St Catharine's College, Cambridge
Encyclopedia
St. Catharine’s College is a constituent college
of the University of Cambridge
. Founded in 1473, the college is often referred to informally by the nickname
"Catz".
, had begun preparations for the founding of a new college as early as 1459 when he bought tenements on which the new college could be built. The preparation cost him a great deal of his private fortune (he was suspected of diverting King’s College funds), and he was forced to scale down the foundation to only three Fellows. He stipulated that they must study theology
and philosophy
only.
Wodelarke may have chosen the name in homage to the mother of King Henry VI
who was called Catharine, although it is more likely that it was named as part of the Renaissance
cult of St. Catharine, who was a patron saint of learning. At any rate, the college was ready for habitation and formally founded on St. Catharine’s day (November 25) 1473. There are six Saints Catharine, but the college was named for Saint Catharine of Alexandria
. It was initially known as Katharine Hall.
The initial foundation was not well-provided for. Wodelarke was principally interested in the welfare of Fellows and the College had no undergraduates at all for many years. By 1550, however, there was an increasing number of junior students and the focus of the College changed to that of teaching undergraduates. A rapid growth made it necessary to expand the college and short-lived additions were made in 1622. By 1630 the College began to demolish its existing buildings which were decaying, and started work on the current buildings. The three-sided court, which is almost unique among colleges in Cambridge (with the exceptions of Jesus and Downing in addition to St. Catharine’s sister college – Worcester
– which has a three-sided quad, which may well be the same thing), was built during the period 1675 to 1757. Proposals for a final range of buildings to complete the fourth side of the court have been made on many occasions up to the 20th century.
In 1637 the College came into possession of the George Inn (later the Bull Inn) on Trumpington Street
. Behind this Inn was a stables which was already famous for the practice of its manager, Thomas Hobson
, not to allow a hirer to take any horse other than the one longest in the stable, leading to the expression “Hobson’s choice
” meaning no choice at all.
The college was granted new statutes in 1860 and adopted its current name. In 1880, a movement to merge the college with King’s College
began. The two colleges were adjacent and it seemed a solution to King’s need for more rooms and St Catharine’s need for a more substantial financial basis. However, the Master (Charles Kirkby Robinson
) was opposed and St Catharine’s eventually refused.
A history of the college was written by W.H.S. Jones in 1936.
In 1979, the membership of the college was broadened to welcome female students, and in 2006 the first woman was appointed as Master of the college, Prof. Dame Jean Thomas
.
, which ranks the colleges by the class of degrees obtained by their undergraduates, for the first time in 2005.
after the construction of the main court of St. Catharine's College on Cambridge’s former High Street relegated one side of Queens' College into a back alley. A more modern rivalry with Robinson College resulted from the construction in the 1970s of a modern block of flats named St. Chad’s (in which the rooms are octagonal to resemble the wheel on the college crest) by the University Library
. The proximity of St. Chad's to Robinson College
led to an incident in which unidentified St. Catharine's students appropriated Robinson's disco ball from a bop. Allegedly, this is the disco ball now hanging in St. Catharine's College Bar.
For its size, the College is unusually sportingly strong and in particular is known for its strong reputation in hockey and racquet sports, in part due to its strong facilities for these sports including grass tennis courts and an astroturf hockey pitch. The college boat club hosts the Cardinals Regatta each year, in which teams compete along a short course in fancy dress with an emphasis on bribery to secure victory.
The College hosts several other notable societies. The Shirley Society is the College literary society, the oldest in Cambridge, it regularly hosts significant figures from the arts world throughout the academic year. The College based girls' choir is the first of its kind in a UK university and is composed of girls aged 8–14 from local schools.
