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	Gresham College - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gresham left his estate jointly to the Corporation of London and to the Mercers' Company, which operate through the Joint Grand Gresham Committee under the presidency of the Lord Mayor of London.
		The early success of the College led to the incorporation of the Royal Society in 1663, which pursued its activities at the College in Bishopsgate before moved to its own premises in Crane Court in 1710.
		Gresham College did not become part of the University of London on the founding of the University in the 19th century, although a close association between the College and the University persisted for many years.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gresham_College (330 words)

	SIR THOMAS GRESHAM - LoveToKnow Article on SIR THOMAS GRESHAM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1565 Gresham made a proposal to the court of aldermen of London to build at his own expense a bourse or exchange, on condition that they purchased for this purpose a piece of suitable ground.
		Gresham died suddenly, apparently of apoplexy, on the 21St of November 1579.
		A notice of Gresham is contained in Fullers Worthies and Wards Gresham Professors; but the fullest account of him, as well as of the history of the Exchange and Gresham College is that by J. Burgoir in his Life and Times of Sir Thomas Gresham (2 vols., 1839).
	88.1911encyclopedia.org /G/GR/GRESHAM_SIR_THOMAS.htm (830 words)

	Victorian London - Education - Universities - Gresham College
		This the first Gresham College was taken down in 1768; the ground on which it stood made over to the Crown for a perpetual rent of 500l.
		GRESHAM COLLEGE, Basinghall Street, was founded by the munificent Sir Thomas Gresham, as a species of civic University, where lectures should daily be delivered by eminent professors, in divinity, astronomy, music, geometry, physic, rhetoric, and Roman law.
		GRESHAM COLLEGE, Basinghall-street, a handsome stone edifice, designed by George Smith;, was opened Nov. 2, 1843, for the Gresham Lectures.
	www.victorianlondon.org /education/greshamcollege.htm (301 words)

	§5. Edinburgh University, Trinity College, Dublin, and Gresham College. XIX. English Universities, Schools and ...
		Edinburgh University, Trinity College, Dublin, and Gresham College.
		The college was, of course, part and parcel of the English occupation.
		The mass of texts for school and college were not of English origin, but bear the imprint of Plantin, Aldus, or Gryphius and of the busy workshops of Basel and Paris.
	www.bartleby.com /213/1905.html (595 words)

	Gresham College -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Gresham College is an unusual institution of higher learning in (The capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center) London which enrols no students and grants no degrees.
		Gresham College has provided lectures free and open to the public since its foundation under the will of Sir (Click link for more info and facts about Thomas Gresham) Thomas Gresham in 1597.
		Gresham left his estate jointly to the (Click link for more info and facts about Corporation of London) Corporation of London and to the (Click link for more info and facts about Mercers' Company) Mercers' Company, which operate through the Joint Grand Gresham Committee under the presidency of the Lord Mayor of London.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/G/Gr/Gresham_College.htm (285 words)

	Royal Society \| About the Society \| History of the Society \| Homes of the Society \| Gresham College
		Gresham College, the Royal Society's first home, was inaugurated as a seat of learning in 1597 as part of a bequest made by Sir Thomas Gresham (1519-1579), merchant and founder of the Royal Exchange.
		The College still exists as an educational institution but the original building, formerly Gresham's mansion in the City of London, was demolished in the eighteenth century.
		Shortly afterwards, the Great Fire of London in September 1666, while leaving the College intact, led to a shortage of accommodation for the city's merchants, and Gresham College was used as a temporary Exchange from 1666 to 1673.
	www.royalsoc.ac.uk /page.asp?id=1060 (493 words)

	Gresham College \| About us
		The College is named after Sir Thomas Gresham, son of Sir Richard Gresham who was Lord Mayor in 1537/38 and who conceived the idea of building an Exchange modelled on the Antwerp Bourse.
		This period saw the formation and early development at Gresham College of The Royal Society, and the tenure of chairs by a number of distinguished Professors, including Sir Christopher Wren.
		Gresham College is an independent institution, governed by a Council and with the Lord Mayor of London as its President.
	www.gresham.ac.uk /text.asp?PageId=3 (451 words)

	AIM25: City University: Gresham College and Lectures
		The College was omitted from incorporation into the University of London, though in the 1880s the City and Guilds of London Institute conducted its business from the College, whose premises were rebuilt in 1913.
		In 1965 negotiations were conducted between the Gresham Grand Committee and the City University on a possible association of the lectures with the university.
		The Gresham College Council was restructured in 1986-1987 and resulted in the discontinuation of the Gresham Lectures at City University.
	www.aim25.ac.uk /cats/43/3318.htm (473 words)

