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St John's College, Cambridge

St John's College, formally the College of St John the Evangelist in the University of Cambridge,[4] is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, founded by the Tudor matriarch Lady Margaret Beaufort. In constitutional terms, the college is a charitable corporation established by a charter dated 9 April 1511. The aims of the college, as specified by its statutes, are the promotion of education, religion, learning and research.[5] It is one of the largest Oxbridge colleges in terms of student numbers. For 2022, St John's was ranked 6th of 29 colleges in the Tompkins Table (the annual league table of Cambridge colleges) with over 35 per cent of its students earning first-class honours. It is the second wealthiest college in Oxford and Cambridge, after its neighbour Trinity College, Cambridge.[6]

For other institutions named St John's College, see St John's College (disambiguation).

St John's College

St John's Street (map)

The College of St John the Evangelist in the University of Cambridge

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Souvent me Souvient (Old French; motto of the foundress Lady Margaret Beaufort)

I often remember / Remember me often[2]

Lady Margaret Beaufort

1511 (1511)

The Hospital of St John the Evangelist

Heather Hancock, from October 2020

634 (2022–23)

368 (2022–23)

£619.6m (2019)[3]

www.joh.cam.ac.uk

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Members of the college include the winners of twelve Nobel Prizes, seven prime ministers, twelve archbishops of various countries, at least two princes and three saints.[7][8] The Romantic poet William Wordsworth studied at St John's, as did William Wilberforce and Thomas Clarkson, two abolitionists who led the movement that brought slavery to an end in the British Empire. Prince William was affiliated with the college while undertaking a university-run course in estate management in 2014.[9]


St John's is well known for its choir, its members' success in a variety of inter-collegiate sporting competitions and its annual May Ball. The Cambridge Apostles and the Cambridge University Moral Sciences Club were founded by members of the college. The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race tradition began with a St John's student and the college boat club, Lady Margaret Boat Club, is the oldest in the university. In 2011, the college celebrated its quincentenary, an event marked by a visit of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.[10]

Traditions and legends[edit]

Shield and arms[edit]

St John's College and Christ's College, Cambridge both bear the arms of Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby, mother of Henry VII. These arms are recorded in the College of Arms as being borne by right, and are described as Quarterly: 1 and 4 azure three fleurs-de-lis gold (France, Modern); 2 and 3 gules three lions passant gardant or (England); all within a border compony silver and azure. In addition, both foundations use the Beaufort crest, an eagle displayed arising out of a coronet of roses and fleurs-de-lis all gold, but their title to this is more doubtful. When displayed in their full achievement, the arms are flanked by mythical yales.

Nobel Prize in Physics 1933, "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory".

Paul Dirac

Nobel Prize in Physics 1947, "for his investigations of the physics of the upper atmosphere especially for the discovery of the so-called Appleton Layer".

Edward Appleton

Nobel Prize in Physics 1951, "for their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles".

John Cockcroft

Nobel Prize in Physics 1954, "for fundamental research in Quantum Mechanics, especially in the statistical interpretation of the wavefunction".

Max Born

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1958, "for his work on the structure of proteins, especially that of insulin".

Frederick Sanger

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1973, "for their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so-called sandwich compounds".

Maurice Wilkins

Nobel Prize in Physics 1977, "for their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems"

Nevill Francis Mott

Nobel Prize in Physics 1979, "for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current".

Abdus Salam

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1979, "for the development of computer-assisted tomography"

Allan Cormack

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1980, "for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids".

Frederick Sanger

Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2007, "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory".[8]

Eric Maskin

Nobel Prize in Physics 2020, "for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity".

Roger Penrose

Cambridge University Moral Sciences Club

Baker, Thomas, History of the College of St. John the Evangelist, Cambridge, edited by John E.B. Mayor, 2 vols.; Cambridge University Press, 1869 (reissued by the publisher, 2009;  978-1-108-00375-9)

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Crook, Alec C., From the foundation to Gilbert Scott. A history of the buildings of St John's College, Cambridge 1511 to 1885; Cambridge, 1980.

Crook, Alec C., Penrose to Cripps. A century of building in the College of St John the Evangelist, Cambridge; Cambridge, 1978.

Henry, N.F.M. & Crook, A.C. (eds), Use and Occupancy of Rooms in St John's College. Part I: Use from Early Times to 1983; Cambridge, 1984.

James, M. R., A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of St John's College, Cambridge; Cambridge University Press, 1913 (reissued by the publisher, 2009;  978-1-108-00310-0)

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Linehan, P. A. (ed.), St. John's College Cambridge. A History, Woodbridge; The Boydell Press, 2011;  978-1-84383-608-7

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Miller, Edward, Portrait of a College. A history of the College of Saint John the Evangelist in Cambridge; Cambridge University Press, 1961 (reissued by the publisher, 2009;  978-1-108-00354-4)

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Mullinger, James Bass, St. John's College; (University of Cambridge College Histories) London, 1901.

Pevsner, Nikolaus, The Buildings of England. Cambridgeshire; 2nd ed.; Harmondsworth, 1970; pp. 148–149.

Roach, J. P. C., A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely, Volume 3, 1959

Scott, Robert Forsyth, , Dent, London, 1907.

St. John's College, Cambridge

& John Willis Clark, The Architectural History of the University of Cambridge. And of the Colleges of Cambridge and Eton; Vol. II; Cambridge, 1886. pp. 263–271.

Willis, Robert

Official website

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St John's College JCR

(equivalent to the MCR of other colleges) (archived 9 February 2010)

St John's College SBR

Boat Club

52°12′29″N 0°7′0″E / 52.20806°N 0.11667°E / 52.20806; 0.11667 (St John's College)