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The college was founded in 1348 as Gonville Hall by Edmund Gonville, a clergyman who hailed from a gentry family of French origin. Gonville held various positions in the English Church, serving as Rector of three parishes, Thelnetham (1320–26), Rushford, Norfolk (1326–1342), and Terrington St Clement (1343–1351).
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]
Stained glass window formerly in the dining hall of Caius College, Cambridge, commemorating Ronald Fisher and representing a Latin square. A stained glass window commemorating British statistician, geneticist, and eugenicist R. A. Fisher was installed in the dining hall of Gonville and Caius College in Cambridge, England in 1989.
Edmund Gonville (died 1351) was an English priest who founded Gonville Hall at the University of Cambridge in 1348, which later was re-founded by John Caius to become Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Gonville Hall was his third foundation. Before this he had founded two religious houses, Rushworth College at Rushford, Norfolk, 1342 ...
Notable people who, as students, attended Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England, United Kingdom.Also included are notable people who attended Gonville Hall (founded in 1348), the predecessor to Gonville and Caius College prior to its establishment in 1557:
Masters of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (1 C, 31 P) Pages in category "Fellows of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge" The following 173 pages are in this category, out of 173 total.
In 1557 Caius, at that time physician to Queen Mary, enlarged the foundation of his old college, changed the name from "Gonville Hall" to "Gonville and Caius College", and endowed it with several considerable estates, adding an entire new court at the expense of £1,834 (equivalent to £681,230 in 2023).