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|John Addenbrooke
|1680
|1719
|Founder of Addenbrooke's Hospital
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|Herbert Rowse Armstrong
|1870
|1922
|Only English solicitor to be hanged for murder
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|Richard Ayoade
|1977
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|Comedian, Actor & Director
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|Harivansh Rai Bachchan
|1907
|2003
|20th century Indian poet
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|Nathaniel Bacon
|1640
|1676
|Revolutionary in Virginia
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|John Bayliss
|1919
|1978
|Poet
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|Peter Boizot
|1929
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|Founder of Pizza Express
|-
|Group Captain Leslie Bonnet
|1902
|1985
|RAF officer, writer and originator of the Welsh Harlequin Duck
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|John Bradford
|1510
|1555
|Martyr of the English reformation
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|Sir Kenneth Bradshaw
|1922
|2007
|Clerk of the House of Commons
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|Howard Brenton
|1942
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|Playwright
|-
|Adam Buddle
|1662
|1715
|After whom the Buddleia is named
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|Henry William Bunbury
|1750
|1811
|Caricaturist
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|Francis Cammaerts
DSO
|
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|Leading member of the French Special Operations Executive
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|Oliver Cromwell
|1623
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|Second son of Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell
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|John Cutts
|1661
|1707
|MP and army commander
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|Donald Davie
|1922
|1995
|Poet
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|Ian Day
|1954
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||Speed Sailing record holder 1982-88
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|John Bacchus Dykes
|1823
|1876
|Victorian hymn-writer
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|Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
|1905
|1977
|Fifth President of India
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|Richard Finn
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|Regent of Blackfriars, Oxford
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|Jenny R. Fray
|1966
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|First female Captain with British Airways
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|Leo Genn
|1905
|1978
|Actor
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|Brian Gibson
|1944
|2004
|Movie Director
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|Maurice Glasman
|1961
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|Political scientist and Labour peer
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|Peter Hall
|1930
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|Stage manager and director
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|Leslie Halliwell
|1929
|1989
|Film reviewer
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|Roger Harrabin
|1955
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|Journalist and reporter
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|Joanne Harris
|1964
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|Author
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|Sir Peter Hirsch
|1925
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|Materials scientist
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|Sir Robert Howe
|1893
|1981
|Last British
Governor-General
of the Sudan
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|Rupert Jeffcoat
|1970
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|organist Coventry Cathedral
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|Emyr Jones Parry
|1947
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|United Nations
diplomat
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|Malcolm Lowry
|1909
|1957
|Writer
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|Sir Ian McKellen
|1939
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|Actor
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|Roy MacLaren
|1934
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|Canadian
diplomat
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|Nevil Maskelyne
|1732
|1811
|Astronomer Royal
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|Michael Morris
|1936
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|Former Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons
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|Ben Miller
|1966
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|Writer, Actor and Comedian
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|Geoffrey Pattie
|1936
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|Former Minister of State for Information and Technology
Former Minister of State for Defence Procurement during the Falklands War
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|Jeremy Paxman
|1950
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|Television journalist
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|Sam Pickering
|1941
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|Professor of English at the University of Connecticut
Inspiration for the Keating character in the film Dead Poets Society
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|Steve Punt
|1962
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|Comedian
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|Tunku Abdul Rahman
|1903
|1990
|First Prime Minister of Malaysia
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|John Ray
|1627
|1705
|Naturalist
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|Thomas Sherlock
|1678
|1761
|Theologian
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|James Shirley
|1596
|1666
|Elizabethan poet and playwright
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|Arun Singh
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|Former Defence Minister of India
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|Donald Soper
|1903
|1998
|Methodist minister and campaigner
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|John Strype
|1643
|1737
|Historian
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|Noel Thompson
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|Television journalist
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|Tim Waterstone
|1939
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|Bookseller
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|William Wotton
|1666
|1727
|Historian
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|Hannah Yelland
|1976
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|Film & stage actress
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|Terence Young
|1915
|1994
|British film director
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Colleges of the University of Cambridge
This is a list of the colleges within the University of Cambridge. These colleges are the primary source of accommodation for undergraduates and graduates at the University and at the undergraduate level have responsibility for admitting students and organising their tuition. They also provide...
of the University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
. Founded in 1473, the college is often referred to informally by the nickname
Nickname
A nickname is "a usually familiar or humorous but sometimes pointed or cruel name given to a person or place, as a supposedly appropriate replacement for or addition to the proper name.", or a name similar in origin and pronunciation from the original name....
