St Mary’s University has a long and complex history. Its very first steps were in Brittany in 1848 with six students, destined for religious life. But then, in 1850, Cardinal Wiseman and the Catholic Poor School Committee opened the College in Brook Green with a capacity for 40 male students. The legal trust, created ‘in perpetuity’, was formally established on 16 July 1851.

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