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Topic: Christs College, Cambridge


  
 A Concise History of Cambridge, England
In 1728 it was estimated that the population of Cambridge was 6,179.
In 1801 the population of Cambridge was 10,087.
In 1901 the population of Cambridge was 38,379 and it grew rapidly.
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 JOHN STILL - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN STILL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
The title-page of the piece, which was printed by Thomas Coiwell in 1575, states that it was played not long ago at Christs College, Cambridge, and was made by Mr S. Mr of Art.
In the accounts of Christs College for 1559I 560 is the entry, Spent at Mr Stevensons plaie, 5s.
Stevenson was a fellow of Christs College from 1559 to 1561, and is perhaps to be identified with a William Stevenson who was a fellow from I 55I to 1554.
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 About Christ's College
Christ's isn't just a College, it's a living, breathing community where everyone from the gardener to the Master is there for you when you need them.
The College cherishes its links with the past, its learned heritage as the College of Milton and Darwin, and its historic architecture, but Christ’s is also a modern community with a wide range of facilities including comfortable accommodation, meals, libraries and computing equipment.
The College is able to offer accommodation in the centre of Cambridge to all undergraduates for their entire course (three or four years).
www.cam.ac.uk /admissions/undergraduate/colleges/christs   (345 words)

  
 Christ's College   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
The major fundraising Campaign launched to mark the anniversary and to guarantee Christ's future excellence is carrying on.
While excellence in scholarship is especially prized at Christ's, all members are encouraged to explore a wide range of outside interests, and innumerable extra-curricular activities flourish amongst the students: sport, music, drama and films, debating, and many, many more.
The College is small enough to be friendly and personal, yet large enough for all members to be able to find others with interests to match their own.
www.christs.cam.ac.uk   (116 words)

  
 MARGARET, COUNTESS OF RICHMOND AND DERBY - LoveToKnow Article on MARGARET, COUNTESS OF RICHMOND AND DERBY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
RICHMOND AND DERBY, MARGARET, COUNTESS OF (1443-1509), mother of the English king, Henry VII., and foundress of St Johns and Christs colleges at Cambridge, was the daughter and heiress of John Beaufort, duke of Somerset, and was born on the 31st of May 1443.
She was in constant cornmunication with her son, the future king, during his exile in Brittany, and with her husband, Lord Stanley, aided him to gain the crown in 1485.
She completed the foundation of Christs College, Cambridge, and after her death, in accordance with her wishes, much of her wealth was devoted to building and endowing St Johns College in the same university.
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 HENRY MORE - LoveToKnow Article on HENRY MORE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
(1614-1687), English philosopher of the Cambridge Platonist school, was born at Grantham in 1614.
He immersed himself over head and ears in the study of philosophy, and fell for a time into a scepticism, from which he was delivered by a study of the Platonic writers.
He would not accept the mastership of his college, to which, it is understood, he would have been preferred in 1654, when Cudworth was appointed.
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 Literary notes on the 16th / 17th centuries
Christs College, Cambridge : Concerned at the decline in English educational standards, William Byngham, a London parish priest, established God’s House for training grammar school masters in 1437.
Corpus Christi College was founded in 1352 by the members of two guilds, Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary.
College rules from 1573 required that Latin should be spoken at all times, and that any student found speaking English should be ‘beaten at the buttery hatch’22.
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 CEN Lifestyle : Tourism : Christs College
Christ's was originally founded in the mid-fifteenth century by Henry VI, whose wife, Margaret, would later found Queens' College.
Henry called the college "God's House", but in 1505 Lady Beaufort renamed the college "Christ's" after it had to be moved from it's original position by river due to the expansion of King's College.
Christ's has one of the most impressive Gates in Cambridge on St. Andrew's Street; it features a statue of Lady Beaufort holding a bible as well as her coat of arms.
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 BALL, JOHN (18181889) - LoveToKnow Article on BALL, JOHN (18181889)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
BALL, JOHN (18181889), Irish politician, naturalist and Alpine traveller, eldest son of an Irish judge, Nicholas Ball, was born at Dublin on the 20th of August 1818.
He was educated at the Roman Catholic College at Oscott near Birmingham, and at Christs College, Cambridge.
In 1846 he was made an assistant poor-law commissioner, but resigned in 1847, and in 1848 stood unsuccessfully as a parliamentary candidate for Sligo.
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 Oxford University Gazette: Appointments, 28 April 2005
Christ's College, Cambridge, is offering a one-year Research Scholarship in History, for the academic year 2005–6, designed to support scholars at an early stage of their research career.
Applications are invited from candidates with an outstanding undergraduate record and who are intending to research in History for a Cambridge Ph.D. degree for a Sir John Plumb Graduate Studentship award tenable at Christ's College from October 2005.
This award is offered by Christ' College in association with the Glenfield Trust.
www.ox.ac.uk /gazette/2004-5/weekly/280405/appts/entry_15.htm   (342 words)

