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Brasenose College, Oxford - definition of Brasenose College, Oxford in Encyclopedia (306 words) |
 | Brasenose College (in full: The King's Hall and College of Brasenose) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. |
 | The College was founded in 1509 by a lawyer, Sir Richard Sutton, and the Bishop of Lincoln, William Smyth. |
 | The house was purchased by the college for the sake of the door knocker, which was removed and placed in the hall, believed to have been returned to its rightful home. |
| Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1008 words) |
 | By the sixteenth century, the college had fallen into disrepair, and in 1557 it was refounded by Royal Charter as Gonville and Caius College by the physician John Caius. |
 | By 1630, the college had expanded greatly, having around 25 fellows and 150 students, but numbers fell over the next century, only returning to the 1630 level in the early nineteenth century. |
 | On the wall of the hall hangs a college flag that was flown at the South Pole by Dr. |