Cambridge University

University of Cambridge

Motto	Hinc lucem et pocula sacra
Motto in English	Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts Non-literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge
Established	c. 1209
Type	Collegiate University
Location	Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Colours	Cambridge Blue

The University of Cambridge (informally Cambridge University or simply Cambridge) is a collegiate public research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209 and given royal charter status by King Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world's fourth-oldest surviving university. The university grew out of an association of scholars who left the University of Oxford after a dispute with the townspeople. The two ancient universities share many common features.

In 1811, Oxford and Cambridge were the only two universities in England and any LL character who went to university went to one of these - while there were universities in Scotland, distance, prejudice and disdain meant that scholars of these were usually Scottish.

Subjects taught were limited: Mathematics, chemistry, law, theology and the Classics (including reading Greek and Latin).

This page lists which characters attended which Cambridge colleges.

The colleges at the University of Cambridge were originally an incidental feature of the system. No college is as old as the university itself. The colleges were orignally endowed fellowships of scholars. There were also institutions without endowments, called hostels. The hostels were gradually absorbed by the colleges over the centuries, but they have left some indicators of their time, such as the name of Garret Hostel Lane.

Hugh Balsham, Bishop of Ely, founded Peterhouse, Cambridge's first college, in 1284. Many colleges were founded during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, but colleges continued to be established throughout the centuries to modern times, although there was a gap of 204 years between the founding of Sidney Sussex in 1596 and Downing in 1800, the newest college any character in LL can have studied at.

Christ's College

George Hackett
Jonathan Worthing

Clare Hall

Arthur Dalrymple

Downing College (founded 1800)

John Rutledge

Gonville and Caius College

Robert Vickery

King's College

Victor Kincaide

Henry Layton

The College of Saint Mary Magdalene

Daniel Rossington

Pembroke Hall

Tristan Edgeworth

Peterhouse College

Francis Hopkins-Lawrence

Trinity College

Oscar Moncrieff

John Quinn

Trinity Hall

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