Talk:Hertford College, Oxford

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The lists of students and fellows are growing quite large. Since

As you can see, he went to Magdalen Hall, now part of Magdalen college. See page 9. I am removing him from Hertford's wall. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=DhlOzCmNYj8C&dq=leviathan&pg=PP1&ots=Ukt7UCsxLI&sig=87oCYlW8OhZPhLA-v1E2_1Hx2B8&hl=en&prev=http://www.google.co.uk/search%3Fclient%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-GB:official%26channel%3Ds%26hl%3Den%26q%3DLeviathan%26lr%3Dlang_en%257Clang_it%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail#PPP13,M1 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jackdelyelis (talk • contribs) 20:57, 4 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It explains, on this PAGE in fact, that Magdalen Hall is not to be confused with the earlier Magdalen Hall, which was later to become part of Magdalen College.

And since that was AFTER Hobbes time, then he couldn't have gone up to Hertford in what ever form. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=DhlOzCmNYj8C&dq=leviathan&pg=PP1&ots=Ukt7UCsxLI&sig=87oCYlW8OhZ PhLA-v1E2_1Hx2B8&hl=en&prev=http://www.google.co.uk/search%3Fclient%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-GB:official%26channel%3Ds%26hl%3Den%26q%3DLeviathan%26lr%3Dlang_en%257Clang_it%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail#PPP13,M1 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jackdelyelis (talk • contribs) 21:10, 4 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Hall [Hart Hall] became Hertford College in 1740. Due to funding problems, the College's buildings were taken over as Magdalen Hall (not related to the similarly named Magdalen College whose separate Hall had been incorporated into the University as a college years before)1 in 1822. In 1874, the combined Hertford College/Magdalen Hall was finally re-established once again as a full college, largely due to the sponsorship of Sir Thomas Baring.

is rather obscure. The colleges buildings were taken over - by who?, when? Did Hertford cease to exist for a while? If it didn't, what buildings did it have? William M. Connolley (talk) 21:42, 4 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

See Hobbes's page, where I explain all. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jackdelyelis (talk • contribs) 22:06, 4 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Err, no you don't. Hopefully someone familiar with this can weight in. I have via email "A very quick look at Wood's City of Oxford says that Magdalen Hall in Hobbes's time was in the parish of Peter in the East and west of Magdalen College. In 1820 it moved to the former site of Hart Hall, which was in turn engulfed by Hertford" William M. Connolley (talk) 20:21, 5 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What is the Hertford College grace? It would be good to see this somewhere in the article, as in the Jesus College, Cambridge entry here. Greylin (talk) 18:07, 19 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The history of the college is almost exclusively concerned with the buildings. Is there anyone who could expand this or add a new section to detail its evolving academic role and structure? For instance John Donne entered the college when he was 11 years old. Was this the normal age for entry of students? How was entry gained? What was the cost of enrollment, an so on? At present the section on Hart Hall reads rather like a handbook for tourists. IMO it would be very helpful for readers to have the architecture and estate issues separated from the institutional and academic ones. LookingGlass (talk) 09:53, 19 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I have linked

Agree, there is no need for duplication of the list Aloneinthewild (talk) 21:33, 6 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Pinging @TSP: as you wrote some of the Magdalen Hall content.

The Magdalen Hall alumni subsection is "Magdalen Hall (1448–1874)" which conflates the two Magdalen Halls. (List of alumni of Hertford College, Oxford and List of Principals of Hertford College, Oxford are similar.) I would suggest replacing 1448 with another date, possibly 1480 as that is the first date in the list of principals of Magdalen Hall, but then the foundation date in the info box should probably be updated as well.

The alumni section is inconsistent with the "Magdalen Hall" section, which begins "Magdalen Hall was founded around 1490 on a site to the west of

I have been discussing Magdalen Hall content at Talk:Magdalen_College,_Oxford#Magdalen_Hall as JCrue has been expanding the Magdalen College article. TSventon (talk) 15:30, 16 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]