Pembroke College, Cambridge - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Pembroke College is a constituent college

Colleges of the University of Cambridge

This is a list of the colleges within the University of Cambridge. These colleges are the primary source of accommodation for undergraduates and graduates at the University and at the undergraduate level have responsibility for admitting students and organising their tuition. They also provide...

of the University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...

, England.

The college has over seven hundred students and fellow

Fellow

A fellow in the broadest sense is someone who is an equal or a comrade. The term fellow is also used to describe a person, particularly by those in the upper social classes. It is most often used in an academic context: a fellow is often part of an elite group of learned people who are awarded...

s, and is the third oldest college of the university. Physically, it is one of the university's larger colleges, with buildings from almost every century since its founding, as well as extensive and immaculately maintained gardens. The college is a financially well-to-do institution, with assets of around £115 million in 2010. Pembroke has a level of academic performance among the highest of all the Cambridge colleges, with an average rank of 6.7 out of 29 in the unofficial Tompkins Table

Tompkins 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...

.

Pembroke College is home to the first chapel designed by Sir Christopher Wren

Christopher Wren

Sir Christopher Wren FRS is one of the most highly acclaimed English architects in history.He used to be accorded responsibility for rebuilding 51 churches in the City of London after the Great Fire in 1666, including his masterpiece, St. Paul's Cathedral, on Ludgate Hill, completed in 1710...

and is also one of the Cambridge colleges to have educated a British prime minister, William Pitt the Younger

William Pitt the Younger

William Pitt the Younger was a British politician of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He became the youngest Prime Minister in 1783 at the age of 24 . He left office in 1801, but was Prime Minister again from 1804 until his death in 1806...

. The college library, one of the finest in the university, with a Victorian neo-gothic clock tower, is endowed with an original copy of the first encyclopaedia to contain printed diagrams. The college's current master, Sir Richard Dearlove

Richard Dearlove

Sir Richard Billing Dearlove, KCMG, OBE was head of the British Secret Intelligence Service from 1999 until 6 May 2004.-Career:...

, was previously the head of the United Kingdom's Secret Intelligence Service

Secret Intelligence Service

The Secret Intelligence Service is responsible for supplying the British Government with foreign intelligence. Alongside the internal Security Service , the Government Communications Headquarters and the Defence Intelligence , it operates under the formal direction of the Joint Intelligence...

History

On Christmas Eve

Christmas

Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday generally celebrated on December 25 by billions of people around the world. It is a Christian feast that commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, liturgically closing the Advent season and initiating the season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days...

1347, Edward III

Edward III of England

Edward III was King of England from 1327 until his death and is noted for his military success. Restoring royal authority after the disastrous reign of his father, Edward II, Edward III went on to transform the Kingdom of England into one of the most formidable military powers in Europe...

granted Marie de St Pol

Marie de St Pol

Marie de St Pol was the wife of Aymer de Valence, the Earl of Pembroke, and is best known as the foundress of Pembroke College, Cambridge....

, widow of the Earl of Pembroke

Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke

Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke was a Franco-English nobleman. Though primarily active in England, he also had strong connections with the French royal house. One of the wealthiest and most powerful men of his age, he was a central player in the conflicts between Edward II of England and...

, the licence for the foundation of a new educational establishment in the young university at Cambridge

Cambridge

The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...

. The Hall of Valence Mary, as it was originally known, was thus founded to house a body of students and fellows.

The statutes were notable in that they both gave preference to students born in France who had already studied elsewhere in England, and that they required students to report fellow students if they indulged in excessive drinking or visited disreputable houses.

The college was later renamed Pembroke Hall, and finally became Pembroke College in 1856.

Buildings

The first buildings comprised a single court

Courtyard

A court or courtyard is an enclosed area, often a space enclosed by a building that is open to the sky. These areas in inns and public buildings were often the primary meeting places for some purposes, leading to the other meanings of court....

(now called Old Court) containing all the component parts of a college — chapel, hall, kitchen and buttery, master's lodgings, students' rooms — and the statutes provided for a manciple

Manciple

A manciple is a person in charge of the purchase and storage of food at an institution such as a college, monastery, or court of law. Manciples were sometimes also in charge of catering more generally, including food preparation...

, a cook, a barber and a laundress. Both the founding of the college and the building of the city's first college Chapel (1355) required the grant of a papal bull

Papal bull

A Papal bull is a particular type of letters patent or charter issued by a Pope of the Catholic Church. It is named after the bulla that was appended to the end in order to authenticate it....

