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Pembroke College is the third existing college founded in the University of Cambridge. The founder of the college was Mary de St Pol ,
daughter of Guy de Chatillon and wife of Aymer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke. It was on Christmas Eve 1347 that Edward III of England granted her the licence for the foundation. The original name of the college was Marie Valence Hall.
The first buildings were comprised of a single court (now called First Court) containing all the component parts of a college - chapel, hall, kitchen and buttery, master's lodgings, students' rooms - and the statutes provided for a manciple, a cook, a barber and a laundress. Both the founding of the college and the building of the chapel - the first college chapel in Cambridge, later re-designed by Sir Christopher Wren - required the grant of a papal bull.
1 Famous alumni of Pembroke College
- William Eliot (Politician)
- Thomas Gray (Poet)
- Ted Hughes (Poet)
- Eric Idle (Entertainer)
- Clive JamesClive James (born October 10, 1939) is an expatriate Australian writer, poet, essayist, critic, and commentator on popular culture. Born in Sydney, Australia as Vivian James he was allowed to change his name as a child after the name Vivian had come to be (Novelist)
- William PittWilliam Pitt the Younger ( 28 May 1759 23 January 1806) was a British politician during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He serve as Prime Minister from 1783 to 1801, and again from 1804 until his death. He is known as William Pitt the (Politician)
- Tom SharpeTom Sharpe (born March 30, 1928) is a British satirical author, born in London and educated at Lancing College and at Pembroke College, Cambridge. After National Service he moved to South Africa in 1951, doing social work and teaching in Natal, until depo (Novelist)
- Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser (c. 1552 January 13, 1599) was an English poet, and a contemporary of William Shakespeare. The Faerie Queene is his major contribution to English poetry. It is mostly a poem seeking (successfully) the favour of Queen Elizabeth I. The poem i (Poet)
- George Gabriel StokesSir George Gabriel Stokes Bart. August 13, 1819 February 1, 1903) was an Irish mathematician and physicist. Stokes made important contributions to fluid dynamics (see for example Navier-Stokes equations), optics and mathematical physics (see Stokes' theor (Physicist)
- William Turner (Physician)
- Bill OddieWilliam Edgar (Bill) Oddie OBE, MA (Cantab. born July 7, 1941 in Rochdale, United Kingdom) is a comedy writer and performer, author, composer and musician. A birdwatcher since his childhood in Birmingham, Bill Oddie has now established a reputation for hi (Comedian and Bird-Watcher)
- Tim Brooke-TaylorTim Brooke-Taylor (born July 17, 1942 in Buxton, Derbyshire) is a British comic actor most well known in Britain as a member of " The Goodies" comedy trio, and as one of the panel members of the comedy radio show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue''. Brooke-Taylo (Comedian)
