Magdalen College, Oxford

Magdalen is one of the most visited colleges in the university. Its large square tower is a famous landmark, and it is from the top of this tower early on May morning that a choir sings. The college stands next to the River Cherwell[?], with Magdalen College School nearby. Within the grounds is a deer park.

History Magdalen College was founded 1458 in Oxford by William of Waynflete[?], bishop of Winchester, originally as Magdalen. New educational ideas of the Renaissance era as well as new methods of teaching were tried out.

Famous Former Students

• Richard Atkin[?]
• Kenneth Baker[?]
• John Betjeman
• Stephen Breyer
• Alfred Denning[?]
• Alfred Douglas
• John Eccles
• Edward VIII of the United Kingdom
• Howard Walter Florey
• Malcolm Fraser
• Edward Gibbon
• William Hague
• Omar Hassan[?]
• Seamus Heaney
• Keith Joseph[?]
• C. S. Lewis
• Peter Medawar
• Dudley Moore
• Desmond Morris
• Ivor Novello
• Hormuzd Rassam
• John Redwood
• Robert Robinson[?]
• Duncan Sandys
• Erwin Schrödinger
• John Sergeant
• Charles Sherrington[?]
• David Souter
• Andrew Sullivan
• William Tyndale
• Oscar Wilde
• Thomas Wolsey

(P. G. Wodehouse attributes a Magdalen undergraduateship to his fictional literary character Bertie Wooster)

Teachers/Academics

• Joseph Addison
• C. S. Lewis

External Link

• Official website (http://www.magd.ox.ac.uk/)