  
 George Howson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Buried in the College Chapel on December 4.
Migrated to Christ's, Mar. 3, 1845; Scholar, 1845; B.A. (8th Classic) 1848; M.A. Fellow of Christ's, 1849; Junior Dean and Catechist, 1851; Hebrew Lecturer, 1852.
Found on the floor in the Narthex of the chapel at Christs' College, Cambridge.
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 Christ's College Cambridge University
Christ's College was originally established in 1437 by William Byngham, who called his establishment God's House.
In 1505 God's House was re-dedicated as Christ's College under the patronage of Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII.
Like several other Cambridge Colleges, Christs' has its resident ghost; an elderly man dressed all in fl is occasionally seen walking in the Fellow's Garden.
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 Views of Victorian Cambridge
John van Wyhe, Senior Fellow, National University of Singapore; Researcher, History and philosophy of science, Cambridge.
Cambridge described and illustrated: being a short history of the Town and University.
The Gate of Honour, Caius College in 1841.
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 CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY - LoveToKnow Article on CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
A year later he took his name off the books, to avoid the consequences of a college escapade, and migrated to Christs College, Cambridge.
He was elected fellow of Christs (1858), published Verses and Translations in 1862, and was called to the bar in 1865.
Owing to an accident while skating he was prevented from following up a professional career, and during the last years of his life he was an invalid.
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 Post-Docs of Cambridge (PdOC)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
The Governing Body of Christ's College invites applications for 3 non-stipendiary Research Fellowships, tenable from 1 October 2006.
Applications are invited from women for a Further Education Fellowship at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, preferably for the Michaelmas Term 2006 (3 October to 1 December 2006).
Queens' College is seeking to appoint a number of Teaching Associates to conduct undergraduate supervision in the biological papers of the Natural Sciences Tripos.
www.cam.ac.uk /societies/pdoc   (1116 words)

  
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1607), a Puritan minister and graduate of Christs College, Cambridge, was known as an excellent preacher, and his printed sermons went through numerous editions as well.27 His fervent desire to see the "prosperity of Zion and the ruin of Rome"28 permeated his exegetical works, bringing a new angle to some established concepts.
Brightman (1562-1607), a fellow at Queens College, Cambridge, and later the rector of Hawnes in Belfordshire, exhibited a pronounced disaffection with the church establishment.
The advance of the Counter Reformation in Poland and Hungary, the capitulation of Henry IV to the Pope in 1593, and the defeats of the Huguenots at the hands of Richelieu all pointed to a bleak future for England.
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 Gabriel Harvey
He matriculated at Christs College, Cambridge, in 1566, and in 1570 was elected fellow of Pembroke Hall.
In 1573 ill-will against him in his college was so strong that there was a delay of three months before the fellows would agree to grant him the necessary grace for his M.A. degree.
In Christes Teares over Jerusalem (1593) Nashe made a full apology to Harvey, who refused to be appeased, and resumed what had become a very scurrilous controversy in a New Letter of Notable Contents (1593).
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 The Architectural History of the University of Cambridge and of the Colleges of Cambridge and Eton - Cambridge ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
The Architectural History of the University of Cambridge and of the Colleges of Cambridge and Eton
Robert Willis’s monumental architectural history of the University of Cambridge, first published in 1886 in a revised and extended edition by his nephew J. Clark, was hailed as ‘one of the most important contributors to the social and intellectual history of England which has ever been made by a Cambridge man’.
Although ‘Willis and Clark’ has always been recognised by architectural historians as one of the greatest studies of the buildings of a single historic city, its wider importance and status have been recognised only more recently by those interested generally in the conservation of buildings and in the historic development of architectural style and taste.
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From 1893 until 1897 he was at the Royal College of Science where he became a Chemistry Associate in 1896 and a Fellow of the Institute of Chemistry, also in 1896.
He was educated at the College St.Bertin, St.Omer from 1925 until 1929, and at the Lower School of John Lyon, Harrow-on-the-Hill (1933-1939) He read English, French, Latin and History at University gaining an Inter-B.A. in 1940.
He was educated at Mercers' school from 1933 until 1941, Queen Mary College (where he gained an Honours B.A. in English with French) from 1941 until 1943 and at the Institute of Education from 1947 until 1948.
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 JOHN MILTON - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN MILTON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
When Milton was ten years of age his tutor was Thomas Young (1587-1655), a Scottish divine, who afterwards becalne master of Jesus College, Cambridge.
Young Diodati, who was destined for his fathers profession, left the school for Trinity College, Oxford, early in 1623; but Milton remained till the end of 1624.
Of these poems the only specimens that now remain are two copies of Latin verses, preserved in a commonplace book of his (printed by the Camden Society in 1877), and his Paraphrase on Psalm CXIV and his.
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 CUL - Rare Books - Williams collection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Williams read theology at Christs College Cambridge, graduating in 1904.
He went on to pursue a career as a literary scholar, as well a being actively involved in local government administration.
In 1950, he delivered the Sandars Lectures in Cambridge on New light on the publication of Gulliver’s travels.
www.lib.cam.ac.uk /RareBooks/Williams.html   (295 words)

