Green Templeton College

Green Templeton College may be new, but it builds on the legacy left by its component colleges.  

Green College and Templeton College were, by Oxford standards, relatively young colleges themselves, but both had their own history and established traditions, and neither was formed in the mould of a ‘traditional’ Oxford college.  

Green College was created by a major endowment from Dr Cecil Green to bring together graduate students in medicine and related disciplines and especially to encourage academic/industry liaisons. It had a special responsibility to provide a collegiate home for rapidly increasing numbers of clinical medical students.  

Templeton College was created when the late Sir John Templeton gave the Oxford Centre for Management Studies one of the largest endowments ever made to a British educational establishment to help raise professional standards in British management. 

Green College has enjoyed the fine 18th century buildings of the Radcliffe Observatory and its surroundings in North Oxford, and this site has been retained by the new college. Templeton College was based at Egrove Park in the village of Kennington, where the buildings opened in 1969 were awarded Listed status in 1999. 

Both have retained their initial specialisms, along with a link to industry and practitioners not always evident in Oxford colleges.