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Gonville and Caius College, often referred to simply as Caius (/ k iː z / KEEZ), is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge [3] in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1348 by Edmund Gonville , it is the fourth-oldest of the University of Cambridge's 31 colleges and one of the wealthiest.
Most of the colleges forming the University of Cambridge and University of Oxford are paired into sister colleges across the two universities. [1] The extent of the arrangement differs from case to case, but commonly includes the right to dine at one's sister college, the right to book accommodation there, the holding of joint events between JCRs and invitations to May balls.
It was founded in 1393 when William Fiswick (also known as Fishwick or Physwick), [4] the first esquire or armiger bedel of the university, [3] bequeathed his Trinity Lane hall to Gonville Hall [5] (later Gonville and Caius College). [1] Chambers and lodgings were added by William Revell, rector of Titchwell, Norfolk, in his own benefice.
Neil McKendrick MA FRHistS (born 28 July 1935 [3]) was the 40th Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.He is now a life fellow of the college.. McKendrick was educated at Alderman Newton's School, Leicester, and Christ's College, Cambridge, where he won an Entrance Scholarship. [4]
Gonville and Caius 69.52 -3 11 Downing 69.5 2 12 Clare 69.08 0 13 St Edmund's 68.44 15 14 St John's ... including accommodation, lifestyle and wealth. [5]
Gonville and Caius College at the University of Cambridge Crest of Gonville and Caius College. The following is a list of notable people educated at Gonville and Caius College at the University of Cambridge, including alumni of Gonville Hall, as the college was known from 1348 to 1351, and notable alumni since.
Staircaise L at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in 2010, housing the offices of former master Neil McKendrick, then future masters Sir Alan Fersht and Pippa Rogerson, and former presidents Iain Macpherson and Sir Sam Edwards. The following have served as masters of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, or its forerunner, Gonville Hall. [1]
He returned to Cambridge in 2009 as a professorial Life Fellow of Caius, and now lives there. [ citation needed ] His The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People 1770-1868 (Oxford, 1994) won the Royal Historical Society's Whitfield Prize, and was nominated as one of the historical Canon in the Times Higher Education Supplement, 2010.