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Merton College was founded in 1264 by Walter de Merton, Lord Chancellor and Bishop of Rochester. [14] It has a claim to be the oldest college in Oxford, a claim which is disputed between Merton College, Balliol College and University College.
Merton College, the first fully self-governing College in the University, was founded in 1264 by Walter de Merton, sometime Chancellor of England and later Bishop of Rochester.
Welcome to Merton College. Our community of scholars, founded in 1264, formed the model for all subsequent Oxford and Cambridge colleges. Since then we have fostered generations of academic and cultural leaders in many fields.
2 days ago · The college was first founded by Walter de Merton, later Bishop of Rochester, in 1264 and moved to Oxford in 1274. To about this date probably belongs the Hall; the pre-existing church of St. John the Baptist served as a chapel and three houses on the street front no doubt accommodated the scholars. The accounts of the college begin in 1287.
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The street upon which the collegefronts is called to-day Merton Street.In the Survey of 1772 it has thehumbler title of Merton Lane. On the map of 1750 itappears as King Street, the strip at the east end of it,leading into High Street, figuring as Coach andHorses Lane. But in the time of Walter de Merton,and indeed half a century and more before he...
The 'House of the Scholars of Merton' takes itsname, not from the founder, but, like thefounder himself, from the AugustinianPriory of Merton in Surrey. On 7 May1262 Walter de Merton, 'some time Chancellor of theillustrious lord, Henry, King of England', obtainedfrom Richard Clare, Earl of Gloucester, his feudaloverlord, a licence to vest his manor...
The college uses two seals: (i) The Sigillumad causas, used as the common seal of the college. Thisis an oval seal, showing the Virgin and Child, with achild beneath, praying. Round it runs the inscription's[Igillvm] Scolarium De Mertona Ad c[Avs]as.' TheVirgin and Child probably derive from the 13th-century seal of the Priory of Merton. (ii) The S...
Of plate belonging to the period before theCivil War the college possesses only two pieces, acommunion-cup of 1568–9, and a rose-water dish of1605–6. But of plate subsequent to 1660 it has a fineand varied collection; all the items of which are listedin A Catalogue of the Plate of Merton CollegebyE. Alfred Jones, Oxford, 1938.
In 1852 H. O. Coxe listed 346 manuscripts still in possession of the college (CatalogusCodicum MSS. in Collegiis Aulisque Oxoniensibus,Pars i). Of these 29 are Oriental manuscripts, 3 Greek,the rest Latin. A chronological and annotated description of the manuscripts (with a valuable historical introduction), was published in 1931 by F. M. Powicke(M...
The college portraits acquired before1926 have been catalogued by Mrs. R. L. Poole, (fn. 56)themost interesting artistically being the fifteen portraits inpastel, drawn between 1779 and 1796 by Lewis Vaslet ofBath. Since 1926 there have been added oil paintingsby R. G. Eves, G. Goldsborough, W. Anderson, R.Moynihan, W. Nicholson, and four by H. Riv...
Peter of Abingdon, 1264–86 Richard Werplysdon, 1286–95 John de la More, 1295–9 John de Wantynge, 1299–1328 Robert Trenge, 1328–51 William Durant, 1351–75 John Bloxham, 1375–87 John Wendover, 1387–98 Edmund Bekyngham, 1398–1416 Thomas Rodebourne, 1416–17 Robert Gilbert, 1417–21 Henry Abyndon, 1421–37 Elias Holcot, 1437–55 Henry Sever, 1455–71 John G...
Merton College was founded in 1264 by Walter de Merton, Bishop of Rochester, for twenty graduate fellows. Undergraduates were formally admitted in the early 1380s, when John Wyliot, a former fellow and sub-warden, endowed a number of scholarships, known at Merton as postmasterships.
Merton College was founded in 1264 by Walter de Merton, Lorch Chancellor and Bishop of Rochester. Walter’s foundation included a requirement that the “college” be self-governing, and that the endowments would be directly delegated to the Warden and Fellows.