.

The original court was the university's smallest at only 95 feet (29 m) by 55 feet (16.8 m), but was enlarged to its current size in the nineteenth century by demolishing the south range.

The college's gatehouse, however, is original and is the oldest in Cambridge. The Hall was rebuilt in 1875–6 by Alfred Waterhouse

Alfred Waterhouse

Alfred Waterhouse was a British architect, particularly associated with the Victorian Gothic Revival architecture. He is perhaps best known for his design for the Natural History Museum in London, and Manchester Town Hall, although he also built a wide variety of other buildings throughout the...

after he had declared the medieval Hall unsafe.

The original Chapel now forms the Old Library and has a striking seventeenth century plaster ceiling, designed by Henry Doogood, showing birds flying overhead. Around the Civil War

English Civil War

The English Civil War was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists...

, one of Pembroke's fellows and Chaplain to the future Charles I

Charles I of England

Charles I was King of England, King of Scotland, and King of Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. Charles engaged in a struggle for power with the Parliament of England, attempting to obtain royal revenue whilst Parliament sought to curb his Royal prerogative which Charles...

, Matthew Wren

Matthew Wren

"Matthew Wren" is also a British actor who appeared in BBC children's show Trapped!.Matthew Wren was an influential English clergyman and scholar.-Life:...

, was imprisoned by Oliver Cromwell

Oliver Cromwell

Oliver Cromwell was an English military and political leader who overthrew the English monarchy and temporarily turned England into a republican Commonwealth, and served as Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland....

. On his release after eighteen years he fulfilled a promise by hiring his nephew Christopher Wren

Christopher Wren

to build a great Chapel in his former college. The resulting Chapel was consecrated on St Matthew's Day, 1665, and the eastern end was extended by George Gilbert Scott

George Gilbert Scott

Sir George Gilbert Scott was an English architect of the Victorian Age, chiefly associated with the design, building and renovation of churches, cathedrals and workhouses...

in 1880, when it was consecrated on the Feast of the Annunciation.

An increase in membership over the last 150 years saw a corresponding increase in building activity. As well as the Hall, Waterhouse built a new range of rooms, Red Buildings (1871–2), in French Renaissance style, designed a new Master's Lodge on the site of Paschal Yard (1873, later to become N staircase), pulled down the old Lodge and the south range of Old Court to open a vista to the Chapel, and finally built a new Library (1877–8) in the continental Gothic style.

Waterhouse was dismissed as architect in 1878 and succeeded by George Gilbert Scott, who, after extending the Chapel, provided additional accommodation with the construction of New Court in 1881, with letters on a series of shields along the string course above the first floor spelling out the Psalm text "Nisi Dominus aedificat domum…" ("Except the Lord build the house, their labour is but vain that build it").

Building work continued into the 20th century with W. D. Caröe as architect. He added Pitt Building (M staircase) between Ivy Court and Waterhouse's Lodge, and extended New Court with the construction of O staircase on the other side of the Lodge. He linked his two buildings with an arched stone screen, Caröe Bridge, along Pembroke Street

Pembroke Street, Cambridge

Pembroke Street is a street in central Cambridge, England. It runs between Downing Street and Tennis Court Road at the eastern end and a junction with Trumpington Street at the western end...

in a late Baroque

Baroque architecture

Baroque architecture is a term used to describe the building style of the Baroque era, begun in late sixteenth century Italy, that took the Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical and theatrical fashion, often to express the triumph of the Catholic Church and...

style, the principal function of which was to act as a bridge by which undergraduates might cross the Master's forecourt at first-floor level from Pitt Building to New Court without leaving the College or trespassing in what was then the Fellows' Garden.

In 1926, as the Fellows had become increasingly disenchanted with Waterhouse's Hall, Maurice Webb

Maurice Webb

Maurice Everett Webb was an English architect of the early 20th century, who started his architectural career working for his famous architect father, Sir Aston Webb, the practice trading as Sir Aston Webb and Son for some years.-Projects:...

was brought in to remove the open roof, put in a flat ceiling and add two storeys of sets above. The wall between the Hall and the Fellows' Parlour was taken down, and the latter made into a High Table dais. A new Senior Parlour was then created on the ground floor of Hitcham Building. The remodelling work was completed in 1949 when Murrary Easton replaced the Gothic tracery of the windows with a simpler design in the style of the medieval Hall.