"Catz".
History
Robert Wodelarke, Provost of King’s CollegeKing's College, Cambridge
King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college's full name is "The King's College of our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge", but it is usually referred to simply as "King's" within the University....
, had begun preparations for the founding of a new college as early as 1459 when he bought tenements on which the new college could be built. The preparation cost him a great deal of his private fortune (he was suspected of diverting King’s College funds), and he was forced to scale down the foundation to only three Fellows. He stipulated that they must study theology
Theology
Theology is the systematic and rational study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truths, or the learned profession acquired by completing specialized training in religious studies, usually at a university or school of divinity or seminary.-Definition:Augustine of Hippo...
and philosophy
Philosophy
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...
only.
Wodelarke may have chosen the name in homage to the mother of King Henry VI
Henry VI of England
Henry VI was King of England from 1422 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471, and disputed King of France from 1422 to 1453. Until 1437, his realm was governed by regents. Contemporaneous accounts described him as peaceful and pious, not suited for the violent dynastic civil wars, known as the Wars...
who was called Catharine, although it is more likely that it was named as part of the Renaissance
Renaissance
The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...
cult of St. Catharine, who was a patron saint of learning. At any rate, the college was ready for habitation and formally founded on St. Catharine’s day (November 25) 1473. There are six Saints Catharine, but the college was named for Saint Catharine of Alexandria
Catherine of Alexandria
Saint Catherine of Alexandria, also known as Saint Catherine of the Wheel and The Great Martyr Saint Catherine is, according to tradition, a Christian saint and virgin, who was martyred in the early 4th century at the hands of the pagan emperor Maxentius...
. It was initially known as Katharine Hall.
Worcester College, Oxford
Worcester College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. The college was founded in the eighteenth century, but its predecessor on the same site had been an institution of learning since the late thirteenth century...
– which has a three-sided quad, which may well be the same thing), was built during the period 1675 to 1757. Proposals for a final range of buildings to complete the fourth side of the court have been made on many occasions up to the 20th century.
In 1637 the College came into possession of the George Inn (later the Bull Inn) on Trumpington Street
Trumpington Street
Trumpington Street is a major historic street in central Cambridge, England. At the north end it continues as King's Parade where King's College is located...
. Behind this Inn was a stables which was already famous for the practice of its manager, Thomas Hobson
Thomas Hobson
Thomas Hobson , sometimes called "The Cambridge Carrier", is best known as the name behind the expression Hobson's choice....
, not to allow a hirer to take any horse other than the one longest in the stable, leading to the expression “Hobson’s choice
Hobson's choice
A Hobson's choice is a free choice in which only one option is offered. As a person may refuse to take that option, the choice is therefore between taking the option or not; "take it or leave it". The phrase is said to originate with Thomas Hobson , a livery stable owner in Cambridge, England...
” meaning no choice at all.
The college was granted new statutes in 1860 and adopted its current name. In 1880, a movement to merge the college with King’s College
King's College, Cambridge
King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college's full name is "The King's College of our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge", but it is usually referred to simply as "King's" within the University....
began. The two colleges were adjacent and it seemed a solution to King’s need for more rooms and St Catharine’s need for a more substantial financial basis. However, the Master (Charles Kirkby Robinson
Charles Kirkby Robinson
Charles Kirkby Robinson was a British clergyman and academic, whose election to the Mastership of St Catharine's College, Cambridge in 1861 caused great controversy. Charles Robinson was born in 1826 in Acomb, North Yorkshire, and he matriculated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge in 1845. He...
) was opposed and St Catharine’s eventually refused.
A history of the college was written by W.H.S. Jones in 1936.
