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2 days ago · The oldest college is Peterhouse, founded in 1284, [6] and the newest is Robinson, founded in 1977. [7] . Homerton, which was first founded in the eighteenth century as a dissenting academy (and later teacher training college), attained full college status in 2010. Restrictions on entry.
4 days ago · The First and Third Trinity Boat Club May Ball (named after the boat club, but now run by Trinity College ), held on the first Monday of May Week, and the St John's May Ball, held on the first Tuesday. Magdalene and Peterhouse hold exclusive white tie balls, with Peterhouse beginning this tradition in 1892.
3 days ago · The name suggests Peterhouse, though it is also a pun on college porters and porterhouse steaks. It is also reputedly based loosely on Pembroke, Sharpe's alma mater or Corpus Christi which is next door and its location is somewhere near Peterhouse and Pembroke.
5 days ago · 'The University of Cambridge: The age of reforms (1800-82)', in A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 3, the City and University of Cambridge. Edited by J P C Roach( London, 1959), British History Online, accessed August 8, 2024, https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol3/pp235-265.
3 days ago · It was partly to provide an orderly place of residence that (in emulation of Oxford) the first college, Peterhouse, was founded in 1284 by Hugo de Balsham, bishop of Ely. Over the next three centuries another 15 colleges were founded, and in 1318 Cambridge received formal recognition as a studium generale from Pope John XXII.
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2 days ago · 'The colleges and halls: Pembroke', in A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 3, the City and University of Cambridge. Edited by J P C Roach( London, 1959), British History Online , accessed August 8, 2024, https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol3/pp346-355.
Jul 31, 2024 · Following successive grants of the advowson c. 1273 by John FitzJohn to the bishop of Ely and by the bishop in 1335 to the master and fellows of Peterhouse, the church was finally appropriated to the college in 1395.
