Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

college of Cambridge University.

Most of the stone used to build the college came from Ramsey Abbey near Ramsey, Cambridgeshire.

The college was first founded, as Gonville Hall, by Edmund Gonville, Rector of Terrington in 1348. It was founded a second time as Gonville & Caius College in 1557 by the physician John Caius. John Caius was master of the college from 1559 and until shortly before his death in 1573. He provided the college with significant funds and greatly extended the buildings.

The college first admitted women as fellows and students in 1979. The college now has nearly 100 fellows, over 700 students and about 200 staff.

The Old Courts

Notable Alumni

• John Venn - Inventor of the Venn diagram
• Charles Sherrington - Nobel Prize winning neurophysiologist
• Sir James Chadwick - Nobel Prize winning physicist, discoverer of the neutron
• E. A. Wilson - Explorer who died with Scott in the Antarctic.
• Harold Abrahams - Olympic athlete fictionalised in the film Chariots of Fire
• Francis Crick - Nobel Prize winner for the co-discovery of DNA
• Sir Nevill Mott - Nobel Prize winning theoretical physicist
• Henry Fancourt - Naval Aviator
• Kenneth Clarke - Chancellor of the Exchequer
• J. H. Prynne - modern British poet
• Stephen Hawking - Mathematician
• Alistair Appleton - Television Presenter
• Inagaki Manjiro - (1861-1908) - Japan's first Minister Resident in Siam in 1897, Pan-Asianist, leading light of the Japanese Club at Cambridge
• Nabeshima Naomitsu - (1872-1943) - 12th daimyo of the Saga clan, Kyushu and keen rugby player at the College
• Mouri Goro - (1871-1925) of the Choshu clan
• John Lehman - American Secretary of the Navy and member of the September 11th Commission.