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| Colleges of the University of Cambridge
Queens' College |
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| College name | The Queen's College of St Margaret and St Bernard, commonly called Queens' College, in the University of Cambridge | |||||||||||
| Founders | Margaret of Anjou (1448) Elizabeth Woodville (1465) | |||||||||||
| Named after | Margaret the Virgin; Bernard of Clairvaux | |||||||||||
| Established | 1448 Refounded 1465 | |||||||||||
| Admittance | Men and women | |||||||||||
| President | The Lord Eatwell | |||||||||||
| Undergraduates | 490 | |||||||||||
| Graduates | 270 | |||||||||||
| Sister college | Pembroke College, Oxford | |||||||||||
| Location | Silver Street (map) | |||||||||||
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| Floreat Domus (Latin, "May this house flourish") | ||||||||||||
| College website | ||||||||||||
| Boat Club website | ||||||||||||
Queens' College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.
The college was first founded in 1448 by Margaret of Anjou (the Queen of Henry VI), and refounded in 1465 by Elizabeth Woodville (the Queen of Edward IV). 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, commonly called Queens' College, in the University of Cambridge.[1]
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).[2] Queens' College is also one of only two colleges with buildings on its main site on both sides of the River Cam (the other being St John's).
Coordinates: 52°12′08″N 0°06′53″E / 52.20222°N 0.11472°E / 52.20222; 0.11472 (Queens' College)
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Queens’ Cambridge is distinguished from Queen’s Oxford by the position of its apostrophe nowadays. Not sure whether the same applied then. Queen’s Oxford refers to but one queen, while Cambridge has more. It is also not as affluent as its more well off namesake in the other place.
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Queen’s Oxford after Queen Philippa
Queens’ Cambridge after Queens Margaret of Anjou and Elizabeth Woodville -
The apostophe after the s was first used in 1823 and became official in 1831. In Pepys’ time it would have had the same - Queen’s - spelling as the Oxford college. See:
http://www.quns.cam.ac.uk/Queens/Misc/apostrophe.html -
Apostrophe madness
from the amazingly detailed page Grahamt came up with:“The formal corporate title of the College is now:
“The Queen’s College of St Margaret and St Bernard, commonly called Queens’ College, in the University of Cambridge.
“which shows both forms of spelling. This is formally correct. The name of the college when qualified by the patron saints is spelt in the singular; the short-form name is spelt in the plural.”
Great find, Grahamt!