University of Stamford
Gate believed to have been the entrance to Brazenose Hall, Stamford, with a replica brass knocker replacing c.12th-century original taken to Brasenose College, Oxford | |
| Active | 1333–1335 |
|---|---|
| Founders | William de Barnby and other masters and scholars of Oxford |
Academic staff | 24 (1335) |
| Students | 15 (1335) |
| Location | , , 52°39′15″N 0°28′24″W / 52.654046°N 0.473215°W |
| Campus | University town |
The University of Stamford was an academic institution founded in 1333 in Stamford, Lincolnshire, by a group of students and tutors from the University of Oxford, including Merton College and Brasenose Hall.
After lobbying by the University of Oxford, King Edward III suppressed the institution in 1335 and the tutors and scholars were returned to Oxford. All Oxford graduates until the 1820s were required to take a specific oath not to lecture in Stamford, along with oaths for graduates at both Oxford and the University of Cambridge not to recognise any further English universities.