Plaque commemorating St Edmund of Abingdon on Queen's Lane, Oxford, UK. Inscription: St Edmund of Abingdon. The first Master and Theologian of this University to become Archbishop of Canterbury taught in and around this Church of St Peter-in-the-East during the years 1195-1201 and 1214-1222. This statue by Rodney Munday was presented by the St Edmund Hall Association in 2007 on the fiftieth anniversary of the Royal Charter being granted to the College.