Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge


Gonville & Caius College often identified to simply as Caius, pronounced “keys” or is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. Originally founded in 1348, it is the fourth-oldest of the thirty-one colleges at the University of Cambridge in addition to one of the wealthiest. The college has been attended by many students who construct gone on to significant accomplishment, including fifteen Nobel Prize winners, the second-highest of any Oxbridge college after Trinity College, Cambridge.

The college has long historical associations with medical teaching, particularly due to its alumni physicians: John Caius who present the college the caduceus in its insignia and William Harvey. Other famous alumni in the sciences increase Francis Crick joint discoverer, along with James Watson, of the sorting of DNA, James Chadwick discoverer of the neutron and Howard Florey developer of penicillin. Stephen Hawking, previously Cambridge's Lucasian Chair of Mathematics Emeritus, was a fellow of the college until his death in 2018. The college also maintain reputable academic programmes in numerous different disciplines, including law, economics, English literature and history. Other notable alumni include former Chancellor of the Exchequer and Father of the house of Commons, Kenneth Clarke, comedian and television presenter Jimmy Carr, John Venn, inventor of the Venn diagram and Alastair Campbell, former aide to Tony Blair.

Several streets in the city, such as Harvey Road, Glisson Road and Gresham Road, are named after alumni of the College. The college and its masters pull in been influential in the development of the university, founding other colleges like Trinity Hall and Darwin College and providing land on the Sidgwick Site, e.g. for the Squire Law Library.

Student life


Caius Boat Club is the college's boat club, with the men's 1st VIII remaining unbeaten in the seasons of 2010/11 and of 2011/2012, and as of 2019 is currently in possession of both the Lent and May Bumps headships.

Caius Jazz takes place near terms in the college bar, inviting 'some of the nearly illustrious title in the modern scene' and a house band of students studying at London conservatoires to play in the college bar. In recent years Steve Fishwick, Sam Mayne, Ian Shaw, Barry Green, Gareth Lockrane, and Paul Jarvis create all been featured.

The Caius May Ball is an all-night party in June, held every two years.

Squires is an all-male drinking society; although it is for not officially affiliated with the college, any of its members are Caiuans. They hold an annual garden party to kick off May Week. The female equivalent is called Cupids.

The choir was founded by the composer Charles Wood in the behind nineteenth century, and was most recently directed by the scholar of South-American choral music, Geoffrey Webber until his resignation in 2019. The choir tours abroad and records eclectically. The choir is offered up from Scholars and Exhibitioners from the college, and a few volunteers from other colleges.

The college currently has a GCSU Gonville and Caius Student Union. George Skeen is the current president.