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St Cuthbert's Society Boat Club

St Cuthbert's Society Boat Club (SCSBC) is the rowing club of St Cuthbert's Society at Durham University.


Alastair Fothergill

He studied zoology at St Cuthbert's Society in the University of Durham and made his first film, On the Okavango, while still a student.

Archibald Cockburn

Matilda Cockburn (Cockpen, Midlothian, 7 February 1772 - 1842), married at St Cuthbert's, Edinburgh, Midlothian, on 13 July 1798 to Sir Robert Dundas of Beechwood, 1st Baronet Dundas (30 June 1761 - Heriot Row, Edinburgh, Midlothian, 4 January 1835), and had issue

Clifford Leech

While teaching at the University of Durham, Leech became Censor then, in 1948, the first Principal of St Cuthbert's Society, one of Durham's collegiate bodies.

Colleges within universities in the United Kingdom

There are 16 colleges in Durham; the Bailey colleges are located on the historic peninsula around North and South Bailey street and are usually thought of as being the more traditional - all require the wearing of gowns at either matriculation, JCR meetings or Formal meals, except the 'traditionally informal' St Cuthbert's Society.

Dan van der Vat

He went to the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School in London, and then was a student at St Cuthbert's Society, Durham University from 1957 to 1960, graduating with a BA in Classics.

Eardulf of Lindisfarne

During their seven years of wandering with St Cuthbert's remains the monks were also known to have visited Galloway and stayed in a cave now known as St Cuthbert's Cave near Dunstanburgh Castle in Northumberland.

Edwyn Scudamore-Stanhope, 10th Earl of Chesterfield

He was buried in the Church of St Cuthbert in Holme Lacy, Herefordshire.

Liberty of Durham

The liberty was known variously as the "Liberty of Durham", "Liberty of St Cuthbert's Land" "The lands of St. Cuthbert between Tyne and Tees" or "The Liberty of Haliwerfolc".

St Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh

The result, with a pair of Baroque towers flanking the domed apse at the east end, is best seen from the lower level of Princes Street Gardens.

Of those crediting De Quincey with influencing them probably the most notable is Edgar Allan Poe.

The churchyard is impressive containing hundreds of monuments worthy of notice, including one to John Grant of Kilgraston (near Perth), and a three-bay Gothic mausoleum of the Gordons of Cluny by David Bryce.

St Cuthbert's Church, Holme Lacy

In the north chapel is a window depicting Sir Galahad and Sir Bors to the memory of Sir Archibald Lucas-Tooth, 2nd Baronet who died in active service in the First World War in 1918.

This was sculpted by Matthew Noble in white marble, and depicts a female figure standing in a niche.

The church stands in an isolated position at the end of a lane in a bend of the River Wye.

St Cuthbert's Church, Lytham

St Cuthbert's stained glass includes a window designed in 1860 by Hardman & Co., an 1874 window depicting the Mount of Olives by Morris & Co. as well as work by Charles Eamer Kempe, Jean-Baptiste Capronnier and Clayton and Bell.


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