	Mt. Hood Community College Jobs in Gresham Oregon 97030 - Jobdango
		Hood Community College has become one of the premiere institutions of higher education in Oregon and is the choice for students across the Pacific Northwest.
		Many of these residents are seeking college services, and the college continues to work at being better prepared to attract and retain all students in the years ahead.
		The college is also proud of its ability to adapt to the changes in technology, in the workplace and in lifestyle patterns, and of its ability to be accountable to students and employers.
	jobdango.com /af/katu/jobseekers/employersprofile.asp?EmployerID=4310 (310 words)

	BSHM: Gazetteer -- LONDON scientific institutions
		Sir Thomas Gresham (1519 (or 1513)-1579) was a wealthy merchant, Royal Agent in Antwerp, the founder of the Royal Exchange, a propounder of Gresham's law in economics (first given some 30 years previously by Copernicus!) and the supposed founder of Martin's Bank, the oldest in London.
		Gresham's house was used until 1768 but is now covered by Gresham House, which has a City of London plaque on it at 24 Old Broad St. From then to the present, the College has moved several times.
		The poet Abraham Cowley was one of the 41 and was elected on 6 Mar 1661.
	www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk /bshm/zingaz/London1.html (6680 words)

	Gresham College - Wikipedia
		Gresham College in Londen werd in 1596 opgericht door sir Thomas Gresham.
		In zijn woonhuis aan de Bishopsgate gaven de Gresham Professors er gratis publieke voordrachten.
		Het is in Gresham College dat de befaamde Royal Society werd opgericht.
	nl.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gresham_College (81 words)

	Articles - Thomas Gresham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Born in London and descended from an old Norfolk family, Gresham was the only son of Sir Richard Gresham, a leading London merchant, who for some time held the office of Lord Mayor, and who for his services as agent of Henry VIII in negotiating loans with foreign merchants received the honor of knighthood.
		Gresham's law takes its name from him (although others, including the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, had recognized the concept for years) because he urged Queen Elizabeth to restore the debased currency of England.
		Gresham appears as a background figure is a series of fictional mystery novels by the British author Valerie Anand (writing under the penname Fiona Buckley).
	www.gaple.com /articles/Thomas_Gresham (979 words)

	Gresham, Sir Thomas. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		He was the principal figure in the founding of the Royal Exchange, and he endowed Gresham College in London.
		His name was given to Gresham’s law, the economic principle that in the circulation of money “bad money drives out good,” i.e., when depreciated, mutilated, or debased coinage (or currency) is in concurrent circulation with money of high value in terms of precious metals, the good money is withdrawn from circulation by hoarders.
		It was thought that Gresham was the first to state the principle, but it has been shown that it was stated long before his time and that he did not even formulate it.
	www.bartleby.com /65/gr/GreshamT.html (239 words)

	November 21st
		The mansion house itself; with the garden, stables, and apprutenances, were vested in the mayor, commonalty, and citizens, and in the wardens and commonalty of mercers, in trust to allow the lecturers to occupy the same, and there to inhabit and study, and daily to read the several lectures.
		In June 1597, the year after the death of Lady Anne, Sir Thomas's widow, the daily lectures commenced according to his will; and thenceforth, for a long course of years, his mansion house was known as Gresham College, and the chief part of the buildings were appropriated as the lodgings of the various professors.
		But Gresham College acquired a more illustrious association, for it may be regarded as the cradle of the Royal Society, which, in the early part of its history, viz.
	www.thebookofdays.com /months/nov/21.htm (3099 words)

	Learn more about Robert Boyle in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		While still a child he learned to speak Latin and French, and he was only eight years old when he was sent to Eton College, of which his father's friend, Sir Henry Wotton, was then provost.
		Nearly two years were passed in Geneva; visiting Italy in 1641, he remained during the winter of that year in Florence, studying the "paradoxes of the great star-gazer" Galileo Galilei, who died within a league of the city early in 1642.
		In 1663 the "Invisible College" became the "Royal Society of London for improving natural knowledge," and the charter of incorporation granted by Charles II of England, named Boyle a member of the council.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /r/ro/robert_boyle.html (1007 words)

	Gresham Outlook :: College will cut five programs next year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The college will work with students already enrolled in these programs to ensure they are able to achieve their degree or licensing goals, said Al Sigala, college spokesman.
		In late November, the college released its bi-annual “watch list” of programs that might have experienced decreased enrollment or were no longer in demand at the college.
		Rising costs and budget cuts have forced tuition increases in years past, and Sigala said Oregon’s community colleges are in danger of turning away the very people they’re supposed to attract.
	www.theoutlookonline.com /article/6358 (526 words)

