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The very first Boat Race was won by Oxford, but Cambridge lead the overall series with 86 wins to Oxford's 81, [3] with one dead heat in 1877 (as of 2023). [4] Recent races have been closely fought, with Oxford winning by the shortest ever margin of 1-foot (0.30 m) in 2003 [ 4 ] and Cambridge winning in 2004 despite Oxford's claims of a foul.
This is a list of notable alumni from the University of Cambridge, featuring members of the University of Cambridge segregated in accordance with their fields of achievement. The individual must have either studied at the university (although they may not necessarily have taken a degree), or worked at the university in an academic capacity ...
Thomas Selby Egan – first cox to win The Boat Race for Cambridge University; Richard Geaves – international footballer; John Grimshaw – creator of the National Cycle Network and the Sustrans charity; Ronald Cove-Smith – England rugby team captain; Michael Taylor – cricketer, historian, and member of the 2015 University Challenge ...
Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900 is a biographical register of former members of the University of Cambridge which was edited by the mathematician John Venn (1834–1923) and his son John Archibald Venn (1883–1958) and published by Cambridge University Press in ...
This is a list of notable people affiliated with Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, England. It includes former students, current and former academics and fellows. This list of alumni consists almost entirely of men, because women were not allowed to study at the college from its foundation in 1517 until 1979.
The present-day Oxford and Cambridge Club is the result of the 1972 merger of the United University Club and of the Oxford and Cambridge University Club. The United University Club was founded in 1821 for members of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. As a result of its lengthy waiting list, in 1830 the Oxford and Cambridge University ...
Theologian, Master of St John's College, Cambridge (1644–1653), Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University (1647), Regius Professor of Divinity (1651–1656) [32] John Wilkins: 1614 1672 1659–1660 Natural philosopher, cofounder of the Royal Society, Warden of Wadham College, Oxford (1648–1659), Bishop of Chester (1668–1672) [33] [34] [35 ...
In 1949, the official name was changed to the 'Oxford and Cambridge Revolver Match', followed by the 'Oxford and Cambridge Pistol Match' in 1962. [33] Following the UK ban on fullbore pistol shooting in 1997, the match moved to lever-action.357 [33] centre-fire gallery rifles. [35] Each university enters a team of four. [34]