Jesus College, Cambridge
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Jesus College is a constituent college
Colleges of the University of Cambridge
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 of the University of Cambridge
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, England
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.

The College was founded in 1496 on the site of a Benedictine
Benedictine
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 nunnery by John Alcock
John Alcock (bishop)
-Biography:Alcock was born at Beverley in Yorkshire, son of Sir William Alcock, Burgess of Kingston upon Hull and educated at Cambridge. In 1461 he was made dean of Westminster, and his subsequent promotion was rapid in both church and state. In the following year he was made Master of the Rolls,...

, then Bishop of Ely
Bishop of Ely
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. It has been traditionally believed that the nunnery was turned into a college because the nunnery had gained a reputation for licentiousness
Promiscuity
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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. Founded at the beginning of the 12th century, the Chapel is the oldest university building in Cambridge still in use.

When founded in 1496, the College consisted of buildings taken over from the Nunnery of St Mary and St Radegund: namely 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 and non-collegiate character, 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.

The 500th anniversary of the College’s foundation in 1996 saw the completion of the new Quincentenary Library, designed by Eldred Evans and David Shalev, which was shortly followed by a new accommodation building.

The College is also known for its grounds, which are unlike those of Cambridge’s other old colleges, being much more spacious. Set back from Jesus Lane, all the courts are open on at least one side (with the exception of the Cloister
Cloister
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). The main entrance to the College is a walled passage, called the “Chimney” (derived from the French word chemin).

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. However, in common with other Cambridge colleges, this privilege is only extended during the summer term. Jesus gets far fewer tourists than most other colleges due to being slightly away from the centre.

Professor Robert Mair
Robert Mair
Robert James Mair CBE FREng FICE FRS is a British geotechnologist. He was appointed Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at Cambridge University in 1998, succeeding Andrew Noel Schofield. He was Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge from 1998 to 2001, when he became Master of Jesus College,...

, Professor of Geotechnical Engineering in the University, has been Master of Jesus since March 2001. He is to be succeeded by Professor Ian White for the start of the 2011 academic year.

The cockerel is a symbol of Jesus College, after the surname of its founder, Alcock. Jesus College has assets of approximately £126,000,000, making it Cambridge’s sixth wealthiest college.

College Grace

The following Latin grace is recited before formal dinners at Jesus College (Oratio Ante Cibum):


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.


Translated into English, the Oratio Ante Cibum reads as follows:


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.



The following Oratio Post Cibum 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.



Translated into English, the Orato Post Cibum reads as follows:


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 is usually used:

The Presiding Fellow: Laus Deo (Praise be to God)

The College: Deo Gracias (Thanks be to God)

Chapel

Although Jesus College was not founded until 1496, it is unique in as much as the Chapel and other buildings date from the 12th and 13th centuries. Originally it was the Benedictine Convent of St Mary and St Radegund
Radegund
Radegund was a 6th century Frankish princess, who founded the monastery of the Holy Cross at Poitiers. Canonized in the 9th century, she is the patron saint of several English churches and of Jesus College, Cambridge.-Life history:Radegund was born about 520 to Bertachar, one of the three kings...

, which was dissolved by John Alcock, Bishop of Ely
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The Chapel was founded in 1157 and took until 1245 to complete. The original structure 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, 1313 and 1376.

When the College took over the precincts, 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.

The Chapel was much modified, with the western two thirds of the nave being converted into college rooms.

The College maintains two choirs. Mark Williams, former assistant organist at St Paul's Cathedral
St Paul's Cathedral
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 has been the Director of Music since September 2009, following the departure of Daniel Hyde to Magdalen College
Magdalen College, Oxford
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, Oxford, himself replacing Dr Bill Ives
Grayston Ives
Grayston "Bill" Ives is a British composer, singer and choral director. Until March 2009, he was Organist, Informator Choristarum and Fellow and Tutor in Music at Magdalen College, Oxford. In this role he was responsible for the daily musical life of the college chapel...