In 1979, the membership of the college was broadened to welcome female students, and in 2006 the first woman was appointed as Master of the college, Prof. Dame Jean Thomas
Jean Thomas (academic)
Dame Jean Olwen Thomas, DBE, FMedSci, FLSW, FRS is Master of St Catharine's College, Cambridge.She was born in Treboeth, Swansea to John Robert and Lorna Thomas, attended Llwyn-y-Bryn High School for Girls and then studied chemistry at the University of Wales, gaining a first class B.Sc in 1964...
.
Academic reputation
The Academic reputation of colleges within Cambridge is hotly disputed and often difficult to determine. Historically, St. Catharine's position has been exceptional and in the controversial annual league table of colleges placed towards the middle. In recent years the academic reputation of the college has markedly improved and the college was placed at the top of the Tompkins TableTompkins Table
The Tompkins Table is an annual ranking that lists the Colleges of the University of Cambridge in order of their undergraduate students' performances in that year's examinations...
, which ranks the colleges by the class of degrees obtained by their undergraduates, for the first time in 2005.
College life
The College maintains a friendly rivalry with Queens’ CollegeQueens' College, Cambridge
Queens' College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.The college was founded in 1448 by Margaret of Anjou , and refounded in 1465 by Elizabeth Woodville...
after the construction of the main court of St. Catharine's College on Cambridge’s former High Street relegated one side of Queens' College into a back alley. A more modern rivalry with Robinson College resulted from the construction in the 1970s of a modern block of flats named St. Chad’s (in which the rooms are octagonal to resemble the wheel on the college crest) by the University Library
Cambridge University Library
The Cambridge University Library is the centrally-administered library of Cambridge University in England. It comprises five separate libraries:* the University Library main building * the Medical Library...
. The proximity of St. Chad's to Robinson College
Robinson College, Cambridge
Robinson College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.Robinson is the newest of the Cambridge colleges, and is unique in being the only one to have been intended, from its inception, for both undergraduate and graduate students of either sex.- History :The college was founded...
led to an incident in which unidentified St. Catharine's students appropriated Robinson's disco ball from a bop. Allegedly, this is the disco ball now hanging in St. Catharine's College Bar.
For its size, the College is unusually sportingly strong and in particular is known for its strong reputation in hockey and racquet sports, in part due to its strong facilities for these sports including grass tennis courts and an astroturf hockey pitch. The college boat club hosts the Cardinals Regatta each year, in which teams compete along a short course in fancy dress with an emphasis on bribery to secure victory.
The College hosts several other notable societies. The Shirley Society is the College literary society, the oldest in Cambridge, it regularly hosts significant figures from the arts world throughout the academic year. The College based girls' choir is the first of its kind in a UK university and is composed of girls aged 8–14 from local schools.
Famous alumni
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!Birth
!Death
!Career
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|John Addenbrooke
John Addenbrooke
John Addenbrooke was an English medical doctor who left more than £4,500 in his will for the founding of a hospital for the poor. Addenbrooke's Hospital, which has expanded significantly since its beginnings, is now a major teaching hospital in Cambridge, England.Addenbrooke studied at Catharine...
|1680
|1719
|Founder of Addenbrooke's Hospital
Addenbrooke's Hospital
Addenbrooke's Hospital is an internationally renowned teaching hospital in Cambridge, England, with strong links to the University of Cambridge. It was founded in 1766 on Trumpington Street with £4,500 from the will of Dr John Addenbrooke, a fellow of St Catharine's College...
