Jesus College is a
constituent college
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of the
University of Cambridge
, mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts.
Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge.
, established =
, other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...
. The college's full name is The College of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint John the Evangelist and the glorious Virgin Saint Radegund, near Cambridge. Its common name comes from the name of its chapel, Jesus Chapel.
Jesus College was established in 1496
on the site of the twelfth-century Benedictine nunnery of
St Mary and St Radegund by
John Alcock, then
Bishop of Ely.
The
cockerel
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is the symbol of Jesus College, after the surname of its founder. For the 300 years from 1560 to 1860, Jesus College was primarily a training college for Church of England clergy.
Jesus College has assets of approximately £344m making it Cambridge's fourth-wealthiest college. The college is known for its particularly expansive grounds which include its sporting fields and for its close proximity to its
boathouse.
Three members of Jesus College have received a
Nobel Prize
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. Two fellows of the college have been appointed to the
International Court of Justice
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.
Sonita Alleyne was elected master of Jesus College in 2019, 40 years after the college began admitting women as students. She is also the first black leader of an
Oxbridge
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college.
History
When founded in 1496, the College consisted of buildings taken over from the
Nunnery of St Mary and St
Radegund
Radegund ( la, Radegundis; also spelled ''Rhadegund, Radegonde, or Radigund''; 520 – 13 August 587) was a Thuringian princess and Frankish queen, who founded the Abbey of the Holy Cross at Poitiers. She is the patron saint of several churche ...
, which was founded at the beginning of the 12th century; the chapel is the oldest university building in Cambridge still in use, and predates the foundation of the college by 350 years, the University by half a century.
The Benedictine Convent, upon dissolution, included the chapel and the cloister attached to it; the nuns' refectory, which became the college hall; and the former lodging of the prioress, which became the Master's Lodge. This set of buildings remains the core of the college to this day and this accounts for its distinctly monastic architectural style, which sets it apart from other Cambridge colleges. A library was soon added, and the chapel was considerably modified and reduced in scale by Alcock. At its foundation, the college had a master, six fellows and six scholars.
Academic profile
Jesus College admits undergraduate and graduates students to all subjects at the university though typically accepts a larger number of students for engineering, medicine, law, natural sciences, mathematics, economics, history, languages, and human, social and political sciences. The college offers a wide range of scholarships.
The college consistently performs well in the informal
Tompkins Table
The Tompkins Table is an annual ranking that lists the Colleges of the University of Cambridge in order of their undergraduate students' performances in that year's examinations. Two colleges— Darwin and Clare Hall—do not have undergraduat ...
, which ranks Cambridge colleges by undergraduate results. Along with students from
Trinity
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,
King's,
Christ's and
St John's, students of the college have been members of the
Cambridge Apostles
The Cambridge Apostles (also known as ''Conversazione Society'') is an intellectual society at the University of Cambridge founded in 1820 by George Tomlinson, a Cambridge student who became the first Bishop of Gibraltar.W. C. Lubenow, ''The Ca ...
.
Buildings and grounds
Entrance
The main entrance to Jesus College is a walled passage known as the "Chimney". The term is derived from the Middle French word ''cheminée'', for "little path" or "little way". The Chimney leads directly to the
Porter's Lodge
A porters' lodge or porter's lodge (colloquially, plodge) is a place near the entrance of a building where one or more porters can be found to respond to student enquiries as well as enquires from the public and direct them around the building ...
and then into First Court. All the courts at the college, with the exception of the
cloister
A cloister (from Latin ''claustrum'', "enclosure") is a covered walk, open gallery, or open arcade running along the walls of buildings and forming a quadrangle or garth. The attachment of a cloister to a cathedral or church, commonly against a ...
, are open on at least one side.
Libraries
Quincentenary Library
The Quincentenary Library is the main library of Jesus College and is open 24 hours a day. The library was designed by Eldred Evans and David Shalev in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the foundation of the college in 1996. Completion of the library was shortly followed by a new accommodation building in 2000, now known as Library Court. The Quincentenary Library has a particularly large law collection, housed in a law library on the ground floor.