.
  • Jesus 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.
  • Jesus College Chapel Choir consists of around 20 choristers combined with the gentlemen 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.

Misericords

The misericord
Misericord
A misericord is a small wooden shelf on the underside of a folding seat in a church, installed to provide a degree of comfort for a person who has to stand during long periods of prayer.-Origins:...

s were created by Pugin between 1849 and 1853, and used fragments of the misericords dating from 1500, which had been preserved in the Master's Lodge as templates, from then on.

Notable alumni

Name Birth Death Career
Thomas Cranmer
Thomas Cranmer
Thomas Cranmer was a leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI and, for a short time, Mary I. He helped build a favourable case for Henry's divorce from Catherine of Aragon which resulted in the separation of the English Church from...

1489 1556 Archbishop of Canterbury
John Bale
John Bale
John Bale was an English churchman, historian and controversialist, and Bishop of Ossory. He wrote the oldest known historical verse drama in English , and developed and published a very extensive list of the works of British authors down to his own time, just as the monastic libraries were being...

1495 1563 Bishop of Ossory
Bishop of Ossory
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Thomas Goodrich
Thomas Goodrich
Thomas Goodrich was an English ecclesiastic and statesman.-Life:He was a son of Edward Goodrich of East Kirkby, Lincolnshire and brother of Henry Goodricke of Ribston Hall, North Yorkshire....

1494 1554 Bishop of Ely
Bishop of Ely
The Bishop of Ely is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Ely in the Province of Canterbury. The diocese roughly covers the county of Cambridgeshire , together with a section of north-west Norfolk and has its see in the City of Ely, Cambridgeshire, where the seat is located at the...

Arthur Golding
Arthur Golding
Arthur Golding was an English translator of more than 30 works from Latin into English. While primarily remembered today for his translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses because of its influence on Shakespeare's works, in his own time he was most famous for his translation of Caesar's Commentaries, and...

1535/6 1606 Protestant propagandist
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, de jure 13th Baron Latimer and 5th Baron Willoughby de Broke , known before 1621 as Sir Fulke Greville, was an Elizabethan poet, dramatist, and statesman....

1554 1628 Elizabethan poet, playwright, statesman and biographer of Sir Philip Sidney
Philip Sidney
Sir Philip Sidney was an English poet, courtier and soldier, and is remembered as one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan Age...

Thomas Beard
Thomas Beard
Thomas Beard was an English clergyman and theologian, of Puritan views. He is known as the author of The Theatre of God's Judgements, and the schoolmaster of Oliver Cromwell at Huntingdon.-Life:...

1632 English clergyman, theologian, Puritan and schoolmaster of Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell
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Francis Higginson
Francis Higginson
Francis Higginson was an early Puritan minister in Colonial New England, and the first minister of Salem, Massachusetts.-Biography:...

1588 1630 Early Puritan minister in Colonial New England
New England
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, and first minister of Salem, Massachusetts
Salem, Massachusetts
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Richard Sterne 1596 1683 Archbishop of York, Master of Jesus College (1634)
John Eliot
John Eliot (missionary)
John Eliot was a Puritan missionary to the American Indians. His efforts earned him the designation “the Indian apostle.”-English education and Massachusetts ministry:...

1604 1690 Puritan missionary who translated the Bible into Algonquian
Algonquian languages
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Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet 1608 1666 English diplomat, translator and poet.
William Beale
William Beale (college head)
William Beale was an English royalist churchman, Master in turn of Jesus College, Cambridge and St John's College, Cambridge. He was subjected to intense attacks by John Pym from 1640, for an unpublished sermon he had given in 1635 supporting royal prerogative...

1784 1854 Master of Jesus College (1632)
John Flamsteed
John Flamsteed
Sir John Flamsteed FRS was an English astronomer and the first Astronomer Royal. He catalogued over 3000 stars.- Life :Flamsteed was born in Denby, Derbyshire, England, the only son of Stephen Flamsteed...

