Trinity College, Cambridge

   

Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College heraldic shield
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Full name The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity
Motto Virtus vera nobilitas
Virtue is the True Nobility
Named after The Holy Trinity
Previous names -
Established 1546
Sister College Christ Church
Master Sir Martin Rees
Location Trinity Street (http://www.cam.ac.uk/map/v3/drawmap.cgi?mp=main;xx=1720;yy=717;mt=c;ms=100;tl=Trinity%20College)
Undergraduates 656
Graduates 380
Homepage (http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/) Boatclub

Trinity College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. Trinity is the largest and richest of the colleges in Cambridge, and is now a home to around 600 undergraduates, 300 graduates, and over 160 Fellows.

The college was founded by Henry VIII in 1546 and most of its major buildings date from the 16th and 17th centuries. Trinity was formed by combining Michaelhouse and King's Hall, two older colleges. Michaelhouse had existed since 1324; King's Hall had been established by Edward II in 1317 and refounded by Edward III in 1337.

Much of the college was re-designed and re-built by Thomas Nevile, who became Master of Trinity in 1593. This work included the construction of Nevile's Court between Great Court and the river Cam. The Court was completed in the late 17th century when the Wren Library, designed by Sir Christopher Wren, was built.

Its sister college is Christ Church, Oxford, which was founded by Henry VIII in the same year.

Trinity's rowing club is the First and Third Trinity Boat Club.

Trinity has a strong academic tradition and has provided four Fields Medallists, as well as 31 Nobel prize laureates since they were first awarded in 1901. Trinity College and King's College were for decades the main recruiting grounds for the Cambridge Apostles, an elite, intellectual secret society.

Trinity Nobel Prize winners

The Great Gate is the main entrance to the college, leading to the Great Court. A statue of the college founder, Henry VIII, stands in a niche above the doorway.
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The Great Gate is the main entrance to the college, leading to the Great Court. A statue of the college founder, Henry VIII, stands in a niche above the doorway.
Close-up of Great Gate
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Close-up of Great Gate
Great Court
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Great Court
Great Court
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Great Court

Notable alumni

List of Masters

The head of Trinity College is the Master. The first Master was John Redman who was appointed in 1546. The role is a Royal appointment and in the past was sometimes made by the Monarch as a favour to an important person. Nowadays the Fellows of the College, and to a lesser extent the Government, choose the new Master and the Royal role is only nominal. A complete list of the Masters of Trinity is below.

Former deans


Colleges of the University of Cambridge Arms of the University

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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