Old Library
The Old Library was in regular use until 1912. It still contains over 9,000 books and is available to private researchers upon appointment. The Old Library includes the Malthus Collection, being the family collection of alumnus
Thomas Malthus
Thomas Robert Malthus (; 13/14 February 1766 – 29 December 1834) was an English cleric, scholar and influential economist in the fields of political economy and demography.
In his 1798 book '' An Essay on the Principle of Population'', Mal ...
, famous for his study ''
An Essay on the Principle of Population
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'' which influenced
Charles Darwin
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.
College grounds
Jesus College has large sporting grounds on-site. These include football, rugby, cricket, tennis, squash, basketball and hockey pitches. The
Jesus College Boat House is 400 yards away, across Midsummer Common.
The college frequently hosts exhibitions of sculpture by contemporary artists. It has hosted work by
Sir Antony Gormley
Sir Antony Mark David Gormley (born 30 August 1950) is a British sculptor. His works include the ''Angel of the North'', a public sculpture in Gateshead in the north of England, commissioned in 1994 and erected in February 1998; ''Another Pl ...
,
Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, and
Barry Flanagan
Barry Flanagan OBE RA (11 January 1941 – 31 August 2009) was an Irish-Welsh sculptor. He is best known for his bronze statues of hares and other animals.
Biography
Barry Flanagan was born on 11 January 1941 in Prestatyn, North Wales. F ...
. The college grounds also include a nature trail, inspired by poetry composed by
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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during his time as a student.
Jesus College is one of the few colleges to allow anyone to walk on the lawns of its courts, with the exception of First Court, Cloister Court and those that are burial sites for deceased nuns from the original nunnery.
Chapel and choir
Chapel
The College Chapel was founded in 1157 and took until 1245 to complete, and is believed to be the oldest university building in Cambridge still in use. Originally it was the chapel of the
Benedictine Convent of St Mary and St Radegund, which was dissolved by
Bishop John Alcock.
The original structure of the chapel was cruciform in shape and the nave had both north and south aisles. A high, pitched roof was surmounted by a belfry and steeple; this collapsed in 1277. The chapel was also used as the parish church of St Radegund. Twice the chapel was ravaged by fire, in 1313 and 1376.
When the college took over the precincts during the 15th century, the parish was renamed after the college as Jesus parish, with the churchyard still being used for burials. This, however, was short lived, as by the middle of the 16th century Jesus parish was absorbed into that of
All Saints. Significant alterations were carried out to the church under Alcock, transforming the cathedral-sized church, which was the largest in Cambridge into a College chapel for a small group of scholars. A large part of the original nave was replaced by College rooms, and subsequently part of the Master's Lodge.
The
misericord
A misericord (sometimes named mercy seat, like the biblical object) is a small wooden structure formed on the underside of a folding seat in a church which, when the seat is folded up, is intended to act as a shelf to support a person in a par ...
s were created by the architect
Augustus Pugin
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin ( ; 1 March 181214 September 1852) was an English architect, designer, artist and critic with French and, ultimately, Swiss origins. He is principally remembered for his pioneering role in the Gothic Revival st ...
between 1849 and 1853. Pugin used fragments of the misericords dating from 1500, which had been preserved in the Master's Lodge as templates. Repairs were also undertaken by
George Frederick Bodley
George Frederick Bodley (14 March 182721 October 1907) was an English Gothic Revival architect. He was a pupil of Sir George Gilbert Scott, and worked in partnership with Thomas Garner for much of his career. He was one of the founders of Watt ...
between 1864 and 1867, who commissioned decorative schemes from
Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. The same firm returned in the 1870s to install stained glass.
Said and sung services are held every day during term. Choral
Evensong
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take place four times a week (Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays), and sung
Eucharist
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on Sunday mornings. There are also
Compline twice a term, as well as Masses on major holy days. The chapel, famed for its warm but clean acoustics, is also a much sought-after space for concerts and recitals, as well as recordings.
Choir
Jesus College maintains two highly regarded choirs, the College Choir and the Chapel Choir.
