Margaret Beaufort

Standard Name: Beaufort, Margaret
Used Form: Margaret Richmond
Used Form: Lady Margaret Beaufort
Used Form: Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby
Used Form: Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby
Used Form: Margaret Tudor, Countess of Richmond and Derby

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Textual Features Cicely Hamilton
The pageant required more than fifty actresses, only three of whom had speaking parts, to portray famous women from history (not all of them remembered today). In the initial, Scala production, the only speaking role...
Textual Production Katherine Parr
Fisher had been Bishop of Rochester when he incurred Henry's wrath for opposing his first divorce, and was executed on 22 June 1535. He was regarded by the Catholic Church as a saint and martyr...

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1502: Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and...

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1502

Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby (also known as Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of the future Henry VII ), endowed the Regius Professorship of Divinity at Cambridge University.
Leach, Arthur Francis. Educational Charters and Documents, 598-1909. AMS Press, 1971.
xi
Tibbs, Rodney. The University and Colleges of Cambridge. Terence Dalton Ltd., 1972.
24
Powell, Ken, and Chris Cook. English Historical Facts: 1485-1603. Macmillan, 1977.
146
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
MacCulloch, Diarmaid. “Paraphernalia”. London Review of Books, Vol.
31
, No. 22, 19 Nov. 2009, pp. 24-5.
24

1505: Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and...

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1505

Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby , endowed Christ's College, Cambridge.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
210
Curtis, Stanley James. Education in Britain since 1900. Greenwood Press, 1970.
753
Tibbs, Rodney. The University and Colleges of Cambridge. Terence Dalton Ltd., 1972.
24

1511: Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and...

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1511

Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby , endowed St John's College, Cambridge.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
210
Curtis, Stanley James. Education in Britain since 1900. Greenwood Press, 1970.
754
Tibbs, Rodney. The University and Colleges of Cambridge. Terence Dalton Ltd., 1972.
24

4 June 1878: Lady Margaret Hall, a women's college at...

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4 June 1878

Lady Margaret Hall , a women's college at Oxford University named after Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby , was founded.
Grier, Miss L. “Women’s Education at Oxford”. Handbook to the University of Oxford, Clarendon, 1956, pp. 291-9.
291-2
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Keene, Anne. “Mothers of the House”. Oxford Today, Vol.
15
, No. 2, 2003, pp. 29-31.
29, 30
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
268

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