Editing Hertford College, Oxford (section)

=== Move to Catte Street {{anchor|Lands of Hertford College Act 1816}}===
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| short_title           = Lands of Hertford College Act 1816
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| parliament            = Parliament of the United Kingdom
| long_title            = An act to enable His Majesty to grant certain Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, escheated and devolved to His Majesty by the Dissolution of Hertford College, in the University of Oxford, and the Site of the said College and Buildings thereon, to the Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the said University, in Trust for the Principal and other Members of Magdalen Hall, for the Purpose of their removing to such Site; and to enable the said Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the said University, and the President and Scholars of Saint Mary Magdalen College, to do all necessary Acts for such Removal.
| year                  = 1816
| citation              = [[56 Geo. 3]]. c. 136
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| royal_assent          = 1 July 1816
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[[File:Hertford College Oxford 20040124.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|left|Entrance building, constructed for Magdalen Hall in the 1820s]]

[[John Macbride (professor)|John Macbride]] became both principal of Magdalen Hall and [[Lord Almoner's Professorship of Arabic (Oxford)|Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic]] in 1813, and plans to move the hall to the site of Hertford College were already afoot. On 15 March 1815, Magdalen College submitted a proposal for the move to [[Convocation]]. Magdalen College proposed to repair the Hertford buildings and defray the expense of Magdalen Hall's move to the site, while the hall were to relinquish claim to their own buildings to Magdalen College. An Act of Parliament was passed supporting the plan, but no move was made until a fire accidentally started by an undergraduate on 9 January 1820 destroyed almost half of Magdalen Hall's buildings. Not long after this, one of Hertford College's buildings on Catte Street, so flimsy that it was known as the 'paper building', collapsed. With this motivation, the new foundation stone of Magdalen Hall was laid at the new site on 3 May 1820, and the hall's migration was complete by 1822. The Catte Street frontage was pulled down and rebuilt, and several buildings had an extra storey added to them. Magdalen Hall expanded to fill the space, and became the largest hall by far, numbering 214 members in 1846. Macbride and his vice-principals were active in building up the refounded Magdalen Hall. To distance the hall from its namesake college, Macbride attempted to change the name to 'Magdalene Hall', but this change was never accepted. Macbride served as principal for 54 years, until his death in 1868. The Macbride Sermon, one of the University Sermons, is preached each [[Hilary term]] in the Chapel of Hertford College in his memory.<ref name=Hamilton />{{rp|pp. 127–138, 156}}