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St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford. Founded as a men's college in 1555, it has been coeducational since 1979. Its founder, Sir Thomas White, intended to provide a source of educated Roman Catholic clerics to support the Counter-Reformation under Queen Mary. St John's is the wealthiest college in Oxford, with assets worth over of £790 million as of 2022, largely due to nineteenth-century suburban development of land in the city of Oxford of which it is the ground landlord.The college occupies a site on St Giles' and has a student body of some 390 undergraduates and 250 postgraduates. There are over 100 academic staff, and a like number of other staff. In 2018 St John's topped the Norrington Table, the annual ranking of Oxford colleges' final results, and in 2021, St John's ranked second with a score of 79.8. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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Authors educated at St John's College 39
- Evan Davis
- Frank Barlow
- Paul Marshall
- Raymond Postgate
- David Edgerton
- Daniel Blythe
- David McLellan
- Diogenes Allen
- Harvey Pitcher
- Timothy Mo
- John Lanchester
- Robert Bartlett
- Ervand Abrahamian
- Robert Graves
- Kingsley Amis
- Victoria Coren Mitchell
- P. F. Strawson
- Philip Larkin
- William Laud
- David Cannadine
- A. J. Taylor
- Alison E. Cooley
- Andrew Dilnot
- Sos Eltis
- William Mitchell Ramsay
- Peter Burke
- George Series
- Edmund Crispin
- Frank Shovlin
- Damian Le Bas
- Gwynfor Evans
- Alfred Edward Housman
- Adrian Goldsworthy
- Antony Flew
- Thomas Frognall Dibdin
- John Wain
- D. J. Taylor
- Philomen Probert
- Robert Lamb
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