Pembroke College, Oxford
Pembroke College is one of the colleges of the University of Oxford. Its full name is "The Master, Fellows and Scholars of Pembroke College". King James I founded Pembroke College in 1624.[1]
Pembroke College, Oxford Media
Old Quad, with Tom Tower in the distance
College entrance from Pembroke Square, above which Samuel Johnson, as an undergraduate (1728), had rooms on the second floor.
Pembroke College Boathouse on the Isis (left, adjacent to St Edmund Hall Boathouse)
Dr Johnson's desk in Broadgates
Samuel Johnson, essayist, moralist, literary critic and lexicographer
James Smithson, English chemist, founder of the Smithsonian Institution
References
- ↑ "History - Pembroke College, University of Oxford". Archived from the original on 2010-10-07. Retrieved 2007-11-10.