Inscriptions: Ruskin College
THIS STONE WAS LAID ON
FEBRUARY 8TH 1912
BY MISS M. P. GILES
MEMBER OF THE STAFF SINCE
THE FOUNDATION OF THE COLLEGE
THIS STONE WAS LAID
BY
C. W. BOWERMAN ESQ. M.P.
ON
FEBRUARY 8TH 1912
THIS STONE WAS LAID
BY
THE RIGHT HON.
SYDNEY C. BUXTON M.P.
ON FEBRUARY 8TH 1912.
THIS STONE WAS LAID ON
FEBRUARY 8TH 1912
BY MRS AMNE L. GRAFFLIN
OF BALTIMORE U.S.A.
CO-FOUNDER WITH WALTER VROOMAN
OF THIS COLLEGE.
There is a foundation stone under each of the four central ground-floor windows, laid by Mrs Amne L. Grafflin of Baltimore, USA (co-founder of the college with her husband Walter Vrooman); Sydney C. Buxton MP (father of a former vice-principal); C. W. Bowerman, Esq., MP (TUC president in 1901 and Ruskin executive committee member); and Miss M. Giles (a member of staff of the college since 1899).
Ruskin College was founded as Ruskin Hall at 14 St Giles’ Street in 1899. In 1902 it moved to its site in Walton Street, and the new building with the above inscriptions was opened in 1913.
This building has in turn been bought by Exeter College, and Ruskin is in the process of moving up to Headington.