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Merton’s History and English graduates have gone on to careers in Art History and International Relations as well as in English and History. History and Modern Languages: With tutors in French and Spanish and college lecturers in other languages, we admit students to study History and French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
Merton College is a vibrant and diverse intellectual community that has been at the forefront of education and research at Oxford University since 1264.
Why Merton? I didn’t apply to Merton! I didn’t think there was a chance I’d even get an interview for Oxford so didn’t want to ‘waste time’ looking round colleges and applied to the only one I knew anything about. As is the case with so many people, I received an offer from a different college, and luckily that was Merton!
The Oxford Tube and X90 services from London stop on the High Street opposite Queen's Lane, which is only two to three minutes' walk from the College. Here is a Google map showing Merton College in relation to the city centre and the train station. Oxford is an ancient, pedestrian-friendly city, with many one-way streets and limited parking.
The history of Merton. Merton College, the first fully self-governing College in the University, was founded in 1264 by Walter de Merton, sometime Chancellor of England and later Bishop of Rochester. Mob Quadrangle, the oldest quadrangle in the University, was built in three phases: the Treasury c.1288-91; the north and east ranges and the ...
The Merton Professor of English Literature and the Merton Professor of English Language & Literature are Fellows of the College. JRR Tolkien held the latter of these chairs from 1945 to 1959. Dr Lucy Brookes. Professor Richard McCabe. Professor Michael Whitworth.
Richard Swineshead (1340), one of the Oxford Calculators. John Wycliffe, theologian (1356) Robert Wikeford, Archbishop of Dublin (c. 1350) Two additional outstanding academic figures from the early 14th century, John Duns Scotus and William of Ockham have long been claimed as Merton alumni, but there is no contemporary evidence to support this ...
