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'All Souls College' (in full: 'The Warden and College of the Souls of all Faithful People deceased in the University of Oxford^[1]') is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.
All Souls is an oddity among Oxford colleges in that all its members automatically become Fellows, i.e., full members of the College's governing body. It has no undergraduate members.
Every year, the top finalists of the University in the humanities are invited to sit the examination for fellowship of the College^[2]. About two are elected to fellowship each year. Fellowship of All Souls is thus regarded as one of the highest academic honours in the United Kingdom. These Fellows are known as Prize Fellows, their term of office is seven years and roughly a dozen are at the college at any one time. Other categories of fellowship include Senior Research Fellows, Post-Doctoral Research Fellows, Fifty-Pound Fellows (open only to former Fellows no longer holding posts in Oxford) and Distinguished Fellows. There are also many Professorial Fellows who hold their fellowships by reason of their University post.
It is one of the wealthiest colleges with a financial endowment of £218m (2007) but because the College's only source of revenue is its endowment, it ranks nineteenth among Oxford colleges with respect to total income. ^[3]
The college is located on the north side of the High Street and also adjoins Radcliffe Square to the west. To the east is Queen's College and to the north is Hertford College.

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History

Customs

Fellows

Notes

External links

History

The College was founded by Henry VI of England and Henry Chichele (fellow of New College and Archbishop of Canterbury), in 1438. The Statutes provided for the Warden and forty fellows — all to take Holy Orders; twenty-four to study arts, philosophy and theology; and sixteen to study civil or canon law. The College's Codrington Library was built with the bequest of Christopher Codrington, sometime governor of the Leeward Islands. Today the College is primarily an academic research institution.

Customs

Every hundred years there is a commemorative feast after which the fellows parade around the College with flaming torches, singing the ''Mallard Song'' and led by a "Lord Mallard" who is carried in a chair, in search of a legendary mallard that supposedly flew out of the foundations of the college when it was being built. The last mallard ceremony was in 2001 and the next will be held in 2101.

Fellows

★ Leo Amery

★ Andrew Ashworth

★ Sir Isaiah Berlin

★ Malcolm Bowie

★ Robin Briggs

★ Peter Brown (historian)

★ David Caute

★ Alasdair Clayre

★ Christopher Codrington

★ G.A. Cohen

★ George Nathaniel Curzon

★ Matthew d'Ancona

★ David Dilks

★ Sheppard Frere

★ Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

★ Stephen Grover (philosopher and theologian)

★ Reginald Heber

★ Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone

★ John Hood

★ Sir Michael Howard (historian)

★ Susan Hurley

★ E. F. Jacob

★ Sir Keith Joseph

★ Colin Kidd

★ Leszek Kolakowski

★ T.E. Lawrence

★ Sir Edward Chandos Leigh

★ Thomas Linacre

★ Vaughan Lowe

★ Sir Colin Lucas

★ Noel Malcolm

★ Max Müller

★ Patrick Neill

★ Avner Offer

★ David Pannick QC

★ Derek Parfit

★ Anthony Quinton

★ Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

★ John Redwood

★ A. L. Rowse

★ Peter Salway

★ Amartya Sen

★ Gilbert Sheldon

★ Joseph E. Stiglitz

★ Adam Thirlwell

★ Sir Guenter Treitel

★ Sir John Vickers

★ William Waldegrave

★ Richard Wilberforce

★ Sir Bernard Williams

★ E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

★ Llewellyn Woodward

★ Patrick Wormald

★ Crispin Wright

★ R. C. Zaehner
:See also

Notes

1. http://www.all-souls.ox.ac.uk/about/history11.php
2. http://www.all-souls.ox.ac.uk/elections/prize.php
3. http://www.all-souls.ox.ac.uk/about/finance.php

External links

★ Official website

★ Virtual Tour of All Souls College

★ Prints of All Souls College