[citation needed] Green College was founded in 1979 to bring together graduate students of medicine and related disciplines, and especially to encourage academic programmes in industry.

[9] Sir John Templeton provided an endowment to the centre in 1983 to raise professional standards in British management.

[citation needed] The college emphasised a commitment to lifelong individual development and aimed to bring together leaders in various fields to explore key issues in management and related policy areas.

Its buildings at Egrove Park, in Kennington village near Oxford, were opened in 1969 and granted listed status in 1999.

It is centred on the architecturally important Radcliffe Observatory,[11] an 18th-century, Grade I listed building, modelled on the ancient Tower of the Winds in Athens.

The observatory was built at the suggestion of Thomas Hornsby, the Savilian Professor of Astronomy at the university, after he had used his room in the Bodleian Tower to observe the transit of Venus across the Sun's disc in 1769.

During the fourteen years of his Regius Professorship, Osler made Norham Gardens a meeting place for academics from all over the world.

It became a favourite of medical students, physicians, and scientists, even receiving the label of 'The Open Arms' for the warmth it exuded.

The Centre promotes the art and science of medicine through its workshops, conferences, visiting scholars and post-doctoral Fellows.

[13] Furthermore, the college has various student rooms in the Lord Napier House (Observatory Street), 2- and 3-bedroomed terraced houses in Observatory Street, various student rooms on St Margaret's Road, 1- and 2-bedroom flats in Rewley Abbey Court and 1- and 2-bedroom flats in Norham Gardens.

[14] Since August 2014, Green Templeton has an on-site 171 square meter gym with rowing machines, spinning bikes, treadmills and weights located between the main site and Observatory street.

It co-owns a boathouse on the River Isis with a sizeable fleet, and Green Templeton Boat Club has been competing successfully since its establishment in 2008.

Other sports at Green Templeton College include badminton, basketball, cricket, croquet, football, golf, netball, rugby, running, squash and tennis.

[17] In addition to this, all students of the college are entitled to free membership at the Iffley Road Sports Centre.

[citation needed] Green Templeton College's strong ties with the clinical medicine community are fostered through its affiliation with Osler House.

[20] The friendly and comfortable ambience of Osler House is focused around a games room which has pool and table football facilities.