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* Magdalen Hall, Oxford — a former hall of the University of Oxford, originally sited next to the college of the same name, was refounded as Hertford College on the mediaeval site of Hart Hall.
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Tyndale began a Bachelor of Arts degree at Magdalen Hall ( later Hertford College ) of Oxford University in 1506 and received his B. A.
He attended Christ's Hospital and St Paul's School, and in 1566 entered Oxford ( Magdalen College, Broadgates Hall, and finally Christ Church ).
Another unrelated college named Magdalen Hall adjacent to Magdalen College eventually became part of Hertford College.
The demise of Hertford College was welcomed by Magdalen College, who had long been searching for a way of expelling its namesake neighbour Magdalen Hall (, Aula Magdalenae or Magdalis ).
Before the demise of Hertford, Magdalen College conspired to make its site ready to receive a transplanted Magdalen Hall.
Rarely did Magdalen Hall make use of a badge of arms, but, when it did, it used the same as those of the College.
The current Lodge of Hertford College thus still bears the arms of Magdalen Hall ( and so also of Magdalen College ) beside those of Hertford College ( and Hart Hall ) and the University.
Magdalen Hall was founded in 1448 by William Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester and Lord Chancellor, who later also founded Magdalen College.
Magdalen Hall was known for its adherence to the teachings of John Wycliffe, and it was here that William Tyndale, translator of the English Bible and martyr, studied.
At the English Civil War, Magdalen Hall was known as a Puritan Hall under the principalship of Henry Wilkinson.
John Macbride became both Principal of Magdalen Hall and Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic in 1813, and plans to move the Hall to the site of Hertford College were already afoot.
Magdalen College proposed to repair the Hertford buildings and defray the expense of Magdalen Hall's move to the site, while the Hall were to relinquish claim to their own buildings to Magdalen College.
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He was also a visiting professor at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory in the United Kingdom and an Honorary Fellow of Magdalen College.
In April 1687, James ordered the fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford to elect a Catholic, Anthony Farmer, as their president.
George Robert Aberigh-Mackay ( July 25, 1848 – January 12, 1881 ), Anglo-Indian writer, son of a Bengal chaplain, was educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford and Cambridge University.
While he was at Cambridge, Abendana sold Hebrew books to the Bodleian Library of Oxford, and in 1689 he took a teaching position in Magdalen College.
He graduated ( with first class honours ) in 1925, and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study under Charles Scott Sherrington at Magdalen College, Oxford University, where he received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1929.
He was born in Bangalore, South India, and educated at Saint Ronan's School in Worthing, West Sussex, and at Cheltenham College, where he met his lifelong friend and biographer, the screenwriter and novelist Gavin Lambert ; Wadham College, Oxford, where he studied classics ; and Magdalen College, Oxford where he studied English literature.
He grew up on the family's pastoral properties and was educated at Glamorgan ( now part of Geelong Grammar School ) and Melbourne Grammar School, before completing a degree in philosophy, politics and economics (" Modern Greats ") at Magdalen College, Oxford in 1952, where he became friendly with future Canadian Prime Minister John Turner.
In Oxford, it is traditional for May Morning revellers to gather below the Great Tower of Magdalen College at 6: 00 am to listen to the college choir sing traditional madrigals as a conclusion to the previous night's celebrations.
St. Mary Magdalene was the patron of Magdalen College, Oxford, and Magdalene College, Cambridge ( both colleges pronounce her name as " maudlin ").
When Lean left Oxford during 1933, the society ended, and its name was transferred by Tolkien and Lewis to their group at Magdalen College.
The Tyndale family also went by the name Hychyns ( Hitchins ), and it was as William Hychyns that Tyndale was enrolled at Magdalen College School, Oxford.
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* The College of Saint Mary Magdalen — a small, Catholic liberal arts college in New Hampshire, United States, known as Magdalen College from 1974 to 2010
The parish is split between four churches — those of St Catherine, St George, St Mary Magdalen and St Michael.
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