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 Cambridge
University is the second oldest - after Oxford - in Britain.
The university has 31 colleges
(see the list of colleges).The colleges The origins of Cambridge University date back to the arrival of former students of Oxford University in 1209 but it wasn't until 1284 that the first college - Peterhouse - was founded. By the end of the 16th century another fifteen colleges had been established and then - in the 19th and 20th centuries - fifteen more. As with Oxford, Cambridge University - especially its older established colleges - has seen many of its students go on to achieve notable things. No degree But a successful completion of their studies was not always necessary for former students to achieve success in life. The Poet Laureates Thomas Shadwell and Alfred Tennyson, the poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Siegfried Sassoon and the writers William Makepeace Thackeray and Christopher Isherwood all left Cambridge without a degree. A degree also eluded Edward VII, Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, Britain's first Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole and the chemist Henry Cavendish (whose descendants endowed the university's world-famous Cavendish Laboratory). Women It wasn't until Girton College (1869) and Newnham College (1871) opened that women were finally admitted to Cambridge. Since then graduates have included the first British woman to win a Nobel Prize, Dorothy Hodgkin; the poet Sylvia Plath and the writer Iris Murdoch. 
The following list shows the thirty-one colleges, grouped by the century
in which they were founded.The colleges founded before the 18th century include information on a selection of famous people who have been connected to the college and links to the college website and its history webpage. The colleges founded since 1800 have links to their websites.  
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| Peterhouse | A selection of famous people who have been connected with the college. | |||||
Peterhouse was founded by Hugo de Balsham, the Bishop of Ely, in 1284. It is the oldest - and smallest - college at Cambridge University. 
History |
Henry
Cavendish
Chemist. Natural philosopher
Undergraduate,
1749-53
No
degree
Charles
Babbage
Mathematician. Computer pioneer
Undergraduate,
1812-14
MA, 1817
Lucasian
Professor of Mathematics, 1828-39
A.J.P.
Martin
Nobel
Prize
for Chemistry, 1952
Undergraduate,
1929-32
Max
Perutz
Nobel
Prize
for Chemistry, 1962
Aaron
Klug
Nobel
Prize
for Chemistry, 1982
Fellow,
1962-93
Duke
of Grafton
Prime
Minister of Britain, 1768-70
Undergraduate,
1751-53
MA
Thomas
Gray
Poet
Undergraduate,
1734-38 (No degree), 1742-43
Fellow,
1742-56
Regius Professor of Modern History, 1768-71
Gray
lived at the college until 1756 when he moved to Pembroke
College
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