Lincoln College | ||||||||||||
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University of Oxford | ||||||||||||
Location | Turl Street, Oxford OX1 3DR | |||||||||||
Coordinates | 51°45′12″N 1°15′21″W / 51.75326°N 1.255905°W | |||||||||||
Full name | The College of the Blessed Mary and All Saints, Lincoln | |||||||||||
Latin name | Collegium Lincolniense | |||||||||||
Established | 1427 | |||||||||||
Named for | Richard Fleming (Bishop of Lincoln) | |||||||||||
Sister college | Downing College, Cambridge | |||||||||||
Rector | Nigel Clifford | |||||||||||
Undergraduates | 308[1] (2011–12) | |||||||||||
Postgraduates | 299 | |||||||||||
Endowment | £122.4 million (2018)[2] | |||||||||||
Website | www | |||||||||||
Boat club | Boat Club website | |||||||||||
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Lincoln College (formally, The College of the Blessed Mary and All Saints, Lincoln) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford,[3] situated on Turl Street in central Oxford. Lincoln was founded in 1427 by Richard Fleming, the then bishop of Lincoln.
Notable alumni include the physician John Radcliffe, the founder of Methodism John Wesley, antibiotics scientists Howard Florey, Edward Abraham, and Norman Heatley, writers Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss) and David John Moore Cornwell (John le Carré), the journalist Rachel Maddow, former British prime minister Rishi Sunak, Princess Elisabeth of Belgium,[4] and Labour politician Shabana Mahmood. Mensa was founded at Lincoln College in 1946. Lincoln College has one of the oldest working medieval kitchens in the UK.[5]