Linacre College

Named Facilities

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Houses/Buildings

• The Bamborough Building - 1986
  Mr John Bamborough was Principal of Linacre College 1962 - 1988.
• Ursula Hicks House - 1991
  Lady Ursula Hicks was a Fellow of Linacre College.
• The Edward & Asbjorg Abraham Building - 1995
  Sir Edward & Lady Abraham were Friends of Linacre College.
• The Rhodes Building - 2001
  Enabled by the Rhodes Trust.
• Peter Holloway House - 2002
  Mr Peter Holloway was Domestic Bursar of Linacre College 1962 - 1989.
• O C Tanner Building - 2006
  Named in 2006 to thank the O C Tanner Company, and the Rt Rev'd Carolyn Tanner Irish, for their enormous generosity to the College.
• Griffiths Building - 2008
  Mr Rodney Griffiths is an Old Member (1971) and an Honorary Fellow of Linacre College.

Garden

• The Rom Harré Garden - 2010
  One major donor, and several others, made possible the naming of this new area of garden for a former Vice-Principal and Emeritus Fellow.
• Garden Furniture - 2010 & 2011
  Details of kind donors who gave furniture can be found in a document available to borrow from Reception.

College Rooms

• The Tanner Room
  Professor Obert Tanner was an Honorary Fellow of Linacre College.
• The Nadel Room
  Dr Benjamin Nadel, Old Member (1962), was a lawyer in the US.
• The Carolyn Tanner Irish Room
  The Rt Rev'd Carolyn Tanner Irish is an Old Member (1964) and Honorary Fellow of Linacre College. She is also the daughter of Professor Obert Tanner.

Student Rooms

• The Japan Rooms (in the Abraham Building)
  Named for the Japanese Linacre Society, which in 1995 made a handsome donation for the Abraham Building.
• The Wolfson Room(in Peter Holloway House)
  A Wolfson Foundation grant made in 2002 enabled some renovation work on this house.

In Griffiths Building

• The E P Abraham Floor
  A grant from the E P Abraham Cephalosporin Trust supported the construction of the building.
• The Wolfson Rooms
  A Wolfson Foundation grant supported the construction of the building.
• The Bryan Cartledge and Freda Newcombe Room
  Linacre Principal, 1988 - 1996, and his late wife, who was a College Fellow.
• The Bob Hiorns Room
  Dr Robert W Hiorns was a former Vice-Principal of the College, Fellow & University Lecturer in Statistics.
• The Tom Halsall Room
  Dr Thomas Halsall was an Emeritus Fellow, and formerly Finance Bursar.

Others

Computer Workstations in College Library

• Professor Morton Weber
  Professor Weber was an Old Member (1970). The gift was made by his wife, Judge Phyllis Weber, in 2000.
• Hitachi Chemical Europe
  Friends of Linacre.
• Leila Lenihan-Dawood
  Daughter of two Old Members. Gift made in 2002.

  The Tanner Fountain

  The William Waldren Window

  Dr Waldren was an Old Member(1975).

  The Rom Harré Garden

  Dr Harré is an Emeritus Fellow, and formerly Vice-Principal.