Victoria University of Manchester
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The Victoria University of Manchester (more commonly known simply as the University of Manchester) was a university in Manchester in England. On October 1, 2004 it merged with the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology to form a new institution called The University of Manchester.
The university began in 1851 as Owens College (named after John Owens), a textile merchant who left a bequest of £96,942 for the purpose. It moved to its current location in 1873 the building was designed by Alfred Waterhouse, and was granted its Royal Charter in 1880, becoming the first institution of the federal Victoria University. In 1884, University College Liverpool joined the University, followed, in 1887 by the Yorkshire College in Leeds.
In 1903, the University's college in Liverpool left the Victoria University to become the independent University of Liverpool and Leeds followed in 1904 to become the University of Leeds. The remaining Manchester site was renamed Victoria University of Manchester.
It was commonly known as the University of Manchester, and had over 18,000 full-time students (including 2500 international students from more than 120 countries) by the time it merged with UMIST. It was one of the top universities in the country, regularly getting top ratings for research.[1]
On March 5, 2003 it was announced that the University was to merge with UMIST on October 1, 2004, to form the largest conventional university in the UK. The new institution is simply called The University of Manchester. In legal terms both the Victoria University of Manchester and UMIST ceased to exist when the University of Manchester came into existence on October 1, 2004.
Many famous people worked and studied at the Victoria University of Manchester, see People associated with the University of Manchester.
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The motto of the university was "Arduus Ad Solem", literally meaning "striving towards the sun". It is a metaphor for aspiring to enlightenment. The motto is a quote from Virgil's Aeneid, but the archives do not record the reasons for its choice. In the Aeneid, the quote refers to a serpent and the sun, both of which feature in the university coat of arms.
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