Queens' College, Cambridge

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Full name

The Queen's College of Saint Margaret and Saint Bernard in the University of Cambridge

Motto

Floreat Domus
May this House Flourish

Named after

Previous names

Established

1448

Sister College(s)

Pembroke College

President

Lord Eatwell

Location

Silver Street

Undergraduates

490

Postgraduates

270

Homepage

Boatclub

The Gatehouse, as seen from the Old Court.

Queens' College was first founded in 1448 by Margaret of Anjou. It was refounded in 1465 by Elizabeth Woodville, the wife of Edward IV of England. This dual foundation is reflected in its orthography: Queens' , not Queen's, although the full name is The Queen's College of St Margaret and St Bernard in the University of Cambridge. It is commonly called Queens' College.

Queens' is the second southernmost of the colleges on the banks of the Cam, primarily on the East bank. (The others - in distance order - are King's, Clare, Trinity Hall, Trinity, St John's, and Magdalene to the north and Darwin to the south.)

The President's Lodge of Queens' is the oldest building on the river at Cambridge (ca. 1460). Queens' College is also one of only two colleges with buildings on its main site on both sides of the Cam (the other being John's).

1 The Mathematical Bridge
2 Notable alumni
3 College officials
- 3.1 List of Presidents
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] The Mathematical Bridge

The 'Mathematical Bridge' connects the older half of the college (affectionately referred to by students as The Dark Side) with the newer half (The Light Side), and is one of the most photographed scenes in Cambridge (the typical photo being taken from the nearby Silver Street bridge). According to popular fable the bridge was originally designed and built by Sir Isaac Newton without the use of nuts or bolts, and at some point in the past students (or fellows, depending on which version you hear) attempted to take the bridge apart and put it back together. The myth continues that the over-ambitious engineers were unable to match Newton's feat of engineering, and had to resort to fastening the bridge by nuts and bolts. This is why nuts and bolts can presently be seen in the bridge. This story is false: the bridge was built in 1749 by James Essex the Younger (1722–1784) to the design of William Etheridge (1709–1776), 22 years after Newton died. It was later rebuilt in 1866 and 1905, albeit to the same design.

[edit] Notable alumni

President's Lodge

The Cloister Court, with the Long Gallery on the left.

Desiderius Erasmus
Mark Watson (comedian)
Khalid Abdalla, actor
Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh (b. 1950), Judge at the International Court of Justice
M. S. Bartlett, statistician
John E. Baldwin (b. 1949), radio-astronomer
Cyril Bibby
Alexander Crummell (1849–1853)
Richard Dearlove, former head of MI6
Thomas Digges (d. 1595)
Lord Eatwell (1964–1967)
Charles Leslie Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton (b.1951), Lord Chancellor
Michael Foale (1975–1978)
Stephen Fry (1978–1981)
John Goodwin (d. 1665)
Paul Greengrass writer and film director
John Hall (d. 1635)
Thomas Horton, (d. 1673)
Arnold W. G. Kean, (d. 2000)
John Lambert (1521)
John McCallum (1950) Canadian politician
Arthur Mooring (1927–1930)
Osborne Reynolds, fluid dynamicist
Kenneth William Wedderburn, Labour life peer
T. H. White (1925–1929)
John Whitgift (c. 1530–1604)
Richard Whytford (fl. 1541), devotional writer
Abba Eban (1915–2002), Israeli politician

[edit] College officials

[edit] List of Presidents

While the head of most colleges are called Masters, the head of Queens' College has been called the President since 1448. Below is the list of Presidents that have served the college: