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St Catharine's College
St Catharine's College
	University of Cambridge
Location	; Trumpington Street (map)
Full name	The College or Hall of Saint Catharine the Virgin in the University of Cambridge
Latin name	Aula sancte Katerine virginis infra Universitatem Cantabrigie
Motto in English	For the wheel! (unofficial);
Founder	Robert Woodlark, Provost of King's College;
Established	1473
Named for	Catherine of Alexandria
Previous names	Katharine Hall (1473-1860)
Sister college	Worcester College, Oxford
Master	Sir Mark Welland
Undergraduates	436
Postgraduates	165
Endowment	; £35.3m (as of 30 June 2017);
Website	www.caths.cam.ac.uk
JCR	jcr.caths.cam.ac.uk
MCR	mcr.caths.cam.ac.uk
Boat club	www.boatclub.caths.cam.ac.uk

St Catharine's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1473 as Katharine Hall, it adopted its current name in 1860. The college is nicknamed "Catz". The college is located in the historic city-centre of Cambridge, and lies just south of King's College and across the street from Corpus Christi College. The college is notable for its open court (rather than closed quadrangle) that faces towards Trumpington Street.

St Catharine's is unique in being the only Oxbridge college founded by the serving head of another college.^[2] The college community is moderately sized, consisting of approximately 70 fellows, 150 graduate students, and 410 undergraduates.^[3]

History

Foundation

Historical plan of St Catharine's College

Robert Woodlark, Provost of King’s College, had begun preparations for the founding of a new college as early as 1459 when he bought tenements on which the new college could be built. The preparation cost him a great deal of his private fortune (he was suspected of diverting King's College funds), and he was forced to scale down the foundation to only three fellows. He stipulated that they must study theology and philosophy only. The college was established as "Lady Katharine Hall" in 1473. The college received its royal charter of incorporation in 1475 from King Edward IV. Woodlark may have chosen the name in homage to the mother of King Henry VI who was called Catharine, although it is more likely that it was named as part of the Renaissance cult of St Catharine, who was a patron saint of learning. At any rate, the college was ready for habitation and formally founded on St Catharine’s day (November 25) 1473. There are six Saints Catharine, but the college was named for Saint Catharine of Alexandria.^[4]

St Catharine’s, as seen from Trumpington Street

The initial foundation was not well-provided for. Woodlark was principally interested in the welfare of fellows and the college had no undergraduates at all for many years. By 1550, however, there was an increasing number of junior students and the focus of the college changed to that of teaching undergraduates.

The Robinson Vote

In 1861, the then master, Henry Philpott became Bishop of Worcester, in the ensuing election Charles Kirkby Robinson and Francis Jameson stood. Jameson naturally voted for Robinson, however Robinson voted for himself, Robinson won. The episode brought the college into some disrepute for a while.^[5]

Expansion and modern day

As the college entered the 17th century, it was still one of the smallest colleges in Cambridge. However, a series of prudent Masters and generous benefactors were to change the fortunes of the college and expand its size. Rapid growth in the fellowship and undergraduate population made it necessary to expand the college, and short-lived additions were made in 1622. By 1630 the college began to demolish its existing buildings which were decaying, and started work on a new court. In 1637 the college came into possession of the George Inn (later the Bull Inn) on Trumpington Street. Behind this Inn was a stables which was already famous for the practice of its manager, Thomas Hobson, not to allow a hirer to take any horse other than the one longest in the stable, leading to the expression “Hobson's choice”, meaning "take it or leave it".

The period of 1675 to 1757 saw the redevelopment of the college's site into a large three-sided court, one of only four at Oxbridge colleges; the others are at Jesus and Downing at Cambridge and Worcester, St Catharine’s sister college, at Oxford. Proposals for a range of buildings to complete the fourth side of the court have been made on many occasions.^[6]

The College gates

The college was granted new statutes in 1860 and adopted its current name. In 1880, a movement to merge the college with King’s College began. The two colleges were adjacent and it seemed a solution to King’s need for more rooms and St Catharine’s need for a more substantial financial basis. However, the Master (Charles Kirkby Robinson) was opposed and St Catharine’s eventually refused.

In 1966 a major rebuilding project took place under the Mastership of Professor E. E. Rich. This saw the creation of a new larger hall, new kitchens and an accommodation block shared between St Catharine's and King's College. Pressure on accommodation continued to grow, and in 1981 further accommodation was built at St. Chad's on Grange Road, with further rooms added there in 1998. In 2013 the College completed the building of a new lecture theatre, college bar and JCR.^[4]

In 1979, the membership of the college was broadened to welcome female students, and in 2006 the first woman was appointed as Master of the college, Dame Jean Thomas.

