Stamford University (England)
University in Lincolnshire, 1333 to 1335 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The University of Stamford was an academic institution founded in 1333 in Stamford, Lincolnshire, by a group of students and tutors from the University of Oxford, including Merton College and Brasenose Hall.
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Active | 1333 (1333)–1335 (1335) |
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Founders | William de Barnby and other masters and scholars of Oxford |
Academic staff | 24 (1335) |
Students | 15 (1335) |
Location | , , 52.654046°N 0.473215°W / 52.654046; -0.473215 |
Campus | University town |
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After lobbying by the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, King Edward III suppressed the institution in 1335 and the tutors and scholars were returned to Oxford. All Oxford graduates until the 1820s were required to take an oath not to lecture in Stamford.