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'Queens' College' was first founded in 1448 by Margaret of Anjou. It was refounded in 1465 by Elizabeth Woodville, the wife of Edward IV of England. This dual foundation is reflected in its orthography: ''Queens' '', not ''Queen's'', although the full name is 'The Queen's College of St Margaret and St Bernard in the University of Cambridge.' It is commonly called 'Queens' College.'
Queens' is the second southernmost of the colleges on the banks of the Cam, primarily on the East bank. (The others - in distance order - are King's, Clare, Trinity Hall, Trinity, St John's, and Magdalene to the north and Darwin to the south.)
The ''President's Lodge'' of Queens' is the oldest building on the river at Cambridge (ca. 1460). Queens' College is also one of only two colleges with buildings on its main site on both sides of the Cam (the other being St John's).

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The Mathematical Bridge

Notable alumni

College officials

List of Presidents

See also

External links

The Mathematical Bridge

The 'Mathematical Bridge' connects the older half of the college (affectionately referred to by students as ''The Dark Side'') with the newer half (''The Light Side''). It is one of the most photographed scenes in Cambridge; the typical photo being taken from the nearby Silver Street bridge. Popular fable is that the bridge was designed and built by Sir Isaac Newton without the use of nuts or bolts, and at some point in the past students or fellows attempted to take the bridge apart and put it back together. The myth continues that the over-ambitious engineers were unable to match Newton's feat of engineering, and had to resort to fastening the bridge by nuts and bolts. This is why nuts and bolts can be seen in the bridge today.
This story is false: the bridge was built in 1749 by James Essex the Younger (1722–1784) to the design of William Etheridge (1709–1776), 22 years after Newton died. It was later rebuilt in 1866 and 1905, albeit to the same design.
It was never disassembled, as the weight of the students on the bridge would cause it to collapse.

Notable alumni

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!Birth
!Death
!Career
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|Desiderius Erasmus
|1466
|1536
|Humanist and theologian
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|Mark Watson
|1980
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|Comedian
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|Khalid Abdalla
|1980
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|Actor
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|Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh
|1950
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|Judge
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|M. S. Bartlett
|1910
|2002
|Statistician
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|John E. Baldwin
|1949
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|Radio-astronomer
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|Cyril Bibby
|1914
|1987
|Biologist
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|Lucy Caldwell
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|Novelist and playwright
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|Alexander Crummell
|1819
|1898
|Priest
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|Richard Dearlove
|1945
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|Former head of MI6
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|Thomas Digges
|1546
|1595
|English astronomer
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|Lord Eatwell
|1945
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|British economsit
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|Abba Eban
|1915
|2002
|Israeli politician
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|Charles Leslie Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton
|1951
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|Lord Chancellor
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|Michael Foale
|1957
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|Astronaut
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|Stephen Fry
|1957
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|Comedian, writer, actor, novelist
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|John Goodwin
|1594
|1665
|Preacher
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|Paul Greengrass
|1955
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|Writer and film director
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|John Hall
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|1635
|Physician
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|David Hatch
|1939
|2007
|Radio executive
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|Thomas Horton
|1603
|1649
|Soldier
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|Vuk Jeremić
|1975
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|Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs
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|Arnold W. G. Kean
|1914
|2000
|Development of civil aviation law
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|John Lambert
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|1539
|Protestant martyr
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|Tom Lowenstein
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|Poet
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|John McCallum
|1950
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|Canadian politician
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|Arthur Mooring
|1908
|1969
|Knight of the British Empire
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|Peter Redgrove
|1932
|2003
|Poet
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|Osborne Reynolds
|1842
|1912
|Fluid dynamicist
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|Charles Villiers Stanford
|1852
|1924
|Composer
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|Graham Swift
|1949
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|Author
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|Kenneth Wedderburn
|1927
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|Labour life peer
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|T. H. White
|1906
|1964
|Writer
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|John Whitgift
|1530
|1604
|Archbishop of Canterbury
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College officials

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List of Presidents

While the head of most colleges are called Masters, the head of Queens' College has been called the President since 1448. Below is the list of Presidents that have served the college:
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|Andrew Dokett
|1448
|1484
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|Thomas Wilkynson
|1484
|1505
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|St John Fisher
|1505
|1508
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|Robert Bekensaw
|1508
|1519
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|John Jenyn
|1519
|1525
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|Thomas Farman
|1525
|1527
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|William Frankleyn
|1527
|1529
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|Simon Heynes
|1529
|1537
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|William Mey
|1537
|1553
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|William Glynne
|1553
|1557
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|Thomas Pecocke
|1557
|1559
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|William Mey
|1559
|1560
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|John Stokes
|1560
|1568
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|William Chaderton
|1568
|1579
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|Humphrey Tindall
|1579
|1614
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|John Davenant
|1614
|1622
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|John Mansell
|1622
|1631
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|Edward Martin
|1631
|1644
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|Herbert Palmer
|1644
|1647
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|Thomas Horton
|1647
|1660
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|Edward Martin
|1660
|1662
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|Anthony Sparrow
|1662
|1667
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|William Wells
|1667
|1675
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|Henry James
|1675
|1717
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|John Davies
|1717
|1732
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|William Sedgwick
|1732
|1760
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|Robert Plumptre
|1760
|1788
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|Isaac Milner
|1788
|1820
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|Henry Godfrey
|1820
|1832
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|Joshua King
|1832
|1857
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|George Phillips
|1857
|1892
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|William Magan Campion
|1892
|1896
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|Herbert Edward Ryle
|1896
|1901
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|Frederic Henry Chase
|1901
|1906
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|Thomas Cecil Fitzpatrick
|1906
|1931
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|John Archibald Venn
|1932
|1958
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|Arthur Llewellyn Armitage
|1958
|1970
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|Derek William Bowett
|1970
|1982
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|Ernest Ronald Oxburgh
|1982
|1988
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|John Charlton Polkinghorne
|1988
|1996
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|John Leonard Eatwell
|1997
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See also

★ The Queen's College, Oxford

External links

★ Queens' College website

★ Queens' College JCR website

★ The College's larger list of eminent alumni

★ Queens' College on Google Maps

★ Queens' College MCR Football Team