A history of the college was written by W. H. S. Jones in 1936.^[7]

In 2015, St Catharine's became the first college in Cambridge to implement a gender-neutral dress code for formal hall.^[8]

Academic reputation

St Catharine's College Boat Club in the May Bumps

Historically, St Catharine's academic position has been unexceptional and in the annual league table of colleges placed towards the middle. In 2014 its position slipped to 21st,^[9] but rose to 13th in 2015 with over 25% of students gaining a First. The college had been placed at the top of the Tompkins Table, which ranks the colleges by the class of degrees obtained by their undergraduates, for the first time in 2005. Between 1997 and 2010, the college averaged 9th of the 29 colleges.

Student life

Chapel at the college

The college maintains a friendly rivalry with Queens’ College after the construction of the main court of St Catharine's College on Cambridge’s former High Street relegated one side of Queens' College into a back alley. A more modern rivalry with Robinson College resulted from the construction in the 1970s of a modern block of flats named St Chad’s (in which the rooms are octagonal to resemble the wheel on the college crest) by the University Library.

The college has a strong reputation in hockey and racquet sports, in part due to its facilities for these sports including grass tennis courts and an astroturf hockey pitch. St Catharine's College Boat Club, the college boat club, hosts the Cardinals Regatta each year, in which teams compete along a short course in fancy dress with an emphasis on bribery to secure victory. The college's Boat Club is moderately strong, with both Men's and Women's 1st boats generally residing in the middle of the 1st division of the May Bumps races.

The college hosts several other notable societies. The Shirley Society is the college literary society, the oldest in Cambridge, it regularly hosts significant figures from the arts world throughout the academic year. The college-based girls' choir is the first of its kind in a UK university and is composed of girls aged 8–14 from local schools.

Notable alumni

Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, President of India.

Jeremy Paxman, journalist.

John Ray, naturalist.

Sir Ian McKellen, actor.

Richard Ayoade, comedian and actor.

Rebecca Hall, actress.

Ben Miller, comedian and actor.

Tunku Abdul Rahman, the first Prime Minister of Malaysia.

Rona Fairhead, Chairwoman of the BBC Trust.

James Shirley, dramatist.

Name	Birth	Death	Career
John Addenbrooke	1680	1719	Founder of Addenbrooke's Hospital
David Armand	1977		Actor, comedian and writer
David Armitage	1965		Professor of History at Harvard University
Herbert Rowse Armstrong	1870	1922	Only English solicitor to be hanged for murder
Richard Ayoade	1977		Performer
Harivansh Rai Bachchan	1907	2003	20th century Indian poet
Nathaniel Bacon	1640	1676	Revolutionary in Virginia
Geoffrey Barnes	1932	2010	Secretary for Security for Hong Kong, Commissioner of Independent Commission Against Corruption
Jonathan Bate	1958		Shakespeare scholar and Provost of Worcester College, Oxford
John Bayliss	1919	1978	Poet
Peter Boizot	1929		Founder of Pizza Express
John Bond	1612	1676	Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge
Gp. Cpt. Leslie Bonnet	1902	1985	RAF officer, writer and originator of the Welsh Harlequin Duck
Sir Arthur Bonsall	1917	2014	Head of GCHQ
John Bradford	1510	1555	Martyr of the English reformation
Anil Kumar Gain	1919	1978	Indian mathematician and statistician, FRS
Sir Kenneth Bradshaw	1922	2007	Clerk of the House of Commons
Howard Brenton	1942		Playwright
Adam Buddle	1662	1715	After whom the Buddleia is named
Henry William Bunbury	1750	1811	Caricaturist
Francis Cammaerts DSO	1916	2006	Leading member of the French Special Operations Executive
George Corrie	1793	1885	Master of Jesus College, Cambridge
Gervase Cowell^[10]	1927	2000	Intelligence Officer
Martin Crimp	1956		Playwright
John Cutts	1661	1707	MP and army commander
Donald Davie	1922	1995	Poet
John Bacchus Dykes	1823	1876	Victorian hymn-writer
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed	1905	1977	Fifth President of India
Richard Finn			Regent of Blackfriars, Oxford
Reg Gadney	1941	2018	Painter and writer
Leo Genn	1905	1978	Actor, nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Brian Gibson	1944	2004	Movie Director
Maurice Glasman	1961		Political scientist and Labour peer
Charles Wycliffe Goodwin	1817	1878	Egyptologist, bible scholar and judge of the British Supreme Court for China and Japan
Lilian Greenwood	1966		British Labour Party politician
Sir Peter Hall	1930	2017	Theatre and opera director, founder of the RSC
Sir Peter Hall	1932	2014	Urban planner and geographer
Rebecca Hall	1982		Film and stage actress
Leslie Halliwell	1929	1989	Film reviewer
David Harding			Hedge fund manager and founder for Winton Capital Management
Roger Harrabin	1955		Journalist and reporter
Joanne Harris	1964		Author
Sir Peter Hirsch	1925		Materials scientist
Sir Robert Howe	1893	1981	Last British Governor-General of the Sudan
Rupert Jeffcoat	1970		Organist Coventry Cathedral
Roger Knight	1946		Cricketer
Emyr Jones Parry	1947		United Nations diplomat
Paul King			Director, The Mighty Boosh, Bunny and the Bull
Malcolm Lowry	1909	1957	Writer - Author of Under the Volcano, number 11 on the Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of the 20th century).^[11]
Sir Ian McKellen	1939		Actor
Roy MacLaren	1934		Canadian diplomat, politician and author
Nevil Maskelyne	1732	1811	Astronomer Royal; developed the Lunar distance model for measuring latitude
Ian Meakins	1956		Chief Executive of Wolseley plc
Morien Morgan	1912	1978	Master of Downing College, Cambridge, known as "the father of Concorde"
Michael Morris	1936		Former Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons
George Nash	1989		Rowing World Champion and Olympic Medalist
Sir Foley Newns	1909	1998	Colonial administrator
Robin Nicholson	1934		Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government
Ben Miller	1966		Writer, Actor and Comedian
Geoffrey Pattie	1936		Former Minister of State for Information and Technology
Jeremy Paxman	1950		Television journalist
Nicholas Penny	1949		Director of the National Gallery
Sam Pickering	1941		Professor of English at the University of Connecticut
Steve Punt	1962		Comedian
Tunku Abdul Rahman	1903	1990	First Prime Minister of Malaysia
John Ray	1627	1705	Naturalist
Sir Thomas Roberts	1658	1706	MP
Thomas Sherlock	1678	1761	Theologian
James Shirley	1596	1666	Elizabethan poet and playwright
Arun Singh			Former Defence Minister of India
Donald Soper	1903	1998	Methodist minister and campaigner
John Strype	1643	1737	Historian
Noel Thompson			Television journalist
Sir Tim Waterstone	1939		Founder of Waterstones
Peter Wothers			Chemist
William Wotton	1666	1727	Historian
Hannah Yelland	1976		Film & stage actress
Terence Young	1915	1994	British film director - Dr. No, From Russia With Love, Thunderball