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|Herbert Rowse Armstrong
Herbert Rowse Armstrong
Herbert Rowse Armstrong TD. MA. was an English solicitor and convicted murderer, the only solicitor in the history of the United Kingdom to have been hanged for murder...
|1870
|1922
|Only English solicitor to be hanged for murder
|-
|Richard Ayoade
Richard Ayoade
Richard Ellef Ayoade is a British comedian, actor, writer and director best known for his role as Maurice Moss in The IT Crowd.Ayoade was born an only child to a Norwegian mother, Dagny , and a Nigerian father, Layide Ade Laditi Ayoade. Ayoade studied at St...
|1977
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|Comedian, Actor & Director
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|Harivansh Rai Bachchan
|1907
|2003
|20th century Indian poet
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|Nathaniel Bacon
|1640
|1676
|Revolutionary in Virginia
|-
|John Bayliss
John Bayliss
John Bayliss was a British poet and significant literary editor of the World War II period; later in life a civil servant. He was born in Gloucestershire, and was an undergraduate at St Catharine's College, Cambridge...
|1919
|1978
|Poet
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|Peter Boizot
|1929
|
|Founder of Pizza Express
Pizza Express
PizzaExpress is a restaurant group with over 400 restaurants across the United Kingdom and 40 overseas in China, Europe, Hong Kong, Japan and the Middle East. It was founded in 1965 by Peter Boizot.In Ireland, PizzaExpress trades under the name Milano....
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|Group Captain Leslie Bonnet
Leslie Bonnet
Group Captain Leslie Bonnet, MA, LLB, Order of the Cloud and Banner with Special Rosette was an RAF officer, short-story writer and duck-breeder, creating the Welsh Harlequin Duck, the only true Welsh duck breed....
|1902
|1985
|RAF officer, writer and originator of the Welsh Harlequin Duck
|-
|John Bradford
John Bradford
John Bradford was a prebendary of St. Paul's. He was an English Reformer and martyr best remembered for his utterance "'There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford". These words were uttered by Bradford while imprisoned in the Tower of London when he saw a criminal on his way to execution;...
|1510
|1555
|Martyr of the English reformation
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|Sir Kenneth Bradshaw
|1922
|2007
|Clerk of the House of Commons
Clerk of the House of Commons
The Clerk of the House of Commons is the chief executive of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, and before 1707 of the House of Commons of England...
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|Howard Brenton
Howard Brenton
-Early years:Brenton was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, son of Methodist minister Donald Henry Brenton and his wife Rose Lilian . He was educated at Chichester High School For Boys and read English Literature at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. In 1964 he was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal...
|1942
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|Playwright
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|Adam Buddle
Adam Buddle
Adam Buddle was an English cleric and botanist.Born at Deeping St James, a small village near Peterborough, Buddle was educated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he gained a BA in 1681, and an MA four years later. Buddle was eventually ordained into the Church of England, obtaining a...
|1662
|1715
|After whom the Buddleia is named
|-
|Henry William Bunbury
Henry William Bunbury
Henry William Bunbury was an English caricaturist.The second son of Sir William Bunbury, 5th Baronet , of Mildenhall, Suffolk, he came of an old Norman family...
|1750
|1811
|Caricaturist
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|Francis Cammaerts
Francis Cammaerts
Francis Charles Albert Cammaerts DSO was an outstanding Special Operations Executive agent who organised French Resistance groups to sabotage German communications in occupied France.-Early life:...
DSO
|
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|Leading member of the French Special Operations Executive
Special Operations Executive
The Special Operations Executive was a World War II organisation of the United Kingdom. It was officially formed by Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Minister of Economic Warfare Hugh Dalton on 22 July 1940, to conduct guerrilla warfare against the Axis powers and to instruct and aid local...
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|Oliver Cromwell
|1623
|
|Second son of Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell was an English military and political leader who overthrew the English monarchy and temporarily turned England into a republican Commonwealth, and served as Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland....
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|John Cutts
|1661
|1707
|MP and army commander
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|Donald Davie
Donald Davie
Donald Alfred Davie was an English Movement poet, and literary critic. His poems in general are philosophical and abstract, but often evoke various landscapes.-Biography:...
|1922
|1995
|Poet
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|Ian Day
|1954
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||Speed Sailing record holder 1982-88
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|John Bacchus Dykes
John Bacchus Dykes
John Bacchus Dykes was an English clergyman and hymnist.-Biography:...
|1823
|1876
|Victorian hymn-writer
|-
|Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed was the fifth President of India from 1974 to 1977.-Early life and background:Fakhruddin's grandfather, Khaliluddin Ali Ahmed, of Kacharighat near Golaghat, Assam, married in one of the families who were the relics of Emperor Aurangzeb's bid to conquer Assam Ahmed was born on...
|1905
|1977
|Fifth President of India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
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|Richard Finn
Richard Finn
The Very Reverend Richard Damian Finn, OP is Regent of Blackfriars, Oxford.Richard Finn was educated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge...
