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Christopher Codrington, a former Fellow of All Souls, died in 1710, leaving a bequest of \u00a310,000 to the College for building a new library and stocking it with books; this new library became generally known as the Codrington Library, although that name was never formally adopted by the Statutes of the College. Codrington\u2019s wealth derived largely from his family\u2019s activities in the West Indies, where they owned plantations worked by enslaved people of African descent.\nThe College has taken several steps to address the problematic nature of the Codrington legacy.
\nIt has erected a memorial plaque at the entrance to the Library, \u2018In memory of those who worked in slavery on the Codrington plantations in the West Indies’.
\nIn 2020 a series of donations to\u202fCodrington College, Barbados\u202f(a theological college also founded by a bequest in Codrington\u2019s will) were pledged to a total of \u00a3100,000.
\nThree\u202ffully funded graduate studentships\u202fat Oxford for students from the Caribbean were also set up. These are named after\u202fSir Hugh Springer (1913-94), who was a Visiting Fellow of the College in 1962-3, and who became Governor-General of Barbados in 1984.
\n\u00a36 million of the College\u2019s endowment is now set aside, on a permanent basis, to produce the income that funds these studentships.
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The College also decided that the statue of Codrington which stands at the centre of the Library will remain there. Onto it are projected a sequence of the names of enslaved persons who worked on Codrington\u2019s plantations and adjacent estates in the early eighteenth century.The statue is further\u202fcontextualised by digital displays in the ante-room of the Library,\u202fthrough which users pass. Currently there are three presentations:<\/p>\n