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99 unusual facts about Cambridge


A. G. Steel

After his schooldays at Marlborough College, where he played cricket superbly, he proceeded to Trinity Hall, Cambridge.

Adam Kwasman

Kwasman also worked in the United Kingdom for the RAND Corporation, assisting in their research of Islamic terrorism while studying at the Institute for Economics and Politics in Cambridge.

Alexander Watt

In 1929, he became lecturer of forestry at this university and, when this undergraduate subject was given up, lecturer of forest botany – “a title which scarcely reflected his wide interest in and influence on plant ecology”.

He then went to University of Cambridge to work on beech forest under Arthur Tansley and obtained a M.S. in 1919 (after interruption by military service 1916-1918).

Artur Ekert

From 2002 until early 2007 he was the Leigh-Trapnell Professor of Quantum Physics at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University and a Professorial Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.

Beneficio di Cristo

The work was believed completely lost until a copy was rediscovered in England in the 19th century in St John's College, Cambridge.

Biren Mookerjee

Son of pioneering industrialist Sir Rajendra Nath Mookerjee and Lady Jadumati, he studied Engineering at Bengal Engineering College before proceeding to Trinity College, Cambridge, from where he did his B.A. and M.A. On return to India in 1924, he joined Martin & Co. in 1924.

Cambridge Main Street Bridge

The Cambridge Main Street Bridge is a concrete bowstring arch bridge located in Cambridge, Ontario.

Cambridge University Real Tennis Club

The Cambridge University Real Tennis Club is located on Grange Road, Cambridge, England.

Cambridge-South Dorchester High School

Wrestling Coaches Daniel Catron (2013 State Champion Wrestler Jaiveion Turner)

Cambridge, Illinois

The Henry County Court House, designed by Thomas J. Tolan & Son, Architects, of Fort Wayne, Indiana (1875–1878), is the key architectural landmark of the village.

Cambridge, Ohio

Both Cambridge, Maryland and Cambridge, Massachusetts have been speculated by historians as having inspired the naming of the town.

Carlo von Erlanger

On his return to Europe he continued his studies at Cambridge and Berlin.

Choir of Leeds Parish Church

Former choristers have achieved success in University Choral Scholarships, including Esther Chadwick and Sophie Wellings at Clare College, Cambridge.

Christopher Layne

Diploma in Historical Studies, Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge

Christopher Wray

Wray was an alumnus of Buckingham (refounded during his residence as Magdalene) College, Cambridge.

Church Lawford

Church Lawford along with Cambridge, Massachusetts is said to be the inspiration for the poem as the poet visited England for a three-year trip.

Closure: A Short History of Everything

Radical theologian, Don Cuppitt, Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, described Closure as 'perhaps the first non-realist metaphysics'.

Colleges of the University of Cambridge

There are also several theological colleges in Cambridge (for example Ridley Hall, Wesley House, Westcott House and Westminster College) that are affiliated with the university through the Cambridge Theological Federation.

Congregational Board of Education

With liberalisation, the Congregationalists adapted their focus, and the Board reorganised the former Homerton Academy as New College, London and what became Homerton College, Cambridge.

Constance McKee

From 1990 to 1994, she was CEO of Cambridge Quantum Fund I, a seed venture fund at University of Cambridge.

David Lary

He received a first class double honors BSc in physics and chemistry from King's College London (1987) with the Sambrooke Exhibition Prize in Natural Science, and a PhD in atmospheric chemistry from the University of Cambridge, Department of Chemistry while at Churchill College (1991).

David Looker

After his education at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, he went on to enjoy a playboy lifestyle during the 1930s.

Einat Wilf

She then went to Harvard University, receiving a BA in government and fine arts, before being awarded an MBA by INSEAD in France, and subsequently a PhD in political science at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge.

Electoral division of Rumney

The division covers an area of 1,516 km² and includes a number of outer Hobart localities including; Lauderdale, Rokeby, Cambridge, Sorell, Richmond.