* ''The College Choir'' consists of male and female students and sings regular services twice a week in the chapel. One of the leading choirs in Cambridge, its singers are mainly drawn from the college's own students, but also includes singers from a number of other colleges.
Evensong
Evensong is a church service traditionally held near sunset focused on singing psalms and other biblical canticles. In origin, it is identical to the canonical hour of vespers. Old English speakers translated the Latin word as , which became ...
is sung by the College Choir on Tuesdays at 6.30 pm and Sundays at 6.00 pm during Full Term; Sunday Eucharists are sung by a consort of singers from the College Choir.
*''The Chapel Choir'', which is likely to have existed since the foundation of the college, consists of around 20 younger choristers combined with the lower voices of the College Choir and also sings services twice a week in the chapel. It is unique among Cambridge college choirs in that the choristers are volunteers: that is, they are drawn from schools around the city and do not attend a particular
choir school
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Australia
*St Andrew's Cathedral School
, motto_translation = The Way of the Cross is the Way of Light
, established =
, type ...
. The Chapel Choir sings
Evensong
Evensong is a church service traditionally held near sunset focused on singing psalms and other biblical canticles. In origin, it is identical to the canonical hour of vespers. Old English speakers translated the Latin word as , which became ...
on Thursdays and Saturdays at 6.30 pm.
Until December 2016,
Mark Williams, former assistant organist at
St Paul's Cathedral had been the Director of Music since September 2009; Richard Pinel, former assistant organist at
St George's Chapel, Windsor
St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in England is a castle chapel built in the late-medieval Perpendicular Gothic style. It is both a Royal Peculiar (a church under the direct jurisdiction of the monarch) and the Chapel of the Order of the Gart ...
and Organ Scholar at
Magdalen College
Magdalen College (, ) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford. It was founded in 1458 by William of Waynflete. Today, it is the fourth wealthiest college, with a financial endowment of £332.1 million as of 2019 and one of the s ...
, Oxford, is currently the Director of Music. Former Organ Scholars include
Malcolm Archer
Malcolm Archer (born 1952) is an English composer, conductor and organist. He combines this work with a recital career. Archer was formerly Organist and Director of Music at Bristol Cathedral, Wells Cathedral and at St Paul's Cathedral and Di ...
, who (until 2018) was the
Organist
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and Director of Chapel Music,
Winchester College
Winchester College is a public school (fee-charging independent day and boarding school) in Winchester, Hampshire, England. It was founded by William of Wykeham in 1382 and has existed in its present location ever since. It is the oldest of the ...
,
James O'Donnell, Organist and Master of the Choristers of
Westminster Abbey
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, and
Charles Harrison Charles Harrison may refer to:
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* Charles Harrison (Australian politician) (1915–1986), member of the South Australian House of Assembly ...
, Organist and Master of the Choristers of
Chichester Cathedral
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.
College grace
Before dinner
The following Latin grace is recited before formal dinners at Jesus College (''Oratio Ante Cibum''; English: "Prayer before Food"):
''Oculi omnium in te aspiciunt et in te sperant, Deus. Tu das illis escam tempore opportuno. Aperis tu manus, et imples omne animal benedictione tua. Benedic nobis, Domine, et omnibus tuis donis, quae ex larga liberalitate tua sumpturi sumus, per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum. Deus est caritas. Qui manet in caritate manet in Deo et Deus in illo. Sit Deus in nobis, et nos maneamus in illo.''
English translation:
The eyes of all look towards you and trust in you, O God. You give them food in due season. You open your hands and fill every living thing with your blessing. Bless us, O Lord, and all your gifts, which through your great generosity we are about to receive, through Jesus Christ our Lord. God is love. He who abides in love abides in God and God in him. May God be in us and may we abide in him.
After dinner
The following ''Oratio Post Cibum'' (English: "Prayer after Food") is sometimes read after dinner:
''Deus pacis et dilectionis semper maneat nobiscum; tu autem, Domine, miserere nostrum. Agimus tibi gratias pro omnibus tuis beneficiis, qui vivis et regnas, Deus, per omnia saecula saeculorum. Deus conservet Ecclesiam, Reginam, regnum, senatum, et pacem.''