1646 1719 First Astronomer Royal
Astronomer Royal
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Thomas Herring
Thomas Herring
Thomas Herring was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1747 to 1757.He was educated at Wisbech Grammar School and later Jesus College, Cambridge. At Cambridge, he was a contemporary of Matthew Hutton, who succeeded him in turn in each of his dioceses...

1693 1757 Archbishop of Canterbury
Matthew Hutton
Matthew Hutton
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1693 1758 Archbishop of Canterbury
John Jortin
John Jortin
-Life:Jortin was the son of Renatus Jordain, a French Huguenot refugee and government official, and Martha Rogers, daughter of Daniel Rogers. He was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he became a Fellow in 1721. He was Rede lecturer at Cambridge in 1724, and Boyle lecturer in 1749...

1698 1770 Ecclesiastical historian
David Hartley
David Hartley (philosopher)
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1705 1757 Philosopher
Laurence Sterne
Laurence Sterne
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1713 1768 Novelist
Henry Venn 1725 1797 A leader of the Evangelical movement in the Church of England
Gilbert Wakefield
Gilbert Wakefield
Gilbert Wakefield was an English scholar and controversialist.Gilbert Wakefield was the third son of the Rev. George Wakefield, then rector of St Nicholas' Church, Nottingham but afterwards at Kingston-upon-Thames. He was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. as second...

1756 1801 Principal of two nonconformist academies
Robert Malthus 1766 1834 Population theorist
William Otter
William Otter
The Right Reverend William Otter was the first Principal of King's College London who later served as Bishop of Chichester. He was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge where he was later made a fellow...

1768 1840 First Principal of King's College London
King's College London
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, Romantic, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla...

1772 1834 Poet, critic and philosopher
William Percy Carpmael
William Percy Carpmael
William Percy Carpmael was the founder and first president of the rugby union Barbarian Football Club. Carpmael was born the eldest of eight in Briscobel, Stretham in England.-Education and early career:...

1853 1936 Founder of the Barbarians rugby team
Steve Fairbairn
Steve Fairbairn
Steve Fairbairn was a rower and an influential rowing coach, notably at Jesus College Boat Club, Cambridge University, Thames Rowing Club and London Rowing Club in the early decades of the 20th century.-Early life:...

1862 1938 Rowing coach
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
Arthur Quiller-Couch
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch was a Cornish writer, who published under the pen name of Q. He is primarily remembered for the monumental Oxford Book Of English Verse 1250–1900 , and for his literary criticism...

1863 1944 Novelist and critic
Sir Harold Scott 1887 1969 Commissioner
Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
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 of the Metropolitan Police Service
Metropolitan Police Service
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 from 1945 to 1953
E. M. W. Tillyard
E. M. W. Tillyard
Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall Tillyard was a British classical scholar and literary scholar. He was a Fellow in English at Jesus College and later Master of Jesus College , Cambridge. He is known mainly for his book The Elizabethan World Picture, as background to Elizabethan Literature,...

1889 1962 Literary critic, master (1945–1959)
Alistair Cooke
Alistair Cooke
Alfred Alistair Cooke KBE was a British/American journalist, television personality and broadcaster. Outside his journalistic output, which included Letter from America and Alistair Cooke's America, he was well known in the United States as the host of PBS Masterpiece Theater from 1971 to 1992...

1908 2004 Broadcaster
Jacob Bronowski
Jacob Bronowski
Jacob Bronowski was a Polish-Jewish British mathematician, biologist, historian of science, theatre author, poet and inventor...

1908 1974 Broadcaster
James Reeves
James Reeves
John Morris Reeves was a British writer known as James Reeves principally known for his poetry and contributions to children's literature and the literature of collected traditional songs.-Life:...

1909 1978 Author and literary critic
Don Siegel
Don Siegel
Donald Siegel was an influential American film director and producer. His name variously appeared in the credits of his films as both Don Siegel and Donald Siegel.-Early life:...

