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12 unusual facts about St John's College, Cambridge


Beneficio di Cristo

The work was believed completely lost until a copy was rediscovered in England in the 19th century in St John's College, Cambridge.

Brownsover

The church has an interesting collection of English and foreign carved woodwork, including a splendid organ case, made in 1660 for St John's College, Cambridge.

Castle Hedingham

The fine double hammerbeam roof is attributed to Thomas Loveday, who was responsible for work on St John's College, Cambridge.

Cockfield, Suffolk

From 1708 the patronage fell to St John's College, Cambridge who appointed a number of distinguished Fellows of the College.

Coton, Cambridgeshire

From the 16th century until the early years of the 20th century, most of the land in Coton belonged to Cambridge colleges, including St John's, Queens', King's and St Catharine's, which let it for farming.

Humphrey Haggett

He was admitted to Merchant Taylors School in 1613 and matriculated at St John's College, Cambridge on 12 November 1619, aged 17.

Ian Dalziel

Dalziel was educated at Daniel Stewart's College in Edinburgh, St John's College, Cambridge, studying as a postgraduate at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and London Business School.

Parnassus plays

The Parnassus plays are three dramas produced at St John's College, Cambridge, as part of the college's Christmas entertainments towards the end of the 16th century.

Popski's Private Army

He was privately educated in Belgium and went up to St John's College, Cambridge, becoming an ardent Anglophile, influenced by Bertrand Russell.

Stuart Macintyre

From 1977 to 1978, Macintyre was a research fellow at St John's College at the University of Cambridge.

Thorrington

The striking medieval flint church is dedicated to Mary Magdalene, and the patrons of the church are St John's College, Cambridge.

Walter Rosenhain

Rosenhain then did three years research work with Professor James Alfred Ewing at St John's College, Cambridge.


Alpha Beta Christian College

It is located in Dansoman, Accra, Ghana, and offers the Cambridge International Programmes IGCSE (International General Certificate of Secondary Education) and A-Levels.

Amanda Staveley

In 1996, at the age of 22 and without any training, Staveley borrowed £180,000 and bought the restaurant, Stocks, in Bottisham between Cambridge and Newmarket.

Angry Candy

The title comes the last line of the poem "the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls" by E. E. Cummings, "...the/ moon rattles like a fragment of angry candy."

Archibald Hill

Hill returned to Cambridge in 1919 before taking the chair in physiology at the Victoria University of Manchester in 1920.

Argument

Douglas Walton, Informal Logic: A Handbook for Critical Argumentation, Cambridge, 1998

Arthur Beauchesne

Born in Carleton, Bonaventure County, Quebec, Beauchesne received a Bachelor's degree from St. Joseph’s College in Memramcook, New Brunswick.

Battle of Muret

Laurence Marvin, "The Occitan War: A Military and Political History of the Albigensian Crusade, 1209-1218", Berry College: Cambridge University Press, 2008, 175-195.

C. Y. O'Connor

On 7 December 1898, his daughter Eva married Sir George Julius at St John's Church, Fremantle, Western Australia.

Cambridge Gulf

King named the gulf after the His Royal Highness the Viceroy of Hanover who was also the Duke of Cambridge at that time, as well as being Prince Adolphus.

Cambridge Model European Council

The Cambridge Model European Council is an annual student-run conference based in the English city of Cambridge.

Chad Van Dixhoorn

He retains a visiting fellowship at Wolfson College, Cambridge, and has served as associate minister of Cambridge Presbyterian Church and Grace Presbyterian Church in Vienna, Virginia.

Charles Edward Moss

Albert Charles Seward, Professor of Botany at Cambridge and a Syndic at the Press, supported Moss, but both eventually reluctantly accepted the Press's preferences.

Charles Ignatius White

His classical studies were made at Mount St. Mary's College, Emmittsburg, and at St. Mary's College, Baltimore, and his theological course at St. Sulpice, Paris, where he was ordained priest on 5 June 1830.

Charles Knickerbocker Harley

The Arthur H. Cole Prize for the outstanding article in the Journal of Economic History, Sept. 1981-June 1982 for “British Industrialization Before 1841.He is a Professor of Economic History and an Emeritus Fellow at St Antony's College both at the University of Oxford.

China Policy Institute

Its Director is Steve Tsang, Professor of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham and an Emeritus Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, known for summing up the nature of the political system in the People's Republic of China as a ‘consultative Leninist’ system, and for his works on Taiwan's democratisation and the history of Hong Kong.

Confidence interval

Hacking, I. (1965) Logic of Statistical Inference. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Connection Machine

Danny Hillis and Sheryl Handler founded Thinking Machines in Waltham, Massachusetts (it was later moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts) in 1983 and assembled a team to develop the CM-1 Connection Machine.

CPSL

Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership, an executive education department within the University of Cambridge

David Bensusan-Butt

A nephew of the French Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro, and the son of Dr Ruth Bensusan-Butt (1877–1957), the first woman doctor to work in Essex, Bensusan-Butt was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, and King's College, Cambridge, where he was a student of John Maynard Keynes and indexed Keynes's magnum opus, the General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.