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|Regent of Blackfriars, Oxford
Blackfriars, Oxford
Blackfriars, Oxford houses three distinct institutions: the Priory of the Holy Spirit, the religious house of the friars, whose current prior is John O'Connor OP; Blackfriars Studium, the centre of Theological studies of the English Province of the Dominican Friars ; and Blackfriars...
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|Jenny R. Fray
|1966
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|First female Captain with British Airways
British Airways
British Airways is the flag carrier airline of the United Kingdom, based in Waterside, near its main hub at London Heathrow Airport. British Airways is the largest airline in the UK based on fleet size, international flights and international destinations...
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|Leo Genn
Leo Genn
- Early life :He was born at 144 Kyverdale Road, Stamford Hill, Hackney, London, England to a Jewish family. His father, Woolfe Genn, was a jewellery salesman and the maiden name of his mother, Rachel, was Asserson....
|1905
|1978
|Actor
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|Brian Gibson
|1944
|2004
|Movie Director
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|Maurice Glasman
|1961
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|Political scientist and Labour peer
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|Peter Hall
|1930
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|Stage manager and director
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|Leslie Halliwell
Leslie Halliwell
Robert James Leslie Halliwell was a British film encyclopaedist and television impresario who in 1965 compiled The Filmgoer's Companion, the first one-volume encyclopaedia devoted to all aspects of the cinema. He followed it a dozen years later with Halliwell's Film Guide, another monumental work...
|1929
|1989
|Film reviewer
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|Roger Harrabin
Roger Harrabin
Roger Harrabin is the BBC’s Environment Analyst, and one of their senior journalists on the environment and energy. He has broadcast on environmental issues since the 1980s and has won many awards in print, TV and radio...
|1955
|
|Journalist and reporter
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|Joanne Harris
Joanne Harris
Joanne Michèle Sylvie Harris is a British author.Biography=Born to a French mother and an English father in her grandparents' sweet shop, her family life was filled with food and folklore. Her great-grandmother had an odd reputation and enjoyed letting the gullible think she was a witch and healer...
|1964
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|Author
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|Sir Peter Hirsch
|1925
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|Materials scientist
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|Sir Robert Howe
Robert Howe (diplomat)
Sir Robert George Howe, GBE, KCMG was a British diplomat who served as the last Governor-General of the Sudan from 1947 to 1955.-Career:*Third Secretary at British Embassy, Copenhagen, 1920...
|1893
|1981
|Last British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
Governor-General
Governor-General
A Governor-General, is a vice-regal person of a monarch in an independent realm or a major colonial circonscription. Depending on the political arrangement of the territory, a Governor General can be a governor of high rank, or a principal governor ranking above "ordinary" governors.- Current uses...
of the Sudan
Sudan
Sudan , officially the Republic of the Sudan , is a country in North Africa, sometimes considered part of the Middle East politically. It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east, South Sudan to the south, the Central African Republic to the...
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|Rupert Jeffcoat
Rupert Jeffcoat
Rupert Edward Elessing Jeffcoat is a Scottish organist, composer, and Anglican priest.- Life :Jeffcoat was born in Edinburgh, Scotland....
|1970
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|organist Coventry Cathedral
Coventry Cathedral
Coventry Cathedral, also known as St Michael's Cathedral, is the seat of the Bishop of Coventry and the Diocese of Coventry, in Coventry, West Midlands, England. The current bishop is the Right Revd Christopher Cocksworth....
