Pembroke College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England, located in Pembroke Square. The college was founded in 1624 by King James I of England / VI of Scotland, using in part the endowment of merchant Thomas Tesdale, and was named after William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, Lord Chamberlain and then-Chancellor of the University.As of 2015, Pembroke had an estimated financial endowment of £46.9 million. Pembroke offers the study of almost all the courses offered by the university.Dame Lynne Brindley, former head of the British Library, has been Master of the College since 2013.HistoryIn the early seventeenth century, the endowment of Thomas Tesdale—a merchant from nearby Abingdon - and Richard Wightwick, the parish priest of Donnington, Shropshire - enabled the conversion of Broadgates Hall, which had been a University hostel for law students since its construction in the fifteenth century, to form the basis of a fully-fledged college. The letters patent to found the college were signed by King James I in 1624, with the college being named after William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, Lord Chamberlain, Chancellor of the University, and rumoured patron of William Shakespeare.

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