Somerville College, Oxford
Somerville College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, and was one of the first women's colleges to be founded there.
Notable former students
Somerville has educated some of the most influential minds of the 20th century.
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- Vera Brittain, novelist
- Indira Gandhi, former prime minister of India
- Dorothy Hodgkin, Nobel Prize winner for her discovery of the structure of Vitamin B12.
- Winifred Holtby, novelist
- Kathleen Kenyon (1906-1978), archaeologist
- Rose Macaulay, novelist
- Iris Murdoch, author of The Good Apprentice.
- Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1979-90.
- Dorothy L. Sayers, author of the Lord Peter Wimsey books and translator of Dante's Inferno.
- Shirley Williams, politician
- Esther Rantzen, journalist and children's welfare ambassador
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| ► | History |
| ► | Notable former students |
| ► | Academics/teachers |
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