Lady Margaret Hall

Lady Margaret Hall
Blazon: Or, on a chevron between in chief two talbots passant and in base a bell azure a portcullis of the field.
University	Oxford
Coordinates	51°45′53″N 1°15′15″W / 51.76483°N 1.254036°W / 51.76483; -1.254036Coordinates: 51°45′53″N 1°15′15″W / 51.76483°N 1.254036°W / 51.76483; -1.254036
Motto	French: Souvent me Souviens English: I remember often
Established	1878
Named for	Lady Margaret Beaufort
Sister college	Newnham College, Cambridge
Principal	Alan Rusbridger
Undergraduates	390 (2014/2015)
Postgraduates	205
Website	www.lmh.ox.ac.uk
Boat club	www.lmhbc.com
Map
Location in Oxford city centre

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Lady Margaret Hall (commonly referred to as LMH) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England, located at the end of Norham Gardens in north Oxford.

It was founded in 1878 as the first women's college in Oxford and has accepted both men and women since 1979. LMH admits both undergraduate and graduate students. In 2015 it ranked 28th in Oxford's Norrington Table.

The current principal of the college is Alan Rusbridger.

Lady Margaret Hall, the first women's college in Oxford, was founded in 1878 and opened its doors to its first nine students the following year. It was founded by Edward Stuart Talbot, then Warden of Keble College, and his wife Lavinia. The college was named after Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of King Henry VII, renowned patron of scholarship and learning. Its first principal was Elizabeth Wordsworth, the great-niece of the poet William Wordsworth and daughter of Christopher Wordsworth, Bishop of Lincoln.

In 1979, one hundred years after its foundation, LMH began admitting men as well as women; it was the first of the women's colleges to do so, along with St. Anne's.

The college's coat of arms features devices that recall those associated with its foundation. The portcullis is from the arms of Lady Margaret Beaufort, the bell is a symbol of the Wordsworth family, and the Talbot dogs represent Edward Talbot.