References

^ "Financial Statements for the year ended 30 June 2017" (PDF). St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Retrieved 3 August 2018..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}

^ "St Catharine's College, University of Cambridge: Your Paintings". BBC. Archived from the original on 15 October 2014. Retrieved 28 August 2014.

^ "St Catharine's College Cambridge - About St Catharine's College". cam.ac.uk.

^ ^a^b "St Catharine's College Cambridge - History of St Catharine's College". cam.ac.uk.

^ https://www.caths.cam.ac.uk/about-us/history

^
http://www.caths.cam.ac.uk/assets/uploadedfiles/downloads/MainCourt.pdf^{[permanent dead link]}

^ W. H. S. Jones, 1936, A history of St Catharine's College, Cambridge University Press, 414 pp

^ "Cambridge college changes formal dress rules after campaign by transgender student". Archived from the original on 2015-06-24. Retrieved 2015-08-09.

^ Garner, Richard (22 July 2014). "Tompkins Table 2014: Trinity College Cambridge produces record number of firsts". www.independent.co.uk. Retrieved 5 October 2014.

^ Knightley, Phillip (16 May 2000). "Gervase Cowell". the Guardian.

^ "Modern Library 100 Best Novels". Modern Library. Retrieved 13 March 2008.

External links

Official St Catharine's College website

St Catharine's College JCR website

Coordinates: 52°12′10.80″N 0°7′0.84″E / 52.2030000°N 0.1169000°E / 52.2030000; 0.1169000 (St Catharine’s College)

[St_Catharine's_College_Financial_Statement_16/17-1] "Financial Statements for the year ended 30 June 2017" (PDF). St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Retrieved 3 August 2018..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}

[2] "St Catharine's College, University of Cambridge: Your Paintings". BBC. Archived from the original on 15 October 2014. Retrieved 28 August 2014.

[3] "St Catharine's College Cambridge - About St Catharine's College". cam.ac.uk.

[autogenerated1-4] "St Catharine's College Cambridge - History of St Catharine's College". cam.ac.uk.

[5] ttps://www.caths.cam.ac.uk/about-us/history

[6] 
http://www.caths.cam.ac.uk/assets/uploadedfiles/downloads/MainCourt.pdf^{[permanent dead link]}

[7] W. H. S. Jones, 1936, A history of St Catharine's College, Cambridge University Press, 414 pp

[8] "Cambridge college changes formal dress rules after campaign by transgender student". Archived from the original on 2015-06-24. Retrieved 2015-08-09.

[9] Garner, Richard (22 July 2014). "Tompkins Table 2014: Trinity College Cambridge produces record number of firsts". www.independent.co.uk. Retrieved 5 October 2014.

[10] Knightley, Phillip (16 May 2000). "Gervase Cowell". the Guardian.

[11] "Modern Library 100 Best Novels". Modern Library. Retrieved 13 March 2008.

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Contents

History

Foundation

The Robinson Vote

Expansion and modern day

Academic reputation

Student life

Notable alumni

See also

References

External links

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