Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
Encyclopedia
Fitzwilliam College is one of the constituent college
s of the University of Cambridge
in England
.
The college traces its origins back to 1869 and the foundation of the Non-Collegiate Students Board, a venture intended to offer students from less financially privileged backgrounds a chance to study at the university. The institution was originally based at Fitzwilliam Hall (later renamed Fitzwilliam House), opposite the Fitzwilliam Museum
in central Cambridge. Having moved to its present site in the north of the city, Fitzwilliam attained collegiate status in 1966. Female undergraduates were first admitted in 1978. Within Cambridge, the college is often referred to as "Fitz".
, which lists the University's 29 undergraduate colleges in order of their students' examination performances. The College achieved an average of 17th place under its previous Master (1999-2005), but under its present Master (2005-) its average position has fallen. Its average place since 2008 has been 21st, and in 2010 it achieved 22nd place, its lowest result since the Tompkins Table began to be calculated on its present basis in 1997..
revealed Fitzwilliam to be the 23rd wealthiest of Cambridge's 31 colleges. The report also revealed that the college earns almost half a million pounds a year from conference accommodation and another £17 000 from its laundry service.
As of 2010, Fitzwilliam is home to around 475 undergraduates, 275 graduate students and over 60 fellows.
, opposite the Fitzwilliam Museum. This provided students who could not afford to belong to a college with a base from which to study at the University, allowing them to be admitted to degrees, sit examinations and compete for scholarships. The name "Fitzwilliam" was chosen by the students at a meeting of the Non-Collegiate Amalgamation Club in the Spring of 1887 and, as a result, the University decreed that the house in Trumpington Street could be known as Fitzwilliam Hall. This became the headquarters of the Non-Collegiate Students Board and provided student facilities, with the majority of the students living in private lodgings. It was renamed Fitzwilliam House in 1922.
Due to its emphasis on academic ability rather than wealth, Fitzwilliam quickly attracted a strong academic contingent that included future Nobel Prize
winners, Heads of State and important judicial figures. It developed a tradition in Medicine
and established a reputation as one of the most internationally diverse institutions within the University.
As Cambridge became more accessible in the second half of the 20th century, due to grants allowing less wealthy students the opportunity to belong to a college, the need for a non-collegiate body of undergraduates began to decline. The suggestion that Fitzwilliam close prompted an outcry from former students and it was therefore decided that the institution should aim for collegiate status. Funds were accumulated for this purpose and a new site was acquired at Castle Hill, about one mile north of the city centre. The first new buildings were opened in 1963.
In 1966, Fitzwilliam House was granted a royal charter
by the Queen-in-Council
and became Fitzwilliam College.
and were completed in 1963. The intention was for these buildings to constitute the back of the college and, as funding became available, the college grew to the south, with New Court (1985), the Chapel (1991) and Wilson Court (1994). Finally, the plan was completed when Gatehouse Court (2003) became the college's new front. In the following year, the college completed the new Auditorium building, and in doing so became home to some of the best performance facilities in the University. In 2007 the college built a new boathouse, in 2009 the Library and IT Centre was added and, in 2010, the college acquired the buildings and grounds that formerly belonged to the Cambridge Lodge Hotel with the intention of renovating them for the use of graduate students. Fitzwilliam has, over the years, also become known for its beautiful gardens, which largely predate the college. In 2008, an archaeological dig found that the earliest clear evidence of settlement in Cambridge is the remains of a 3,500-year-old farmstead discovered on the College site.
Fitzwilliam is one of only five Cambridge colleges to have won University Challenge
. It did so in 1973 with a team that consisted of Philip Bassett (Botany), David Curry (Material Sciences), David Wurtzel (Law) and Michael Halls (English). The same team featured in the 2002 Reunited Series and won its only game.
The main grounds of the College are located off Storey's Way
, towards the north-west of Cambridge. The college is sometimes identified as one of the Hill Colleges
, together with Churchill College, St Edmund's College, Girton College and Murray Edwards College. These colleges are all among the most recently established and tend to share certain architectural features.
Fitzwilliam consists of a variety of modern buildings, built in the grounds of a regency estate.
The Grove (1813):
The college's centrepiece is the Grove, a Grade II regency manor house. This was designed by the architect William Custance and constructed in 1813. Custance was also the house's first resident and his initials, along with the date '1814', can be found on a rainwater hopper at the side of the house. Another slightly smaller building known as Grove Lodge was also designed by Custance and is now part of Murray Edwards College. For some time, both properties were owned by the Darwin family and The Grove served as Emma Darwin
's primary residence between 1883 and 1896, following the death of her husband Charles
. During this time, she had the interior lined with original William Morris
wallpaper and two of her sons had smaller houses built in the grounds. Although both have since been demolished, the house built by Horace Darwin
, which was known as The Orchard, was donated to Murray Edwards College in 1962 and the site now serves as its primary campus. In 1988, The Grove became part of Fitzwilliam and today it is home to a number of fellows, as well as the Senior Common Room
and the Middle Combination Room
.
The Hall Building (1963):
The Hall Building is a large complex towards the back of the college. It was built between 1960 and 1963 and was designed by Sir Denys Lasdun, who won Royal Gold Medal
in 1977 and is most well known for having designed the National Theatre
in London. The building, which is an example of the Modern Movement
in architecture, consists primarily of the college dining hall, but also houses the bar, kitchens, the junior common room, a couple of seminar rooms and a gymnasium. The dinner gong, just outside the dining hall, was originally the bell of the HMS Ocean
and was presented to Fitzwilliam House by Admiral of the Fleet
Sir Caspar John
in 1962.
Fellows' Court (1963):
Like the Hall Building, Fellows' Court was part of the initial construction, designed by Sir Denys Lasdun and completed in 1963 at a cost of approximately £300 000. It occupies an area in the far corner of the college and is enclosed by the Hall Building, the Law Library and two dormitories. It is generally reserved for fellows, and, as well as residence, also houses the Fellows' Parlour.
Tree Court (1963):
Tree Court, the last component of the initial 1963 construction, is located at the north end of the college, opposite Fellows' Court. The court was initially the college's main entrance and, with a car park and a cycling bay just outside, it remains a back door to the college. Tree Court was Lasdun's first attempt at student residence; he would go on to design similar buildings at the University of East Anglia
and Christ's College, Cambridge
. Although the court opens out onto the college gardens, the wall opposite the Hall Building was recently lengthened with the addition of the college's new Library and IT Centre. Today, Tree Court provides residence for the majority of first year students.
New Court (1985):
In the mid-eighties, the college expanded to the south with the construction of New Court, a three-walled residential compound, designed by MacCormac, Jamieson & Prichard. Students and fellows contributed to the design with such ideas as intersecting staircases and elongated windows. The court won 1989 David Urwin Award for Best New Building. In 2004, the court gained its fourth wall with the completion of the college's new auditorium.
The Chapel (1991):
In 1991, the north wing of New Court was lengthened to include the new college Chapel. The building, which was also designed by MacCormac, Jamieson & Prichard, faces directly towards the Grove and is an example of the International Movement
in architecture. The Chapel is designed to resemble the hull of a ship, which hints at the religious themes of journey and protection. The building is home to a fine two-manual organ designed by Peter Collins
, a Bechstein
grand piano and a Goble
harpsichord. The addition won the 1992 Civic Trust Award, the 1993 Carpenters' Award
and the 1993 David Urwin Award for Best New Building. The firm later used a similar design for the Ruskin Library
at the University of Lancaster.
Wilson Court (1994):
The fourth court was added to the south of the college, next to the boundary with Murray Edwards, in 1994. It was designed by Van Heyningen & Haward and includes 48 acoustically independent rooms and the Gordon Cameron Lecture Theatre, which is also used as the college cinema. It won the 1996 RIBA Award
.
Gatehouse Court (2003):
The completion of Gatehouse Court in 2003 saw the realisation of Sir Denys Lasdun's original vision. The design, courtesy of Allies & Morrison
, reorientated the college and gave it a new entrance, complete with Porter's Lodge, administrative offices, meeting rooms, parking facilities, a large-scale engraving of the college crest and a flagpole. It also provided an extra 42 en-suite bedrooms for student accommodation. The college now faces south and opens onto Storey's Way
, a smaller, primarily residential street branching off Madingley Road
. As well as expanding the college dramatically, the court was awarded the 2005 RIBA Award
and the 2005 BDA Award for Building of the Year.
The Auditorium (2004):
Perhaps the most impressive addition to the college site came with the completion of the Auditorium building in 2004. Having overseen the construction of Gatehouse Court, Allies & Morrison
were employed to design the college's new performance facilities. Built using a similar brick to that used for the Grove almost 200 years earlier, the building is largely below ground-level, resulting in a direct view of the surrounding landscape for audience members towards the back of the gallery. It won the 2005 Concrete Society Award and the 2005 BDA Award for Best Public Building. Located near the front of the college, the building faces New Court and backs onto the college gardens. Consisting of a large central performance area, three smaller practice rooms and an entrance hall, the auditorium is the official home of the internationally renowned Fitzwilliam Quartet
. The main hall, which has been praised for its acoustics, houses a Steinway
grand piano and the practice rooms, which vary in size and purpose, include instruments such as a tympani, a full-size drum kit, amplifiers and a Bösendorfer
piano. Although used primarily for music, the building has also hosted drama performances and important lectures. In recent years, guests have included the American politician Jesse Jackson
, former poet laureate Sir Andrew Motion
, and the former head of MI6 Sir Richard Dearlove, who visited the college as part of the Arrol Adam Lecture Series in 2008.
The Library and IT Centre (2009):
A new library was completed in 2009. As of January 2010, its book collection contains around 60 000 volumes and increases by about 1000 volumes each year. At a cost of £5m, the building was designed by Edward Cullinan
, who had worked with Lasdun on the original college plan, and who was untaking his first major project after receiving the Royal Gold Medal
in 2008. It was built as an extension to the uncompleted east wing of Tree Court and was designed to allow maximum luminosity and energy efficiency. The building, opened in April 2010 by the Duke of Edinburgh
, is also fitted with extensive computing facilities and includes a large underground computer room exclusively for undergraduates. In 2011, alumnus Ken Olisa
donated £1.4m to the development of the Library and IT Centre. Unlike most college libraries, it is open 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.
The college's coat of arms
first came into use in the 1880s when the non-collegiate Fitzwilliam Hall needed an emblem to represent its newly formed boat club. The result was a combination between the University coat of arms and the lozengy shield used by the Earls of Fitzwilliam
. Initially, the design was used unofficially and it was only when Fitzwilliam was in the process of attaining collegiate status, some 80 years later, that it actually applied for a Grant of Arms
. The design was formally recorded by the Duke of Norfolk
on behalf of the Queen-in-Council
in the late 60s. Notably, the Fitzwilliam coat of arms is the only college emblem to reference the University's own coat of arms.
Motto:
What the coat of arms achieves with its new combination of age-old symbols, is an encapsulation of the college motto: Ex antiquis et novissimis optima (the best of the old and the new). The sentiment can also be seen in college's architectural design, with award-winning modern buildings complemented by a classical layout and such iconic old buildings as The Grove and the graduate lodge. In general, however, the expression is regarded to apply to a balance of customs and ideas. It expresses a progressive attitude coupled with a will to conserve the achievements of tradition.
Colours:
The earliest records of the college’s sporting clubs describe the colours as grey and ruby. By Easter 1892, the colours were more closely defined as cardinal and french grey. Since then various shades have been used, although the Middle Combination Room’s
ties, which celebrate the foundation in 1869, have reverted to cardinal as their main colour. Today, the College is firmly associated with the colours grey and red, although they were at one time blue and buff, with blue remaining the principal colour of some sporting blazers right up until the 1960s.