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|Emyr Jones Parry
Emyr Jones Parry
Sir Emyr Jones Parry, GCMG, FInstP is a retired British diplomat. He is a former British Permanent Representative to the United Nations and former UK Permanent Representative on the North Atlantic Council .-Education:...
|1947
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|United Nations
United Nations
The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
diplomat
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|Malcolm Lowry
Malcolm Lowry
Clarence Malcolm Lowry was an English poet and novelist who was best known for his novel Under the Volcano, which was voted No. 11 in the Modern Library 100 Best Novels list.-Biography:...
|1909
|1957
|Writer
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|Sir Ian McKellen
Ian McKellen
Sir Ian Murray McKellen, CH, CBE is an English actor. He has received a Tony Award, two Academy Award nominations, and five Emmy Award nominations. His work has spanned genres from Shakespearean and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction...
|1939
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|Actor
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|Roy MacLaren
Roy MacLaren
Roy MacLaren, PC , is a Canadian politician, diplomat, historian, and author.Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of British Columbia with a major in History, a Master's degree from St Catharine's College, Cambridge, a Master of...
|1934
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|Canadian
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
diplomat
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|Nevil Maskelyne
Nevil Maskelyne
The Reverend Dr Nevil Maskelyne FRS was the fifth English Astronomer Royal. He held the office from 1765 to 1811.-Biography:...
|1732
|1811
|Astronomer Royal
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|Michael Morris
Michael Morris, Baron Naseby
Michael Wolfgang Laurence Morris, Baron Naseby, PC is a British Conservative Party politician.Born in London, he was first elected to the House of Commons in the February 1974 general election for Northampton South. His majority was just 179 votes in February 1974, and 141 in October 1974. In 1983...
|1936
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|Former Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons
British House of Commons
The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also comprises the Sovereign and the House of Lords . Both Commons and Lords meet in the Palace of Westminster. The Commons is a democratically elected body, consisting of 650 members , who are known as Members...
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|Ben Miller
Ben Miller
Bennet Evan "Ben" Miller is an English comedian, actor and director. He is perhaps best known as one half of comedy double act Armstrong and Miller, along with Alexander Armstrong. Together the pair wrote and starred in Channel 4 sketch show Armstrong and Miller, and the more recent BBC television...
|1966
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|Writer, Actor and Comedian
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|Geoffrey Pattie
Geoffrey Pattie
Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie is a former British Conservative politician and Member of Parliament. He was educated at Durham School, and St Catharine’s College, Cambridge where he obtained an MA Honours Degree in Law...
|1936
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|Former Minister of State for Information and Technology
Former Minister of State for Defence Procurement during the Falklands War
Falklands War
The Falklands War , also called the Falklands Conflict or Falklands Crisis, was fought in 1982 between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the disputed Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands...
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|Jeremy Paxman
Jeremy Paxman
Jeremy Dickson Paxman is a British journalist, author and television presenter. He has worked for the BBC since 1977. He is noted for a forthright and abrasive interviewing style, particularly when interrogating politicians...
|1950
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|Television journalist
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|Sam Pickering
|1941
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|Professor of English at the University of Connecticut
University of Connecticut
The admission rate to the University of Connecticut is about 50% and has been steadily decreasing, with about 28,000 prospective students applying for admission to the freshman class in recent years. Approximately 40,000 prospective students tour the main campus in Storrs annually...
Inspiration for the Keating character in the film Dead Poets Society
Dead Poets Society
Dead Poets Society is a 1989 American drama film directed by Peter Weir and starring Robin Williams. Set at the conservative and aristocratic Welton Academy in Vermont in 1959, it tells the story of an English teacher who inspires his students through his teaching of poetry.The script was written...
