University of Cambridge/Christs College - Definition and Overview

Christ's College, Cambridge
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Full name	Christ's College
Motto	Souvent me Souvient I often remember
Named after	Christ
Previous names	God's-house (1437), Christ's College (1505)
Established	1505
Sister College	Wadham College
Master	Prof. Malcolm Bowie
Location	St. Andrew's Street (http://www.cam.ac.uk/map/v3/drawmap.cgi?mp=main;xx=1982;yy=765;mt=c;ms=150;tl=Christ%27s%20College)
Undergraduates	395
Graduates	95
Homepage (http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/)	Boatclub (http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/ccbc/)

Christ's College is one of the colleges of the University of Cambridge. It is widely reputed for its highly academic bent - in recent years, it has consistently dominated the (unofficial) Tompkin league table of colleges. Many cite showers in the library and early bar closing times as examples of an absence of social life at this college. This is largely myth. The showers are in the library because they cannot be accomodated in the beautiful older buildings of the college and the bar opening times have recently (2003) been brought into line with those of other colleges.

It was originally founded in 1448 as God's House on land now occupied by King's College Chapel. It was refounded in 1505 and moved to its present site by Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of King Henry VII.

Christ's has (2001) about 390 undergraduate and 100 graduate students.

Their webserver hosts the British division of the International Olympiad in Informatics, [1] (http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/bio/)

Famous Societies

One of the more prestigious of the Christ's College societies is the CCPQS. Also of note is the football club, the CCAFC (http://www.ccafc.co.uk).

Famous alumni

• Sacha Baron Cohen - British comedian
• Richard Clerke
• Charles Darwin - British naturalist
• Colin Dexter - British author
• The Rt. Hon. The 2nd Lord Grantham - British Foreign Secretary
• David Mellor - British politician
• John Milton - English poet
• The Rt. Hon The 2nd Lord Liverpool - British Prime Minister
• The Rt. Hon. The Lord Mountbatten of Burma - British Admiral of the Fleet and statesman
• Sir John Plumb - British historian
• Simon Schama - British historian, author, and television presenter
• Jan Smuts- South African general and statesman
• The Rt. Hon. The Lord Snow of Percy - British novelist and philosopher
• Richard Whiteley - British television presenter
• Rowan Williams - British theologian, Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury
• Timothy Marschall Jones - former British ambassador to Armenia
• The Rt. Hon. The Lord Irvine of Lairg - former Lord Chancellor

External link

• Official Christ's College website (http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/)

Colleges of the University of Cambridge
Christ's | Churchill | Clare | Clare Hall | Corpus Christi | Darwin | Downing | Emmanuel | Fitzwilliam | Girton | Gonville and Caius | Homerton | Hughes Hall | Jesus | King's | Lucy Cavendish | Magdalene | New Hall | Newnham | Pembroke | Peterhouse | Queens' | Robinson | St Catharine's | St Edmund's | St John's | Selwyn | Sidney Sussex | Trinity | Trinity Hall | Wolfson