In 1933 Maurice Webb built a new Master's Lodge in the south-east corner of the College gardens, on land acquired from Peterhouse in 1861. Following the war, further accommodation was created with the construction in 1957 of Orchard Building, so called because it stands on part of the Foundress's orchard. Finally, in a move to accommodate the majority of junior members on the College site rather than in hostels in the town, in the 1990s Eric Parry designed a new range of buildings on the site of the Master's Lodge, with a new Lodge at the west end. "Foundress Court" was opened in 1997 in celebration of the College's 650th Anniversary. In 2001 the Library was extended to the east and modified internally.

Pembroke's enclosed grounds also house some particularly well-kept gardens, sporting a huge array of carefully selected vegetation. Highlights include "The Orchard" (a patch of semi-wild ground in the centre of the college), an impressive row of Plane Trees

Platanus

Platanus is a small genus of trees native to the Northern Hemisphere. They are the sole living members of the family Platanaceae....

and an immaculately kept bowling green

Bowling green

A bowling green is a finely-laid, close-mown and rolled stretch of lawn for playing the game of lawn bowls.Before 1830, when Edwin Beard Budding invented the lawnmower, lawns were often kept cropped by grazing sheep on them...

, re-turfed in 1996, which is reputed to be among the oldest in continual use in Europe.

Famous alumni of Pembroke College

See also :Category:Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge
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|Karan Thapar

Karan Thapar

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|1955
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|Writer, Journalist, Broadcaster, Editor
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|Lancelot Andrewes

Lancelot Andrewes

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|1555
|1626
|Master, Dean of Westminster, Bishop of Chichester, Ely, Winchester
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|C.F. Andrews
|1871
|1940
|Author and supporter of Indian Independence
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|David Armitage Bannerman

David Armitage Bannerman

David Armitage Bannerman OBE, MA, SD , Hon. LL.D. , FRSE, FZS was a British ornithologist.-Biography:After graduating from Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1909, Bannerman travelled extensively in Africa, the West Indies, South America and the Atlantic Islands.Rejected on health grounds by the...

|1886
|1979
|Ornithologist
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|John Bradford

John Bradford

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|1510
|1550
|Fellow, prebendary of St. Paul's, Martyr
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|Clive Betts

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|1950
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|British politician
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|Tim Brooke-Taylor

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|1940
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|Comedian
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|William Burkitt

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|1650
|1703
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|Roger Bushell

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|1910
|1944
|Leader of "The Great Escape"
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|"RAB" Butler
|1902
|1982
|British politician
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|Peter Cook

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|1937
|1995
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|Maurice Dobb

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|1900
|1976
|Economist
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|Ray Dolby

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|1933
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|Inventor
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|Timothy Dudley-Smith

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Timothy Dudley-Smith OBE is an English hymnwriter and a retired bishop of the Church of England.Born in Manchester, England, he was educated at Tonbridge School and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was ordained deacon in 1950 and priest in 1951. He served as Archdeacon of Norwich 1973-81 and ...

|1926
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|Hymnwriter and clergyman of the Church of England
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|Abba Eban

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|1915
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|Edward James Eliot

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|1758
|1797
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|1767
|1845
|British politician
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|Archibald Fargus

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|1878
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|William Fowler

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|1911
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|Arthur Gilligan

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|1894
|1976
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|Alexander Grantham

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|1899
|1978
|Governor of Hong Kong
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|Thomas Gray

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|1716
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|Stephen Greenblatt

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|1943
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|Literary critic, pioneer of New Historicism

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|Rupert Gwynne

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|1871
|1924
|MP for Eastbourne 1910–1924.
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|Naomie Harris

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|1976
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|Tom Harrisson

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|1911
|1976
|Ornithologist, anthropologist, soldier, co-founder of Mass-Observation Project
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|Samuel Harsnett

Samuel Harsnett

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|1561
|1631
|Master, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, later Archbishop of York

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and theological writer
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|Oliver Heald

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|1954
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|British politician
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|Ted Hughes

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|1930
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|Eric Idle

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|1943
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|Entertainer
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|Koyata Iwasaki
|1879
|1945
|4th President of the Mitsubishi

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Zaibatsu

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|Clive James

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|1939
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|Novelist
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|Humphrey Jennings

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|1907
|1950
|Film-maker
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|Bryan Keith-Lucas

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|1912
|1996
|Political scientist
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|Emma Johnson

