Pembroke College, Cambridge - Definition and Overview

Pembroke College, Cambridge
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Full name	Pembroke College
Motto	-
Named after	Countess of Pembroke, Mary de St Pol
Previous names	Mary Valance Hall (1347), Pembroke Hall (?), Pembroke College (?)
Established	1347
Sister College	Queen's College
Master	Sir Richard Dearlove
Location	Pembroke Street (http://www.cam.ac.uk/map/v3/drawmap.cgi?mp=main;xx=1862;yy=1069;mt=c;ms=100;tl=Pembroke%20College)
Undergraduates	~420
Graduates	194
Homepage (http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/)	Boatclub (http://www.srcf.ucam.org/pcbc/)

Pembroke College is the third existing college founded in the University of Cambridge. The founder of the college was Mary de St Pol, daughter of Guy de Chatillon and wife of Aymer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke. It was on Christmas Eve 1347 that Edward III of England granted her the licence for the foundation. The original name of the college was Marie Valence Hall.

The first buildings were comprised of a single court (now called First Court) containing all the component parts of a college - chapel, hall, kitchen and buttery, master's lodgings, students' rooms - and the statutes provided for a manciple, a cook, a barber and a laundress. Both the founding of the college and the building of the chapel - the first college chapel in Cambridge, later re-designed by Sir Christopher Wren - required the grant of a papal bull.

The front gate of Pembroke College

Famous alumni of Pembroke College

• William Eliot (Politician)
• Thomas Gray (Poet)
• Ted Hughes (Poet)
• Eric Idle (Entertainer)
• Clive James (Novelist)
• William Pitt (Politician)
• Tom Sharpe (Novelist)
• Edmund Spenser (Poet)
• George Gabriel Stokes (Physicist)
• William Turner (Physician)
• Bill Oddie (Comedian and Bird-Watcher)
• Tim Brooke-Taylor (Comedian)

Garden of Pembroke College

External link

• The Pembroke Players dramatic club (http://www.pembrokeplayers.org)

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