Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge

The Fitzwilliam College, generally known as Fitz, was founded in 1869 as a department of the University of Cambridge to supervise students without college affiliation. It became increasingly, thanks to active and successful students, independence and was divided in 1966 in the federal College System, University of Cambridge one. Numerically, it is one of the largest colleges and is considered the newest of the old, or the oldest of the new colleges. It is located in the northeast of the city of Cambridge. It is one of the poorest colleges financially, but academically and sporting one of the most successful.

The earliest evidence for the colonization of Cambridge is located on the grounds of the college. In January 2008, the remains of a 3500 years old farmstead, were discovered. The tower of the library of the college is considered the highest point in Cambridge.

History

Fitzwilliam was 1869, the attempt to establish an institution for the students of the University of Cambridge, who did not want to belong to a college. Membership in a college is a prerequisite for studying at this university and the establishment of a "Non - Collegiate " was a decision of the Royal Commission. The students and the line, however, behaved like such a college, and so in 1887 the name Fitzwilliam Hall was officially introduced. It was named after the Earl of Fitzwilliam, after which the Fitzwilliam Museum was named already. The number of students grew, except for the war years, rapidly. From 1960 Fitzwilliam moved from downtown in the residential area of Cambridge. Sir Denys Lasdun designed the new college buildings, which are grouped around the historic mansions and The Grove Atholl Lodge. Thanks influential alumni in 1966 it was possible to obtain a royal constitution.

List of Master

( Until it was renamed College called himself the master Censor. )

  • Revd. Ralph Benjamin Somerset, Censor 1869-1881
  • Dr. Francis George Howard, 1881-1889
  • Tristram Frederick Croft Huddleston, 1890-1907
  • William Fiddian Reddaway, 1907-1924
  • William Sutherland Thatcher, 1924-1935
  • Dr. Walter Wyatt Grave, Censor 1956-1966, Master 1966-1971
  • Dr. Edward Miller, 1971-1981
  • Professor Sir James Holt, 1981-1988
  • Professor Gordon Cameron, 1988-1990
  • Professor Alan Cuthbert, 1991-1999
  • Professor Brian Johnson, 1999-2005
  • Professor Robert Lethbridge, since 2005.

Honorary professorships

  • William Sutherland Thatcher, former censor, 1963.
  • Harry Lee Kuan Yew, Alumnus, Prime Minister of Singapore, 1969.
  • Juan Carlos, King of Spain, 1988.
  • Sophia, Queen of Spain, 1988.
  • Dr Shanker Sharma, President of India, 1993.

Alumni

Patron

  • His Royal Highness the Prince of Asturias, Crown Prince of Spain

2 Patron:

  • Kimiko Tsuzuki, Rector of Tsuzuki Sogo Gakuen, Fukuoka University, Japan
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