Mascot:
Students from Fitzwilliam are sometimes informally referred to as Fitzbillys or Billygoats. As a consequence, the goat has become a popular college mascot and can be found on the front of the boat house, on the boat club flag, and in various places around the college.
al tradition. Former students include the award-winning conductor David Atherton
, TV and radio presenter Humphrey Burton
, the American film composer Jeffrey Gold
and the singer-songwriter Nick Drake
, who secured a record deal with a four-track demo recorded in his college room in 1968. Other prominent Music graduates include violist Martin Outram
, baritone John Noble
, bassist Simon Fell
and two founding members of the Fitzwilliam String Quartet
.
Today, Fitzwilliam has more active music groups than any other college. As well as the traditional Chapel Choir, which also takes in choristers from neighbouring Murray Edwards,, the college is home to numerous singing ensembles. In March 2010, two of the college a capella groups, Fitz Barbershop and The Sirens, reached the finals of a nationwide competition, The Voice Festival UK
, judged by composer John Rutter
. The Sirens, an all-female group, won the award for Outstanding Musicality, whilst Fitz Barbershop were joint winners of the prestigious Award for Outstanding Performance. Both groups perform regularly throughout the University. The college also hosts the ‘Fitz Swing’ Band – one of Cambridge's foremost jazz groups with a reputation for providing excellent entertainment at the May Balls
. Other college groups include Fitzwilliam Baroque Ensemble, the recently-formed Ensemble CB3, and Fitzwilliam Chamber Opera, the university’s only college-based opera society. Fitzwilliam is heavily involved in the Orchestra on the Hill, which performs large-scale works on a termly basis and draws its membership from students of the Hill Colleges
. There are also the weekly Fitz Sessions, in which students perform music, poetry and comedy as part of an informal set-up in the college bar. To encourage musical activity, the college hosts the annual Alkan Piano Competition, sponsored by the Alkan Society. The competition is followed by a recital from a professional pianist with a particular interest in Alkan
's music. The first recital was given by the late Ronald Smith
in 2001.
Due to the college's new Auditorium, Fitzwilliam is also a popular performance venue. Each year it hosts the Fitzwilliam Chamber Series, a collection of concerts by leading professional musicians. Recent performers at the college have included the cellist Julian Lloyd Webber
, the popular DJ Annie Mac
and the English Touring Opera
. The Indie band Good Shoes
performed their first ever gig at the college in 2005. In 2007, a piece by the composer Thomas Hewitt Jones
, with the title Kaizen Studies, received its premier at the college's Auditorium. In May 2011, Fitzwilliam Chamber Opera performed the world premiere of Ivan Moody
's Fables of La Fontaine; the composer declared it "a magnificent performance".
, was established by Cambridge undergraduates in 1968. They made their first professional appearance a year later at the Sheffield Arts Festival and, following graduation in 1971, became the Resident Quartet at the University of York
. Just a year into their residence, they became personally acquainted with the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich
and gained international recognition when they were asked to premier several of his String Quartets. They went on to become the first group to perform and record all 15 of his String Quartets and Shostakovich himself described them as his "preferred performers". When the composer died in August 1975, they had been scheduled to visit him in Moscow just a month later. The group proceeded to record acclaimed interpretations of many other composers, notably Brahms and Haydn, and won the first ever Grammy Award
for Chamber Music in 1977. In 1981, they were awarded Honorary Doctorates of Music by Bucknell University
, which were presented by Shostakovich’s son, Maxim
. In 2005, a number of their recordings were included in Gramophone magazine's list of the “Hundred Greatest-ever Recordings”. They have a long-term contract with Decca Records
and perform regularly all over the world. Although membership has changed over the years, the group returned to Fitzwilliam in 1999 when they were appointed the college's Resident Quartet. They visit for performances and workshops each term and even premier pieces written by students. In 2008, they celebrated their 40th anniversary.
colleges; predominantly, Fitzwilliam, Churchill and New Hall. Although the orchestra changed its name as it grew in stature, a smaller affiliated group, known as the West Cambridge Sinfonia, maintains the epithet. Today, the orchestra is sponsored by Bird & Bird
and rehearses primarily at St. Giles' Church
. It tours and records on a regular basis and performs University concerts once a term. At Fitzwilliam, the role originally played by WCSO has since been taken over by the Orchestra on the Hill.
: the first team won the University league in 2005 (winning every game on the way) and the knock-out competition, known as Cuppers
, in 2006; last year, it was the runner-up in both the league and the cup. The College also has strong teams in Rugby Union
and Table Tennis
, and fields teams in most popular sports.
On site, the college has a multi-gym in the Hall Building, a Badminton court in the Auditorium Building and three Squash courts, which are also used for table tennis, in a separate sports hall towards the front of the college. The squash courts were recently refurbished and are used for training sessions by Cambridge University Squash Club.
The college's main sports grounds, which are among the most extensive in the University, are located on (and named after) Oxford Road, just a few minutes' walk from the college's Huntingdon Road
entrance. The land was donated to Fitzwilliam Hall in honour of the students who died in the First World War. The grounds include tennis courts, a netball court, a cricket pitch, a rugby pitch, and both full-size and five-a-side football pitches. It is the only sports ground in the University with an on-site club house, complete with a bar. It's regularly used by varsity teams and is also made available to students of Murray Edwards College.
In 2007, the college completed its new boat house.
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!Name
!Birth
!Death
!Career
|-
|James Ward
|1843
|1925
|Psychologist and philosopher, President of the Aristotelian Society
|-
|Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
|1857
|1952
|Winner of the 1932 Nobel Prize in Medicine, for groundbreaking work on the function of the neuron
|-
|Joseph Baptista
|1864
|1930
|Founder of the Indian Home Rule Movement
and Mayor of Bombay
|-
|A. G. M. Michell
|1870
|1959
|Mechanical engineer, inventor of the thrust bearing
and the tilting-pad fluid bearing
|-
|Albert Szent-Györgyi
|1893
|1986
|Winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize in Medicine, discoverer of Vitamin C
|-
|Subhas Chandra Bose
|1897
|1945
|President of the Indian National Congress
and leader of the Indian National Army
|-
|Sir J. Eric S. Thompson
|1898
|1975
|World's leading scholar on the pre-Columbian
Maya civilization
|-
|Bernard Orchard
|1910
|2006
|Biblical scholar and translator, General Secretary of the World Catholic Federation
|-
|Shankar Dayal Sharma
|1918
|1999
|Ninth President of India
(1992–1997)
|-
|Lee Kuan Yew
|1923
|
|First and longest-serving Prime Minister of Singapore
(1959–1990)
|-
|Sir Louis Blom-Cooper
|1926
|
|High Court lawyer, author, last Chairman of the Press Council, co-founder of Amnesty International
|-
|César Milstein
|1927
|2002
|Winner of the 1984 Nobel Prize in Medicine, for producing monoclonal antibodies
|-
|Lord St John of Fawsley
|1929
|
|British life peer, Leader of the House of Commons
and Minister of State for the Arts
|-
|Humphrey Burton
|1931
|
|Emmy Award
-winning music broadcaster and director
|-
|Sir Kenneth Eaton
|1934
|
|British Controller of the Navy (1989-1994)
|-
|Nasir Aslam Zahid
|1935
|
|Former Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court of Pakistan
|-
|Gordon Redding
|1937
|
|Prominent specialist on China and Founder of the Hong Kong University Business School
|-
|Lord Lamont of Lerwick
|1942
|
|British life peer, former Chancellor of the Exchequer
|-
|Joseph Stiglitz
|1943
|
|World Bank Chief Economist
, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize for Economics
|-
|Vince Cable
|1943
|
|Current British Business Secretary and Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats
|-
|Sir Dennis Byron
|1943
|
|President of the Caribbean Court of Justice
and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
|-
|David Atherton
|1944
|
|Conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra
, founder of the Mainly Mozart Festival
|-
|David Starkey
|1945
|
|Television historian, expert authority on the Tudor Dynasty
, regular on Question Time
and The Moral Maze
|-
|Babar W. Malik
|1945
|
|Ambassador of Pakistan
|-
|Nick Drake
|1948
|1974
|Popular singer-songwriter
|-
|Andrew Li
|1948
|
|Chief Justice
of the Court of Final Appeal in Hong Kong
|-
|Ahmed Rashid
|1948
|
|Prominent Pakistani journalist and author, writer of Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
|-
|Dinesh Dhamija
|1950
|
|Entrepreneur, founder of the pioneering online travel agency Ebookers
|-
|David Leakey
|1952
|
|Director General of the European Union Military Staff
and Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod
|-
|Peter Bazalgette
|1953
|
|Media expert, Creative Director at the global TV firm Endemol
, known for Big Brother
|-
|Bernard Hogan-Howe
|1957
|
|Current Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service
|-
|Tim Sullivan
|1958
|
|Film and television director, known for Letters to Juliet
and Jack and Sarah
|-
|Brian Paddick
|1958
|
|Former Chief Superintendent
at Scotland Yard
, Lib Dem candidate for Mayor of London
|-
|Christian Purslow
|1963
|
|Managing Director of Liverpool Football Club and Founder of MidOcean Partners
private equity firm
|-
|Lord Knight of Weymouth
|1965
|
|British life peer, former Employment Minister
and Education Minister
|-
|Lee Hall
|1966
|
|Playwright, Tony Award
-winning writer of Billy Elliot
|-
|Giles Foden
|1967
|
|Novelist and journalist, Whitbread Award
-winning writer of The Last King of Scotland
|-
|Andy Burnham
|1970
|
|British Labour politician, former Secretary of State for Health
|-
|Maurizio Giuliano
|1975
|
|Italian journalist, author and record-breaking travel writer
|-
|Andrew Gower
|1978
|
|Video game developer, co-founder of Jagex Ltd, responsible for writing the online gaming phenomenon RuneScape
|-
|Arran Fernandez
|1995
|
|Mathematics prodigy, youngest ever GCSE recipient (aged 5) and youngest Cambridge University entrant in 237 years (aged 15)
|}
The Fitzwilliam 2006 Yearbook is online.
