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| Oriel is the fifth oldest of Oxford's colleges, having been founded in 1326 by King Edward II. For over two hundred years the College maintained a small body of graduate fellows, and it was not until the sixteenth century that it became concerned with the education of undergraduates. Even so the College remained a small one and today has about 300 undergraduate and 100 graduate students. Women were first admitted in 1985. |
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| Notable alumni include : Bernard Bosanquet, Beau Brummell, Christopher Hibbert, Angus Maude, Sir Walter Raleigh, Cecil Rhodes, A J P Taylor, and Sir Pelham "Plum" Warner. |
| The television crime series "Inspector Morse" used the College in several episodes, and Oriel has appeared in a few films including Hugh Grant's first film, "Privileged" (1982), as well as "Oxford Blues" (1984), "True Blue" (1991) and "The Dinosaur Hunter" (2000). |
| Two similar old postcards of Oriel. The term "oriel window" did not take its name from the college - the college took its name from the building which formerly occupied the site, a feature of this building being its bay windows. The name has been in use since about 1350. |
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