Fitzwilliam Sonatas

The term was applied by later editors to the original two sonatas as Handel wrote them, and was also expanded to encompass several other sonatas for various instruments included in the Handel autograph manuscripts held by the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.

Fleming Glacier

This hitherto unnamed feature was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1947 for Reverend W.L.S. Fleming, Dean of Trinity Hall, Cambridge University; also, chaplain, chief scientist, and geologist of the BGLE.

Geoffrey Thorndike Martin

Geoffrey Thorndike Martin (born 28 May 1934) is an egyptologist, Edwards Professor of Egyptian Archaeology and Philology Emeritus, University College, London, Joint Field Director of the Amarna Royal Tombs Project and fellow commoner of Christ's College, Cambridge.

He obtained an MA from Cambridge University in 1966 and became a Lady Wallis Budge Research Fellow at Christ's College, Cambridge, a post which he held until 1970.

George Harold Newsom

He was the eldest son of the Reverend G.E. Newsom, Master of Selwyn College, Cambridge, and Alethea Mary Awdry.

Gerrard Andrewes

He was elected to a Westminster scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge, took his B.A. degree in 1773, M.A. 1779, and D.D. 1807.

Gord Renwick

Gord Renwick (from Cambridge, Ontario was part of the first class of recipients to be honored with the Order of Hockey in Canada.

Harrie Massey

In 1929, with the benefit of another scholarship, Massey went to Trinity College, Cambridge to perform research at the Cavendish Laboratory led by Ernest Rutherford.

Harry A. Ironside

He suffered from failing vision, and after surgery to restore it, he set out on November 2, 1950, for a preaching tour of New Zealand, once more among Brethren assemblies, but died in Cambridge, New Zealand, on Jan 15, 1951 and was buried there.

Hobart Bus Station

Hobart Bus Station is utilised by thousands of commuters every day, bringing city workers into Hobart from outlying suburbs, and the neighbouring cities of Clarence and Glenorchy, as well as nearby Richmond, Cambridge and Kingborough.

Honey for Tea

So Nancy, who was born in Cambridge as the child of a GI bride, and Jake decide to go and live in Cambridge.

Much of his money is invested in St Maud's College at Cambridge University, a university he loved.

Humphrey Haggett

He was admitted to Merchant Taylors School in 1613 and matriculated at St John's College, Cambridge on 12 November 1619, aged 17.

Hydronym

An unusual example is the River Cam - it was originally called the Granta, but when the town of Grantebrycge became Cambridge, the river's name changed to match the toponym.

Ian Sansom

He studied at both Oxford and Cambridge where he was a fellow of Emmanuel College.

Independent College, Homerton

Initially taking the name of Homerton New College at Cavendish College, it shortly became just Homerton College, Cambridge, with John Charles Horobin as the first Principal.

International Extension College

More commonly referred to as the IEC, the International Extension College is a defunct non-profit organization that was based in Cambridge in the UK.

James Walston

He is educated at Eton and Jesus College, Cambridge (BA 1975, and PhD 1986) and the University of Rome, La Sapienza (Diploma di Perfezionamento, 1981).

Janet Coleman

She has held teaching appointments in politics at Exeter University and on the History Faculty of the University of Cambridge.

Joan Simon

She met her future husband Brian Simon while he was studying at Trinity College, Cambridge.

John Archibald Venn

John Archibald Venn CMG FSA JP (10 November 1883 – 15 March 1958), son of John Venn, was a British economist, President of Queens' College, Cambridge, from 1932 until his death, Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University 1941–43, university archivist, and author, alongside his father, of Alumni Cantabrigienses.

John Exton

Exton was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he proceeded B.A. 1619-30, M.A. 1623, LL.D.

John Mitting

Mitting attended the Roman Catholic independent school Downside School and earned an LL.B at Trinity Hall, Cambridge.

