trust Plaque in 2008.

Since the College also incorporates Middleton Hall (see above) and owns St Giles House, the former judge's house north of the college, the opening of Kendrew Quadrangle mean that the College extends for almost the entire length of the east side of St Giles, as well as owning parts of the opposite side. This includes the The Eagle and Child

The Eagle and Child

The Eagle and Child is a pub in St Giles', Oxford, England which is owned by St. John's College, Oxford. The pub had been part of an endowment belonging to University College since the 17th century. It has associations with the Inklings writers' group which included J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S...

 pub (where the well-known writers J. R. R. Tolkien

J. R. R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.Tolkien was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College,...

 and C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis , commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as "Jack", was a novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist from Belfast, Ireland...

 often met their literary friends), complementing the Lamb and Flag opposite it on the College side of the road, which the College owns and operates (using the profits to fund graduate scholarships).

The SCR was renovated and extended in 2004 and 2005 by MJP Architects

MJP Architects

MJP Architects is a private British architectural practice based in Spitalfields London established in 1972 by Sir Richard MacCormac. The practice officially changed its name from MacCormac Jamieson Prichard to MJP Architects in June 2008....

. The new building was given an award by the Royal Institute of British Architects

Royal Institute of British Architects

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 in 2006.

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• Peter Preston
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• John Wain
  John Wain
  John Barrington Wain was an English poet, novelist, and critic, associated with the literary group "The Movement". For most of his life, Wain worked as a freelance journalist and author, writing and reviewing for newspapers and the radio. He seems to have married in 1947, since C. S...
  
  
• Stephen Wolfram
  Stephen Wolfram
  Stephen Wolfram is a British scientist and the chief designer of the Mathematica software application and the Wolfram Alpha computational knowledge engine.- Biography :...
  
  
• John Cottingham
  John Cottingham
  John Cottingham is an English philosopher, educated at Merchant Taylors’ School near London, and St John’s College, Oxford. He is a Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Reading, Professorial Research Fellow, Heythrop College, University of London, Honorary Fellow of St John’s College,...
  
  
• Korn Chatikavanij
  Korn Chatikavanij
  Korn Chatikavanij is a Thai Democrat Party politician and former investment banker. He was Finance Minister under Abhisit Vejjajiva.-Early life:...
  
   former Minister of Finance, Thailand

See also

• Fellows of St John's College, Oxford.
• University of Oxford
  University of Oxford
  The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
  
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• Presidents of St John's College, Oxford

External links

• St John's College
• St John's College JCR
• Virtual Tour of St. John's College
• SJCtv