Selwyn College, Cambridge

Selwyn College, Cambridge (formally Selwyn College in the University of Cambridge) is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1882 by the Selwyn Memorial Committee in memory of George Augustus Selwyn (1809–1878), the first Bishop of New Zealand (1841–1868), and subsequently Bishop of Lichfield (1868–1878). Its main buildings consist of three courts built of stone and brick (Old Court, Ann's Court, and Cripps Court). There are several secondary buildings, including adjacent townhouses and lodges serving as student hostels on Grange Road, West Road and Sidgwick Avenue. The college has some 60 fellows and 110 non-academic staff.

Selwyn College

Grange Road (map)

Selwyn College in the University of Cambridge

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Ανδρίζεσθε

"Quit ye like men"

1882 (1882)

George Selwyn

Keble College, Oxford
Benjamin Franklin College, Yale

Roger Mosey

443 (2022-23)

307 (2022-23)

£67.8M (2022)^[2]

www.sel.cam.ac.uk

selwynjcr.org

www-mcr.sel.cam.ac.uk

www.selwynrowing.org.uk

In 2019, Selwyn was ranked eighth on the Tompkins Table of Cambridge colleges in order of undergraduates' performances in examinations,^[3] having been first in 2008.^[4] The college was ranked 16th out of 30 in an assessment of college wealth conducted by the student newspaper Varsity in November 2006.^[5] Selwyn's sister college at the University of Oxford is Keble College.

In 's Porterhouse Blue novel, Selwyn College is satirically described as a college founded by 'social justice' devotees. However, the reference does not occur in the Channel 4 television adaption of Porterhouse Blue.^[30] In the sequel, Grantchester Grind, Selwyn is described as an "academic forcing-house", as compared with the lax academic standards of the fictional Porterhouse College.^[31]