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St John's College, Cambridge

St Johns College, Cambridge
NameSt John's College
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Full NameThe College of St John the Evangelist of the University of Cambridge
Latin MottoSouvent me Souvient
English MottoI often remember
Motto LanguageOld French
FounderLady Margaret Beaufort
Named ForThe Hospital of St John the Evangelist
Established1511
LocationSt John's Street (map)
Head LabelMaster
HeadChris Dobson
Undergraduates534
Graduates340
Sister CollegeBalliol College, Oxford
Trinity College, Dublin
Sister College Plyes
Homepagehttp://www.joh.cam.ac.uk
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St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college's alumni include nine Nobel Prize winners, six Prime Ministers, three archbishops, at least two princes, and three Saints.

The full formal name of the college is "The Master, Fellows and Scholars of the College of St John the Evangelist in the University of Cambridge". The college was founded by Lady Margaret Beaufort. In constitutional terms, the college is an eleemosynary corporation established by Charter dated 9 April 1511. The aims of the College, as specified by its Statutes, are the promotion of education, religion, learning and research. The college is a charity under English law, being an exempt charity under the terms of Schedule 2 of the Charities Act 1993.

St John's College is well-known for its choir, for its members' participation in a wide variety of inter-collegiate sporting competitions, and for its yearly May Ball.

In 2011 the College celebrated its quincentenary, an event marked by a visit of HM Queen Elizabeth II and HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

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The Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge, performing Edvard Grieg's Ave Maris Stella
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The Choir of St. John's College Cambridge, performing Joseph Haydn's Insanae et vanae curae.
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A nice anthem with four solo voices (SSTB). This is Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge under Christopher Robinson. Any additional information about the service from which this was recorded would be appreciated. Michael Wise (1648-1687) Isaiah 40:3-9 Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places shall be made plain. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. And the voice said, Cry. What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and the goodliness thereof is as the flower that is in the field: The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever. O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the mountains; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; and say unto Judah, Behold thy God!
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St John's College Choir, Cambridge sing the beautiful Christmas carol, Away In A Manger, on Dutch televison from 2006.
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A short video about The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge
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The Choir of St. John's College Cambridge performing Franz Schubert's Where Thou Reignest.
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The Choir of St John's College Chapel, Cambridge sing "Come, thou long expected Jesus"
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1- 'Sanctus' 2- 'Agnus Dei' From Requiem, op.48 Gabriel Fauré Organ et dir.: Stephen Cleobury
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Salve Regina, Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) St John's College, Cambridge Dir.: George Guest Winchester Cathedral Choir Dir.: David Hill
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'Set me as a seal upon thine heart', Sir William Walton(1902-1983) treble; Oliver Lepage-Dean tenor: Edward Lyon
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Other :
Name Year Rationale
John Herschel 1836 For his paper on nebulae and clusters of stars, published in the Philosophical Transactions for 1833
James Sylvester 1861 For his various memoirs and researches in mathematical science
John Langley 1892 For his work on secreting glands, and on the nervous system
Charles Pritchard 1892 For his work on photometry and stellar parallax
Arthur Schuster 1893 For his spectroscopic inquiries, and his researches on disruptive discharge through gases and on terrestrial magnetism
Percy MacMahon 1900 For the number and range of his contributions to mathematical science
William Burnside 1904 For his researches in mathematics, particularly in the theory of groups
Augustus Love 1909 On the ground of his researches in the theory of elasticity and cognate subjects
William Hicks 1912 On the ground of his researches in mathematical physics
Grafton Smith 1912 No citation.
William Sollas 1914 For researches in palaeontology
Joseph Larmor 1915 On the ground of his numerous and important contributions to mathematical and physical science
William Rivers 1915 On the ground of his important contributions to ethnography and ethnology
William Bateson 1920 On the ground of his contributions to biological science, and especially his studies in genetics
Frederick Blackman 1921 For his researches on the gaseous exchange in plants & on the operation of limiting factors
Albert Seward 1925 For his researches on the palaeobotany of Gondwanaland
John Marr 1930 For his pioneer work in the accurate zoning of the palaeozoic rocks
Patrick Laidlaw 1933 For his work on diseases due to viruses, including that on the cause and prevention of distemper in dogs.
Alfred Harker 1935 In recognition of his distinguished work and influence as a petrologist
Paul Dirac 1939 For the leading part he had taken in the development of the new quantum mechanics
William Topley 1942 For his outstanding work on experimental epidemiology and immunology
Harold Jeffreys 1948 For his distinguished work in geophysics and his important contributions to the astronomy of the solar system
Edward Appleton 1950 For his work on the ele [sic] transmission of electromagnetic waves round the earth and for his investigations of the ionic state of the upper atmosphere
Frederic Bartlett 1952 In recognition of his creation of an experimental school of psychology which has established under his leadership an outstanding position recognized internationally as without superior
Nevill Mott 1953 In recognition of his eminent work in the field of quantum theory and particularly in the theory of metals
John Cockcroft 1954 In recognition of his distinguished work on nuclear and atomic physics
William Hodge 1957 In recognition of his distinguished work on algebraic geometry
Rudolf Peierls 1959 In recognition of his distinguished work on the theoretical foundations of high energy and nuclear physics
Raymond Lyttleton 1965 In recognition of his distinguished contributions to astronomy, particularly for his work on the dynamical stability of galaxies
Frank Yates 1966 In recognition of his profound and far-reaching contributions to the statistical methods of experimental biology
Joseph Hutchinson 1967 In recognition of his distinguished work on the genetics and evolution of crop-plants with particular reference to cotton
Charles Oatley 1969 In recognition of his distinguished work in the wartime development of radar and latterly for the design and development of a highly successful scanning electron microscope
Frederick Sanger 1969 In recognition of his pioneer work on the sequence of amino acids in proteins and of nucleotides of ribonucleic acids
Fred Hoyle 1974 In recognition of his distinguished contributions to theoretical physics and cosmology
Abdus Salam 1978 In recognition of his outstanding contributions to the physics of elementary particles with special reference to the unification of the electromagnetic and weak interactions
Roger Penrose 1985 For his fundamental contributions to the theory of gravitational collapse and to other geometric aspects of theoretical physics
Eric Denton 1987 In recognition of his outstanding contributions to the physiology of marine animals, to marine biology generally, and his leadership of UK marine science
Robert Hinde 1996 In recognition of his contributions to the field of animal behaviour and the dominant influence it achieved on the emerging field of ethology
Christopher Dobson 2009 For his outstanding contributions to the understanding of the mechanisms of protein folding and mis-folding, and the implications for disease

