Pembroke College (Cambridge)

The Pembroke College is the third oldest existing College, University of Cambridge; it has more than 600 students and Fellows.

History

On Christmas Eve 1347, King Edward III granted. the right to a new educational institution Young University in Cambridge to establish the Marie de St Pol, widow of Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke of England. The Hall of Valence Marie, as the college was originally called, should take both students and teachers. The statutes hold remarkably determined, firstly, that students were preferred from France who have already studied at other schools in England, on the other hand, the students are asked to show fellow students, if they indulged in excessive drinking or bad repute houses visited.

The college was later renamed Pembroke House, and finally (1856 ) in Pembroke College.

Building

The first buildings were a simple farm, today Old Court, and contained all the facilities needed the College: chapel, hall, kitchen and pantry, housing for teachers and students. The statutes say in addition to a steward, a cook, a barber and a laundress. Both the founding of the college as well as the construction of the first college chapel in the city ( 1355 ) required the approval of a Papal bull.

The original farm was 95 × 55 feet ( 29 × 6.5 m ) is the smallest of the university and has been extended until the 19th century by the demolition of the southern front to its present size.

The gatehouse of the College, however, is the original structure and therefore the oldest in Cambridge. The hall was rebuilt in the 19th century by Alfred Waterhouse, after he had explained the possibility for not sure.

The old chapel now forms the Old Library. She has a striking plaster ceiling dating from the 17th century, the flying birds, derived from Henry Doogood. During the English Civil War was one of the Fellows of the College and Kaplan later King Charles I, Mathew Wren, imprisoned by Oliver Cromwell. On his release after 18 years, he broke a promise, by mandating his nephew Christopher Wren with the construction of a large chapel in his previous college. The building was consecrated in 1665 at St Mathew 's Day and expands on its eastern side in 1880 by George Gilbert Scott.

For Pembroke College include well maintained gardens with a large area that is reserved for carefully selected plants. Highlights include The Orchard, a partially natural state piece in the center of the college, an impressive avenue of plane trees and immaculately maintained green space for the cone Sports ( bowling green ), which used the oldest continuously in Europe should be.

Since 1997 there is also a new, Foundress Court, which comprises mainly offices.

Famous Alumni of Pembroke College

  • Robin Leonard Bidwell ( orientalist )
  • Tim Brooke- Taylor ( actor)
  • RAB Butler ( politician)
  • Peter Cook ( actor)
  • Ray Dolby (inventor )
  • Simon Donaldson ( winner of the Fields Medal)
  • Abba Eban ( politician)
  • William Eliot ( politician)
  • Thomas Gray ( poet )
  • Stephen Greenblatt ( literary scholar )
  • Edmund Grindal ( archbishop of Canterbury )
  • Naomie Harris ( actress)
  • Tom Hiddleston (actor)
  • Ted Hughes ( poet )
  • Eric Idle ( entertainer )
  • Clive James ( writer )
  • Humphrey Jennings ( filmmaker )
  • Peter May ( cricketer )
  • Bill Oddie (actor and birders )
  • William Pitt the Younger ( politician)
  • Baron Plowden of Plowden ( Industrial )
  • Nicholas Ridley ( martyr )
  • Martin Rowson ( Cartoonist )
  • Tom Sharpe ( writer )
  • Christopher Smart ( poet )
  • Chris Smith ( politician)
  • Edmund Spenser ( poet )
  • George Gabriel Stokes ( physicist )
  • Peter Taylor, Baron Taylor of Gosforth (Lord Chief Justice )
  • Karan Thapar ( Indian TV Reporter )
  • William Turner ( physician)
  • Wavell Wakefield, 1st Baron Wakefield of Kendal ( rugby player )
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