CHRIST CHURCH. A college at. Oxford. England, the magnificent project of Cardinal Wolsey, when, as the minister of llenry V111., lie was the most powerful man in England next to the King. The foundation was to be known as Cardinal College and was to have in connec tion with it a school in Ipswich, Wolsey's native place. The plans for the college were drawn, and the building begun in 1523, but with the fall of the Cardinal in 1529, and his death in 1530, the whole project fell to the ground. In 1532. how ever, Henry VIII. took up the work. refounded the college on a smaller scale under the name of King llenry the Eighth's College, and in 1545 46 he again reconstituted it under the name it now bears, and united it with his newly estab lished see of Oxford by the removal of the epis copal establishment from Osney to Christ Church. lle thus formed a unique union of cathedral and college, from which the founda tion was called .Edes Christi, or the ]louse of Christ. It is spoken of generally as the 'house,' not the college, and the incumbents are referred to as the Dean and Chapter, not of Oxford, but of Christ Church. The original foundation was for a clean, eight canons, eight clerks, a school master. one hundred students, choristers, and an organist. In accordance with the few changes of 1882, there were a dean, six canons, thirty-one senior students (i.e. fellows), two lecturers, a
number of honorary students, sixty scholars, and twenty-nine exhibitioners, besides six chaplains, an organist, singing, men, and choristers. the whole forming the largest collegiate establish ment in Oxford. The buildings about the great quadrangle (Tom Quad) include the cathedral, which occupies the site, and contains some of the work, of Hie Saxon nunnery of Saint Frides wide. and the Hall. with the exception of the Hall of William Rufus at Westminster. the most splendid example of its kind in England. Christ Church is one of the foremost colleges in Oxford, and has always been famous for its distinguished members. Among these may be mentioned five prime ministers of England in the Nineteenth Cen tury—Canning. Pe'l. Gladstone, Salisbury, and Rosebery. Of the other political worthies may be noted Arlington, Nottingham, Godedphin, Boling broke, Carteret, Wyndham, Grenville, Sir G. C. Lewis, Lord Elgin. and Lord Dalhousie. Christ Chur•ll has had in its hooks, besides these, such names as Lyttelton, Alansfield, John Locke. Wil liam Penn, Ben Jonson, Camden, Sir Philip Sid ney. John and Charles Wesley, Dr. Posey, and Ruskin.