|-bgcolor="#f7f7f7"
!Name
!Birth
!Death
!Career
|-
|Reginald C. Fuller
|1908
|2011
|Theologian, Archbishop of Westminster
, co-editor of The Holy Bible – Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
|-
|Sir Ernst Boris Chain
|1909
|1979
|Biochemist, winner of the 1945 Nobel Prize in Medicine, for discovering the structure of penicillin
|-
|Stanley Alexander de Smith
|1922
|1974
|Legal scholar and author, pioneer in administrative law
, Constitutional Commissioner of Mauritius
|-
|Sam Toy
|1923
|2008
|Industrialist, Chairman of Ford of Britain
|-
|John M Hull
|1935
|
|Practical theologian, known for work on blindness and disability
|-
|Sir Anthony Bottoms
|1939
|
|Criminologist, author
|-
|Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones
|1942
|
|Historian, expert on American foreign policy
|-
|David Pearl
|1944
|
|Lawyer, President of the Immigration Appeal Tribunal
|-
|Bryan S. Turner
|1944
|
|Sociologist, Director of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies
|-
|David Starkey
|1945
|
|Historian, expert authority on the Tudor Dynasty
, regular on Question Time
and The Moral Maze
|-
|Angus Deaton
|1945
|
|Leading microeconomist, recipient of the inaugural Frisch Medal
|-
|Clive Wilmer
|1945
|
|Poet, art critic, founding editor of Numbers
, Director of the Guild of St George
|-
|Henry McLeish
|1945
|
|Politician, second First Minister of Scotland
(2000–2001)
|-
|Martin Millett
|1955
|
|Archaeologist, Director of the Society of Antiquaries of London
|-
|Jonathan Partington
|1955
|
|Mathematician, writer of some of the earliest text-based computer games
|-
|John Mullan
|1957
|
|Literary critic and Man Booker Prize
judge
|}
|-bgcolor="#f7f7f7"
!Name
!Birth
!Death
!Career
|-
|Edward Miller
|1915
|2000
|Professor of History at the University of Sheffield
, Chairman of the Victoria County History Project
and the History of Parliament Trust, Editor of the Agrarian History of England and Wales
|-
|Sir J. C. Holt
|1922
|
|Professor of Medieval History at the University of Nottingham
, the University of Reading
and the University of Cambridge
, Vice-president of the British Academy
|-
|Brian F. G. Johnson
|1938
|
|Professor of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh
and the University of Cambridge
, executive at EPSRC and Academia Europaea
, expert authority on nanoparticles
|-
|Robert Lethbridge
|1948
|
|Professor of French Language and Literature at the University of London
, the University of California
and the University of Melbourne
, awarded Chevalier des Palmes académiques
|}
Alumni of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
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The college traces its origins back to 1869 and the foundation of the Non-Collegiate Students Board, a venture intended to offer students from less financially privileged backgrounds a chance to study at the university. The institution was originally based at Fitzwilliam Hall (later renamed Fitzwilliam House), opposite the Fitzwilliam Museum
Fitzwilliam Museum
The Fitzwilliam Museum is the art and antiquities museum of the University of Cambridge, located on Trumpington Street opposite Fitzwilliam Street in central Cambridge, England. It receives around 300,000 visitors annually. Admission is free....
in central Cambridge. Having moved to its present site in the north of the city, Fitzwilliam attained collegiate status in 1966. Female undergraduates were first admitted in 1978. Within Cambridge, the college is often referred to as "Fitz".
Academic reputation
Whilst Fitzwilliam maintains academic standards that are typically high of Cambridge, it has over the past decade fluctuated between 13th and 22nd in 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 lists the University's 29 undergraduate colleges in order of their students' examination performances. The College achieved an average of 17th place under its previous Master (1999-2005), but under its present Master (2005-) its average position has fallen. Its average place since 2008 has been 21st, and in 2010 it achieved 22nd place, its lowest result since the Tompkins Table began to be calculated on its present basis in 1997..
Wealth
With fixed assets worth slightly more than £43.5m and land insured for approximately £72m, Fitzwilliam is also about average in terms of college wealth. Although it is the wealthiest college to have been established in the last half-century, it does not have the financial reserves that are typical of some of the older colleges. In 2006, a report published by VarsityVarsity (Cambridge)
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revealed Fitzwilliam to be the 23rd wealthiest of Cambridge's 31 colleges. The report also revealed that the college earns almost half a million pounds a year from conference accommodation and another £17 000 from its laundry service.
Student body
The college's modernity tends to attract students who view Cambridge University, an especially the more traditional colleges, as elitist. Former pupils of state schools usually comprise around 70–75% of the College's undergraduate population. However, as many of these are either overseas students or from provincial grammar schools and leading comprehensive schools, membership is a lot more diverse than the figures may suggest. Unlike a number of other colleges, Fitzwilliam has no distinct political leaning and has, in recent years, produced prominent members of all three major national parties.As of 2010, Fitzwilliam is home to around 475 undergraduates, 275 graduate students and over 60 fellows.
History
Foundation
In 1869, Cambridge University altered its statutes to allow men who were not members of a college to become members of the University under the supervision of a censor, whose office was in Trumpington StreetTrumpington 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...
, opposite the Fitzwilliam Museum. This provided students who could not afford to belong to a college with a base from which to study at the University, allowing them to be admitted to degrees, sit examinations and compete for scholarships. The name "Fitzwilliam" was chosen by the students at a meeting of the Non-Collegiate Amalgamation Club in the Spring of 1887 and, as a result, the University decreed that the house in Trumpington Street could be known as Fitzwilliam Hall. This became the headquarters of the Non-Collegiate Students Board and provided student facilities, with the majority of the students living in private lodgings. It was renamed Fitzwilliam House in 1922.
Due to its emphasis on academic ability rather than wealth, Fitzwilliam quickly attracted a strong academic contingent that included future Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
winners, Heads of State and important judicial figures. It developed a tradition in Medicine
Medicine
Medicine is the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....
and established a reputation as one of the most internationally diverse institutions within the University.
As Cambridge became more accessible in the second half of the 20th century, due to grants allowing less wealthy students the opportunity to belong to a college, the need for a non-collegiate body of undergraduates began to decline. The suggestion that Fitzwilliam close prompted an outcry from former students and it was therefore decided that the institution should aim for collegiate status. Funds were accumulated for this purpose and a new site was acquired at Castle Hill, about one mile north of the city centre. The first new buildings were opened in 1963.
In 1966, Fitzwilliam House was granted a royal charter
Royal Charter
A royal charter is a formal document issued by a monarch as letters patent, granting a right or power to an individual or a body corporate. They were, and are still, used to establish significant organizations such as cities or universities. Charters should be distinguished from warrants and...
by the Queen-in-Council
Queen-in-Council
The Queen-in-Council is, in each of the Commonwealth realms, the technical term of constitutional law that refers to the exercise of executive authority, denoting the monarch acting by and with the advice and consent of his or her privy council or executive council The Queen-in-Council (during...
and became Fitzwilliam College.
Expansion
In 1963 Fitzwilliam began operating at its current site on Castle Hill in the north-west of Cambridge. Since attaining its current status, the college has grown steadily and developed into one of the larger, more cosmopolitan colleges within the University. Built around an old manor house, the college has increased by one or two buildings each decade and now consists of five courts in large, rectangular gardens, enclosed by the outer-walls of various dormitories. In contrast to most of the University, and indeed the regency estate at the college's centre, the majority of the buildings are of modern design. The first two courts and the central building (comprising the old library, the dining hall, the junior common room and the bar) were designed by Sir Denys LasdunDenys Lasdun
Sir Denys Lasdun CH was an eminent English architect. Probably his best known work is the Royal National Theatre, on London's South Bank of the Thames, which is a Grade II* listed building and one of the most notable examples of Brutalist design in the United Kingdom.Lasdun studied at the...
and were completed in 1963. The intention was for these buildings to constitute the back of the college and, as funding became available, the college grew to the south, with New Court (1985), the Chapel (1991) and Wilson Court (1994). Finally, the plan was completed when Gatehouse Court (2003) became the college's new front. In the following year, the college completed the new Auditorium building, and in doing so became home to some of the best performance facilities in the University. In 2007 the college built a new boathouse, in 2009 the Library and IT Centre was added and, in 2010, the college acquired the buildings and grounds that formerly belonged to the Cambridge Lodge Hotel with the intention of renovating them for the use of graduate students. Fitzwilliam has, over the years, also become known for its beautiful gardens, which largely predate the college. In 2008, an archaeological dig found that the earliest clear evidence of settlement in Cambridge is the remains of a 3,500-year-old farmstead discovered on the College site.
Fitzwilliam is one of only five Cambridge colleges to have won University Challenge
University Challenge
University Challenge is a British quiz programme that has aired since 1962. The format is based on the American show College Bowl, which ran on NBC radio from 1953 to 1957, and on NBC television from 1959 to 1970....
. It did so in 1973 with a team that consisted of Philip Bassett (Botany), David Curry (Material Sciences), David Wurtzel (Law) and Michael Halls (English). The same team featured in the 2002 Reunited Series and won its only game.
Buildings and grounds
Storey's Way
Storey's Way is a mainly residential road, approximately 650 metres to the west of the city centre in Cambridge, England. It falls within the Castle Electoral Ward of Cambridge City Council, and feeds on to the major arterial roads Huntingdon Road to the north and Madingley Road to the west.It is...
, towards the north-west of Cambridge. The college is sometimes identified as one of the Hill Colleges
Hill college
Hill College may refer to:* Hill college, college of Durham University on Elvet Hill* Hill College, Hillsboro, Texas, USA...
, together with Churchill College, St Edmund's College, Girton College and Murray Edwards College. These colleges are all among the most recently established and tend to share certain architectural features.
Fitzwilliam consists of a variety of modern buildings, built in the grounds of a regency estate.
The Grove (1813):
The college's centrepiece is the Grove, a Grade II regency manor house. This was designed by the architect William Custance and constructed in 1813. Custance was also the house's first resident and his initials, along with the date '1814', can be found on a rainwater hopper at the side of the house. Another slightly smaller building known as Grove Lodge was also designed by Custance and is now part of Murray Edwards College. For some time, both properties were owned by the Darwin family and The Grove served as Emma Darwin
Emma Darwin
Emma Darwin was the wife and first cousin of Charles Darwin, the English naturalist, scientist and author of On the Origin of Species...
's primary residence between 1883 and 1896, following the death of her husband Charles
Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin FRS was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.He published his theory...
. During this time, she had the interior lined with original William Morris
William Morris
William Morris 24 March 18343 October 1896 was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement...
wallpaper and two of her sons had smaller houses built in the grounds. Although both have since been demolished, the house built by Horace Darwin
Horace Darwin
Sir Horace Darwin, KBE, FRS , a son of the English naturalist Charles Darwin, was a civil engineer.Darwin was born in Down House in 1851, the fifth son and ninth child of the British naturalist Charles Darwin and his wife Emma, the youngest of their seven children that survived to adulthood.He was...
, which was known as The Orchard, was donated to Murray Edwards College in 1962 and the site now serves as its primary campus. In 1988, The Grove became part of Fitzwilliam and today it is home to a number of fellows, as well as the Senior Common Room
Common Room (university)
In some universities in the United Kingdom — particularly collegiate universities such as Oxford, Cambridge and Durham — students and the academic body are organised into common rooms...
and the Middle Combination Room
Common Room (university)
In some universities in the United Kingdom — particularly collegiate universities such as Oxford, Cambridge and Durham — students and the academic body are organised into common rooms...
.
The Hall Building (1963):
The Hall Building is a large complex towards the back of the college. It was built between 1960 and 1963 and was designed by Sir Denys Lasdun, who won Royal Gold Medal
Royal Gold Medal
The Royal Gold Medal for architecture is awarded annually by the Royal Institute of British Architects on behalf of the British monarch, in recognition of an individual's or group's substantial contribution to international architecture....
in 1977 and is most well known for having designed the National Theatre
Royal National Theatre
The Royal National Theatre in London is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company...
in London. The building, which is an example of the Modern Movement
Modern architecture
Modern architecture is generally characterized by simplification of form and creation of ornament from the structure and theme of the building. It is a term applied to an overarching movement, with its exact definition and scope varying widely...
in architecture, consists primarily of the college dining hall, but also houses the bar, kitchens, the junior common room, a couple of seminar rooms and a gymnasium. The dinner gong, just outside the dining hall, was originally the bell of the HMS Ocean
HMS Ocean (R68)
HMS Ocean was a Royal Navy Colossus-class light fleet aircraft carrier of 13,190 tons built in Glasgow by Alexander Stephen and Sons. Her keel was laid in November 1942, and she was commissioned on 30 June 1945....
and was presented to Fitzwilliam House by Admiral of the Fleet
Admiral of the Fleet
An admiral of the fleet is a military naval officer of the highest rank. In many nations the rank is reserved for wartime or ceremonial appointments...
Sir Caspar John
Caspar John
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Caspar John GCB was the British First Sea Lord from 1960 to 1963. He was pioneer in the Fleet Air Arm, and rose to become Vice-Chief of Naval Staff to Sea Lord Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma in 1957 and subsequently First Sea Lord from 1960 to 1963.-Early...
in 1962.
Fellows' Court (1963):
Like the Hall Building, Fellows' Court was part of the initial construction, designed by Sir Denys Lasdun and completed in 1963 at a cost of approximately £300 000. It occupies an area in the far corner of the college and is enclosed by the Hall Building, the Law Library and two dormitories. It is generally reserved for fellows, and, as well as residence, also houses the Fellows' Parlour.
Tree Court (1963):
Tree Court, the last component of the initial 1963 construction, is located at the north end of the college, opposite Fellows' Court. The court was initially the college's main entrance and, with a car park and a cycling bay just outside, it remains a back door to the college. Tree Court was Lasdun's first attempt at student residence; he would go on to design similar buildings at the University of East Anglia
University of East Anglia
The University of East Anglia is a public research university based in Norwich, United Kingdom. It was established in 1963, and is a founder-member of the 1994 Group of research-intensive universities.-History:...
and Christ's College, Cambridge
Christ's College, Cambridge
Christ's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.With a reputation for high academic standards, Christ's College averaged top place in the Tompkins Table from 1980-2000 . In 2011, Christ's was placed sixth.-College history:...
. Although the court opens out onto the college gardens, the wall opposite the Hall Building was recently lengthened with the addition of the college's new Library and IT Centre. Today, Tree Court provides residence for the majority of first year students.
New Court (1985):
In the mid-eighties, the college expanded to the south with the construction of New Court, a three-walled residential compound, designed by MacCormac, Jamieson & Prichard. Students and fellows contributed to the design with such ideas as intersecting staircases and elongated windows. The court won 1989 David Urwin Award for Best New Building. In 2004, the court gained its fourth wall with the completion of the college's new auditorium.
The Chapel (1991):
In 1991, the north wing of New Court was lengthened to include the new college Chapel. The building, which was also designed by MacCormac, Jamieson & Prichard, faces directly towards the Grove and is an example of the International Movement
International style (architecture)
The International style is a major architectural style that emerged in the 1920s and 1930s, the formative decades of Modern architecture. The term originated from the name of a book by Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson, The International Style...
in architecture. The Chapel is designed to resemble the hull of a ship, which hints at the religious themes of journey and protection. The building is home to a fine two-manual organ designed by Peter Collins
Peter Collins (organ builder)
Peter Collins is an English pipe organ builder based in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. He specialises in tracker action organs typically with clean, modernist light wood casework and well-balanced classical voicing...
, a Bechstein
C. Bechstein Pianofortefabrik
C. Bechstein Pianofortefabrik AG is a German manufacturer of pianos, established in 1853 by Carl Bechstein.-Before Bechstein:...
grand piano and a Goble
Robert Goble
Robert Goble was an English harpsichord builder.The son of Harriet and John Goble, a wheelwright, he grew up in Thursley, Surrey. He first encountered pioneering early-instrument-maker Arnold Dolmetsch and his family in the autumn of 1917, when they took refuge from London air raids by renting a...
harpsichord. The addition won the 1992 Civic Trust Award, the 1993 Carpenters' Award
Wood Awards
The Wood Awards is one of the premier accolades for working with wood available in the UK. The award, which was created over thirty years ago and received its new name in 2003, is bestowed on winners of several categories within buildings and furniture...
and the 1993 David Urwin Award for Best New Building. The firm later used a similar design for the Ruskin Library
Ruskin Library
The Ruskin Library is a library of the University of Lancaster which houses the Whitehouse Collection of material relating to the English poet, author and artist John Ruskin and his circle. This collection was formed by John Howard Whitehouse, Liberal Member of Parliament...
at the University of Lancaster.
Wilson Court (1994):
The fourth court was added to the south of the college, next to the boundary with Murray Edwards, in 1994. It was designed by Van Heyningen & Haward and includes 48 acoustically independent rooms and the Gordon Cameron Lecture Theatre, which is also used as the college cinema. It won the 1996 RIBA Award
Royal Institute of British Architects
The Royal Institute of British Architects is a professional body for architects primarily in the United Kingdom, but also internationally.-History:...
.
Gatehouse Court (2003):
The completion of Gatehouse Court in 2003 saw the realisation of Sir Denys Lasdun's original vision. The design, courtesy of Allies & Morrison
Allies and Morrison
Allies and Morrison is a London-based architectural practice founded by Bob Allies and Graham Morrison in 1984. The practice is now headed up by 10 Partners and employs around 210 people in their purpose designed studios at 85 Southwark Street...
, reorientated the college and gave it a new entrance, complete with Porter's Lodge, administrative offices, meeting rooms, parking facilities, a large-scale engraving of the college crest and a flagpole. It also provided an extra 42 en-suite bedrooms for student accommodation. The college now faces south and opens onto Storey's Way
Storey's Way
Storey's Way is a mainly residential road, approximately 650 metres to the west of the city centre in Cambridge, England. It falls within the Castle Electoral Ward of Cambridge City Council, and feeds on to the major arterial roads Huntingdon Road to the north and Madingley Road to the west.It is...
, a smaller, primarily residential street branching off Madingley Road
Madingley Road
Madingley Road is a major arterial road linking central Cambridge, England with Junction 13 of the M11 motorway. It passes by West Cambridge, a major new site where some University of Cambridge departments are being relocated....
. As well as expanding the college dramatically, the court was awarded the 2005 RIBA Award
Royal Institute of British Architects
The Royal Institute of British Architects is a professional body for architects primarily in the United Kingdom, but also internationally.-History:...
and the 2005 BDA Award for Building of the Year.
The Auditorium (2004):
Perhaps the most impressive addition to the college site came with the completion of the Auditorium building in 2004. Having overseen the construction of Gatehouse Court, Allies & Morrison
Allies and Morrison
Allies and Morrison is a London-based architectural practice founded by Bob Allies and Graham Morrison in 1984. The practice is now headed up by 10 Partners and employs around 210 people in their purpose designed studios at 85 Southwark Street...
were employed to design the college's new performance facilities. Built using a similar brick to that used for the Grove almost 200 years earlier, the building is largely below ground-level, resulting in a direct view of the surrounding landscape for audience members towards the back of the gallery. It won the 2005 Concrete Society Award and the 2005 BDA Award for Best Public Building. Located near the front of the college, the building faces New Court and backs onto the college gardens. Consisting of a large central performance area, three smaller practice rooms and an entrance hall, the auditorium is the official home of the internationally renowned Fitzwilliam Quartet
Fitzwilliam Quartet
The Fitzwilliam Quartet is a string quartet consisting of Lucy Russell and Jonathan Sparey, violins; Alan George, viola; and Heather Tuach, violoncello....
. The main hall, which has been praised for its acoustics, houses a Steinway
Steinway & Sons
Steinway & Sons, also known as Steinway , is an American and German manufacturer of handmade pianos, founded 1853 in Manhattan in New York City by German immigrant Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg...
grand piano and the practice rooms, which vary in size and purpose, include instruments such as a tympani, a full-size drum kit, amplifiers and a Bösendorfer
Bösendorfer
Bösendorfer is an Austrian piano manufacturer, and a wholly owned subsidiary of Yamaha. The brand is known for producing pianos with a uniquely rich, singing, and sustaining tone...
piano. Although used primarily for music, the building has also hosted drama performances and important lectures. In recent years, guests have included the American politician Jesse Jackson
Jesse Jackson
Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. is an African-American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as shadow senator for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997. He was the founder of both entities that merged to...
, former poet laureate Sir Andrew Motion
Andrew Motion
Sir Andrew Motion, FRSL is an English poet, novelist and biographer, who presided as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2009.- Life and career :...
, and the former head of MI6 Sir Richard Dearlove, who visited the college as part of the Arrol Adam Lecture Series in 2008.
The Library and IT Centre (2009):
A new library was completed in 2009. As of January 2010, its book collection contains around 60 000 volumes and increases by about 1000 volumes each year. At a cost of £5m, the building was designed by Edward Cullinan
Edward Cullinan
Edward Cullinan, CBE, is a British architect.Cullinan was educated at Cambridge University, the Architectural Association, and the University of California, Berkeley before working for Denys Lasdun where he designed the student residences for the University of East Anglia.Cullinan's practice,...
, who had worked with Lasdun on the original college plan, and who was untaking his first major project after receiving the Royal Gold Medal
Royal Gold Medal
The Royal Gold Medal for architecture is awarded annually by the Royal Institute of British Architects on behalf of the British monarch, in recognition of an individual's or group's substantial contribution to international architecture....
in 2008. It was built as an extension to the uncompleted east wing of Tree Court and was designed to allow maximum luminosity and energy efficiency. The building, opened in April 2010 by the Duke of Edinburgh
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh is the husband of Elizabeth II. He is the United Kingdom's longest-serving consort and the oldest serving spouse of a reigning British monarch....
, is also fitted with extensive computing facilities and includes a large underground computer room exclusively for undergraduates. In 2011, alumnus Ken Olisa
Ken Olisa
Kenneth Olisa, OBE FRSA FBCS is a British businessman born of a Nigerian father and a British mother.Olisa attained an MA in Natural, Social & Political and Management Sciences from Cambridge University ....
donated £1.4m to the development of the Library and IT Centre. Unlike most college libraries, it is open 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.
Heritage
Coat of Arms:The college's coat of arms
Coat of arms
A coat of arms is a unique heraldic design on a shield or escutcheon or on a surcoat or tabard used to cover and protect armour and to identify the wearer. Thus the term is often stated as "coat-armour", because it was anciently displayed on the front of a coat of cloth...
first came into use in the 1880s when the non-collegiate Fitzwilliam Hall needed an emblem to represent its newly formed boat club. The result was a combination between the University coat of arms and the lozengy shield used by the Earls of Fitzwilliam
Earl FitzWilliam
Earl Fitzwilliam was a title in both the Peerage of Ireland and the Peerage of Great Britain held by the head of the Fitzwilliam family. This family claim descent from William the Conqueror. The Fitzwilliams acquired extensive holdings in South Yorkshire, largely through strategic alliances through...
. Initially, the design was used unofficially and it was only when Fitzwilliam was in the process of attaining collegiate status, some 80 years later, that it actually applied for a Grant of Arms
Grant of Arms
A grant of arms is an action by a lawful authority, such as an officer of arms, conferring on a person and his or her descendants the right to bear a particular coat of arms or armorial bearings...
. The design was formally recorded by the Duke of Norfolk
Bernard Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk
Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk, , styled Earl of Arundel and Surrey until 1917, was the eldest surviving son of Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk, who died when Bernard was only 9 years old...
on behalf of the Queen-in-Council
Queen-in-Council
The Queen-in-Council is, in each of the Commonwealth realms, the technical term of constitutional law that refers to the exercise of executive authority, denoting the monarch acting by and with the advice and consent of his or her privy council or executive council The Queen-in-Council (during...
in the late 60s. Notably, the Fitzwilliam coat of arms is the only college emblem to reference the University's own coat of arms.
Motto:
What the coat of arms achieves with its new combination of age-old symbols, is an encapsulation of the college motto: Ex antiquis et novissimis optima (the best of the old and the new). The sentiment can also be seen in college's architectural design, with award-winning modern buildings complemented by a classical layout and such iconic old buildings as The Grove and the graduate lodge. In general, however, the expression is regarded to apply to a balance of customs and ideas. It expresses a progressive attitude coupled with a will to conserve the achievements of tradition.
Colours:
The earliest records of the college’s sporting clubs describe the colours as grey and ruby. By Easter 1892, the colours were more closely defined as cardinal and french grey. Since then various shades have been used, although the Middle Combination Room’s
Common Room (university)
In some universities in the United Kingdom — particularly collegiate universities such as Oxford, Cambridge and Durham — students and the academic body are organised into common rooms...
ties, which celebrate the foundation in 1869, have reverted to cardinal as their main colour. Today, the College is firmly associated with the colours grey and red, although they were at one time blue and buff, with blue remaining the principal colour of some sporting blazers right up until the 1960s.
Mascot:
Students from Fitzwilliam are sometimes informally referred to as Fitzbillys or Billygoats. As a consequence, the goat has become a popular college mascot and can be found on the front of the boat house, on the boat club flag, and in various places around the college.
Student Music
In recent years, Fitzwilliam has developed a strong MusicMusic
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
al tradition. Former students include the award-winning conductor David Atherton
David Atherton
David Atherton OBE, is an English conductor.-Background:Atherton was born in Blackpool, Lancashire in a musical family. He was educated at Blackpool Grammar School. His father, Robert Atherton, was the Music Master at St Joseph's College, Blackpool and was also a conductor...
, TV and radio presenter Humphrey Burton
Humphrey Burton
Humphrey Burton, CBE is a British classical music presenter, broadcaster, director, producer, and biographer of musicians....
, the American film composer Jeffrey Gold
Jeffrey Gold
Jeffrey Frederick Gold is an American filmmaker, film producer, playwright, and film composer educated as a physicist and mathematician at the United States Naval Academy, the University of Utah, and the University of Cambridge, England.- Science :Jeffrey Gold attended the U.S...
and the singer-songwriter Nick Drake
Nick Drake
Nicholas Rodney "Nick" Drake was an English singer-songwriter and musician. Though he is best known for his sombre guitar based songs, Drake was also proficient at piano, clarinet and saxophone...
, who secured a record deal with a four-track demo recorded in his college room in 1968. Other prominent Music graduates include violist Martin Outram
Martin Outram
Martin Outram is an English viola soloist and violist of the Maggini Quartet.-Biography:Martin Outram studied at Fitzwilliam College at Cambridge University and later at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Outram is the violist of the Maggini Quartet....
, baritone John Noble
John Noble (baritone)
John Noble was an English baritone. He was Ralph Vaughan Williams's favourite in the title role of the composer's opera The Pilgrim's Progress....
, bassist Simon Fell
Simon Fell
Simon H. Fell is a bassist and composer; he is primarily known for his work as a free improviser and the composer of ambitiously complex post-serialist works.Fell began playing double bass in 1973...
and two founding members of the Fitzwilliam String Quartet
Fitzwilliam Quartet
The Fitzwilliam Quartet is a string quartet consisting of Lucy Russell and Jonathan Sparey, violins; Alan George, viola; and Heather Tuach, violoncello....
.
Today, Fitzwilliam has more active music groups than any other college. As well as the traditional Chapel Choir, which also takes in choristers from neighbouring Murray Edwards,, the college is home to numerous singing ensembles. In March 2010, two of the college a capella groups, Fitz Barbershop and The Sirens, reached the finals of a nationwide competition, The Voice Festival UK
The Voice Festival UK
The Voice Festival UK is the only UK-wide festival which celebrates the art of unaccompanied singing.The Festival's central purpose is to increase the awareness and popularity of the a cappella art form in the UK, and to support the development of the existing UK a cappella scene, by recruiting...
, judged by composer John Rutter
John Rutter
John Milford Rutter CBE is a British composer, conductor, editor, arranger and record producer, mainly of choral music.-Biography:Born in London, Rutter was educated at Highgate School, where a fellow pupil was John Tavener. He read music at Clare College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the...
. The Sirens, an all-female group, won the award for Outstanding Musicality, whilst Fitz Barbershop were joint winners of the prestigious Award for Outstanding Performance. Both groups perform regularly throughout the University. The college also hosts the ‘Fitz Swing’ Band – one of Cambridge's foremost jazz groups with a reputation for providing excellent entertainment at the May Balls
May Ball
A May Ball is a ball at the end of the academic year that happens at any one of the colleges of the University of Cambridge. They are formal affairs, requiring evening dress, with ticket prices of around £65 to £200 , with some colleges selling tickets only in pairs...
. Other college groups include Fitzwilliam Baroque Ensemble, the recently-formed Ensemble CB3, and Fitzwilliam Chamber Opera, the university’s only college-based opera society. Fitzwilliam is heavily involved in the Orchestra on the Hill, which performs large-scale works on a termly basis and draws its membership from students of the Hill Colleges
Hill college
Hill College may refer to:* Hill college, college of Durham University on Elvet Hill* Hill College, Hillsboro, Texas, USA...
. There are also the weekly Fitz Sessions, in which students perform music, poetry and comedy as part of an informal set-up in the college bar. To encourage musical activity, the college hosts the annual Alkan Piano Competition, sponsored by the Alkan Society. The competition is followed by a recital from a professional pianist with a particular interest in Alkan
Charles-Valentin Alkan
Charles-Valentin Alkan was a French composer and one of the greatest virtuoso pianists of his day. His attachment to his Jewish origins is displayed both in his life and his work. He entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of six, earning many awards, and as an adult became a famous virtuoso...
's music. The first recital was given by the late Ronald Smith
Ronald Smith
Ronald Sam Smith was an English classical pianist, composer and teacher, born in London. He entered the Royal Academy of Music at the age of 16 with the Sir Michael Costa Scholarship for composition...
in 2001.
Due to the college's new Auditorium, Fitzwilliam is also a popular performance venue. Each year it hosts the Fitzwilliam Chamber Series, a collection of concerts by leading professional musicians. Recent performers at the college have included the cellist Julian Lloyd Webber
Julian Lloyd Webber
Julian Lloyd Webber is a British solo cellist who has been described as the "doyen of British cellists".-Early life:Julian Lloyd Webber is the second son of the composer William Lloyd Webber and his wife Jean Johnstone . He is the younger brother of the composer Andrew Lloyd Webber...
, the popular DJ Annie Mac
Annie Mac
Annie Mac is an Irish DJ and television presenter who hosts an eponymous electronic dance music show on BBC Radio 1 in the United Kingdom which airs at 7:00 pm on Friday evenings as well as a Sunday evening show alongside co-presenter Nick Grimshaw.-Personal life:Annie Mac was born in Dublin,...
and the English Touring Opera
English Touring Opera
English Touring Opera is an opera company in the United Kingdom. From 1979 to 1992 it was known as Opera 80.- About the company :Opera 80 was founded in 1979 by the Arts Council of Great Britain as the successor to Opera For All; in 1992 the company changed its name to English Touring Opera...
. The Indie band Good Shoes
Good Shoes
Good Shoes are a four-piece English indie pop band, hailing from Morden, London.-Biography:Good Shoes was formed by lead singer Rhys Jones and guitarist Steve Leach who often wrote and played music together as a hobby. Rhys and Steve appeared as a two piece under the Good Shoes name for a friend's...
performed their first ever gig at the college in 2005. In 2007, a piece by the composer Thomas Hewitt Jones
Thomas Hewitt Jones
Thomas Hewitt Jones is a British composer of contemporary classical and commercial music. He has written extensively for ballet, including the 2008 score for the Independent Ballet Wales production of Under Milk Wood, which was met with critical acclaim including a 5* review from the Independent, a...
, with the title Kaizen Studies, received its premier at the college's Auditorium. In May 2011, Fitzwilliam Chamber Opera performed the world premiere of Ivan Moody
Ivan Moody
Ivan Moody, British composer, was born in London in 1964, and studied composition with Brian Dennis at London University, William Brooks at York University and privately with John Tavener. He also studied Orthodox theology at the University of Joensuu, Finland...
's Fables of La Fontaine; the composer declared it "a magnificent performance".
The Fitzwilliam Quartet
Fitzwilliam is the only college in Cambridge with a resident professional string quartet. The group, which is known as The Fitzwilliam QuartetFitzwilliam Quartet
The Fitzwilliam Quartet is a string quartet consisting of Lucy Russell and Jonathan Sparey, violins; Alan George, viola; and Heather Tuach, violoncello....
, was established by Cambridge undergraduates in 1968. They made their first professional appearance a year later at the Sheffield Arts Festival and, following graduation in 1971, became the Resident Quartet at the University of York
University of York
The University of York , is an academic institution located in the city of York, England. Established in 1963, the campus university has expanded to more than thirty departments and centres, covering a wide range of subjects...
. Just a year into their residence, they became personally acquainted with the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet Russian composer and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century....
and gained international recognition when they were asked to premier several of his String Quartets. They went on to become the first group to perform and record all 15 of his String Quartets and Shostakovich himself described them as his "preferred performers". When the composer died in August 1975, they had been scheduled to visit him in Moscow just a month later. The group proceeded to record acclaimed interpretations of many other composers, notably Brahms and Haydn, and won the first ever Grammy Award
Grammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
for Chamber Music in 1977. In 1981, they were awarded Honorary Doctorates of Music by Bucknell University
Bucknell University
Bucknell University is a private liberal arts university located alongside the West Branch Susquehanna River in the rolling countryside of Central Pennsylvania in the town of Lewisburg, 30 miles southeast of Williamsport and 60 miles north of Harrisburg. The university consists of the College of...
, which were presented by Shostakovich’s son, Maxim
Maxim Shostakovich
Maxim Dmitrievich Shostakovich is a Russian conductor and pianist. He was the second child of Dmitri Shostakovich and Nina Varzar.Since 1975, he has conducted and popularised many of his father's lesser-known works....
. In 2005, a number of their recordings were included in Gramophone magazine's list of the “Hundred Greatest-ever Recordings”. They have a long-term contract with Decca Records
Decca Records
Decca Records began as a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis. Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; however, owing to World War II, the link with the British company was broken for several decades....
and perform regularly all over the world. Although membership has changed over the years, the group returned to Fitzwilliam in 1999 when they were appointed the college's Resident Quartet. They visit for performances and workshops each term and even premier pieces written by students. In 2008, they celebrated their 40th anniversary.
The University Orchestra
The University of Cambridge Philharmonic Orchestra, popularly known as UCPO, was originally founded as an offshoot of the Fitzwilliam College Music Society. In its early days, the orchestra was supported by grants from the college and rehearsing took place on site. It was initially called the West Cambridge Symphony Orchestra, due to the fact that the majority of its members were from West CambridgeWest Cambridge
West Cambridge is a university site to the west of Cambridge city centre in England. As part of the West Cambridge Master Plan, several of the University of Cambridge's departments have relocated to the West Cambridge site from the centre of town due to overcrowding...
colleges; predominantly, Fitzwilliam, Churchill and New Hall. Although the orchestra changed its name as it grew in stature, a smaller affiliated group, known as the West Cambridge Sinfonia, maintains the epithet. Today, the orchestra is sponsored by Bird & Bird
Bird & Bird
Bird & Bird is an international law firm with over 200 partners and broad advisory, transactional and contentious capability. Well known for its intellectual property work, in recent years the firm has undertaken expansion in many areas of commercial law, across selected industry sectors...
and rehearses primarily at St. Giles' Church
Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge
The Ascension Parish Burial Ground, formerly St Giles and St Peter's Parish, is a cemetery just off Huntingdon Road near the junction with Storey's Way in the northwest of Cambridge, England. It includes the graves of many Cambridge academics and non-conformists of the 19th and early 20th century...
. It tours and records on a regular basis and performs University concerts once a term. At Fitzwilliam, the role originally played by WCSO has since been taken over by the Orchestra on the Hill.
