Pembroke College (Oxford)

The Pembroke College is one of 39 colleges and Private Halls of the University of Oxford. Among the most important Pembroke students include the writer Samuel Johnson, U.S. Senator and founder of the Fulbright scholarship, James William Fulbright and chemist James Smithson. The famous writer J. R. R. Tolkien was 1925-1945 Professor at Pembroke College and has written in this time The Hobbit and the first two parts of The Lord of the Rings. Moreover studied William Blackstone, the first professor who lectures on the common law held and author of " Commentaries on the Laws of England ", at Pembroke College.

The Pembroke College was founded in 1624 by King James I and named after the Earl of Pembroke, who then contributed in his capacity as Chancellor of Oxford University significantly to the establishment of Pembroke. The origins of the College can be traced back even to the beginning of the university. At the beginning it served as accommodation for law students and was known as the Broad Gates Hall. It was finally, thanks to generous financial contributions by Thomas Tesdale and Richard Wightwick, expanded in the early 17th century to college.

It is worth noting that until 1979, almost exclusively men were admitted to study at Pembroke College. But Pembroke College is thus not an isolated case within the University of Oxford.

It is not only academically very successful, but can also refer to many sporting successes. Especially with the traditional boat race, the team is one of the best colleges in Oxford.

Significant former students

  • Abdullah II, King of Jordan
  • Francis Beaumont, English playwright
  • William Blackstone, English jurist
  • Edmund Bonner, English bishop
  • Thomas Browne, English philosopher
  • William Camden, English historian and antiquarian
  • Julian Critchley
  • Denzil Davies
  • William Fulbright, American politician
  • Charles Hawtrey
  • George Procter Hawtrey
  • Michael Heseltine, British politician
  • Samuel Johnson, English scholar and lexicographer, writer, poet and critic
  • Richard G. Lugar, United States Senator
  • Viktor Orbán, Hungarian politician
  • John Pym, English lawyer and politician
  • Radosław Sikorski, Polish political scientist and historian, politician and journalist
  • James Smithson, a British mineralogist and chemist
  • Richard Sorabji, historians of philosophy
  • Arnold Toynbee, British people economist and economic historian
  • Honeysuckle Weeks
  • George Whitefield, English clergyman

Professors

  • R. G. Collingwood
  • John Eekelaar
  • Malcolm R. Godden
  • Alexander Kacelnik
  • Peter J. King
  • Martha Klein
  • Sir John R. Krebs ( F.R.S. )
  • Theo Maarten van Lint
  • I. James McMullen ( F.B.A. )
  • Mehmet Naci
  • Francesca Stavrakopoulou
  • J. R. R. Tolkien
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