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         |  | The University of Glasgow is the fourth oldest university in the English-speaking world.   It dates from 1451 when King James II of Scotland persuaded Pope Nicholas V to grant a lead seal, or bull, authorising Bishop William Turnbull of Glasgow to set up a university. |  
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