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5 days ago · On 20 December 1717 Sir George Downing devised his property to four cousins in succession, and their issue; failing this, it was to be used for founding a college in Cambridge. Lady Downing died in 1734, Sir George in 1749; his cousin and heir Sir Jacob Garrard Downing, 4th and last baronet, who had survived all other possible devisees, died in ...
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After payment of funeral charges, debts, legacies, &c. there...
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4 days ago · Colleges. The oldest colleges are University College, Balliol, and Merton, established between 1249 and 1264, although there is some dispute over the exact order and precisely when each began teaching. The fourth oldest college is Exeter, founded in 1314, and the fifth is Oriel, founded in 1326.
4 days ago · One of the most influential of early Newtonians was Richard Laughton, a very successful tutor of Clare, who both published a sheet of questions on the Newtonian teaching and, as proctor, actively promoted disputations founded upon it.
3 days ago · From 1977, Griffin studied history, then law, at Downing College, Cambridge. His affiliation with the National Front was revealed during a Cambridge Union debate, and his photograph was published in a student newspaper. He later founded the Young National Front Student organisation.
3 days ago · They were intended primarily for masters or bachelors of arts who needed financial assistance to enable them to continue study for a higher degree. The earliest of these colleges, University College, was founded in 1249. Balliol College was founded about 1263, and Merton College in 1264.
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3 days ago · Some years later a Puritan party arose in the College, headed by Aldrich, the Master, who referred to Parker as 'Pope of Lambeth and of Bene't College' and was eventually forced to resign for refusing to observe certain College statutes.
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9 hours ago · This appointment marks a return to Oxford, as he was a member of the Oxford Law Faculty and a Fellow of St. Hugh’s College during 1996-2000. Prior to his tenure in Cambridge, Professor Smith spent 22 years at McGill University’s Faculty of Law, where he was Sir William C Macdonald Professor and, before that, James McGill Professor and Director of the Paul-André Crépeau Centre for Private ...
