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3 unusual facts about Manchester College


Manchester College

Manchester Metropolitan University, formerly Manchester Polytechnic, formed in 1977 by a merger between Manchester College of Art and Design and Manchester College of Commerce; in 1983 the City of Manchester College of Higher Education was also folded in

University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, with origins in the Manchester Municipal School of Technology, later the Manchester Municipal College of Technology

Victoria University of Manchester, originally Owens College and for much of its history known simply as "Manchester University".


Hibbert Trust

It came into operation in 1853, awarded scholarships and fellowships, supports the Hibbert Lectures, and maintained (from 1894) a chair of ecclesiastical history at Manchester College.


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Alan Rawsthorne

After graduating from the Royal Manchester College of Music around 1930, Rawsthorne spent the next couple of years pursuing his piano training with Egon Petri at Zakopane in Poland, and then briefly also in Berlin (McCabe 2004).

Arnold Cooke

He later became Musical Director of the Festival Theatre at Cambridge, and in 1933 was appointed a professor at the Royal Manchester College of Music (now merged into the Royal Northern College of Music).

Thomas Pitfield

He taught composition at the Royal Manchester College of Music from 1947 to 1973, having pupils like David Ellis, John Golland, John McCabe, John Ogdon and Ronald Stevenson.