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Christ's College, Cambridge

Christ's College is one of the colleges of the University of Cambridge. It is widely reputed for its highly academic bent - in recent years, it has consistently dominated the (unofficial) Tompkin league table of colleges. However, many allege that it has a dry, workaholic atmosphere - often citing the showers in the library.

It was originally founded in 1448 as God's House on land now occupied by King's College Chapel. It was refounded in 1505 and moved to its present site by Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of King Henry VII.

Christ's has (2001) about 390 undergraduate and 100 graduate students.

Their webserver hosts the British division of the International Olympiad in Informatics, [1]

Famous alumni

• Sacha Baron Cohen - British comedian
• Richard Clerke
• Charles Darwin - British naturalist
• Colin Dexter - British author
• Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham - British Foreign Secretary
• David Mellor - British politician
• John Milton - English poet
• Lord Mountbatten - British Admiral of the Fleet and statesman
• Sir John Plumb - British historian
• Simon Schama - British historian, author, and television presenter
• Jan Smuts- South African general and statesman
• C.P. Snow - British novelist and philosopher
• Richard Whiteley - British television presenter
• Rowan Williams - British theologian, Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury
• Timothy Marschall Jones - former British ambassador to Armenia

External link

• Official Christ's College website

Colleges of the University of Cambridge
Christ's | Churchill | Clare | Clare Hall | Corpus Christi | Darwin | Downing | Emmanuel | Fitzwilliam | Girton | Gonville and Caius | Homerton | Hughes Hall | Jesus | King's | Lucy Cavendish | Magdalene | New Hall | Newnham | Pembroke | Peterhouse | Queens' | Robinson | St Catharine's | St Edmund's | St John's | Selwyn | Sidney Sussex | Trinity | Trinity Hall | Wolfson

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