English translation:
May the God of peace and love always abide with us; have mercy upon us, O Lord. We thank you for all your mercies, who live and reign, God, for ever and ever. May God preserve the Church, the Queen, the realm, Parliament and peace.
However, after a normal formal dinner in Hall the following short
responsory
A responsory or respond is a type of chant in western Christian liturgies.
Definition
The most general definition of a responsory is any psalm, canticle, or other sacred musical work sung responsorially, that is, with a cantor or small group si ...
is usually used:
* The Presiding Fellow: ''Laus Deo'' (Praise be to God)
* The college: ''Deo Gratias'' (Thanks be to God)
Student life
Student societies
Although Jesus College is one of the older colleges at the university, it is known for having a relaxed and informal atmosphere. This is in large part attributable to its active student unions, the Jesus College Student Union (JCSU) and the Jesus College Graduate Union (MCR). These unions organise a wide range of social, cultural, welfare and sporting events throughout the year. The John Hughes Arts Festival, founded by College students in 2014 in memory of the late Dean of Chapel,
John Hughes, enters its third year in 2017, providing a broad programme of arts events.
Jesus College hosts an annual
May Ball
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. Musician
James Bay
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played at the 2015 May Ball. The headliners for 2016 were
Coasts
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,
Clean Bandit
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and
Jack Garratt
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.
Sport
Jesus College offers a large number of sports, including rowing, football, rugby, hockey, tennis, squash and basketball. The college typically fields a number of teams in each sport. The
Jesus College Boat Club is particularly strong, with the 1st Men's VIII never having dropped below 12th place in the
May Bumps
The May Bumps (also May Races, Mays) are a set of rowing races, held annually on the River Cam in Cambridge, England. They began in 1887 after separating from the Lent Bumps, the equivalent bumping races held at the end of February or start of M ...
and 11th position in the
Lent Bumps
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. The JCBC organises the annual Fairbairn Cup Races.
Hall
A three-course dinner known as Formal Hall is served in the college's main dining hall five nights a week.
Gowns
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are worn by all members of the college, along with lounge suit for men and formal dress for women. A four-course dinner for graduate students of the college known as Grad Hall is served in Upper Hall each Wednesday. Unlike most traditional Oxbridge colleges, the college allows graduate students to dine at
High Table
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on Tuesdays.
The college also offers informal dining at lunch and dinner known as Caff, as well as brunch on Saturday mornings and a carvery lunch on Sundays. The college also has a popular student bar known as JBar which sells a wide variety of drinks, including JPA (Jesus Pale Ale).
Masters and fellows
Masters of the college
Sonita Alleyne was elected
master
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Ranks or titles
* Ascended master, a term used in the Theosophical religious tradition to refer to spiritually enlightened beings who in past incarnations were ordinary humans
*Grandmaster (chess), National Master ...
of the college in 2019. She was preceded by
Ian White, former
Van Eck Professor of Engineering at the university. Previous masters of the college include:
*
Robert Mair (2001–2011), former
Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering at the university;
*
Professor David Crighton (1997–2000), former Professor of Applied Mathematics at the university;
*
Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn (1986–1996), former
Disney Professor of Archaeology
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Disney Pro ...
at the university;
*
Sir Alan Cottrell (1973–1986), former
Goldsmiths' Professor of Materials Science and later
Chief Scientific Adviser to the
Prime Minister
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; and
*
Sir Denys Page (1959–1973), former
Regius Professor of Greek and President of the
British Academy
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It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the same year. It is now a fellowship of more than 1,000 leading scholars span ...
.
Fellows of the college
Three members of the college have received
Nobel Prize
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s.
Philip W. Anderson
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was awarded the
Nobel Prize in Physics
)
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(1977). Anderson was a fellow from 1969 to 1975 while he held a visiting professorship at the
Cavendish Laboratory and has been an Honorary Fellow since 1978.
Peter D. Mitchell
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Education and early life
Mitc ...
, an undergraduate and later research student, was awarded the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
)
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(1978). He became an Honorary Fellow in 1979.
