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All Souls College is one of the colleges of the University of Oxford. It was founded in 1438 by Henry VI and the Archbishop of Canterbury Henry Chichele. The full name of the college is "The Warden and the College of the Souls of all Faithful People deceased in the University of Oxford". All Souls does not have any undergraduate students.
The College of All Souls of the Faithful Departed, of Oxford 1, mieux connu sous le nom de All Souls College, est l'un des collèges fédérés de l' université d'Oxford, au Royaume-Uni . All Souls est un collège particulier à Oxford car tous ses membres sont automatiquement fellows, c’est-à-dire membres du conseil dirigeant le collège.
All Souls is one of the wealthiest colleges in Oxford, with a financial endowment of £420.2 million (2018). [5] However, since the college's principal source of revenue is its endowment and it does not earn income from tuition fees, it only ranked 19th (in 2007) among Oxford colleges in total income. [23]
Every autumn, All Souls College seeks to elect Examination Fellows, formerly known as Prize Fellows. The College normally elects two from a field of one hundred and fifty or more candidates. The Fellowships last seven years and cannot be renewed. Examination Fellows are full members of the College's governing body, with a vote, a stipend or ...
The College's Warden originally lived in rooms to the left of the tower. This aerial-view drawing, known as the Typus Collegii, dates from around 1600. It is the oldest surviving representation of the original medieval and Tudor All Souls. It shows the front quadrangle, with the Hall projecting from its north-eastern corner at right angles to ...
Today, we find ourselves at All Souls College, or more formally known as College of the Souls of All the Faithful Departed, at none other than Oxford University. Planned, built, and endowed in the 1430s by Henry Chichele and co-founded with King Henry VI, All Souls was the byproduct of decades of careful thought about what the (already) old university needed in a new college.
The links between All Souls College and the colonial past have many aspects, notably in relation to the Caribbean, India and Africa. The Caribbean In 1710 Christopher Codrington, the governor-general of the Leeward Islands, who had been born in Barbados in 1668, and became a Fellow of the College in 1690, bequeathed his books to All Souls and £10,000 for the building of a library.
