Childhood and Education
Oglethorpe was born in Tadcaster, Yorkshire, England, (where he later founded a school) in approximately 1505–10 and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was elected a Fellow in 1526 and received his MA in 1529 and his DD in 1536. He was reputed to have taken a keen interest in his studies.
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