Eric Maskin
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was a joint winner of the
Nobel Prize in Economics
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in 2007. Maskin was a research fellow from 1976 to 1977 and has been an Honorary Fellow since 2009.
Several prominent figures in the law have been fellows of the college.
Professor Glanville Williams, described as Britain's foremost scholar of criminal law, was a Fellow from 1957 to 1978. The Glanville Williams Society, consisting of current and former members of Jesus College, meets annually in his honour.
Justice David Hayton, editor of ''Underhill and Hayton's Law of Trusts and Trustees'' and current judge of the
Caribbean Court of Justice
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...
was a Fellow from 1973 to 1987.
Professor Robert Jennings was a Fellow of the college and later
Whewhell Professor of International Law (1955–1982) before his appointment to the
International Court of Justice
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(ICJ), where he served as a Judge (1982–1991) and later as President (1991–1995).
Professor James Crawford was also a Fellow of the college and later
Whewhell Professor of International Law (1992–2014) before his appointment to the
International Court of Justice
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in November 2014. Current Honorary Fellows include
Lord Roger Toulson of the
Supreme Court of the United Kingdom,
Sir Rupert Jackson
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of the
Court of Appeal, and
Sir Colman Treacy, also of the Court of Appeal, all of whom were students of the college.
Notable alumni
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, controversial historian, playwright and Bishop of Ossory
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.
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, Elizabethan poet, dramatist and statesman.
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, the English astronomer and first Astronomer Royal
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.
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, Archbishop of Canterbury, noted Whig and Hanoverian supporter.
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, Irish novelist and Anglican clergyman.
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, former Defence Secretary
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, Transport Secretary
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, Leader of the House of Commons
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and Labour Party Chief Whip.
File:Official portrait of Rt Hon Dominic Raab MP crop 2.jpg, Dominic Raab
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, First Secretary of State
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, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
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, Conservative party
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MP.
File:Andrew Mitchell, October 2009 1 cropped.jpg, Andrew Mitchell
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, Conservative MP.
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File:Grace Chatto 2014.jpg, Grace Chatto
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Education
Chatto attended Latymer School and Westminster S ...
, member of the band Clean Bandit
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, who were all educated at the college.
File:Thomas Cranmer by Gerlach Flicke.jpg, Thomas Cranmer
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, the first Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury
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, responsible for the Book of Common Prayer
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, attended the college from 1503, at the age of fourteen.
File:Thomas Robert Malthus.jpg, Robert Malthus
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In his 1798 book '' An Essay on the Principle of Population'', Mal ...
, British scholar, philosopher, economist and population theorist was admitted to the college in 1784, and elected a Fellow in 1793.
File:SamuelTaylorColeridge.jpg, The English poet and Romantic, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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File:Royal Wedding Stockholm 2010-Konserthuset-Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex.jpg, Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, the fourth and youngest child of Queen Elizabeth II
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File:Turi King.jpg, Turi King
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, Professor of Public engagement
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and Genetics
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See also
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Colleges at the University of Cambridge
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List of Masters of Jesus College, Cambridge
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List of organ scholars at British Universities
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Jesus College, Oxford
Jesus College (in full: Jesus College in the University of Oxford of Queen Elizabeth's Foundation) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. It is in the centre of the city, on a site between Turl Street, Ship St ...
sister college at Oxford
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Okukor
Okukor is the name given to a bronze statue of a Rooster, cock from West Africa, held by Jesus College, Cambridge, from 1905 to 2021. One of the Benin bronzes, it was taken from the Kingdom of Benin during the Benin Expedition of 1897, a punitiv ...
, a Benin bronze
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Tobias Rustat
Tobias Rustat (bapt. 17 September 1608 – 15 March 1694 N. S.) was a courtier to King Charles II and a benefactor of the University of Cambridge. He is remembered for creating the first fund for the purchase of books at the Cambridge Universit ...
References
External links
Jesus College websiteJesus College Student Union websiteJesus College Graduate Union website
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1496 establishments in England
Organisations based in Cambridge with royal patronage
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Grade I listed buildings in Cambridge
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