Sport
Fitzwilliam is traditionally strong in FootballFootball (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
: the first team won the University league in 2005 (winning every game on the way) and the knock-out competition, known as Cuppers
Cuppers
Cuppers is a term for intercollegiate sporting competitions at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The term comes from the word "cup" and is an example of the Oxford "-er". Each sport holds only one cuppers competition each year, which is open to all colleges. Most cuppers competitions use...
, in 2006; last year, it was the runner-up in both the league and the cup. The College also has strong teams in Rugby Union
Rugby union
Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...
and Table Tennis
Table tennis
Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net...
, and fields teams in most popular sports.
On site, the college has a multi-gym in the Hall Building, a Badminton court in the Auditorium Building and three Squash courts, which are also used for table tennis, in a separate sports hall towards the front of the college. The squash courts were recently refurbished and are used for training sessions by Cambridge University Squash Club.
The college's main sports grounds, which are among the most extensive in the University, are located on (and named after) Oxford Road, just a few minutes' walk from the college's Huntingdon Road
Huntingdon Road
Huntingdon Road is a major arterial road linking central Cambridge, England with Junction 14 of the M11 motorway and the A14 northwest from the city centre. The road is designated the A1307....
entrance. The land was donated to Fitzwilliam Hall in honour of the students who died in the First World War. The grounds include tennis courts, a netball court, a cricket pitch, a rugby pitch, and both full-size and five-a-side football pitches. It is the only sports ground in the University with an on-site club house, complete with a bar. It's regularly used by varsity teams and is also made available to students of Murray Edwards College.
In 2007, the college completed its new boat house.
Notable alumni
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!Name
!Birth
!Death
!Career
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|James Ward
James Ward (psychologist)
James Ward was an English psychologist and philosopher. He was born in Kingston upon Hull, the eldest of nine children. His father was an unsuccessful merchant...
|1843
|1925
|Psychologist and philosopher, President of the Aristotelian Society
Aristotelian Society
The Aristotelian Society for the Systematic Study of Philosophy was founded at a meeting on 19 April 1880, at 17 Bloomsbury Square which resolved "to constitute a society of about twenty and to include ladies; the society to meet fortnightly, on Mondays at 8 o'clock, at the rooms of the Spelling...
|-
|Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
|1857
|1952
|Winner of the 1932 Nobel Prize in Medicine, for groundbreaking work on the function of the neuron
Neuron
A neuron is an electrically excitable cell that processes and transmits information by electrical and chemical signaling. Chemical signaling occurs via synapses, specialized connections with other cells. Neurons connect to each other to form networks. Neurons are the core components of the nervous...
|-
|Joseph Baptista
Joseph Baptista
Joseph "Kaka" Baptista was an Indian politician and activist from Bombay , closely associated with the Lokmanya Tilak and the Home Rule Movement. He was elected as the Mayor of Bombay in 1925. He was given the title Kaka that means "uncle".-Early life:Joseph Baptista was born on 17 March 1864 in...
|1864
|1930
|Founder of the Indian Home Rule Movement
Home Rule Movement
The All India Home Rule League was a national political organization founded in 1916 to lead the national demand for self-government, termed Home Rule, and to obtain the status of a Dominion within the British Empire as enjoyed by Australia, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand and Newfoundland at the...
and Mayor of Bombay
Mayor of Mumbai
The Mayor of Mumbai is the first citizen of the Indian city of Mumbai. The person is the chief of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, but his/her role is largely ceremonial as the real powers are vested in the Municipal Commissioner. The Mayor also plays a functional role in deliberating over...
|-
|A. G. M. Michell
Anthony Michell
Anthony George Maldon Michell FRS was an Australian mechanical engineer of the early 20th century.-Early life:...
|1870
|1959
|Mechanical engineer, inventor of the thrust bearing
Thrust bearing
A thrust bearing is a particular type of rotary bearing. Like other bearings they permit rotation between parts, but they are designed to support a high axial load while doing this.Thrust bearings come in several varieties....
and the tilting-pad fluid bearing
|-
|Albert Szent-Györgyi
Albert Szent-Györgyi
Albert Szent-Györgyi de Nagyrápolt was a Hungarian physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937. He is credited with discovering vitamin C and the components and reactions of the citric acid cycle...
|1893
|1986
|Winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize in Medicine, discoverer of Vitamin C
Vitamin C
Vitamin C or L-ascorbic acid or L-ascorbate is an essential nutrient for humans and certain other animal species. In living organisms ascorbate acts as an antioxidant by protecting the body against oxidative stress...
|-
|Subhas Chandra Bose
|1897
|1945
|President of the Indian National Congress
Indian National Congress
The Indian National Congress is one of the two major political parties in India, the other being the Bharatiya Janata Party. It is the largest and one of the oldest democratic political parties in the world. The party's modern liberal platform is largely considered center-left in the Indian...
and leader of the Indian National Army
Indian National Army
The Indian National Army or Azad Hind Fauj was an armed force formed by Indian nationalists in 1942 in Southeast Asia during World War II. The aim of the army was to overthrow the British Raj in colonial India, with Japanese assistance...
|-
|Sir J. Eric S. Thompson
J. Eric S. Thompson
Sir John Eric Sidney Thompson was an English Mesoamerican archeologist and epigrapher. His contributions to the understanding of Maya hieroglyphs lead him to be one of the foremost mid-20th century anthropological scholars. He was generally known as J. Eric S...
|1898
|1975
|World's leading scholar on the pre-Columbian
Pre-Columbian
The pre-Columbian era incorporates all period subdivisions in the history and prehistory of the Americas before the appearance of significant European influences on the American continents, spanning the time of the original settlement in the Upper Paleolithic period to European colonization during...
Maya civilization
Maya civilization
The Maya is a Mesoamerican civilization, noted for the only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas, as well as for its art, architecture, and mathematical and astronomical systems. Initially established during the Pre-Classic period The Maya is a Mesoamerican...
|-
|Bernard Orchard
Bernard Orchard
Dom Bernard Orchard OSB MA was an English Roman Catholic Benedictine monk, headmaster and biblical scholar.-Early life and education:John Archibald Henslowe Orchard, the son of a farmer, was born in Bromley, Kent...
|1910
|2006
|Biblical scholar and translator, General Secretary of the World Catholic Federation
Catholic Biblical Federation
The Catholic Biblical Federation is a worldwide "fellowship" of administratively independent Catholic Bible associations and other organizations committed to biblical-pastoral ministries in 129 countries...
|-
|Shankar Dayal Sharma
Shankar Dayal Sharma
Shankar Dayal Sharma was the ninth President of India serving from 1992 to 1997. Prior to his presidency, Dr Sharma had been the eighth Vice President of India, serving under President Ramaswamy Venkataraman...
|1918
|1999
|Ninth President of India
President of India
The President of India is the head of state and first citizen of India, as well as the Supreme Commander of the Indian Armed Forces. President of India is also the formal head of all the three branches of Indian Democracy - Legislature, Executive and Judiciary...
(1992–1997)
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|Lee Kuan Yew
Lee Kuan Yew
Lee Kuan Yew, GCMG, CH is a Singaporean statesman. He was the first Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore, governing for three decades...
|1923
|
|First and longest-serving Prime Minister of Singapore
Prime Minister of Singapore
The Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore is the head of the government of the Republic of Singapore. The President of Singapore appoints as Prime Minister a Member of Parliament who, in his opinion, is most likely to command the confidence of a majority of MPs.The office of Prime Minister...
(1959–1990)
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|Sir Louis Blom-Cooper
Louis Blom-Cooper
Sir Louis Jacques Blom-Cooper QC FKC is an author and UK lawyer specialising in public law and administrative law.-Education:...
|1926
|
|High Court lawyer, author, last Chairman of the Press Council, co-founder of Amnesty International
Amnesty International
Amnesty International is an international non-governmental organisation whose stated mission is "to conduct research and generate action to prevent and end grave abuses of human rights, and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated."Following a publication of Peter Benenson's...
|-
|César Milstein
César Milstein
César Milstein FRS was an Argentine biochemist in the field of antibody research. Milstein shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1984 with Niels K. Jerne and Georges Köhler.-Biography:...
|1927
|2002
|Winner of the 1984 Nobel Prize in Medicine, for producing monoclonal antibodies
|-
|Lord St John of Fawsley
Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley
Norman Anthony Francis St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley, PC, FRSL , is a British politician, author, constitutional expert and barrister. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as the Leader of the House of Commons in the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher from 1979 to 1981...
|1929
|
|British life peer, Leader of the House of Commons
Leader of the House of Commons
The Leader of the House of Commons is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom who is responsible for arranging government business in the House of Commons...
and Minister of State for the Arts
|-
|Humphrey Burton
Humphrey Burton
Humphrey Burton, CBE is a British classical music presenter, broadcaster, director, producer, and biographer of musicians....
|1931
|
|Emmy Award
Emmy Award
An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
-winning music broadcaster and director
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|Sir Kenneth Eaton
Kenneth Eaton
Admiral Sir Kenneth John Eaton GBE KCB is a Royal Navy officer who served as Controller of the Navy between 1989 and 1994.-Naval career:...
|1934
|
|British Controller of the Navy (1989-1994)
|-
|Nasir Aslam Zahid
Nasir Aslam Zahid
The Honourable Justice Nasir Aslam Zahid , Barrister-at-Law, is one of the most respected names of Pakistani judiciary. Son of the first Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan Mr...
|1935
|
|Former Chief Justice
Chief Justice
The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
of the Supreme Court of Pakistan
Supreme Court of Pakistan
The Supreme Court is the apex court in Pakistan's judicial hierarchy, the final arbiter of legal and constitutional disputes. The Supreme Court has a permanent seat in Islamabad. It has number of Branch Registries where cases are heard. It has a number of de jure powers which are outlined in the...
|-
|Gordon Redding
Gordon Redding
Gordon Redding , MA, PhD, D.Econ h.c., is an influential British professor, academic, author, editor, consultant, director and secretary general. He is today considered one of the most prominent specialists on China and the regional ethnic Chinese, having published over 10 books and 100 articles...
|1937
|
|Prominent specialist on China and Founder of the Hong Kong University Business School
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|Lord Lamont of Lerwick
|1942
|
|British life peer, former Chancellor of the Exchequer
Chancellor of the Exchequer
The Chancellor of the Exchequer is the title held by the British Cabinet minister who is responsible for all economic and financial matters. Often simply called the Chancellor, the office-holder controls HM Treasury and plays a role akin to the posts of Minister of Finance or Secretary of the...
|-
|Joseph Stiglitz
|1943
|
|World Bank Chief Economist
World Bank Chief Economist
The World Bank Chief Economist provides intellectual leadership and direction to the Bank’s overall development strategy and economic research agenda, at global, regional and country levels...
, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize for Economics
|-
|Vince Cable
|1943
|
|Current British Business Secretary and Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats
|-
|Sir Dennis Byron
Dennis Byron
Charles Michael Dennis Byron is the President of the Caribbean Court of Justice. He also serves as President of the Commonwealth Judicial Education Institute, and is former President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda , and former Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court...
|1943
|
|President of the Caribbean Court of Justice
Caribbean Court of Justice
The Caribbean Court of Justice is the judicial institution of the Caribbean Community . Established in 2001, it is based in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago....
and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda is an international court established in November 1994 by the United Nations Security Council in Resolution 955 in order to judge people responsible for the Rwandan Genocide and other serious violations of international law in Rwanda, or by Rwandan...
|-
|David Atherton
David Atherton
David Atherton OBE, is an English conductor.-Background:Atherton was born in Blackpool, Lancashire in a musical family. He was educated at Blackpool Grammar School. His father, Robert Atherton, was the Music Master at St Joseph's College, Blackpool and was also a conductor...
|1944
|
|Conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra
Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra
The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra , is the largest symphony orchestra in Hong Kong. First established in 1895 as an amateur orchestra, under the name Sino-British Orchestra, it was renamed the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra in 1957, and became a professional orchestra in 1974 under the funding...
