Oxford, Queen's College
Owner Id2398
TypeCorporate body
Biographical dates - Period of existence1341-
Other Information“Hall of the Queen’s Scholars at Oxford” was founded in 1341 by Robert de Eglesfield, a chaplain in the household of Queen Philippa, who named it in her honour.
He envisaged an establishment of fellows, chaplains, ‘poor boys’ and various officials and servants, headed by a Provost. Membership was to be open, but with a preference for inhabitants of Cumberland and Westmorland. Initially Queen’s was poor, but the endowment slowly grew. Crucially, in 1343, Philippa secured for Queen’s a small hospital in Southampton with its lands, destined to be the basis of much of the College’s prosperity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as Southampton Docks expanded and surrounding farmland was developed.
Other Identifierhttps://www.queens.ox.ac.uk/history
Activity
Start (year)1341
MARC Area Codee-uk-en
Profession / Type of InstitutionUniversity
CharacterisationNo characterisation/lay
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