List of fictional Oxbridge colleges

This is a list of fictional colleges of either:

1. the universities referred to collectively as Oxbridge, but where the specific university is not specified or known;
2. fictional institutions spanning both Oxford and Cambridge universities; or
3. a fictional Oxbridge University

Boniface College, Oxbridge

Pendennis by William Thackeray, inspired by his time at Cambridge and home to the poet Sprott.^[1]

Fernham College, Oxbridge

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf, based on Newnham College, established in 1871 as the first exclusive women's college at Cambridge University.^[2][3]

Footlights College, Oxbridge

from which came a team of participants in an imitation of University Challenge in an episode of The Young Ones called "Bambi". Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson and Ben Elton played contestants: "Lord Snot", "Lord Monty", "Miss Money-Sterling", and "Mr. Kendall-Mintcake", respectively. Fry, Laurie and Thompson were all students at Cambridge and members of its Footlights Dramatic Club.^[4]

Omnibus College

in Middlemarch, Chapter 52, where Fred Vincy takes his bachelor's degree.^[5]

Pembridge College, Oxbridge

"The Passing of Sherlock Holmes", a 1948 Sherlock Holmes parody by E. V. Knox^[6]

St Luke's College

"The Adventure of the Three Students", a Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle.^[7]

See also

• List of fictional Cambridge colleges
• List of fictional Oxford colleges