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Trinity Hall, Cambridge

Trinity Hall (formally The College or Hall of the Holy Trinity in the University of Cambridge) is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.[4]

Not to be confused with Trinity College, Cambridge.

Trinity Hall

The College or Hall of the Holy Trinity in the University of Cambridge

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1350 (1350)

401 (2022-23)

205 (2022-23)

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£286.67m

Founded in 1350, it is the fifth-oldest surviving college of the university, having been established by William Bateman, Bishop of Norwich, to train clergymen in canon law after the Black Death.


Trinity Hall has two sister colleges at the University of Oxford: All Souls and University College.


Notable alumni include theoretical physicists Stephen Hawking and Nobel Prize winner David Thouless, Australian Prime Minister Stanley Bruce, Pakistani Prime Minister Khawaja Nazimuddin, Canadian Governor General David Johnston, philosophers Marshall McLuhan and Galen Strawson, Conservative cabinet minister Geoffrey Howe, Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, writer J. B. Priestley, and Academy Award-winning actress Rachel Weisz.

Student life[edit]

Combination Rooms[edit]

Trinity Hall has active Junior, Middle and Senior Combination Rooms for undergraduate, postgraduate and senior members of the college community respectively. The Middle Combination Room is located in Front Court, while the Junior Combination Room is adjacent to the college bar in North Court. Both the MCR and JCR have highly active committees and organize popular socials for their members across the term.

Trinity Hall in 1690

Trinity Hall in 1690

The original entrance

The original entrance

The demolition of the original entrance

The demolition of the original entrance

Front Court

Front Court

Armorial Detail in Front Court

Armorial Detail in Front Court

The Master's Garden

The Master's Garden

South Court

South Court

The Elizabethan Library

The Elizabethan Library

The Elizabethan Library

The Elizabethan Library

The Jerwood Library

The Jerwood Library

Wychfield Site

Wychfield Site

College cricket ground

College cricket ground

T.H.B.C. Club-House on the River Cam

T.H.B.C. Club-House on the River Cam

J. B. Priestley, novelist, playwright and broadcaster

J. B. Priestley, novelist, playwright and broadcaster

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian philosopher

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian philosopher

Andrew Marr, journalist and broadcaster

Andrew Marr, journalist and broadcaster

Caroline S. Hill, head of the Developmental Signalling Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute

Caroline S. Hill, head of the Developmental Signalling Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute

Rachel Weisz, Oscar-winning actress

Rachel Weisz, Oscar-winning actress

Emma Pooley, Olympic silver-medallist cyclist and presenter

Emma Pooley, Olympic silver-medallist cyclist and presenter

Tom James, double Olympic gold-medallist rower

Tom James, double Olympic gold-medallist rower

June Event

Trinity Hall Boat Club

The Hidden Hall: Portrait of a Cambridge College, Peter Pagnamenta,  1-903942-31-4

ISBN

Trinity Hall: The History of a Cambridge College, 1350-1975, Charles Crawley,  0-9505122-0-6

ISBN

Warren's Book (Ed. 1911 by A.W.W.Dale)

Trinity Hall or, The college of scholars of the Holy Trinity of Norwich, in the University of Cambridge, Henry Elliot Malden. (1902). London: F.E. Robinson.

Trinity Hall web page

Trinity Hall June Event

Trinity Hall Boat Club