John Wallop, Viscount Lymington

Rev. Barton Wallop (3 January 1744 – 1 September 1781), married Camilla Powlett Smith in 1771 and had issue, Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge

Joined At The Heart

The show saw its first performance at The Junction 2 in Cambridge, UK from 1–4 August 2007.

Jonael Schickler

He graduated with a First and, after a year as a cellist with a Berlin orchestra, Schickler returned to Cambridge (Queens' College, Cambridge) to read for a Doctorate in the Faculty of Divinity, under the supervision of George Pattison.

Joseph Deiss

He continued to complete a doctorate at the same university after which he spent some time doing research at King's College at the University of Cambridge.

Joseph Romilly

He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1809, became a scholar of the college, and graduated B.A. in 1813 as fourth wrangler.

King's Hall

King's Hall, Cambridge - former college in the University of Cambridge, England

Lanckoroński Foundation

Lanckoroński Foundation is Zygmunt Jan Ansgary Tyszkiewicz (CMG) of Cambridge, England.

Leslie Barnett

In 1966 she was appointed Senior Tutor at the new graduate college, Clare Hall, Cambridge.

Louise Fryer

After attending Clare College, Cambridge, where she read anthropology, Fryer briefly worked as an actress.

Machon Yaakov

Machon Yaakov students represent such universities as Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago, Cornell University, University of Michigan, Northwestern University, Rutgers University, University of Maryland, Cambridge, the London School of Economics, UCLA, and many others.

Maurice Edelman

He was educated at Cardiff High School and Trinity College, Cambridge and joined the plywood industry in 1931 as a company director.

Minnesota State Highway 107

It is geographically located between the cities of Cambridge and Hinckley in east-central Minnesota and parallels Interstate 35 and State Highway 65 throughout its route.

Mollidgewock Brook

The brook flows west and north through swampy areas and past low hills in the township of Cambridge before joining the Androscoggin River in the town of Errol.

Montagu Bacon

He was admitted a fellow-commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1704-5, but seems to have taken no degree until the year 1734, when he proceeded M.A. per literas regias, in which he is styled 'Edvardi primi comitis de Sandwich ex filiâ nepos.'

Oliver Crosthwaite-Eyre

Educated at Downside School and Trinity College, Cambridge, he attained the rank of Colonel in the Royal Marines in 1945, following which he embarked upon a political career.

Olja Ivanjicki

She was a member of ULUS, a Belgrade artists' association, and a one-time Deputy Governor of the American Biographical Institute and a Deputy Director General of the International Biographical Center based in Cambridge, England.

Oswald Wright

Wright was educated at Malvern College and Selwyn College, Cambridge; at school he played for the first eleven at cricket and captained the soccer team.

P. T. Rajan

P. T. Rajan was born in 1892 in Uthamapalayam (Theni District) and educated at The Leys School, Cambridge and Jesus College, Oxford.

Pampisford

The sculptor Antony Gormley lived in a cottage here whilst an undergraduate of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Parkside Community College

On 1 December 2008, the Nova 9 helium balloon took two space-suited teddies close to the edge of space from the grounds of Churchill College, Cambridge.

Patrick Parrinder

Patrick Parrinder (born 1944) is an academic, currently Professor of English at the School of English and American Literature at the University of Reading, having been educated at Leighton Park School before going on to King's College, Cambridge.

Phil Vincent

He went to Cambridge University in October 1926 to read Mechanical Sciences at Kings College.

Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia

After the fall of monarchy in Yugoslavia he went to exile in London, where after graduating in mathematics from Clare College, Cambridge University, he became an insurance broker.

Reginald Ely

Reginald Ely (fl. 1438 - 1471) was an English gothic architect responsible for much of the design (but likely not the fan vaults) of King's College Chapel, Cambridge.

Reginald Welby, 1st Baron Welby

He then went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, hoping for a career as a barrister following graduation, although his hopes never realised themselves.

