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Cambridge
University is the second oldest - after Oxford - in Britain. The
university has 31 colleges
(see the list of colleges).
In 2009 the university celebrated its 800 year anniversary.The colleges The origins of Cambridge University date back to the arrival of former students of Oxford University in 1209 but it wasn't until 1284 that the first college - Peterhouse - was founded. By the end of the 16th century another fifteen colleges had been established and then - in the 19th and 20th centuries - fifteen more. As with Oxford, Cambridge University - especially its older established colleges - has seen many of its students go on to achieve notable things. No degree But a successful completion of their studies was not always necessary for former students to achieve success in life. The Poet Laureates Thomas Shadwell and Alfred Tennyson, the poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Siegfried Sassoon and the writers William Makepeace Thackeray and Christopher Isherwood all left Cambridge without a degree. A degree also eluded Edward VII, Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, Britain's first Prime Minister Robert Walpole and the chemist Henry Cavendish (whose descendants endowed the university's world-famous Cavendish Laboratory). Women It wasn't until Girton College (1869) and Newnham College (1871) opened that women were finally admitted to Cambridge. Since then graduates have included the first British woman to win a Nobel Prize, Dorothy Hodgkin; the poet Sylvia Plath, the ethologist Jane Goodall and the writer Iris Murdoch.
The following list shows the thirty-one colleges, grouped by the century
in which they were founded.The colleges founded before the 18th century include information on a selection of famous people who have been connected to the college and links to the college website and its history webpage. The colleges founded since 1800 have links to their websites.  
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| Magdalene College | A selection of famous people who have been connected with the college. | ||
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Patrick
Blackett
Nobel
Prize
for Physics, 1948
Undergraduate,
1919-21
See Kings
College 
Samuel
Pepys
Writer
Undergraduate,
1650-53
MA, 1660
C.S.
Lewis
Writer
Professor
of Medieval and Renaissance English, 1954-63 |
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| King's College |
A selection of famous people who have been connected with the college. |
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King's College was founded in 1441 by Henry VI. The college's earliest students all came from Eton College which the King had set up the previous year. 
History |
John
Maynard Keynes
Economist
Undergraduate,
1902-05
MA, 1908
Fellow, 1908-46
Alan
Turing
Mathematician. Computer pioneer. Enigma code-breaker
Undergraduate,
1931-1934
Fellow
1932-35
Patrick
Blackett
Nobel
Prize
for Physics, 1948
Frederick
Sanger
Double
Nobel Prize
for Chemistry, 1958 and 1980
Fellow
Philip
Noel-Baker
Nobel
Prize
for Peace, 1959
Undergraduate,
1910, 1912
Patrick
White
Nobel
Prize
for Literature, 1973
Undergraduate,
1932-35
Richard Stone
Nobel
Prize
for Economics, 1984
Fellow,
1945-91
Sydney
Brenner
Nobel
Prize
for Physiology or Medicine, 2002
Robert Walpole
First
Prime Minister of Britain, 1721-42
Undergraduate,
1696-98
No degree
Horace
Walpole
Writer
Undergraduate,
1735-38
No degree
E.M.
Forster
Writer
Undergraduate,
1897-1901
Fellow,
1946-
After
being elected a fellow Forster lived at the college until his death
in 1970
Rupert
Brooke
Poet
Undergraduate,
1906-09
Fellow,
1913-15 |
| Queens' College |
A selection of famous people who have been connected with the college. |
Queens' College of St Margaret and St Bernard was founded in 1448 by Margaret of Anjou, the royal consort to Henry VI.
History |
| St Catharine's College |
A selection of famous people who have been connected with the college. |
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St Catharine's College was founded in 1473 by Robert Woodlark.
History |
Malcolm
Lowry
Writer
Undergraduate,
1929-32 |
| Jesus College |
A selection of famous people who have been connected with the college. |
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Jesus College was founded in 1496 by John Alcock, the Bishop of Ely. Built on the site of a former Benedictine nunnery the college took its name from Jesus Chapel which had served the nunnery and the local area.
History |
Thomas Cranmer
Archbishop
of Canterbury
Undergraduate,
1503-
Fellow,
1510-33
Peter
D. Mitchell
Nobel
Prize
for Chemistry, 1978
Undergraduate,
1939-
Lawrence
Sterne
Writer
Undergraduate,
1733-36
MA,
1740
Samuel
Taylor Coleridge
Poet
Undergraduate,
1791-94
No degree
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