1912 1991 American film director and producer
David Clive Crosbie Trench
David Clive Crosbie Trench
Sir David Clive Crosbie Trench, GCMG, MC, DL 2 June 1915 – 4 December 1988 was a British soldier and colonial governor.-Early life:Trench was educated at Tonbridge School, Tonbridge, Kent and graduated from Jesus College, Cambridge with the degree of Master of Arts .-War service:In 1938, Trench...

1915 1988 24th Governor of Hong Kong
Governor of Hong Kong
The Governor of Hong Kong was the head of the government of Hong Kong during British rule from 1843 to 1997. The governor's roles were defined in the Hong Kong Letters Patent and Royal Instructions...

Peter Mitchell
Peter D. Mitchell
Peter Dennis Mitchell, FRS was a British biochemist who was awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his discovery of the chemiosmotic mechanism of ATP synthesis.Mitchell was born in Mitcham, Surrey, England....

1920 1992 Biochemist
Sir John Jardine Paterson
John Jardine Paterson
Sir John Valentine Jardine Paterson was a Scottish business man whose career was mostly in India.He was Chairman of the family firm, Jardine Henderson of Calcutta , from 1963 to 1967, Chairman of the Indian Jute Mills Association in 1963 and President of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry...

1920 2000 Businessman in India
Raymond Williams
Raymond Williams
Raymond Henry Williams was a Welsh academic, novelist and critic. He was an influential figure within the New Left and in wider culture. His writings on politics, culture, the mass media and literature are a significant contribution to the Marxist critique of culture and the arts...

1921 1988 Literary and cultural critic
Edwin Boston
Edwin Boston
The Reverend Edwin Richard Boston MA , known as Teddy Boston, was a Church of England clergyman and author. He built a narrow gauge railway in the grounds of his Rectory at Cadeby, Leicestershire, and was immortalized as the "Fat Clergyman" in The Railway Series children's books by the Rev. W...

1924 1986 clergy
Clergy
Clergy is the generic term used to describe the formal religious leadership within a given religion. A clergyman, churchman or cleric is a member of the clergy, especially one who is a priest, preacher, pastor, or other religious professional....

man and steam enthusiast
J.B. Steane
J.B. Steane
John Barry Steane was an English music critic, musicologist, literary scholar and teacher, with a particular interest in singing and the human voice...

1928 Music critic and musicologist.
David McCutchion
David McCutchion
David McCutchion was an English-born academic, and a pioneer in a number of original strands of scholarship in Indian studies before his early death at age 41...

1930 1972 Academic
Michael Podro
Michael Podro
Michael Podro CBE, FBA was a British art historian. Podro, the son of Jewish refugees from central Europe, was born in and grew up in Hendon, Middlesex. He attended Berkhamsted school in Hertfordshire, served in the RAF, and read English at Jesus College, Cambridge and philosophy at University...

1931 2008 Art historian
Richard Hey Lloyd
Richard Hey Lloyd
-Biography:Richard Lloyd was born near Stockport, Cheshire. He was a chorister of Lichfield Cathedral and was educated at Rugby School where he held a music scholarship. He studied at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he was an organ scholar . He took the Music Tripos and holds the Cambridge degree...

1933 Organist and composer
Peter G. Fletcher
Peter G. Fletcher
Peter G. Fletcher was a noted British orchestral and choral conductor, music educator and author.-Early life and education:...

1936 1996 British conductor and author
Lord Renfrew
Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn
Andrew Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, Ph.D., FBA, FSA, HonFSAScot is a prominent British archaeologist and highly regarded academic, noted for his work on radiocarbon dating, the prehistory of languages, archaeogenetics, and the prevention of looting at archaeological sites...

1937 Archaeologist
Lisa Jardine
Lisa Jardine
Lisa Anne Jardine CBE , née Lisa Anne Bronowski, is a British historian of the early modern period. She is professor of Renaissance Studies and Director of the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters at Queen Mary, University of London, and is Chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority...

1944 Literary critic
Roger Scruton
Roger Scruton
Roger Vernon Scruton is a conservative English philosopher and writer. He is the author of over 30 books, including Art and Imagination , Sexual Desire , The Aesthetics of Music , and A Political Philosophy: Arguments For Conservatism...

