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About Dorothy Wadham
Dorothy Wadham 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. Her husband was Nicholas Wadham (1531–1609) of Merryfield in the parish of Ilton, Somerset and of Edge in the parish of Branscombe, Devon.
Everything about Dorothy Wadham →- Born
- 1534
- Died
- May 16, 1618