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3 unusual facts about John Caius


Edmund Gonville

Edmund Gonville (died 1351) founded Gonville Hall in 1348, which later was re-founded by John Caius to become Gonville and Caius College.

John Keys

John Caius (1510–1573), English physician and second founder of the present Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

Mattishall

The patron is Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and it is thought that Dr. Caius was instrumental in initiating the building of the larger church.


Alban Hill

He resided for many years in the parish at St. Alban, Wood Street, being `held in great respect, and esteemed one of the chief parishioners' Caius calls him a good and learned man.

William Macmichael

Macmichael's The Lives of British Physicians was published anonymously in 1830 including biographies of William Harvey, Thomas Linacre and John Caius.


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