Revels

Langstaff and his daughter Carol started producing "The Christmas Revels" again in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1971, at Harvard University's Sanders Theater, where it has frequently played to sold-out houses.

Richard Clutterbuck

Clutterbuck was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1937 after graduating in mechanical sciences from Cambridge.

Ruislip-Northwood Urban District

In 1931 King's College, Cambridge sold their final plots of land to the council, having been owners of much of the land in the manor of Ruislip since the mid-15th century.

Scania N112

These included nine single-deck versions with Wadham Stringer Vanguard bodywork; the double-deckers were bodied by Marshall of Cambridge.

Silent Witness

Trevor decided to stay in Cambridge with his friends and family when Sam accepted the professorship position at a university in London and moved away at the end of series three.

Simon Lepper

Born in Canterbury, Lepper read music at King's College, Cambridge and studied piano accompaniment with Michael Dussek at the Royal Academy of Music.

So You Think

He was bred by M J Moran & Piper Farm Ltd and foaled at the Windsor Park Stud in Cambridge, New Zealand.

Sophie Bryant

She was also instrumental in setting up the Cambridge Training College for Women, now Hughes Hall, Cambridge.

St Bride's Church, Glasgow

His recent work had included St Salvador’s Church in Dundee, the Chapel at Queens' College, Cambridge, and St. Mary's Church in Eccleston, Cheshire, which bears a strong resemblance to St. Bride's.

St Ippolyts

The noted theologian Fenton John Anthony Hort (Fenton Hort) is amongst the former vicars of St Ippolyts church where he stayed for 15 years before taking up a fellowship and lectureship at Emmanuel College in Cambridge .

St. Edmund's College

St Edmund's College, Cambridge, a constituent college of the University of Cambridge

Stephen Gomersall

Sir Stephen Gomersall, KCMG was educated at Forest School, Snaresbrook and Queens' College, Cambridge.

Stuart Macintyre

From 1977 to 1978, Macintyre was a research fellow at St John's College at the University of Cambridge.

Tay Bee Aye

As she could not afford herself an art education, art took a backseat, and she joined the workforce soon after finishing her Cambridge GCE O Level Examinations, to help support her family.

Terence English

He was President of the Royal College of Surgeons 1989-92, Master of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, 1993–2000.

The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James

Montague Rhodes James (1862–1936) was a medieval scholar; Provost of King's College, Cambridge.

The Moneypenny Diaries: Guardian Angel

It was also claimed that Westbrook was a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, however, the college replied stating no such person was in employment there.

Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford

He was admitted fellow-commoner at Clare College, Cambridge, on 7 January 1754, and resided there until 1758.

Thurning, Norfolk

In 1823, the church gained the furnishings of the old chapel of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, when that was demolished.

Tom Copson

His first release since securing a deal with UK-based independent label Chiwawa Records was a live acoustic EP, which was recorded in his home town of Cambridge, entitled Tom Copson – Live at CB2.

Trumpington Street

The Church of St Mary the Less, Cambridge is next to Peterhouse (just to the north) on the corner of Trumpington Street and Little St Mary's Lane.

Victor Stiebel

Born in Durban he arrived in Britain in 1924 to study architecture at Jesus College, Cambridge.

Walter Rosenhain

Rosenhain then did three years research work with Professor James Alfred Ewing at St John's College, Cambridge.

Wilfrid Young

He went to Selwyn College, Cambridge University, and played in a trial match for the Cambridge cricket team, but did not make any first-team appearances.

William Flete

He was an English mystic, and lived in the latter half of the fourteenth century; educated at Cambridge, he afterwards joined the Austin Friars in England.

William S. Rukeyser

He also studied English literature as a graduate student at Christ's College, Cambridge University.


1993 in archaeology

Sarah Milledge Nelson – The Archaeology of Korea (Cambridge University Press).

A. W. Lawrence

In 1951 he resigned his post at Cambridge to become the Professor of Archaeology at the University College of the Gold Coast where he established the National Museum and was the Secretary and Conservator of the Monuments and Relics Committee.