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|1966
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|Clarinetist
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|David MacMyn

David MacMyn

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|1903
|1978
|Rugby union international (Scotland and Lions) player and administrator
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|Sir Henry James Sumner Maine
|1822
|1888
|Jurist and Historian
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|Peter May
|1929
|1994
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|D. H. Mellor
|1938
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|Philosopher
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|Tom Morris

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David Munrow

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|1942
|1976
|Musician, composer, music historian
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|Richard Murdoch

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Richard Bernard Murdoch was a British comedic radio, film and television performer.Richard Bernard Murdoch attended Charterhouse School. He then appeared in Footlights whilst a student at Pembroke College, Cambridge...

|1907
|1990
|Actor, comedian
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|Bill Oddie

Bill Oddie

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|1941
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|Comedian, Ornithologist
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|William Pitt

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|1759
|1806
|British politician
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|Rodney Porter
|1917
|1985
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|George Maxwell Richards

George Maxwell Richards

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|1931
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|President of Trinidad and Tobago
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|Nicholas Ridley

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|c.1502
|1555
|Bishop of London, Martyr
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|Edmund Grindal

Edmund Grindal

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|c.1519
|1571
|Archbishop of Canterbury, Archbishop of York, Bishop of London
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|Michael Rowan-Robinson

Michael Rowan-Robinson

Michael Rowan-Robinson is an astronomer and astrophysicist. He was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge and is Professor of Astrophysics and until May 2007 was Head of the Astrophysics Group at Imperial College London. From 1981 to 1982, he gave public lectures as professor of astronomy at...

Martin Rowson

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|1959
|
|Cartoonist
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|Hugh Ruttledge

Hugh Ruttledge

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|1884
|1961
|Mountaineer
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|Tom Sharpe

Tom Sharpe

Tom Sharpe is an English satirical author, best known for his Wilt series of novels.Sharpe was born in London and moved to South Africa in 1951, where he worked as a social worker and a teacher, before being deported for sedition in 1961...

|1928
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|Novelist
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|Indra Sinha

Indra Sinha

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|1950
|
|Novelist
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|Christopher Smart

Christopher Smart

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|1722
|1771
|Poet, hymnist, journalist, actor
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|Chris Smith

Chris Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury

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|1951
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|British politician
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|Edmund Spenser

Edmund Spenser

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|1552
|1599
|Poet
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|George Gabriel Stokes

George Gabriel Stokes

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|1819
|1903
|Mathematician, physicist
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|John Sulston
|1942
|
|Chemist, Nobel prize winner
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|Peter Taylor, Baron Taylor of Gosforth

Peter Taylor, Baron Taylor of Gosforth

Peter Murray Taylor, Baron Taylor of Gosforth PC was the Lord Chief Justice of England from 1992 until his premature retirement in 1996, due to poor health which led to his death the following year.-Family:...

|1930
|1997
|Lord Chief Justice

Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales

The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales is the head of the judiciary and President of the Courts of England and Wales. Historically, he was the second-highest judge of the Courts of England and Wales, after the Lord Chancellor, but that changed as a result of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005,...

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|Peter Taylor

Peter Taylor (Journalist)

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Karan Thapar

Karan Thapar is one of India's noted television commentators and interviewers. He is the youngest child of General P. N. Thapar and Mrs. Bimla Thapar.-Education:...

|1955
|
|TV interviewer
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|William Turner
|1508
|1568
|Physician
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|P. K. van der Byl

P. K. van der Byl

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|1923
|1999
|Rhodesian politician
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|Lawrence Wager

Lawrence Wager

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|1904
|1965
|Geologist, explorer and mountaineer
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|Wavell Wakefield, 1st Baron Wakefield of Kendal

Wavell Wakefield, 1st Baron Wakefield of Kendal

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|1898
|1983
|Rugby player
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|Yorick Wilks

Yorick Wilks

Yorick Wilks FBCS is a British Computer Scientist who is Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Sheffield, a Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, and a Senior Scientist at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition.__FORCETOC__- Biography :Wilks...

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|Computer Scientist

Artificial intelligence

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|Roger Williams

Roger Williams (theologian)

Roger Williams was an English Protestant theologian who was an early proponent of religious freedom and the separation of church and state. In 1636, he began the colony of Providence Plantation, which provided a refuge for religious minorities. Williams started the first Baptist church in America,...

|1603
|1683
|Statesman, Theologian, founder of Rhode Island

Rhode Island

The state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, more commonly referred to as Rhode Island , is a state in the New England region of the United States. It is the smallest U.S. state by area...

