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The College of St. Gregory and St. Martin at Wye, more commonly known as Wye College, was an educational institution in Kent, United Kingdom. It was founded in 1447 by John Kempe, the Archbishop of York, as a college for the training of priests. It is located in the small village of Wye, Kent, 60 miles (100 km) east of London in the North Downs area. In 1894, the school moved to new premises, and the South Eastern Agricultural College was established in the buildings with Alfred Daniel Hall as principal. In 1898 Wye became a School of Agriculture within the University of London. Wye College was until 2005 a well-known study and research centre in the fields of Rural business and management, biological sciences, the environment and agriculture. One of its alumni was the gardener Christopher Lloyd. Another was John Seymour the widely published exponent of self sufficiency and small scale farming. The College was officially closed by its present owner, Imperial College, London, in September 2009.