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| Latin:Universitas Victoria[1] | |
| Motto | Olim armis nunc studiis |
|---|---|
Motto in English | 'Formerly by weapons, now by studies' |
| Type | Federalpublic university |
| Active | 1880–1904 |
Religious affiliation | None |
| Chancellor | Charles, 6th Earl Spencer (1903) |
| Vice-Chancellor | Alfred Hopkinson (1903) |
| Students | Around 2,600 (1903) |
| Location | |
| Campus | Urban, three colleges |
| Colors | |
Victoria University was an English federaluniversity established by royal charter on 20 April 1880 atManchester. It was the fifth university founded in England, established as a university for theNorth of England open to affiliation by colleges such asOwens College, which immediately did so.University College Liverpool joined the university in 1884, followed byYorkshire College, Leeds, in 1887. The university and the colleges were distinct corporate bodies until Owens College merged with the university in 1904. A supplemental charter of 1883 enabled the granting of degrees in medicine and surgery.
The aspirations of Manchester and Liverpool to become independent city universities meant that the Victoria University was short-lived. Liverpool left the university in 1903 to become theUniversity of Liverpool; Leeds was granted its own royal charter in 1904 and became theUniversity of Leeds; Manchester, the only remaining site, was granted a new royal charter as theVictoria University of Manchester.[2][3]
There was also a proposal thatYork be included: in 1903, F. J. Munby and others (including theYorkshire Philosophical Society) proposed a 'Victoria University ofYorkshire'.[4] SeeUniversity of York. In 1886 there had been a proposed scheme for the affiliation of other institutions including technical schools and literary and philosophical societies, which could have assisted the Yorkshire Philosophical Society's proposal, however nothing came of this.[5]
| Arms | College | Location | Founded | Joined the Victoria University | Left the Victoria University | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Owens College | Manchester | 1851 | 1880 | 1904 | Merged with the Victoria University in 1903, and became the Victoria University of Manchester in 1904. In 2004 merged with theUniversity of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology to form theUniversity of Manchester. |
.svg) | University College Liverpool | Liverpool | 1881 | 1884 | 1903 | Became the University of Liverpool in 1903. |
.svg) | Yorkshire College | Leeds | 1851 | 1887 | 1904 | Became the University of Leeds in 1904. |
TheChristie Cup is an inter-university competition between Liverpool, Leeds and Manchester in numerous sports since 1886. After theOxford and Cambridge rivalry, the Christie's Championships is the oldest inter–university competition on the English sporting calendar. The cup was a benefaction ofRichard Copley Christie, a professor at Owens College.
The armorial bearings of the Victoria University showed charges representative of the three colleges:Per pale argent and gules, a rose counterchanged, in dexter chief a terrestrial globe semée of bees Or, in sinister chief a fleece Or, in point a liverbird rising argent, beaked and membered gules holding in the beak a fish argent with the mottoOlim armis nunc studiis ('Formerly by weapons, now by studies'). The globe andbees is for Manchester, theliver bird for Liverpool, the fleece for Yorkshire and the rose for the counties of Lancaster (red rose) and York (white rose). The arms fell into abeyance in 1904 when those of Owens College were adopted for the Victoria University of Manchester.[10]
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