Christ's College (Cambridge)

Christ's College
founding	1437 God's-house, 1505 Christ's College
Sponsorship	University of Cambridge
place	Cambridge
master	Jane Stapleton
Students	395 postgraduates : 95
Website	www.christs.cam.ac.uk

Christ's College is one of the Cambridge University colleges . It was originally founded in 1448 under the name God's House on the site of what is now the King's College chapel . Lady Margaret Beaufort , mother of King Henry VII , re-established the college in 1505 under the name Christ's College .

The college is known for its high academic standards - around 2000 it dominated the (unofficial) Tompkins rankings of the university's colleges for several years . Until 2007 it stayed in one of the first 6 places, between 2008 and 2015 it was in places 6 to 14. The showers in the library and the early curfew in the bar are often cited as signs of a lack of social life within the college . But this is largely a myth. The showers are located in the library as they cannot be accommodated in the older buildings and the closing times of the bar were adjusted in 2003 to those of the other colleges.

Well-known companies

The Junior Combination Room is the student representative body of Christ's College. She participates in every aspect of student life. As a representative of the student body, she organizes social and charitable events and negotiates on behalf of the students.

CCPQS has been named as one of the pickiest and most prestigious associations in Christ College. Their mark (the tie) is said to come from that of the King Street Run . The real origins of the association, as well as the meaning of the acronym, are the subject of lively debate. Some insist that the association's roots go back to the 17th century and that John Milton helped found it. However, the evidence for this is very thin.

The most frequently cited explanations for the meaning of the acronym CCPQS are that it stands for “Christ's College; Posteritas Quantuluscumque Spectabilis “('Prosperity and honor, however little' [sic]). However, there are many competing theories as to its true meaning. The criteria for joining the association are top secret. As is the nature of union. It is said that the first thing a newcomer does is to swear to keep silent about the association's real activities to outsiders. However, this claim leads most to believe that the association does not exist at all.

The soccer club, the CCAFC, is also worth mentioning.

Well-known graduates

• William Bidlake - architect
• Sacha Baron Cohen - Comedian (Ali G)
• John Cleveland - poet
• Charles Darwin - biologist
• Colin Dexter - author
• DB Tubbs - author and translator
• Hugh Foss - Cryptanalyst
• Mike Lynch - Software Entrepreneur, Founder of Autonomy Systems
• David Mellor - British politician
• Miles Millar - screenwriter and film producer
• John Milton - English poet
• Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool - British Prime Minister
• Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma - British naval admiral and statesman
• John Oliver , comedian
• John H. Plumb - historian
• Forrest Reid - Cambridge apostle, writer, literary critic
• Simon Schama - historian, author and television presenter
• Jan Smuts - South African general and statesman
• CP Snow - writer and philosopher
• Richard Whiteley - British television presenter
• Rowan Williams - British theologian, Archbishop of Canterbury

Web links

Commons : Christ's College  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Association's Junior Common Room website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Web presence of the CCAFC ( Memento of the original from September 1, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Coordinates: 52 ° 12 ′ 19.4 ″  N , 0 ° 7 ′ 20 ″  E