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5 unusual facts about Pembroke College


Charlie Parsons

He went to Pembroke College, Oxford where he studied English Literature and afterwards trained as a journalist.

Christopher Wren, Jr.

He was educated at Eton and Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, which he entered in 1691, but left without a degree.

J. D. Casswell

The son of Joshua Joyce Casswell, and Sarah Tate, Casswell was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford University, gaining an honours degree in Jurisprudence in 1909.

Oxford University Amateur Boxing Club

In fact the first match held in London, was captained by D.M.L. Doran Pembroke College in 1937.

Sir John Beaumont, 1st Baronet

John went to University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire on 4 February 1596/1597, and entered as a gentleman commoner matriculated in Broadgates Hall, later Pembroke College.


Barton Road, Cambridge

Off this road just to the south of Barton Road are the Cambridge Rugby Football Ground (West Renault Park, home ground of Cambridge Rugby Union Football Club), Trinity New Field, Pembroke College Sports Ground, and behind that St Catharine's College Sports Ground.

Charles Joseph Faulkner

Faulkner was part of a group of Birmingham men at Pembroke College, Oxford known among themselves as the "Brotherhood" and to historians as the Birmingham Set, along with Richard Watson Dixon and William Fulford.

Edmund Spenser

As a young boy, he was educated in London at the Merchant Taylors' School and matriculated as a sizar at Pembroke College, Cambridge.

Grantchester Grind

Grantchester Grind is a novel written by Tom Sharpe, a British novelist born in 1928 who was educated at Lancing College and then at Pembroke College, Cambridge.

Hugh Dykes, Baron Dykes

Dykes was educated at Weston-super-Mare Grammar School, a state school in Weston-super-Mare in Somerset, followed by Pembroke College at the University of Cambridge.

Ivor Stanbrook

He completed postgraduate study at Pembroke College, Oxford then left for Nigeria in 1950 where he worked for ten years in the Colonial Service as District Officer in various regions of Northern and Western Nigeria, including Ilorin, Western Region.

Jonathan Lynn

Lynn was educated at Kingswood School, Bath, between 1954 and 1961, after which he studied Law at Pembroke College, Cambridge (where his uncle, Israeli statesman Abba Eban studied also).

Martha Sharp

She attended Pembroke College, the women's college of Brown University, and later studied in the field of Social Work at Northwestern University’s Recreation Training School centered in Hull House, a Chicago settlement.

Monkton Combe School

Richard Dearlove KCMG OBE, 1945-, Head of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) from 1999 until 2004 and Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge

Richard Watson Dixon

Dixon was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and on proceeding to Pembroke College, Oxford, became one of the famous Birmingham Set there who shared with William Morris and Burne-Jones in the Pre-Raphaelite movement.

Robert Carswell, Baron Carswell

The son of Alan and Nance Carswell was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and Pembroke College, Oxford, where he received a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in classics and law in 1956.

Spital-in-the-Street

Six years later Robert Mapletoft of Pembroke College, Cambridge was appointed Sub-Dean of Lincoln Cathedral and also Master of the Spital Hospital; he rebuilt the chapel and set about improving the Hospital’s revenues.

Tom Tower

It has been pointed out by many Pembroke College students that the best view of Tom Tower is from their porters' lodge, off St Aldates.


see also

Cowbridge Grammar School

Evan Evans (1813–1891) — Master of Pembroke College; Oxford and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford

Matthew Wren

To fulfil this vow, he chose to pay for a new Chapel for Pembroke College, and had it built by his nephew Christopher Wren — one of his first buildings, consecrated in 1665.

Maurice Isserman

Isserman has participated in an exchange at the University of Sussex in fall 1985, a Mellon fellowship at Harvard University, 1992–1993, a Fulbright Distinguished Professorship at the University of Moscow, spring 1997, and an exchange at Pembroke College, Oxford University, fall 2001.