Hertford College, Oxford

Hertford College
University of Oxford
Arms: Gules, a hart's head cabossed argent, attired and between the attire a cross patty Or, fitched in the foot
Location	Catte Street, Oxford OX1 3BW
Coordinates	51°45′15″N 1°15′12″W / 51.754205°N 1.253467°W / 51.754205; -1.253467
Full name	Hertford College in the University of Oxford
Latin name	Collegium Hertfordiense
Motto	Sicut cervus anhelat ad fontes aquarum (Latin)
Motto in English	As the hart panteth after the water brooks
Established	1282 (as Hart Hall) 1490 (as Magdalen Hall) 1740 and 1874 (as Hertford College)
Named for	Elias de Hertford
Sister college	None
Principal	Tom Fletcher
Undergraduates	403[1] (2017/2018)
Postgraduates	222
Grace	Benedictus benedicat May the Blessed One bless Benedicto benedicatur May the Blessed One be blessed
Endowment	£64.9 million (2018)[2]
Website	hertford.ox.ac.uk
Boat club	Hertford College Boat Club
Map
Location in Oxford city centre

Hertford College (/ˈhɑːrtfərd/ HART-fərd), previously known as Magdalen Hall, is a constituent college of the University of Oxford^[3] in England. It is located on Catte Street in the centre of Oxford, directly opposite the main gate to the Bodleian Library. The college is known for its iconic bridge, the Bridge of Sighs. There are around 600 students at the college at any one time, comprising undergraduates, graduates and visiting students from overseas.

The first foundation on the Hertford site began in the 1280s as Hart Hall and became a college in 1740 but was dissolved in 1816. In 1820, the site was taken over by Magdalen Hall, which had emerged around 1490 on a site adjacent to Magdalen College. In 1874, Magdalen Hall was incorporated as a college, reviving the name Hertford College. In 1974, Hertford was part of the first group of all-male Oxford colleges to admit women.^[4]

Alumni of the college's predecessor institutions include William Tyndale, John Donne, Thomas Hobbes, and Jonathan Swift. More recently, former students have included author Evelyn Waugh, the first female Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, the civil servants Jeremy Heywood and Olly Robbins, and the newsreaders and reporters Fiona Bruce, Carrie Gracie, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, and Natasha Kaplinsky. U.S. justice Byron White attended the college on a Rhodes scholarship but left to serve in World War II.