what are The Nottingham University halls named after ?

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Hugh Stewart was Principal of University College Nottingham (effectively Vice Chancellor). He died at sea in 1934 whilst still Principal, so the then Lenton Hall was renamed Hugh Stewart to commemorate him.

Cripps is named after Sir Cyril Cripps, who donated a large amount of money to fund its creation. Various other members of the Cripps family also donated money to the university, hence Cripps Health Centre and the Cripps Computer Centre.

Lenton and Wortley used to be two separate halls; Lenton is named after the nearby area of Nottingham, Wortley is named after Professor Harry Wortley, who was Principal of University College Nottingham after Hugh Stewart died, until the 1947 when the college was granted its charter to confer degrees, and became The University of Nottingham. (Before then it was a college of the University of London.)

Lincoln, Derby, Sherwood and Rutland are named after the local cities/areas, though Rutland is also named after the Duke of Rutland.

Nightingale is named after Florence Nightingale. The Uni has a collection of historic documents relating to her, though I don't know whether she has an particular association with Nottingham.

Ancaster is named after another local town.

Cavendish is named after the Cavendish family, who hold the Duchy of Devonshire, and formerly the Duchy of Newcastle. They owned The Park (a deer park adjacent to Nottingham Castle, now full of expensive houses), one of them was Lord Lieutentant of Nottinghamshire, one was an MP for Nottingham. See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_of_Newcastle

Willoughby is named after the Willoughby family who owned Wollaton Hall, which was recently used as Wayne Manor in The Dark Knight Rises. It's about 15 minutes walk from campus to get there.

Florence Boot was Jesse Boot's wife. Jesse Boot was also Baron Trent, hence the Trent Building, and as someone said above, the campus was donated to the university by him. Before that, University College Nottingham was based around Sherwood Street in the city centre, I think in the big churchy-looking building near the Cornerhouse that is now owned by NTU.

Newark, Southwell and Melton (Mowbray) are all named after local towns, the place where Broadgate Park is built is known as Broadgate, Raleigh Park is built on the site of the former Raleigh factory (as well as most of the new half of Jubilee Campus on the north side of Triumph Road), St Peters Court is probably named after the church just up the road.

Some things shamelessly plagiarised from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Nottingham_Halls_of_Residence :biggrin:

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Pastaferian

They are named after local places or people.

wikipedia

The halls are generally named either after counties, districts, or places in the English East Midlands (Nottingham having been originally conceived as a regional university for this area) or significant people associated with the university. Lenton, Lincoln, Derby, Rutland, Sherwood, Newark, Southwell, Ancaster and Melton halls fall into the former category, Hugh Stewart, Cripps, Cavendish, Nightingale, Florence Boot, Wortley, and Willoughby into the latter

Edit: hah, beaten to it!

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iLikeCupcakes

Original post by alex-hs

Some thing shamelessly plagiarised from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Nottingham_Halls_of_Residence :biggrin:

Cheeky very interesting facts though. Yeah the North East bit is practicaly dedicated to the Cripss family.

Ill try find out (somehow) about the Nightingale one as it seems to be like the sore thumb of the grouping (no direct link as such).

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Pastaferian

Original post by iLikeCupcakes

Ill try find out (somehow) about the Nightingale one as it seems to be like the sore thumb of the grouping (no direct link as such).

Wikipedia says that Nightingale Hall was named after the nursing pioneer and "originally stored the university's collection of documents and memorabilia associated with her". The Hall was founded in 1950, so the association would have to go back further than that, for a collection to be amassed.

I speculate there is a local connection of some sort. Nottingham Uni was originally founded as a regional university for the East Midlands, and the Nightingale family had an estate near Derby.