Corpus Christi College (Cambridge)

Corpus Christi College
motto	May the old house flourish
founding	1352
Sponsorship	University of Cambridge
place	Cambridge
master	Christopher Kelly
Students	250 postgraduates : 200
Website	www.corpus.cam.ac.uk

Corpus Christi College , often abbreviated to Corpus , is a college at Cambridge University . It was founded in 1352, making it the sixth oldest of the 31 colleges at Cambridge University . With around 250 undergraduates and 200 postgraduates , it is the second smallest college in Cambridge after Peterhouse . A special feature of Corpus Christi is that it was the only college in Cambridge founded by two municipal guilds . The Corpus library is called the Parker Library .

The college traditionally has high academic success rates. In 2012, Corpus ranked third in the unofficial Tompkins table published annually , with 32.4% of undergraduates achieving top results.

Corpus is one of the richest colleges in Cambridge. At the end of fiscal 2013, Corpus properties were valued at £ 118 million. The institution also has an extraordinary silver treasure trove and is the only college in Cambridge that did not sell its silver during the English Civil War .

Well-known graduates

Corpus Christi College, New Court

Dining hall

Part of the Parker Library

• Matthew Parker (1504–1575), Archbishop of Canterbury (1559–1575)
• Nicholas Bacon (1510–1579), English lawyer and politician
• George Wishart (1513–1546), Scottish reformer
• Robert Browne (1540-1630), English theologian
• Francis Kett (around 1547–1589), English doctor and alleged heretic
• Thomas Cavendish (1555–1592), privateer and circumnavigator
• Robert Greene (1558–1592), English writer
• John Greenwood (? –1593), Puritan minister
• Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593), writer
• John Robinson (1575-1625), Puritan theologian
• John Fletcher (1579-1625), playwright
• Samuel Wesley (1662-1735), English writer
• Stephen Hales (1677–1761), physiologist, theologian and inventor
• William Stukeley (1687–1765), archaeologist
• Frederick Hervey (1730–1803), bishop and art lover
• Richard Gough (1735-1809), historian
• John Cowper Powys (1872–1963), Welsh poet and writer
• Henry Macintosh (1892–1918), track and field athlete and Olympic champion
• Basil Henry Liddell Hart (1895-1970), military historian
• Boris Ord (1897–1961), composer
• Edward Upward (1903-2009), British writer
• Christopher Isherwood (1904–1986), writer
• Dudley Senanayake (1911–1973), Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
• Nigel Trench (1916-2010), British diplomat
• John Chadwick (1920–1998), classical philologist, decipherer of the syllabary Linear B
• Robin Coombs (1921-2006), immunologist
• Colin St. John Wilson (1922-2007), British architect
• Edward Palmer Thompson (1924–1993), historian and peace activist
• Christopher Hooley (1928–2018), British mathematician
• David M. Blow (1931-2004), British biophysicist
• David Ramsbotham (* 1934), General in the British Army and member of the House of Lords
• Jeremy Blacker (1939–2005), British Army officer
• Christopher Andrew (* 1941), British historian
• Stewart Sutherland (1941–2018), religious scholar and member of the House of Lords
• Colin Blakemore (* 1944), British neuroscientist
• Richard Henderson (* 1945), Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
• Terence Etherton (* 1951), British judge
• Kenneth J. Falconer (* 1952), British mathematician
• Patrick Hodge (* 1953), Scottish lawyer
• Francis Maude of Horsham (born 1953), conservative politician
• Owen Paterson (* 1956), conservative politician
• Shah Mehmood Qureshi (* 1956), Pakistani Foreign Minister
• Andrew Watson (born 1961), Anglican Bishop
• David Gibbins (* 1962), Canadian author and underwater archaeologist
• Marty Natalegawa (* 1963), Indonesian Foreign Minister
• Hugh Bonneville (born 1963), British actor
• Murray Gold (* 1969), British film music composer
• David Saint-Jacques (* 1970), Canadian astronaut
• Helen Oyeyemi (* 1984), British author

literature

• Patrick Bury: A Short History of The College of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary in Cambridge, 3rd edition, revised by Oliver Rackham . Master and Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge 2013.

Web links

Commons : Corpus Christi College  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/alumni/support-corpus/legacies
2. ↑ Old, rich, landed and loaded ( Memento of the original from August 26, 2016 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. Varsity, November 17, 2006 (accessed June 19, 2019) 

Coordinates: 52 ° 12 '11.2 "  N , 0 ° 7' 4.8"  E