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- English university, one of the earliest in
- Europe, probably founded in the 12th century,
- though the earliest of the existing colleges,
- Peterhouse, was not founded until about 1284.
- Famous students of the university include
- Rupert Brooke, S T Coleridge, Thomas Gray,
- Christopher Marlowe, John Milton, Samuel
- Pepys, and William Wordsworth. In 1990, there
- were 10,000 undergraduate and 3,000
- postgraduate students. The chancellor is the
- titular head, and the vice chancellor the
- active head. The Regent House is the
- legislative and executive body, with the
- Senate as the court of appeal. Each college
- has its own corporation, and is largely
- independent. The head of each college,
- assisted by a council of fellows, manages its
- affairs. Among the departments held in high
- repute is the Cavendish Laboratory for
- experimental physics, established 1873. The
- Cambridge Science Park was set up by Trinity
- College in 1973. The Royal Greenwich
- Observatory moved there in 1990. Cambridge
- Colleges 1280-84 Peterhouse 1326 Clare 1347
- Pembroke 1348 Gonville and Caius 1350 Trinity
- Hall 1352 Corpus Christi 1441 King's 1448
- Queens' 1473 St Catherine's 1496 Jesus 1505
- Christ's 1511 St John's 1542 Magdalene 1546
- Trinity 1584 Emmanuel 1596 Sidney Sussex 1800
- Downing 1869 Girton 1871 Newnham 1882 Selwyn
- 1885 Hughes Hall 1896 St Edmund's House 1954
- New Hall 1960 Churchill 1964 Darwin 1965
- Wolfson College 1966 Lucy Cavendish College
- 1966 Clare Hall 1966 Fitzwilliam 1978
- Robinson College
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