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|Steve Punt
Steve Punt
Stephen Punt is a British writer, comedian and actor, best known for his long-time comedy partnership with Hugh Dennis. Punt lives in Wimbledon with his girlfriend and two children.-Life and career:...
|1962
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|Comedian
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|Tunku Abdul Rahman
Tunku Abdul Rahman
Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj ibni Almarhum Sultan Abdul Hamid Halim Shah, AC, CH was Chief Minister of the Federation of Malaya from 1955, and the country's first Prime Minister from independence in 1957. He remained as the Prime Minister after Sabah, Sarawak, and Singapore joined the...
|1903
|1990
|First Prime Minister of Malaysia
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|John Ray
John Ray
John Ray was an English naturalist, sometimes referred to as the father of English natural history. Until 1670, he wrote his name as John Wray. From then on, he used 'Ray', after "having ascertained that such had been the practice of his family before him".He published important works on botany,...
|1627
|1705
|Naturalist
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|Thomas Sherlock
Thomas Sherlock
Thomas Sherlock was a British divine who served as a Church of England bishop for 33 years. He is also noted in church history as an important contributor to Christian apologetics.-Life:...
|1678
|1761
|Theologian
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|James Shirley
James Shirley
James Shirley was an English dramatist.He belonged to the great period of English dramatic literature, but, in Lamb's words, he "claims a place among the worthies of this period, not so much for any transcendent genius in himself, as that he was the last of a great race, all of whom spoke nearly...
|1596
|1666
|Elizabethan poet and playwright
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|Arun Singh
Arun Singh
Arun Singh is a former union minister of state for defence in the Government of India. He was minister in the government headed by Rajiv Gandhi .Born into the princely family of Kapurthala, Arun Singh attended Doon School and later Cambridge with Rajiv Gandhi...
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|Former Defence Minister of India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
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|Donald Soper
Donald Soper
Donald Oliver Soper, Baron Soper was a prominent Methodist minister, socialist and pacifist.Soper was born at 36 Knoll Road, Wandsworth, London, the first son and first child of the three children of Ernest Frankham Soper , an average adjuster in marine insurance, the son of a tailor, and his...
|1903
|1998
|Methodist minister and campaigner
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|John Strype
John Strype
John Strype was an English historian and biographer. He was a cousin of Robert Knox, a famous sailor.Born in Houndsditch, London, he was the son of John Strype, or van Stryp, a member of a Huguenot family whom, in order to escape religious persecution within Brabant, had settled in East London...
|1643
|1737
|Historian
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|Noel Thompson
Noel Thompson
Noel Thompson is a news journalist with BBC Northern Ireland. Thompson is currently the main male presenter of BBC Newsline and political series Hearts and Minds.-Journalism career:...
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|Television journalist
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|Tim Waterstone
Tim Waterstone
Tim Waterstone is the founder of the United Kingdom bookselling retail chain Waterstone's. Waterstone's now employs 4,500 staff, is the largest specialist bookseller in Europe, with stores in the UK, Holland, Belgium and Ireland, and is the third largest bookseller in the world.- Early life and...
|1939
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|Bookseller
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|William Wotton
William Wotton
William Wotton was an English scholar, chiefly remembered for his remarkable abilities in learning languages and for his involvement in the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns. In Wales he is remembered as the collector and first translator of the ancient Welsh laws.-Early years:William Wotton...
|1666
|1727
|Historian
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|Hannah Yelland
Hannah Yelland
Hannah Yelland is the stage name of Hannah Bahar , a British actress now living and working in the United States. She was brought up near Hampton Court and is the daughter of British actor David Yelland, with whom she appeared onstage in a 2007/08 revival of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas...
|1976
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|Film & stage actress
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|Terence Young
|1915
|1994
|British film director
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See also
- :Category:Fellows of St Catharine's College, Cambridge
- St Catherine’s College, OxfordSt Catherine's College, OxfordSt Catherine's College, often called Catz, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Its motto is Nova et Vetera...
- List of organ scholarsOrgan scholarAn organ scholar is a young musician employed as a part-time assistant organist at an institution where regular choral services are held. The idea of an organ scholarship is to provide the holder with playing, directing and administrative experience....
- List of Masters of St Catharine's College, Cambridge