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. In 1891,

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(1840–1916) of the

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(now

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) proposed an institute to provide a place providing relaxation and further education facilities for staff at the Press. He planned a gymnasium, library, and reading room, and to provide teaching of French, German, Greek, Latin, mathematics, and shorthand. The building was designed by H. W. Moore and built during 1892–93. It cost £5,000 to build. The Clarendon Institute now houses the

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, (an independent centre of the

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), the British Inter-University China Centre, the Centre for Linguistics & Philology, and the Leopold Muller Memorial Library. In 2016, the building suffered a fire.

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