Queens' College, Cambridge

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Queens' College, Cambridge

Full name The Queen's College of Saint Margaret and Saint Bernard in the University of Cambridge
Motto Floreat Domus
May this House Flourish
Named after -
Previous names -
Established 1448
List of Oxbridge sister colleges>Sister College(s) Pembroke College
President Lord Eatwell
Location [Silver Street]
Undergraduates 490
Postgraduates 270
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Queens' College was first founded in 1448 by Margaret of Anjou. It was refounded in 1465 by Elizabeth Woodville, the wife of Edward IV of England. This is reflected in orthography of the popular name: Queens' instead of Queen's, although the full name is The Queen's College of St Margaret and St Bernard in the University of Cambridge. It is commonly called Queens' College.

Queens' College is one of several colleges with buildings along the bank of the Cam (others are King's, Clare, Trinity Hall, Trinity, St John's, and Magdalene). The President's Lodge of Queens' is the oldest building on the river at Cambridge (ca. 1460). Queens' College is also one of only two colleges with buildings on its main site on both sides of the Cam (the other being John's).

The 'Mathematical Bridge' connects the older half of the college (affectionately referred to by students as The Dark Side) with the newer half (The Light Side), and is one of the most photographed scenes in Cambridge (the typical photo being taken from the nearby Silver Street bridge). According to popular fable the bridge was originally designed and built by Sir Isaac Newton without the use of nuts or bolts, and at some point in the past students (or fellows, depending on which version you hear) attempted to take the bridge apart and put it back together. The myth continues that the over-ambitious engineers were unable to match Newton's feat of engineering, and had to resort to fastening the bridge by nuts and bolts. This is why nuts and bolts can presently be seen in the bridge. This story is false: the bridge was built in 1749 by James Essex the Younger (1722–1784) to the design of William Etheridge (1709–1776), 22 years after Newton died. It was later rebuilt in 1866 and 1905, albeit to the same design.

Queens' is unique amongst the Cambridge colleges with its multipurpose Fitzpatrick Hall. The level of access that students have enables them to run theatre, films, and bops, as well as the usual sporting activities found at Cambridge colleges. In recent years "Queens' Ents" has acquired a reputation for its bops, attracting famous names such as Lethal Bizzle, Pat Sharp and Robbo Ranx.

Contents

1 Notable alumni
2 College officials

2.1 List of Presidents

3 See also
4 External links

Notable alumni

See also

Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh (b. 1950), Judge at the International Court of Justice
M. S. Bartlett, statistician
John E. Baldwin (b. 1949), radio-astronomer
Alexander Crummell (1849–1853)
Richard Dearlove, former head of MI6
Thomas Digges (d. 1595)
Lord Eatwell (1964–1967)
Charles Leslie Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton (b.1951), Lord Chancellor
Michael Foale (1975–1978)
Stephen Fry (1978–1981)
John Goodwin (d. 1665)
Paul Greengrass writer and film director
John Hall (d. 1635)
Thomas Horton, (d. 1673)
John Lambert (1521)
Arthur Mooring (1927–1930)
Osborne Reynolds, fluid dynamicist
Kenneth William Wedderburn, Labour life peer
T. H. White (1925–1929)
John Whitgift (c. 1530–1604)
Richard Whytford (fl. 1541), devotional writer

College officials

See also

List of Presidents

While the head of most colleges are called Masters, the head of Queens' College has been called the President since 1448. Below is the list of Presidents that have served the college:

1448–1484: Andrew Dokett
1484–1505: Thomas Wilkynson
1505–1508: John Fisher
1508–1519: Robert Bekensaw
1519–1525: John Jenyn
1525–1527: Thomas Farman
1527–1529: William Frankleyn
1529–1537: Simon Heynes
1537–1553: William Mey
1553–1557: William Glynne
1557–1559: Thomas Pecocke
1559–1560: William Mey, again
1560–1568: John Stokes
1568–1579: William Chaderton
1579–1614: Humphrey Tindall
1614–1622: John Davenant
1622–1631: John Mansell
1631–1644: Edward Martin
1644–1647: Herbert Palmer
1647–1660: Thomas Horton
1660–1662: Edward Martin, restored
1662–1667: Anthony Sparrow
1667–1675: William Wells
1675–1717: Henry James
1717–1732: John Davies
1732–1760: William Sedgwick
1760–1788: Robert Plumptre
1788–1820: Isaac Milner
1820–1832: Henry Godfrey
1832–1857: Joshua King
1857–1892: George Phillips
1892–1896: William Magan Campion
1896–1901: Herbert Edward Ryle
1901–1906: Frederic Henry Chase
1906–1931: Thomas Cecil Fitzpatrick
1932–1958: John Archibald Venn
1958–1970: Arthur Llewellyn Armitage
1970–1982: Derek William Bowett
1982–1988: Ernest Ronald Oxburgh
1988–1996: John Charlton Polkinghorne
1997–present: John Leonard Eatwell

External links

Colleges of the University of Cambridge
Christ's \| Churchill \| Clare \| Clare Hall \| Corpus Christi \| Darwin \| Downing \| Emmanuel \| Fitzwilliam \| Girton \| Gonville and Caius \| Homerton \| Hughes Hall \| Jesus \| King's \| Lucy Cavendish \| Magdalene \| New Hall \| Newnham \| Pembroke \| Peterhouse \| Queens' \| Robinson \| St Catharine's \| St Edmund's \| St John's \| Selwyn \| Sidney Sussex \| Trinity \| Trinity Hall \| Wolfson

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