| St Edmund Hall | ||||||||||||
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| University of Oxford | ||||||||||||
 St Edmund Hall Front Quad 2018 | ||||||||||||
 Arms: Or, a cross patonce gules cantoned by four Cornish choughs proper | ||||||||||||
| Location | The High / Queen's Lane | |||||||||||
| Coordinates | 51°45′11″N 1°15′00″W / 51.753°N 1.25°W | |||||||||||
| Full name | The Principal, Fellows and Scholars of Saint Edmund Hall in the University of Oxford | |||||||||||
| Latin name | Aula Sancti Edmundi[1] | |||||||||||
| Established | c. 1278[2] | |||||||||||
| Named for | Edmund of Abingdon | |||||||||||
| Sister college | Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge | |||||||||||
| Principal | Kathy Willis | |||||||||||
| Undergraduates | 376[3] | |||||||||||
| Postgraduates | 315[3] | |||||||||||
| Website | www | |||||||||||
| JCR | SEH JCR | |||||||||||
| MCR | SEH MCR | |||||||||||
| Boat club | SEH boatclub | |||||||||||
| Map | ||||||||||||
  Location in Oxford city centre | ||||||||||||
St Edmund Hall (sometimes known as The Hall or informally as Teddy Hall) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford.[4] The college claims to be "the oldest surviving academic society to house and educate undergraduates in any university" and was the last surviving medieval academic hall at the university.[5][6]
The college is on Queen's Lane and the High Street, in central Oxford. After more than seven centuries as a men-only college, it became coeducational in 1979.[7] As of 2019, the college had a financial endowment of more than £65 million.[8]
Notable alumni of St Edmund Hall include current British prime minister Keir Starmer, diplomats Robert Macaire and Mark Sedwill, politicians Richard Onslow, 1st Baron Onslow and Mel Stride, as well as journalists Samira Ahmed (1986, English) and Anna Botting (1986, Geography). The elected Honorary Fellows: Faith Wainwright, MBE FREng (1980, Engineering) and the Hon Justice Elizabeth Hollingworth (1984, BCL).
In 2019, St Edmund Hall launched its 10-year strategy to improve access to higher education, increase the number of student scholarships, bursaries and academic fellowships at the Hall and improve its estate facilities and sustainability credentials. This was followed by the launch of HALLmarks, a £50 million campaign in 2022 to fundraise for a new student accommodation building at Norham Gardens in North Oxford as well as student support and fellowship endowment projects.
- ^ St Edmund Hall (May 2024). "Latin Name of St Edmund Hall" (PDF). WhatDoTheyKnow.
The Latin name of the Hall is Aula Sancti Edmundi
- ^ University of Oxford (2008) St Edmund Hall - Admissions Archived December 24, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b "St Edmund Hall". Retrieved 26 September 2020.
- ^ "St Edmund Hall | University of Oxford". www.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 November 2022.
- ^ Cowdrey (1988); p. 388, referencing A.B. Emden who in his 1927 (p. 236) work states: "...and St Edmund Hall now survives as the last lineal descendent of the oldest form of academical society designed for the residence of scholars studying in the Oxford Schools."
- ^ "History of the Hall". St Edmund Hall. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
- ^ "About the College: Full History of the Hall". St Edmund Hall. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
- ^ "St Edmund Hall : Annual Report and Financial Statements : Year ended 31 July 2019" (PDF). ox.ac.uk. p. 19. Retrieved 26 September 2020.