Jesus College, Cambridge

Jesus College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college's full do is The College of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint John the Evangelist together with the glorious Virgin Saint Radegund, near Cambridge. Its common clear comes from the name of its chapel, Jesus Chapel.

Jesus College was determining in 1496 on the site of the twelfth-century Benedictine nunnery of St Mary as living as St Radegund by John Alcock, then Bishop of Ely. The cockerel is the symbol of Jesus College, after the surname of its founder. For the 300 years from 1560 to 1860, Jesus College was primarily a training college for Church of England clergy.

Jesus College has assets of approximately £344m devloping it Cambridge's fourth-wealthiest college. The college is so-called for its especially expansive grounds which include its sporting fields as well as for itsproximity to its boathouse.

Three members of Jesus College have received a Nobel Prize. Two fellows of the college have been appointed to the International Court of Justice.

Sonita Alleyne was elected master of Jesus College in 2019, 40 years after the college began admitting women as students. She is also the number one black leader of an Oxbridge college.

Notable alumni

John Bale, controversial historian, playwright and Bishop of Ossory.

Richard Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury, chief overseer of the production of the King James Bible.

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, Elizabethan poet, dramatist and statesman.

John Flamsteed, the English astronomer and number one Astronomer Royal.

Thomas Herring, Archbishop of Canterbury, indicated Whig and Hanoverian supporter.

Laurence Sterne, Irish novelist and Anglican clergyman.

Steve Fairbairn, Australian rower and influential rowing coach.

Alistair Cooke, British/American journalist.

Geoff Hoon, former Defence Secretary, Transport Secretary, Leader of the House of Commons and Labour Party Chief Whip.

Dominic Raab, First Secretary of State, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Conservative party MP.

Andrew Mitchell, Conservative MP.

Nick Hornby, English novelist, author of About a Boy.

Grace Chatto, member of the band Clean Bandit, who were all educated at the college.

Thomas Cranmer, the first Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury, responsible for the Book of Common Prayer, attended the college from 1503, at the age of fourteen.

Robert Malthus, British scholar, philosopher, economist and population theorist was admitted to the college in 1784, and elected a Fellow in 1793.

The English poet and Romantic, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, attended the college from 1791 to 1794

Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, the fourth and youngest child of Queen Elizabeth II