King's College, Cambridge

The King's College is a college of the University of Cambridge, England. It was founded by King Henry VI. founded in 1441 and was originally intended as a college for students of Eton College, which was also founded by him. In recent centuries, the college has gradually opened more and now ranks among the most advanced in Cambridge.

King's College Chapel

The King's College Chapel is commonly seen as the symbol of the city and is perhaps the most famous and most beautiful building of Gothic architecture in Cambridge. It was built over a period of about 100 years in three stages and has the largest fan vault in the world ( in the typical Perpendicular style), many beautiful stained glass windows and the painting " The Adoration of the Magi from the East " by Peter Paul Rubens. The chapel is still actively used for worship and some other events of the college. On Christmas Eve the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols takes place there every year.

Alumni

  • Laurence Saunders (1519-1555), clergyman and Protestant Martyrs
  • Francis Walsingham (1532-1590), founder of the British secret
  • Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625), composer
  • Sir Robert Walpole (1676-1745), first Prime Minister of Great Britain
  • John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), English mathematician and economist
  • Alan Turing (1912-1954), mathematician and one of the forefathers of the computer
  • Robin Milner (1934-2010), Turing Award winner for ML and automatic proofs
  • Andrew Davis ( born 1944 ), conductor
  • Salman Rushdie ( born 1947 ), writer
  • Zadie Smith ( born 1975 ), writer
  • Sir John Harington (1561-1612), statesman and inventor of the flushing toilet
  • Joseph Deiss ( born 1946 ), former Swiss Minister of Economy / 2010 President of the UN General Assembly
  • Julien Temple ( born 1953 ), film director
  • Sharpston ( b. 1955 ), the Advocate General at the European Court
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