	Gresham College - Invitation to a Funeral tour of Restoration London (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Gresham College in Bishopsgate was (with the exception of a brief interval at Arundel House) the meeting place of The Royal Society, which began as an informal group called the Invisible College.
		At the meeting of 28 November, 1660, it was proposed that a college be founded for "physico-mathematical" learning.
		On 15 July, 1662, the group was incorporated by charter as The Royal Society and was provided with a silver mace by Charles II, who took a great interest in the Society's various experiments.
	www.okima.com /tour/gresham.html (436 words)

	Gresham Outlook :: Gresham almost lands a candidate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		But the college is in the midst of re-flooring its gym, and the facility wasn’t able to accommodate the candidates’ needs.
		But the campaign team disagreed, saying that the nurse, veteran, wife of a veteran and mother of three was more than capable of touching on the key issue of health care.
		Tom E. Rutledge, the Gresham firefighter coordinating the “fill the boot” drive, reports that the effort exceeded expectations.
	www.theoutlookonline.com /article/4629 (865 words)

	2003/4 Geometry Lectures
		Gresham College is based in Barnard's Inn in Central London, very near to Chancery Lane Tube Station.The Royal Society was founded in Gresham College.
		More details about the College and its history can be found at Gresham College's own web site.
		The starting point of Harold Thimbleby's lectures at Gresham College is understanding the real potential of computers, and how we succumb to unnecessary complexity.
	www.uclic.ucl.ac.uk /harold/gresham (905 words)

	Mt Hood Community College Gresham, Oregon (Community Colleges) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hood Community College is located in Multnomah County, with an anual enrollment of about 27,000.
		MHCC opened their doors in 1966 and currently occupies a 212-acre main Campus along with satelites at Maywood Park Center, Thompson Center and evening education centers at district public schools.
		The college also serves as a cultural center, a meeting place and a convenient resource for the surrounding area.
	www.ohwy.com /or/m/mthdcoco.htm (214 words)

	Gresham College, London, 1819, Local History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This "College" is still talked of, though none now exists; but the foundation was that of the munificent Sir Thomas Gresham.
		They have, however, long been delivered in what is called term-time, in a room over the Royal Exchange; but their terms, like their lecturers, are peculiar to themselves.
		From a variety of causes, the studied brevity observed in the lectures, andc., the Professors' places are little better than sinecures, and the public unfortunately derive scarcely any, if any, advantage from the useful and liberal endowment of Sir Thomas Gresham.
	www.londonancestor.com /leighs/med-gresham.htm (132 words)

	The Galileo Project
		Although there is no explicit word on his financial status, Lawrence Rooke was able to "retire" to his estate for three years (1647-50) because of ill health and then to stay in Wadham College, Oxford, as a fellow commoner for two further years (1650-2).
		With Wren he experimented on the impact of elastic bodies and with Goddard on the effect of radiant heat on a crude thermometer.
		It was in Rooke's chambers at Gresham College that the group of interested men would gather in the late 50s, and there the Royal Society (though it was not yet so named while he was alive) was organized in 1660.
	galileo.rice.edu /Catalog/NewFiles/rooke.html (463 words)

	Camden New Journal
		For the last 400 years Gresham professors and lecturers have been imparting their knowledge for free and the latest programme, beginning on September 23, includes sessions by speakers as diverse as journalist James Naughtie, the Rev Nicholas Holtam, Vicar of St Martin-in-the-Field and ex-robber, ex-con and author John McVicar.
		A new initiative is the inclusion of The Gresham Forum – a new facility for public debate, offering the public the chance to respond to current affairs that might escape the planned programme.
		Because of the element of spontaneity the programme is not yet set, but information will be published on the Gresham College website at www.gresham.ac.uk.
	www.camdennewjournal.co.uk /archive/f040903_4.htm (627 words)

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		In 1918 he entered Birkbeck College as an evening student (the College had previously been known as London Mechanic's Institution and in 1920 was recognised as a school of the University of London for evening and part-time students).
		He was to hold this position in Gresham College for 23 years, the College being famed as the birthplace of the Royal Society of London about 25 years after Briggs left.
		She also began to attend mathematics lectures both at Bedford College, the first British university to grant degrees to women (which was later affiliated to the University of London), and at University College London where she studied pure and applied mathematics from 1885 to 1887.
	www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk /Search/historysearch.cgi?SUGGESTION=London&CONTEXT=1 (16313 words)

	Westminster Abbey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		300 years later, at Hooke 2003, a conference organized by Gresham College to celebrate his life and work, The Dean of Westminster, Dr Wesley Carr announced that Hooke was to be memorialised in Westminster Abbey.
		Robert Hooke was a former College Surveyor of Westminster Abbey.
		Gresham College is an independent educational institution, governed by a Council with the Lord Mayor of London as its President.
	www.westminster-abbey.org /press/news/050223_hooke.htm (339 words)

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