Amanda Staveley

In 1996, at the age of 22 and without any training, Staveley borrowed £180,000 and bought the restaurant, Stocks, in Bottisham between Cambridge and Newmarket.

Angels We Have Heard on High

The carol quickly became popular in the West Country, where it was described as 'Cornish' by R.R. Chope, and featured in Pickard-Cambridge's Collection of Dorset Carols.

Argument

Douglas Walton, Informal Logic: A Handbook for Critical Argumentation, Cambridge, 1998

Cambridge Gulf

King named the gulf after the His Royal Highness the Viceroy of Hanover who was also the Duke of Cambridge at that time, as well as being Prince Adolphus.

Cambridge Model European Council

The Cambridge Model European Council is an annual student-run conference based in the English city of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Association Football League

This gives Cambridge University county status (separate from Cambridgeshire), with the same voice in English football's governing body as such associations as London, the Army and Women's football.

Chad Van Dixhoorn

He retains a visiting fellowship at Wolfson College, Cambridge, and has served as associate minister of Cambridge Presbyterian Church and Grace Presbyterian Church in Vienna, Virginia.

Charles Edward Moss

Albert Charles Seward, Professor of Botany at Cambridge and a Syndic at the Press, supported Moss, but both eventually reluctantly accepted the Press's preferences.

Christian Reus-Smit

At present, he is co-editor (with Nicholas J. Wheeler) of the Cambridge Studies in International Relations book series, and co-editor (with Duncan Snidal and Alexander Wendt) of the journal "International Theory".

Club Passim

Bonnie Raitt chose to attend Radcliffe College in Cambridge in order to be near Club 47, though the club closed temporarily after her first year as a student (1967).

Connection Machine

Danny Hillis and Sheryl Handler founded Thinking Machines in Waltham, Massachusetts (it was later moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts) in 1983 and assembled a team to develop the CM-1 Connection Machine.

Dean Gitter

In 1969, Gitter's University Cinema Association opened the Orson Welles Cinema in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge

The Magnetic Resonance Research Centre has been situated at the West Cambridge site since it was built in 1997 and houses four Bruker NMR spectrometers in addition to lower field equipment such as Earth's field NMR equipment.

Emmanuel Levinas

Simon Critchley and Robert Bernasconi (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Levinas (2002).

Erich Bagge

From June to December 1945, Bagge was (together with Kurt Diebner, Walther Gerlach, Otto Hahn, Paul Harteck, Werner Heisenberg, Horst Korsching, Max von Laue, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, and Karl Wirtz) detained at Farm Hall near Cambridge, England.

Frank Lee

Frank Godbould Lee (1903–1971), British public servant and Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

Geoffrey Darks

Not usually a productive batsman, with six single-figure scores in his eight innings (albeit three of those not out), he did however make 39 against Cambridge in the same match in late June 1950 in which he took his final wicket, that of David Sheppard.

Harold M. Westergaard

Harold Malcolm Westergaard (9 October 1888 Copenhagen, Denmark – 22 June 1950 Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA).

Higham Gobion

It contains a monument to Dr. Edmund Castell, who died in 1674 and was a Professor of Arabic at Cambridge.

Ignazio Visco

Saving and the Accumulation of Wealth (with Albert Ando and Luigi Guiso), Cambridge University Press, 1994

Il pesceballo

One evening George Martin Lane was trying to make his way to Cambridge, MA, from Boston.

James Henry Carleton

General Carleton died, serving with the Fourth Cavalry Regiment in his permanent rank of Lieutenant Colonel, at age 59 in January 7, 1873, in San Antonio, Texas, and is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts; his son, Henry was later buried beside him.

James Jurin

He had studied under Roger Cotes and William Whiston at Cambridge but only came to know Newton at the Royal Society, where Jurin was Secretary towards the end of Newton's Presidency.