Edmund Castle

Castle was appointed public orator for the University of Cambridge in 1727;, he gave up the office in 1729, on being appointed to the vicarages of Elm and Emneth.

Emmanuel Levinas

Simon Critchley and Robert Bernasconi (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Levinas (2002).

Geoffrey Darks

Not usually a productive batsman, with six single-figure scores in his eight innings (albeit three of those not out), he did however make 39 against Cambridge in the same match in late June 1950 in which he took his final wicket, that of David Sheppard.

George Cadle Price

George Price completed his education at St. John's College High School While there he was exposed to the teachings of Catholic social justice, in particular the encyclical Rerum Novarum.

George Kilpatrick

After tutoring at Queen's College, Edgbaston, and serving as Acting Warden of the College of the Ascension, Selly Oak, Kilpatrick became rector of Wishaw, Warwickshire, and a lecturer at Lichfield Theological College in 1942.

Harold M. Westergaard

Harold Malcolm Westergaard (9 October 1888 Copenhagen, Denmark – 22 June 1950 Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA).

Higham Gobion

It contains a monument to Dr. Edmund Castell, who died in 1674 and was a Professor of Arabic at Cambridge.

Il pesceballo

One evening George Martin Lane was trying to make his way to Cambridge, MA, from Boston.

James Whitbourn

In 2005, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with the Choir of Clare College Cambridge, under Leonard Slatkin, premiered his largest choral work Annelies, a setting of the Diary of Anne Frank, at London's Cadogan Hall to wide critical acclaim.

Jarle Bondevik

He worked as a lecturer at Aarhus University from 1961 to 1963, and at Bergen Teacher's College from 1963 to 1972.

John Stasko

John Stasko, John Domingue, Marc H. Brown, Marc and Blaine Price,(editors), Software Visualization: Programming as a Multimedia Experience, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1998.

Jonathan Steinberg

He was co-editor of The Historical Journal, Cambridge University Press, from 1990 to 2000 and his biography Bismarck: A Life was published by Oxford University Press in early April, 2011.

Malcolm Smith

Malcolm C. Smith, Professor of Control Engineering at the University of Cambridge

Multics Emacs

Multics Emacs was an implementation of the Emacs text editor written in Maclisp by Bernard Greenberg at Honeywell's Cambridge Information Systems Lab.

National Ringette League

From March 27 till April 2, 2011, the NRL Championship Tournament took place in Cambridge, Ontario.

Owen Chadwick

As Vice-Chancellor he guided Cambridge through turbulent times in the late 1960s; and was Chancellor of the University of East Anglia between 1984 and 1994.

Pendennis

Pen, heartbroken, leaves home to study at St Boniface's college in Oxbridge.

Peter Mews

Mews was born at Caundle Purse in Dorset, and was educated at the Merchant Taylors' School, London, and at St John's College, Oxford, of which he was scholar and fellow.

Ramesh Kumar Nibhoria

He was invited to the Al Gore lecture on climate change at Cambridge University.

Remo Ruffini

R. Giacconi e Remo Ruffini, Physics and Astrophysics of Neutron Stars and Black Holes 2nd edition, Cambridge Scientific Publishers, Cambridge (2009)

Reuben Smeed

He obtained a degree in mathematics and PhD in aeronautical engineering from Queen Mary's College before entering academia as a teacher of mathematics.

Saint Theresa's College

Saint Theresa's College of Quezon City (STCQC), 116 D. Tuazon Avenue, Quezon City (1947–present)

Samuel Shumack

For a year beginning Easter 1895, and again in 1904, Shumack was elected a churchwarden at St John's, Canberra.

Scania N112

These included nine single-deck versions with Wadham Stringer Vanguard bodywork; the double-deckers were bodied by Marshall of Cambridge.

Sinan Savaskan

Sinan Savaskan was the Music Director and Composer for Oedipus Rex, University of Cambridge’s triennial production performed entirely in classical Greek at Performances at Arts Theatre, Cambridge, 11–16 October 2004; featuring a distinguished production team including Director Annie Castledine and Royal National Theatre’s Designer Stephen Brimson-Lewis.

St Munchin's College

Tim O'Connor, formerly Irish Department of Foreign Affairs, former Secretary General to the Irish President, former Consul General of Ireland in New York, Chairman of 'The Gathering'

Stephen Courtauld

Courtauld was financial director of Ealing Studios, a trustee of the Royal Opera House in London's Covent Garden, and provided financial support for the Courtauld Galleries in Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum.

Thierry Bogaert

He obtained a PhD at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Medical Research Council, (Cambridge, United Kingdom).

Wendy, Cambridgeshire

The double hammer-beam roof over the name was taken from the recently dismantled church of All Saints in the Jewry that stood opposite Trinity College in Cambridge.

William Edward Addis

In 1888 he resigned the priesthood, after issuing a circular to his parishioners announcing his abjuration of Roman Catholic doctrines, and was married, at St. John's, Notting Hill, to Miss Mary Rachel Flood.

Yorick Blumenfeld

He lives in Cambridge and is married to the sculptor Helaine Blumenfeld.