, founder of the Mainly Mozart Festival
Mainly Mozart Festival
Mainly Mozart is a 5013 non-profit based in San Diego, California, and is an internationally renowned presenter of world-class musicians from some of the nation’s most celebrated orchestras....
|-
|David Starkey
David Starkey
David Starkey, CBE, FSA is a British constitutional historian, and a radio and television presenter.He was born the only child of Quaker parents, and attended Kendal Grammar School before entering Cambridge through a scholarship. There he specialised in Tudor history, writing a thesis on King...
|1945
|
|Television historian, expert authority on the Tudor Dynasty
Tudor dynasty
The Tudor dynasty or House of Tudor was a European royal house of Welsh origin that ruled the Kingdom of England and its realms, including the Lordship of Ireland, later the Kingdom of Ireland, from 1485 until 1603. Its first monarch was Henry Tudor, a descendant through his mother of a legitimised...
, regular on Question Time
Question Time
Question time in a parliament occurs when members of the parliament ask questions of government ministers , which they are obliged to answer. It usually occurs daily while parliament is sitting, though it can be cancelled in exceptional circumstances...
and The Moral Maze
The Moral Maze
The Moral Maze is a radio programme on BBC Radio 4, broadcast since 1990.-Structure:Four regular panellists discuss moral and ethical issues relating to a recent news story. The debate is often combative and guest witnesses may be cross-examined aggressively. The programme is hosted by Michael Buerk...
|-
|Babar W. Malik
Babar W. Malik
H. E. Babar W. Malik is a former diplomat who worked in the Foreign Service of Pakistan for more than 39 years, serving as Pakistan's ambassador to Australia and Turkmenistan....
|1945
|
|Ambassador of Pakistan
|-
|Nick Drake
Nick Drake
Nicholas Rodney "Nick" Drake was an English singer-songwriter and musician. Though he is best known for his sombre guitar based songs, Drake was also proficient at piano, clarinet and saxophone...
|1948
|1974
|Popular singer-songwriter
|-
|Andrew Li
Andrew Li
Andrew Li Kwok-nang, CBE, GBM, JP is the former Chief Justice of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong, a post he held from the 1997 Hong Kong handover until 31 August 2010 inclusive. He is succeeded by Geoffrey Ma.-Early life and education:...
|1948
|
|Chief Justice
Chief Justice
The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...
of the Court of Final Appeal in Hong Kong
|-
|Ahmed Rashid
Ahmed Rashid
Ahmed Rashid is a former Pakistani revolutionary, a journalist and best-selling author of several books about Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Central Asia.-Biography:...
|1948
|
|Prominent Pakistani journalist and author, writer of Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia is a book written by Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid and published in 2000. The book was a New York Times bestseller for 5 weeks. It was translated into 22 languages....
|-
|Dinesh Dhamija
Dinesh Dhamija
Dinesh Dhamija is a British-Indian business entrepreneur. He is best known as the founder of the successful online travel agency Ebookers.-Biography:...
|1950
|
|Entrepreneur, founder of the pioneering online travel agency Ebookers
Ebookers
Ebookers.com is an online travel company based out of the UK and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Travelport, the former travel arm of Cendant which was bought in October 2006 by an affiliate of Blackstone Partners. Travelport split out itself into three companies...
|-
|David Leakey
David Leakey
Lieutenant-General Arundell David Leakey CMG, CBE is a former British military commander. He was Director General of the European Union Military Staff in the Council of the European Union, Brussels...
|1952
|
|Director General of the European Union Military Staff
European Union Military Staff
The European Union Military Staff is a department of the European Union , responsible for supervising operations within the realm of the Common Security and Defence Policy...
and Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod
|-
|Peter Bazalgette
Peter Bazalgette
Peter "Baz" Bazalgette is a British media expert who helped create the independent TV production sector in the UK and went on to be the leading creative figure in the global TV company Endemol....
|1953
|
|Media expert, Creative Director at the global TV firm Endemol
Endemol
Endemol is an international television production and distribution company based in the Netherlands, with subsidiaries and joint ventures in 23 countries, including the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Mexico, Spain, Italy, Germany, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Dominican Republic, Poland,...
, known for Big Brother
Big Brother (TV series)
Big Brother is a television show in which a group of people live together in a large house, isolated from the outside world but continuously watched by television cameras. Each series lasts for around three months, and there are usually fewer than 15 participants. The housemates try to win a cash...
|-
|Bernard Hogan-Howe
Bernard Hogan-Howe
Bernard Hogan-Howe, QPM is the present Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis . He was previously Chief Constable of Merseyside Police, an Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, and more recently one of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Constabulary.On 18 July 2011, the Home Secretary...
|1957
|
|Current Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service
Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis is the head of London's Metropolitan Police Service, classing the holder as a chief police officer...
|-
|Tim Sullivan
Tim Sullivan (British filmmaker)
Tim Sullivan is a British film and television director and screenwriter, known for his work with Granada Television and his feature film Jack and Sarah .- Background :...
|1958
|
|Film and television director, known for Letters to Juliet
Letters to Juliet
Letters to Juliet is a 2010 American romantic comedy drama film starring Amanda Seyfried, Chris Egan, Vanessa Redgrave, Gael García Bernal, and Franco Nero. This was the final film of director Gary Winick before he died of brain cancer. The film was released theatrically in North America and other...
and Jack and Sarah
Jack and Sarah
Jack and Sarah is a 1995 British romantic comedy film written and directed by Tim Sullivan. The film was originally released in the UK on 2 June 1995.The theme song in this film is Stars by British pop group Simply Red.- Plot :...
|-
|Brian Paddick
Brian Paddick
Brian Leonard Paddick is a British politician, and was the Liberal Democrat candidate for the London mayoral election, 2008, coming third behind Boris Johnson and Ken Livingstone...
|1958
|
|Former Chief Superintendent
Chief Superintendent
Chief superintendent is a senior rank in police forces organised on the British model.- United Kingdom :In the British police, a chief superintendent is senior to a superintendent and junior to an assistant chief constable .The highest rank below Chief Officer level, chief...
at Scotland Yard
Scotland Yard
Scotland Yard is a metonym for the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service of London, UK. It derives from the location of the original Metropolitan Police headquarters at 4 Whitehall Place, which had a rear entrance on a street called Great Scotland Yard. The Scotland Yard entrance became...
, Lib Dem candidate for Mayor of London
Mayor of London
The Mayor of London is an elected politician who, along with the London Assembly of 25 members, is accountable for the strategic government of Greater London. Conservative Boris Johnson has held the position since 4 May 2008...
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|Christian Purslow
Christian Purslow
Christian Mark Cecil Purslow is a British-born businessman, co-founder of private equity firm MidOcean Partners, and former Managing Director of Liverpool Football Club.-Early life:...
|1963
|
|Managing Director of Liverpool Football Club and Founder of MidOcean Partners
MidOcean Partners
MidOcean Partners is a private equity firm specializing in leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations and growth capital investments in middle-market companies...
private equity firm
|-
|Lord Knight of Weymouth
Jim Knight
James Philip Knight, Baron Knight of Weymouth is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for South Dorset from 2001 until 2010, when he lost his seat. Knight held several ministerial posts during his time as an MP including Minister for the South West and Minister for...
|1965
|
|British life peer, former Employment Minister
Department for Work and Pensions
The Department for Work and Pensions is the largest government department in the United Kingdom, created on June 8, 2001 from the merger of the employment part of the Department for Education and Employment and the Department of Social Security and headed by the Secretary of State for Work and...
and Education Minister
Department for Children, Schools and Families
The Department for Children, Schools and Families was a department of the UK government, between 2007 and 2010, responsible for issues affecting people in England up to the age of 19, including child protection and education...
|-
|Lee Hall
Lee Hall (playwright)
Lee Hall is an English playwright and screenwriter. He is best known for the 2000 film Billy Elliot.-Early life:...
|1966
|
|Playwright, Tony Award
Tony Award
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...
-winning writer of Billy Elliot
Billy Elliot
Billy Elliot is a 2000 British drama film written by Lee Hall and directed by Stephen Daldry. Set in the fictional town of "Everington" in the real County Durham, UK, it stars Jamie Bell as 11-year-old Billy, an aspiring dancer, Gary Lewis as his coal miner father, Jamie Draven as Billy's older...
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|Giles Foden
Giles Foden
Giles Foden is an English author best known for his award-winning novel The Last King of Scotland .-Biography:Giles Foden was born in Warwickshire in 1967. His family moved to Malawi in 1971 where he was raised...
|1967
|
|Novelist and journalist, Whitbread Award
Costa Book Awards
The Costa Book Awards are a series of literary awards given to books by authors based in Great Britain and Ireland. They were known as the Whitbread Book Awards until 2005, after which Costa Coffee, a subsidiary of Whitbread, took over sponsorship....
-winning writer of The Last King of Scotland
The Last King of Scotland
The Last King of Scotland is an award-winning 1998 novel by journalist Giles Foden. Focusing on the rise of Ugandan President Idi Amin and his reign as dictator from 1971 to 1979, the novel is written as the memoir of a fictional Scottish doctor in Amin's employ. Giles Foden's novel received...
|-
|Andy Burnham
Andrew Burnham
Andrew Murray Burnham is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Leigh since 2001. He served in the Cabinet under Gordon Brown from 2007 to 2010 as Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Culture Secretary and Health Secretary. He was a candidate in the 2010 Labour...
|1970
|
|British Labour politician, former Secretary of State for Health
Secretary of State for Health
Secretary of State for Health is a UK cabinet position responsible for the Department of Health.The first Boards of Health were created by Orders in Council dated 21 June, 14 November, and 21 November 1831. In 1848 a General Board of Health was created with the First Commissioner of Woods and...
|-
|Maurizio Giuliano
Maurizio Giuliano
Maurizio Giuliano is an Italian-British traveller, author and journalist. As of 2004 he was, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, the youngest person to have visited all sovereign nations of the world...
|1975
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|Italian journalist, author and record-breaking travel writer
|-
|Andrew Gower
Andrew Gower
Andrew Christopher Gower is a British video game developer and co-founder of Cambridge-based Jagex Games Studio, the company he founded with Paul Gower and Constant Tedder. He wrote the MMORPG RuneScape with the assistance of his brother, Paul Gower. In December 2010 he left the Jagex board of...
|1978
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|Video game developer, co-founder of Jagex Ltd, responsible for writing the online gaming phenomenon RuneScape
RuneScape
RuneScape is a fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game released in January 2001 by Andrew and Paul Gower, and developed and published by Jagex Games Studio. It is a graphical browser game implemented on the client-side in Java, and incorporates 3D rendering...
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|Arran Fernandez
Arran Fernandez
Arran Fernandez, England, born June 1995, is a home-educated student who broke the age record for gaining a General Certificate of Secondary Education , the English academic qualification usually taken at age 16. Sitting the examinations at the age of five, he was awarded GCSE Mathematics in 2001...
|1995
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|Mathematics prodigy, youngest ever GCSE recipient (aged 5) and youngest Cambridge University entrant in 237 years (aged 15)
|}
The Fitzwilliam 2006 Yearbook is online.