John Moorman

During the Second World War, Moorman resigned his living and worked as a farmhand in Wharfedale, and during this period completed his thesis Church Life in England in the Thirteenth Century for a doctorate of divinity (Cambridge University, 1945).

Jonathan Steinberg

He was co-editor of The Historical Journal, Cambridge University Press, from 1990 to 2000 and his biography Bismarck: A Life was published by Oxford University Press in early April, 2011.

Kemerovo Institute of Food Science and Technology

At the end of the festival, "Cambridge" was invited to play in the television program "The First League" in Minsk.

Kenneth Womack

In addition to his work as novelist, Womack is the author and editor of three books devoted to The Beatles, including Reading the Beatles: Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, and the Fab Four (2006; with Todd F. Davis), Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles (2007), and The Cambridge Companion to the Beatles (2009), which was named by The Independent as the 2009 Music Book of the Year.

KLRN

San Antonio operations were based at a satellite studio at Cambridge Elementary School until 1968, when it moved to rented space at the Institute of Texan Cultures on the HemisFair grounds.

Malcolm Smith

Malcolm C. Smith, Professor of Control Engineering at the University of Cambridge

Michael Scothern

With the ball he took his solitary first-class wicket when he had Cambridge captain Rob Andrew (who was to gain much greater fame in rugby union) lbw for 2.

National Ringette League

From March 27 till April 2, 2011, the NRL Championship Tournament took place in Cambridge, Ontario.

Oliver Everett

Everett was educated at St Aubyn's Preparatory School Woodford Green Essex having been Captain of the 1st XVFelsted, the Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, Ohio and at Christ's CollegeCambridge, and he has a masters degree in international relations from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and did post-graduate work in international relations at the London School of Economics.

Owen Chadwick

As Vice-Chancellor he guided Cambridge through turbulent times in the late 1960s; and was Chancellor of the University of East Anglia between 1984 and 1994.

Ramesh Kumar Nibhoria

He was invited to the Al Gore lecture on climate change at Cambridge University.

Richard Janko

(G.S. Kirk, series editor) The Iliad. A Commentary. 4: Books 13–16 (Cambridge, 1994)

Richard Risby

12, together with Elizabeth Barton, Edward Bocking, Hugh Rich, warden of the Observant friary at Richmond, John Dering, B.D. (Oxon.), Benedictine of Christ Church, Canterbury, Henry Gold, M.A. (St.John's College, Cambridge), parson of St. Mary Aldermanbury, London, and vicar of Hayes, Middlesex and Richard Master M.A. (King's College, Oxon)rector of Aldington, Kent, who was pardoned; but by some oversight Master's name is included and Risby's omitted in the catalogue of praetermissi.

Sinan Savaskan

Sinan Savaskan was the Music Director and Composer for Oedipus Rex, University of Cambridge’s triennial production performed entirely in classical Greek at Performances at Arts Theatre, Cambridge, 11–16 October 2004; featuring a distinguished production team including Director Annie Castledine and Royal National Theatre’s Designer Stephen Brimson-Lewis.

Spare Change

Spare Change News, a street newspaper founded in 1992 and published in Cambridge, Massachusetts

St. Joseph's Convent, St. Joseph

As the school was not yet registered, in December 1203, when two students were presented for the Cambridge School Certificate, they were entered at St Joseph's Convent, Port of Spain.

Stephen Courtauld

Courtauld was financial director of Ealing Studios, a trustee of the Royal Opera House in London's Covent Garden, and provided financial support for the Courtauld Galleries in Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum.

Thierry Bogaert

He obtained a PhD at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Medical Research Council, (Cambridge, United Kingdom).

Wendy, Cambridgeshire

The double hammer-beam roof over the name was taken from the recently dismantled church of All Saints in the Jewry that stood opposite Trinity College in Cambridge.

Yorick Blumenfeld

He lives in Cambridge and is married to the sculptor Helaine Blumenfeld.