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Dorothy Wadham

Dorothy Wadham
1595 portrait of Wadham aged 60
Born1534/1535
Died16 May 1618(1618-05-16) (aged 83–84)
Edge, Devon, England
Known forFounding Wadham College
Spouse
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(m. 1555; died 1609)​
Parent(s)Gertrude Tyrrell (mother)
Sir William Petre (father)
Portrait of Dorothy Wadham, aged 77 in 1611, with arms of Wadham impaling Petre. By an unknown artist, collection of Wadham College, Oxford
Undated portrait of Dorothy Wadham, with arms of Wadham impaling Petre. By Wilhelm Sonmans (d.1708), painted after her death, apparently a late copy. Collection of Wadham College, Oxford
Dorothy Petre (d.1618), wife of Nicholas Wadham. Detail from her monumental brass in St Mary's Church, Ilminster. Almost identical to the brass to her sister-in-law Florence Wadham (1538-1597), wife of John Wyndham (d.1572) of Orchard Wyndham, in St Decuman's Church, Watchet, Somerset

Dorothy Wadham (/ˈwɒdəm/; née Petre) (1534/1535 – 16 May 1618) was an English landowner and the founder of Wadham College, Oxford, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford. Wadham was the first woman who was not a member of the royal family or titled aristocracy to found a college at Oxford or Cambridge.[1] Her husband was Nicholas Wadham (1531-1609) of Merryfield in the parish of Ilton, Somerset and of Edge in the parish of Branscombe, Devon.

  1. ^ List of founders of English schools and colleges

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