''Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford'' is a biographical reference work by
Joseph Foster (1844–1905), published by
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world. Its first book was printed in Oxford in 1478, with the Press officially granted the legal right to print books ...
, listing the
alumni
Alumni (: alumnus () or alumna ()) are former students or graduates of a school, college, or university. The feminine plural alumnae is sometimes used for groups of women, and alums (: alum) or alumns (: alumn) as gender-neutral alternatives. Th ...
of the
University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a collegiate university, collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the List of oldest un ...
. Foster's work was compiled principally from the colleges'
matriculation
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Australia
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registers and the university archives, but it also relies on numerous printed and other sources.
Publications
*''Alumni Oxonienses (1500–1714)'' (two volumes, 1891–92)
online version at british-history.ac.uk* ''Alumni Oxonienses (1715–1886) (two volumes, 1891–92)'':
** Surnames beginning A-D
online version
** Surnames beginning E-K
online version
** Surnames beginning L-R
online version
** Surnames beginning S-Z
online version
*''Oxford Men and their Colleges'' (1880–1892) (two volumes, 1893)
online version
See also
* ''
Alumni Cantabrigienses''
1891 non-fiction books
1892 non-fiction books
1893 non-fiction books
*Alumni Oxonienses
British biographical dictionaries
Oxford University Press books
Terminology of the University of Oxford
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