What is Somerville College, Oxford?
[[File:Somerville College.jpg|thumb|Somerville College]]'''Somerville College''' is one of the colleges of the [[University of Oxford]]. It was founded in 1879 as a women's college. The college was named after [[Mary Somerville]], a prominent scientist, mathematician and astronomer. Somerville supported women's suffrage and education. The college first admitted male students in 1994.<ref name=About>{{Cite web |url=http://www.some.ox.ac.uk/188/all/1/About_Somerville.aspx |title=About Somerville |access-date=2014-01-09 |archive-date=2013-12-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131218182610/http://www.some.ox.ac.uk/188/all/1/About_Somerville.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref> Famous graduates of the college include [[Anthea Bell]], [[Indira Gandhi]], [[Sam Gyimah]], [[Dorothy Hodgkin]], [[Iris Murdoch]] and [[Margaret Thatcher]].<ref name=About/> ==References== {{reflist}} {{University of Oxford}} [[Category:Colleges of the University of Oxford]] [[Category:1879 establishments in England]] {{UK-stub}} {{authority control}}