Other :
Name Start of service End of Service
Robert Shorton 9 Apr. 1511 July 1516
Alan Percy July 1516 Nov. 1518
Nicholas Metcalfe Dec. 1518 4 July 1537
George Day 27 July 1537 6 June 1538
John Taylor 4 July 1538 10 Mar. (?) 1546
William Bil 10 Mar. 1546 10 Dec. 1551
Thomas Lever 10 Dec. 1551 28 Sept. (?) 1553
Thomas Watson 28 Sept. 1553 12 May (?) 1554
George Bullock 12 May 1554 20 July 1559
James Pilkington 20 July 1559 19 Oct. (?) 1561
Leonard Pilkington 19 Oct. 1561 11 May (?) 1564
Richard Longworth 11 May 1564 17 Dec. (?) 1569
Nicholas Shepherd 17 Dec. 1569 21 July (?) 1574
John Still 21 July 1574 1577
Richard Howland 21 July 1577 25 Feb. (?) 1587
William Whitaker 25 Feb. 1587 4 Dec. 1595
Richard Clayton 22 Dec. 1595 2 May 1612
Owen Gwyn 16 May 1612 1634
William Beale 20 Feb. 1634 1644
John Arrowsmith 11 Apr. 1644 May 1653
Anthony Tuckney 3 June 1653 25 June (?) 1661
Peter Gunning 5 June 1661 6 Mar. 1670
Francis Turner 11 Apr. 1670 3 Dec. (?) 1679
Humphrey Gower 3 Dec. 1679 27 Mar. 1711
Robert Jenkin 13 Apr. 1711 7 Apr. 1727
Robert Lambert 21 Apr. 1727 24 Jan. 1735
John Newcome 6 Feb. 1735 10 Jan. 1765.
William Samuel Powell 25 Jan. 1765 19 Jan. 1775.
John Chevallier 1 Feb. 1775 14 Mar. 1789.
William Craven 29 Mar. 1789 28 Jan. 1815.
James Wood 11 Feb. 1815 23 Apr. 1839.
Ralph Tatham 7 May 1839 19 Jan. 1857
William Henry Bateson 2 Feb. 1857 Mar. 1881
Charles Taylor 12 Apr. 1881 12 Aug. 1908
Sir Robert Forsyth Scott 21 Aug. 1908 18 Nov. 1933
Ernest Alfred Benians 7 Dec. 1933 13 Feb. 1952
James Mann Wordie 13 Dec. 1952 1959
John Sandwith Boys Smith 1959 1969
Philip Nicholas Seton Mansergh 1 Oct. 1969 12 July 1979
Francis Harry Hinsley 1979 31 July 1989
Robert Aubrey Hinde 1989 1994
Peter Goddard 1994 5 Jan. 2004
Richard Nelson Perham 5 Jan. 2004 30 Sep. 2007
Chris Dobson Oct. 2007 44th, and current, Master

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