Fellows
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!Name
!Birth
!Death
!Career
|-
|Reginald C. Fuller
Reginald C. Fuller
Reginald Cuthbert Fuller was ordained as a priest in 1931 by Cardinal Bourne, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, and appointed Canon of Westminster Cathedral by Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor in 2001...
|1908
|2011
|Theologian, Archbishop of Westminster
Archbishop of Westminster
The Archbishop of Westminster heads the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Westminster, in England. The incumbent is the Metropolitan of the Province of Westminster and, as a matter of custom, is elected President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, and therefore de facto spokesman...
, co-editor of The Holy Bible – Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
The Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition is an adaptation of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible for use by Catholics...
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|Sir Ernst Boris Chain
Ernst Boris Chain
Sir Ernst Boris Chain was a German-born British biochemist, and a 1945 co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his work on penicillin.-Biography:...
|1909
|1979
|Biochemist, winner of the 1945 Nobel Prize in Medicine, for discovering the structure of penicillin
Penicillin
Penicillin is a group of antibiotics derived from Penicillium fungi. They include penicillin G, procaine penicillin, benzathine penicillin, and penicillin V....
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|Stanley Alexander de Smith
Stanley Alexander de Smith
Stanley Alexander de Smith FBA was an English academic lawyer and author.- Biography :Stanley de Smith was born in London and educated at Southend High School and St Catharine's College, Cambridge ; he received his doctorate from the University of London in 1959...
|1922
|1974
|Legal scholar and author, pioneer in administrative law
Administrative law
Administrative law is the body of law that governs the activities of administrative agencies of government. Government agency action can include rulemaking, adjudication, or the enforcement of a specific regulatory agenda. Administrative law is considered a branch of public law...
, Constitutional Commissioner of Mauritius
Mauritius
Mauritius , officially the Republic of Mauritius is an island nation off the southeast coast of the African continent in the southwest Indian Ocean, about east of Madagascar...
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|Sam Toy
Sam Toy
Sam Toy OBE was an industrialist who was chair of Ford Motor Company UK from 1980 until 1986. He presided over Ford at a time it faced competition from British Leyland, and saw Ford make their last Cortina...
|1923
|2008
|Industrialist, Chairman of Ford of Britain
Ford of Britain
Ford of Britain is a British wholly owned subsidiary of Ford of Europe, a subsidiary of Ford Motor Company. Its business started in 1909 and has its registered office in Brentwood, Essex...
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|John M Hull
John M Hull
John Martin Hull, BA, BEd ; PhD ; MA, LittD is Emeritus Professor of Religious Education at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of a number of books and many articles in the fields of religious education, practical theology, and disability...
|1935
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|Practical theologian, known for work on blindness and disability
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|Sir Anthony Bottoms
Anthony Bottoms
Sir Anthony Edward Bottoms FBA was Wolfson Professor of Criminology at Cambridge University from 1984 to 2006 and until December 2007 a Professor of Criminology jointly at the universities of Cambridge and Sheffield....
|1939
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|Criminologist, author
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|Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones
Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones
Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones is professor of American history emeritus and an honorary fellow in History at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He is an authority on American intelligence history, having written two American intelligence history surveys and studies of the CIA and FBI...
|1942
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|Historian, expert on American foreign policy
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|David Pearl
David Pearl
David Stephen Pearl is a British lawyer and member of the Judicial Appointments Commission. He is the son of Rabbi Chaim Pearl....
|1944
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|Lawyer, President of the Immigration Appeal Tribunal
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|Bryan S. Turner
Bryan S. Turner (sociologist)
Bryan S. Turner is a British and Australian sociologist . He was born in January 1945 to working class parents in Birmingham, England. Turner has led a remarkably nomadic life having held university appointments in England, Scotland, Australia, Germany, Holland, Singapore and the United States...
|1944
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|Sociologist, Director of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies
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|David Starkey
David Starkey
David Starkey, CBE, FSA is a British constitutional historian, and a radio and television presenter.He was born the only child of Quaker parents, and attended Kendal Grammar School before entering Cambridge through a scholarship. There he specialised in Tudor history, writing a thesis on King...
|1945
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|Historian, expert authority on the Tudor Dynasty
Tudor dynasty
The Tudor dynasty or House of Tudor was a European royal house of Welsh origin that ruled the Kingdom of England and its realms, including the Lordship of Ireland, later the Kingdom of Ireland, from 1485 until 1603. Its first monarch was Henry Tudor, a descendant through his mother of a legitimised...
, regular on Question Time
Question Time
Question time in a parliament occurs when members of the parliament ask questions of government ministers , which they are obliged to answer. It usually occurs daily while parliament is sitting, though it can be cancelled in exceptional circumstances...
and The Moral Maze
The Moral Maze
The Moral Maze is a radio programme on BBC Radio 4, broadcast since 1990.-Structure:Four regular panellists discuss moral and ethical issues relating to a recent news story. The debate is often combative and guest witnesses may be cross-examined aggressively. The programme is hosted by Michael Buerk...
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|Angus Deaton
Angus Deaton
Angus Stewart Deaton is a leading microeconomist. He was educated at Fettes College in Edinburgh, where he was a Foundation Scholar, and earned his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D...
|1945
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|Leading microeconomist, recipient of the inaugural Frisch Medal
Frisch Medal
The Frisch Medal is an award in econometrics given by the Econometric Society. It is awarded every two years for empirical or theoretical applied research published in Econometrica during the previous five years...
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|Clive Wilmer
Clive Wilmer
Clive Wilmer is a British poet, who has published eight volumes of poetry. Wilmer was born in Harrogate, Yorkshire and attended Emanuel School and King's College, Cambridge. Wilmer argues that religion is fundamental to what he writes, yet he does not associate himself with a parochial view of the...
|1945
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|Poet, art critic, founding editor of Numbers
Numbers (magazine)
Numbers was a literary magazine published twice a year in Cambridge, England, between 1986 and 1990. Six issues of the magazine appeared, of which the last was a double issue to celebrate the ninetieth birthday of the American poet and novelist Janet Lewis...
, Director of the Guild of St George
Guild of St George
The Guild of St George is charitable trust founded by John Ruskin in England in the 1870s as a vehicle to implement his ideas about how society should be re-organised. Its members, who are called Companions, were originally required to give a tithe of their income to the Guild...
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|Henry McLeish
Henry McLeish
Henry Baird McLeish is a Scottish Labour Party politician, author and academic. Formerly a professional association football player, McLeish was the Member of Parliament for Central Fife from 1987 to 2001 and the Member of the Scottish Parliament for Central Fife from 1999 to 2003, during which...
|1945
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|Politician, second First Minister of Scotland
First Minister of Scotland
The First Minister of Scotland is the political leader of Scotland and head of the Scottish Government. The First Minister chairs the Scottish Cabinet and is primarily responsible for the formulation, development and presentation of Scottish Government policy...
(2000–2001)
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|Martin Millett
Martin Millett
Martin John Millett BA, DPhil, FBA, FSA is currently the Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge...
|1955
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|Archaeologist, Director of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Society of Antiquaries of London
The Society of Antiquaries of London is a learned society "charged by its Royal Charter of 1751 with 'the encouragement, advancement and furtherance of the study and knowledge of the antiquities and history of this and other countries'." It is based at Burlington House, Piccadilly, London , and is...
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|Jonathan Partington
Jonathan Partington
Jonathan R. Partington is an English mathematician.-Education:Professor Partington was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, and Trinity College, University of Cambridge, where he completed his PhD thesis entitled "Numerical ranges and the Geometry of Banach Spaces" under the supervision of Béla...
|1955
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|Mathematician, writer of some of the earliest text-based computer games
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|John Mullan
John Mullan
John Mullan is a Professor of English at University College London. He specialises in 18th century fiction. He is currently working on the 18th-century section of the new Oxford English Literary History....
|1957
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|Literary critic and Man Booker Prize
Man Booker Prize
The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe. The winner of the Man Booker Prize is generally assured of international renown and...
judge
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Masters
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|Edward Miller
Edward Miller (historian)
-Life:He was born at Acklington Park, the son of a shepherd. He attended King Edward VI Grammar School in Morpeth and went on to excel at Cambridge, specialising in mediaeval history...
|1915
|2000
|Professor of History at the University of Sheffield
University of Sheffield
The University of Sheffield is a research university based in the city of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England. It is one of the original 'red brick' universities and is a member of the Russell Group of leading research intensive universities...
, Chairman of the Victoria County History Project
Victoria County History
The Victoria History of the Counties of England, commonly known as the Victoria County History or the VCH, is an English history project which began in 1899 and was dedicated to Queen Victoria with the aim of creating an encyclopaedic history of each of the historic counties of...
and the History of Parliament Trust, Editor of the Agrarian History of England and Wales
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|Sir J. C. Holt
J. C. Holt
Professor Sir James Clarke Holt FBA is an English medieval historian and was the third Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University....
|1922
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|Professor of Medieval History at the University of Nottingham
University of Nottingham
The University of Nottingham is a public research university based in Nottingham, United Kingdom, with further campuses in Ningbo, China and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia...
, the University of Reading
University of Reading
The University of Reading is a university in the English town of Reading, Berkshire. The University was established in 1892 as University College, Reading and received its Royal Charter in 1926. It is based on several campuses in, and around, the town of Reading.The University has a long tradition...
and 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...
, Vice-president of the British Academy
British Academy
The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national body for the humanities and the social sciences. Its purpose is to inspire, recognise and support excellence in the humanities and social sciences, throughout the UK and internationally, and to champion their role and value.It receives an annual...
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|Brian F. G. Johnson
Brian F. G. Johnson
Brian Frederick Gilbert Johnson is a British scientist and former professor of chemistry at Cambridge University. He was also a Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge from 1999 to 2005....
|1938
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|Professor of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh
University of Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1583, is a public research university located in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The university is deeply embedded in the fabric of the city, with many of the buildings in the historic Old Town belonging to the university...
and 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...
, executive at EPSRC and Academia Europaea
Academia Europaea
Academia Europæa is a European non-governmental scientific academy founded in 1988. Its members are scientists and scholars who collectively aim to promote learning, education and research. It publishes European Review through Cambridge Journals....
, expert authority on nanoparticles
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|Robert Lethbridge
Robert Lethbridge
Professor Robert Lethbridge has been the Master of Fitzwilliam College since 2005, during which time the College has fallen to its lowest position in the Tompkins Table since 1997, when the constituent colleges of Cambridge University were first ranked in terms of their results across the full...
|1948
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|Professor of French Language and Literature at the University of London
University of London
-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...
, the University of California
University of California
The University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University...
and the University of Melbourne
University of Melbourne
The University of Melbourne is a public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 1853, it is the second oldest university in Australia and the oldest in Victoria...
, awarded Chevalier des Palmes académiques
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See also
- The Hill CollegesHill collegeHill College may refer to:* Hill college, college of Durham University on Elvet Hill* Hill College, Hillsboro, Texas, USA...
- The Fitzwilliam MuseumFitzwilliam MuseumThe Fitzwilliam Museum is the art and antiquities museum of the University of Cambridge, located on Trumpington Street opposite Fitzwilliam Street in central Cambridge, England. It receives around 300,000 visitors annually. Admission is free....
- The Fitzwilliam QuartetFitzwilliam QuartetThe Fitzwilliam Quartet is a string quartet consisting of Lucy Russell and Jonathan Sparey, violins; Alan George, viola; and Heather Tuach, violoncello....
- Fitzwilliam College Boat ClubFitzwilliam College Boat ClubFitzwilliam College Boat Club is the rowing club for members of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. Prior to the 1960s, Fitzwilliam House occupied a position near the bottom of the 2nd division or top half of the 3rd division of the Lent and May Bumps, even finding itself in the 4th division of the...
Alumni of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
Fellows of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge