Pembroke College, Oxford - Definition and Overview

Pembroke College
Established	1624
Sister College	Queens' College
Master	Giles Henderson
Graduates	94
Undergraduates	408

</div> Pembroke College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

The College is named after the third Earl of Pembroke who at the time was Chancellor of the University. The College was founded to provide boys from Abingdon School with places at the University. Part of the the College is situated in buildings formerly used by the mediæval Hall Broadgates.

Among its more recent Masters was Roger Bannister, the first man to run the mile in under four minutes.

Notable Former Students

• Francis Beaumont
• William Blackstone
• Edmund Bonner
• Thomas Browne
• William Camden
• Julian Critchley
• Denzil Davies
• William Fulbright
• Sir Charles Hawtrey
• George Procter Hawtrey
• Michael Heseltine
• Samuel Johnson
• Richard G. Lugar
• Viktor Orbán
• John Pym
• James Smithson
• George Whitefield

Academics/Teachers

• J. R. R. Tolkien
• Naci Mehmet
• Peter J. King

External link

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

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