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'''Christ Church''' is one of the constituent colleges of the [[University of Oxford]] in the [[United Kingdom]]. |
'''Christ Church''' is one of the largest and wealthiest of the constituent colleges of the [[University of Oxford]] in the [[United Kingdom]]. |
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It is the only college which is also a cathedral (the smallest in England, and the seat of the Bishop of Oxford) and its corporate title is ''"The Dean, Chapter and Students of the Cathedral Church of Christ in Oxford of the Foundation of King Henry VIII"''. |
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It was the setting of [[Brideshead Revisited]] by [[Evelyn Waugh]]. |
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=== History === |
=== History === |
Revision as of 02:43, 25 August 2003
Christ Church is one of the largest and wealthiest of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
It is the only college which is also a cathedral (the smallest in England, and the seat of the Bishop of Oxford) and its corporate title is "The Dean, Chapter and Students of the Cathedral Church of Christ in Oxford of the Foundation of King Henry VIII".
It was the setting of Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh.
The city of Christchurch, New Zealand was named after the college.
History
Famous Former Students
- Jonathan Aitken
- W. H. Auden
- Joseph Banks
- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
- Adrian Boult
- Lewis Carroll
- Robert Cecil
- Alan Clarke
- David Dimbleby
- Anthony Eden
- Edward VII of the United Kingdom
- Albert Einstein
- William Gladstone
- Alec Douglas-Home
- Robert Hooke
- Trevor Huddleston
- Nigel Lawson
- Ludovic Kennedy
- John Locke
- Robert Peel
- William Penn
- John Rawls
- A L Rowse
- John Ruskin
- Philip Sidney
- John Taverner
- Hugh Trevor-Roper
- William Walton
- Auberon Waugh
- Charles Wesley
- John Wesley
- Christopher Wren
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