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|Femi Fani-Kayode

Femi Fani-Kayode

David Oluwafemi Adewunmi Abdulateef Fani-Kayode is a Nigerian politician, essayist, poet and lawyer. He is a member of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party . He was born in Lagos, Nigeria, on 16 October 1960 to Chief Victor Babaremilekun Adetokunboh Fani-Kayode and to Chief Adia Adunni...

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|Former Nigeria

Nigeria

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n Minister of Culture and Tourism
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Pembroke today

Pembroke College has both graduate and undergraduate students, termed Valencians, after the College's original name. The undergraduate student body is represented by the Junior Parlour Committee (JPC). The graduate community is represented by the Graduate Parlour Committee (GPC). Pembroke is unusual in having its recreational rooms named as "parlours" rather than the more standard "combination room". There are many clubs and societies organised by the students of the college, such as the college's dramatic society the Pembroke Players

Pembroke Players

Pembroke Players is an amateur theatrical society in Cambridge, England, founded in 1955 and run by the students of Pembroke College, Cambridge. It is the most active College drama society in the University, staging 10-15 drama productions and comedy smokers every year. It is also the only College...

, which has been made famous by alumni such as Peter Cook

Peter Cook

, Eric Idle

Eric Idle

, Tim Brooke-Taylor

Tim Brooke-Taylor

, Clive James

Clive James

and Bill Oddie

Bill Oddie

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and is now in its 50th year.

International Programmes

Pembroke is the only Cambridge college to have a programme for international students to spend a semester (mid-January to mid-June) in Cambridge. The Semester Abroad Scheme is a highly competitive programme open to academically outstanding juniors who wish to follow a regular Cambridge degree course as fully matriculated members of the University. There are around thirty places each year.

The Pembroke-King’s Programme (PKP) is a summer programme which offers international students an exceptional opportunity to experience Cambridge student life over eight weeks, the length of a regular undergraduate term. Living in Pembroke or King’s Colleges, students choose three classes from the around thirty to forty on offer, including courses in the arts, social sciences, humanities and sciences. Courses are taught in the main by Cambridge-affiliated faculty and are academically 'Cambridge' in style, content and standard. Trips are made to locales such as Edinburgh, Scotland, and the programme has a series of formal halls, which are described as "three-course candlelit meals" serving "interesting" fare in Pembroke's historic dining hall. The Pembroke-King's Programme is also the programme for which the prestigious Thouron Prize is awarded, fully supporting nine American undergraduates from Harvard, Yale

YALE

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, and UPenn.

Pembroke also works with the University of California, Irvine

University of California, Irvine

The University of California, Irvine , founded in 1965, is one of the ten campuses of the University of California, located in Irvine, California, USA...

to host the annual 4 week-long University of California

University of California

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Summer Sessions and Japanese universities to provide academic programmes specifically tailored for their students.

Catering

Although the canteen food is affectionately known as "Trough," this is not necessarily an accurate description and catering at Pembroke is generally thought to be quite good. In particular, catering manager David Harwood received the Cambridge Catering Award in 2005 for his "outstanding quality and affordable prices". In 2007 the UK's first Vegan 'tapas' bar was opened, and in spring 2008 the students voted (by a large majority) for Pembroke to serve only free-range chicken (it will be the first UK college to do so). Also, since October 2008, freshly prepared sushi is available, as well as high quality soup, cheeses and cured meats. Pembroke is Cambridge's 2nd Fairtrade College (after St Catharine's

St Catharine's College, Cambridge

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), and is also committed to serving local produce and sustainable fish where possible.

Institutions named after the college

Pembroke College

Pembroke College (Brown University)

Pembroke College in Brown University was the coordinate women's college for Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. It was founded in 1891 and closed in 1971.-Founding and early history:...

, the former women's college

Women's college

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at Brown University

Brown University

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in the United States, was named for the principal building on the women's campus, Pembroke Hall, which was itself named in honor of the Pembroke College (Cambridge) alumnus Roger Williams

Roger Williams (theologian)

, a co-founder of Rhode Island

Rhode Island

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.

In 1981, a decade after the merger of Pembroke College into Brown University, the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women

Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women

The Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women at Brown University was established in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, as an interdisciplinary research center on gender and society...

was named in honour of Pembroke College and the history of women's efforts to gain access to higher education.