1944 Philosopher
David Hare
David Hare (dramatist)
Sir David Hare is an English playwright and theatre and film director.-Early life:Hare was born in St Leonards-on-Sea, Hastings, East Sussex, the son of Agnes and Clifford Hare, a sailor. He was educated at Lancing, an independent school in West Sussex, and at Jesus College, Cambridge...

1947 Playwright
Simon Hornblower
Simon Hornblower
Simon Hornblower is Professor of Classics and Ancient History in the University of Oxford and Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.-Biography:...

1949 Prof of Classics and Grote Prof of Ancient History, UCL
Anthony Wilson
Tony Wilson
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1950 2007 Journalist, founder of Factory Records
Bernard Silverman 1952 British statistician and Master of St Peter's College, Oxford
St Peter's College, Oxford
St Peter's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, located in New Inn Hall Street. It occupies the site of two of the University's oldest Inns, or medieval hostels - Bishop Trellick's, later New Inn Hall, and Rose Hall - both of which were...

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Geoff Hoon
Geoff Hoon
Geoffrey "Geoff" William Hoon is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament for Ashfield from 1992 to 2010...

1953 former Secretary of State for Defence
Secretary of State for Defence
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, Chief Whip
Chief Whip
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, Secretary to the Treasury
Secretary to the Treasury
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 and Secretary of State for Transport
Secretary of State for Transport
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Anthony Julius
Anthony Julius
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1956 Prominent British lawyer.
Andrew Mitchell
Andrew Mitchell
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1956 Secretary of State for International Development
Secretary of State for International Development
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 (from May 2010)
Nick Hornby
Nick Hornby
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1957 Novelist and journalist
Shaun Woodward
Shaun Woodward
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1958 British politician, former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
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John Baron 1959 British Conservative politician
Kimberley Rew
Kimberley Rew
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1951 Songwriter and guitarist
Glen Goei
Glen Goei
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1962 Film and theatre director
Quentin Letts
Quentin Letts
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1963 British journalist, currently writing for the New Statesman
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Prince Edward
Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex
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1964 Earl of Wessex
James Wood
James Wood (critic)
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1965 Literary critic
Alexis Taylor
Alexis Taylor
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Hot Chip musician, composer, singer
Somnath Chatterjee
Somnath Chatterjee
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1929 ex - Speaker of Lok Sabha


See also :Category:Alumni of Jesus College, Cambridge

Masters and Fellows of Jesus College

The following persons have served as Master of Jesus College, Cambridge:

Name Start End Notes
William Chubbes 1497 1505
John Eccleston 1505 1516
Thomas Alcock 1516 1516
William Capon
William Capon
William Capon was an English churchman and scholar.-Life:He was born at Salcott, near Colchester in Essex in 1480. He was educated at Cambridge University, earning his B.A. degree in 1499 and his M.A. in 1502 . In 1516 he became a Master of Jesus College, Cambridge and in 1526, aged 46, he was...

1516 1546
John Reston 1546 1551
Edmund Pierpoint 1551 1557
John Fuller 1557 1558
Thomas Redman 1559 1560
Edward Gascoyne 1560 1562
John Lakin 1562 1563
Thomas Ithell 1563 1579
John Bell 1579 1589
John Duport
John Duport
John Duport was an English scholar and translator.Dr John Duport was born in Shepshed in Leicestershire. He was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he became a Fellow in 1674. In 1583 he became rector of Fulham, and in 1585 precentor of St Paul's Cathedral...

1590 1617
Roger Andrewes
Roger Andrewes
Dr Roger Andrewes was an English churchman and academic, archdeacon and Chancellor at Chichester Cathedral in the English Church...

1618 1632 The brother of theologian Lancelot Andrewes
Lancelot Andrewes
Lancelot Andrewes was an English bishop and scholar, who held high positions in the Church of England during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth I and King James I. During the latter's reign, Andrewes served successively as Bishop of Chichester, Ely and Winchester and oversaw the translation of the...

