Editing Corpus Christi College, Oxford (section)

===Later developments===
In its first hundred years, Corpus hosted leading [[Anglican divine|divines]] who would lay the foundations of the [[Anglican]] Christian identity. [[John Jewel]] was Corpus' Reader of Latin, worked to defend a Protestant bent in the [[Church of England]] and the [[Elizabethan Religious Settlement]].{{sfn|Charles-Edwards|Reid|2017|pp=64, 75–81}} [[John Rainolds]], elected president in 1598, suggested the idea of the [[King James Bible]] and contributed to its text.{{sfn|Charles-Edwards|Reid|2017|pp=131–132}} [[Richard Hooker]], author of the influential ''Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity'', was deputy professor of Hebrew.<ref>{{cite book | chapter=Life of Hooker | first=Lee W. | last=Gibbs | editor-first=Torrance | editor-last=Kirby | title=A Companion to Richard Hooker | pages=8–9 | publisher=Brill | isbn=978-90-04-16534-2 | issn=1871-6377 | date=15 February 2008 | series=Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition | volume=8}}</ref>

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 | quote=No one county in England bare three such men (contemporary at large) [Jewel, Rainolds and Hooker] in what college soever they were bred, no college in England bred three such men, in what county soever they were born.
 | author=[[Thomas Fuller]]
 | source=''The Church History of Britain''<ref>{{cite book | mode=cs2 | title=The Church History of Britain: From the Birth of Jesus Christ until the year MDCXLVIII | edition=3rd | publisher=Thomas Tegg | publication-date=1842 | date=1655 | volume=3 | page=231 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jfKGfHepk2AC&pg=PA231}}</ref>
}}

The Spanish humanist [[Juan Luis Vives]] taught at Corpus during the 1520s while tutor to Mary Tudor, later [[Mary I of England]].{{fact|date=March 2021}} [[John Keble]], a leader of the [[Oxford Movement]], was an undergraduate at Corpus at the start of the 19th century, and went on to a fellowship at [[Oriel College|Oriel]] and to have a college named after him ([[Keble College, Oxford]]).{{fact|date=March 2021}}

Having been founded nearly half a millennium earlier as a college for men only, Corpus Christi was among many of Oxford's men's colleges to admit its first female undergraduate students in 1979 (though women graduate students had been admitted five years earlier).{{sfn|Charles-Edwards|Reid|2017|p=403}} Between 2015 and 2017, 0.6% of UK undergraduates admitted to Corpus were black.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ox.ac.uk/sites/files/oxford/Annual%20Admissions%20Statistical%20Report%202018.pdf|title=Annual Admissions Statistical Report May 2018|website=www.ox.ac.uk}}</ref>