  
 News - Alumni - Trinity College Dublin
A sizeable collection of jazz records was contributed by the former Treasurer to College Franz Winkelmann (M.A., LL.D. (h.c.), 1948), and recently a considerable collection of mainly operatic records was acquired from the Earl of Harewood with funds from the Provost and the School of Music.
Having spent her first two years of College as a dedicated drama student, involved in several Players productions and extremely interested in her film courses in particular, Katherine (Kat) Miller was a typical Trinity student.
As she entered her final year in college and pressure began to mount with dissertation deadlines approaching, she never once reconsidered her decision to continue rowing and coxing, and even found the time to help in the day-to-day running of the club.
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 Turbulent Times
This means that in the case of the wealthier inhabitants witnesses were more frequently chosen from two social extremes: the educated elite who acted as overseers and executors, and ordinary household servants who were closest to hand at the drawing up of the will.
All of those identified as gentry or clergy in the wills and title deeds throughout the period of this survey, with the sole exception of Ralph Swinfield’s wife in 1619, were able to sign their names as witnesses.
Among the factors that gave the sons of the gentry and clergy an advantage over their neighbours was their more widespread attendance and placement in grammar schools which gave access to the universities and thus initiated them into the ‘high culture’ of their Age.
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 Cambridge Online City - Notice Board - Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
CAMBRIDGE CAMERA CLUB is holding its Annual Exhibition at The Guildhall Cambridge, October 24-29th.The exhibition is open 1-5pm on Monday and 9.30-5pm Tuesday-Saturday; entrance free.
Cambridge Online City cannot give you a webpage as these are only available to people who live in Cambridge.
The Cambridge Film Festival, the East of England¹s premier film event, is looking for the very best local and regional film productions to screen during this year¹s Festival, which runs from the 10th to 20th July.
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 Hissem_Bowes Family
M.A. 1594-5 on accompanying the Earl of Essex to Cambridge.
He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1546, and pursued his studies with such distinguished success, that, in 1557, he was made a Fellow of his College.
He was educated in Durham and was admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge on 29 August 1676.
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 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
When he was 19 he went on to Christs College in Cambridge, where he received a B.A. four years later.
After leaving the village Chrictopher went on to Horsted Keynes in Sussex where he died at the age of 76 in 1888, the Guardian published his obituary on October 24 of that year.
His eldest son followed his father into the church and after receiving a degree at Trinity College, Cambridge became Vicar of Shelford in 1880.
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 Pastwords: Royalist view of the revolution   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
The famous University of Oxford, in a full Convocation, concluding, [25 June, 1622.] That such assertions were contrary to Scripture, Councils, Fathers, the Faith and Profession of the Primitive Church, and monarchy it self, and therefore condemned them as false, wicked, and seditious.
Anthony Gilby, [of whom formerly, born in Lincolnshire, and of Christs College in Cambridge], tearmed our Ceremonies Liveries of Antichrist, accursed Leaven of the blasphemous Popish Priesthood, cursed patches of Popery and Idolatry.
And many other Meeting and Assemblies they had at London, Oxford, Cambridge, and other places, to carry on their designs as appears by the confession of Mr.
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 Laurence Anderton
He matriculated to Christs College, Cambridge as a pensioner (ie he was awarded a scholarship) in 1593 where he took his Batchelor of Arts in 1596/7.
Laurence Anderton, born 1577, was educated at Blackburn Grammer School and matriculated in 1593 as a pensioner at Christ's College, Cambridge when he took his B.A. in 1596/7.
1596-1597 Graduated from Christs College, Cambridge, B.A. "...was commonly called 'the silver-mouth Anderton'...' quoting from "Athen.
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 Profiles: Dr Gavin Tabor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
He graduated from Christs College Cambridge in 1990 with a 1st in Theoretical Physics, then did a Ph.D. in Theoretical Astrophysics at the Department of Physics at Oxford.
David Gosman's research group at Imperial College, London, for 5 years.
Peter Winlove (School of Physics, University of Exeter) and Dr Dimitris Drikakis QMW College, London).
www.secs.ex.ac.uk /research/profiles/profile_grt.htm   (389 words)

  
 UK Football Forums -> What sports do you play at a competative level?
I play rugby for my college 2nd team (occasionally 1st team) on the wing.
My friends is a phd student at christs college cambridge (clever b*stard) and he captains the college football team and they are short on players, so i now play for them every week.
Squash i havent played a competative game in a while but i was a regular for the college team last year.
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