William Beale
William Beale (college head)
William Beale was an English royalist churchman, Master in turn of Jesus College, Cambridge and St John's College, Cambridge. He was subjected to intense attacks by John Pym from 1640, for an unpublished sermon he had given in 1635 supporting royal prerogative...

1632 1634
Richard Sterne, Archbishop of York 1634 1644
Thomas Young 1644 1650
John Worthington
John Worthington
John Worthington was an English academic. He was closely associated with the Cambridge Platonists. He did not in fact publish in the field of philosophy, and is now known mainly as a well-connected diarist.-Life:...

1650 1660
Richard Sterne 1660 1660 Took over as Master for second time until his death.
John Pearson
John Pearson (scholar)
John Pearson was an English theologian and scholar.-Life:He was born at Great Snoring, Norfolk....

1660 1662
Joseph Beaumont
Joseph Beaumont
Joseph Beaumont was an English clergyman, academic and poet.-Life:The son of John Beaumont, clothier, and of Sarah Clarke, his wife, he was born at Hadleigh, Suffolk, on March 13, 1616. He was educated at Hadleigh grammar school, and proceeded to Cambridge in 1631, where he was admitted as a...

1662 1663
Edmund Boldero
Edmund Boldero
Edmund Boldero was an English royalist clergyman and academic, Master of Jesus College, Cambridge from 1663.-Life:He was a native of Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk. He was educated at Ipswich School and Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, where he matriculated as a pensioner in 1626, graduated B.A. in 1629 and...

1663 1679
Humphrey Gower
Humphrey Gower
Humphrey Gower was an English clergyman and academic, Master of Jesus College, Cambridge and then St. John's College, Cambridge, and Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity.-Life:...

1679 1679
William Saywell 1679 1701
Charles Ashton
Charles Ashton (divine)
Charles Ashton , was a distinguished scholar and divine.Ashton was born on 25 May 1665, at Bradway, in the parish of Norton, Derbyshire. He was admitted to Queens' College, Cambridge, on 18 May 1682, took the degree of B.A., and on 30 April 1687 was elected to a fellowship...

1701 1752
Philip Yonge 1752 1758
Lynford Caryl 1758 1781
Richard Beadon
Richard Beadon
Richard Beadon DD was Master of Jesus College, Cambridge 1781–1789 and later Vice-Chancellor of the University, Bishop of Gloucester and Bishop of Bath and Wells.-Life:...

1781 1789
William Pearce 1789 1820
William French 1820 1849
George Elwes Corrie 1849 1885
Henry Arthur Morgan 1885 1912
Arthur Gray 1912 1940
Wynfrid Laurence Henry Duckworth 1940 1945
Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall Tillyard
E. M. W. Tillyard
Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall Tillyard was a British classical scholar and literary scholar. He was a Fellow in English at Jesus College and later Master of Jesus College , Cambridge. He is known mainly for his book The Elizabethan World Picture, as background to Elizabethan Literature,...

1945 1959
Denys Lionel Page 1959 1973
Alan Cottrell
Alan Cottrell
Sir Alan Howard Cottrell, FRS is a British metallurgist and physicist. He received his BSc degree from the University of Birmingham in 1939 and a PhD for research on welding in 1942. He joined the staff as a lecturer at Birmingham, being made professor in 1949, and transforming the teaching of...

1973 1986
Colin Renfrew 1986 1996
David Crighton
David Crighton
David George Crighton FRS was a British mathematician and physicist.- Life :...

1997 2000
Robert Mair
Robert Mair
Robert James Mair CBE FREng FICE FRS is a British geotechnologist. He was appointed Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at Cambridge University in 1998, succeeding Andrew Noel Schofield. He was Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge from 1998 to 2001, when he became Master of Jesus College,...

2001 2011
Ian White 2011

See List of Masters of Jesus College, Cambridge
See also :Category: Fellows of Jesus College, Cambridge

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