The University of Cambridge has 31 colleges, of which Peterhouse is the oldest, founded in 1284.

* 1284 – Peterhouse, the oldest college at the University of Cambridge, is founded by Hugo de Balsham as The Scholars of the Bishop of Ely.

One of the oldest professorships in Cambridge, the chair was founded in 1683 by John Knightbridge, fellow of Peterhouse.

Peterhouse is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.

The modern name of Peterhouse does not include the word " college ".

According to college tradition, Thomas Gray left Peterhouse for Pembroke College after being the victim of a practical joke played by undergraduates.

The college was founded in 1326, making it the second-oldest surviving college of the University after Peterhouse.

In 1280 he obtained a charter from the king allowing him to replace the secular brethren residing in the diocesan hospital of St John at Cambridge by " studious scholars "; a second charter four years later entirely differentiated these scholars from the brethren of the hospital, and for them Balsham founded and endowed the college of Peterhouse, the first Cambridge college.

She studied computer science at Peterhouse, a college of the University of Cambridge, graduating in 2003, and, as of 2006, worked for Electronic Arts as a software engineer.

In October 1790, he was ordained a deacon at Ely, and became a priest in 1792 ; in the same year he became a Fellow at Peterhouse, during which he spent time as both as college moderator and as proctor.

Michaelhouse was the second residential college to be founded, after Peterhouse ( 1284 ).

In 1995, the orchestra broke its ties with Fitz and expanded, rehearsing in Peterhouse and taking musicians from any college.

In 1982 Scruton became founding editor of The Salisbury Review — a journal championing traditional conservatism, in opposition to Thatcherism — set up by a group of Tories known as the Salisbury Group, with the involvement of the Peterhouse Right, a circle of conservatives associated with the Cambridge college, including Maurice Cowling, David Watkin, and the mathematician Adrian Mathias.

He was born in 1560 and matriculated to the constituent college of Peterhouse in Cambridge in 1579.

His Cambridge works include the Archaeological Museum ( 1883 ), now Peterhouse Theatre, the Divinity and Literary School and Newnham College ( between 1875 and 1910 ), for which he is credited for bringing a ' touch of lightness ' to the college and is acknowledged for his attention to both construction details, and to cost.

The Peterhouse school of history was named after the Cambridge college of the same name where the history taught concentrated on ' high politics '.

He was the top mathematician at Peterhouse, but did not graduate with honours.

On 9 June, Lovelace is again imprisoned at Peterhouse.

The Conservative politicians Michael Portillo and Michael Howard both studied at Peterhouse.

The subscription controversy was then agitating the university, and Paley published an anonymous defence of a pamphlet in which the Master of Peterhouse and Bishop of Carlisle Edmund Law had advocated the retrenchment and simplification of the Thirty-nine Articles ; he did not, however, sign the petition ( called the " Feathers Tavern " petition, from being drawn up at a meeting at the Feathers Tavern ) for a relaxation of the terms of subscription.

In 1875, Dewar was elected Jacksonian professor of natural experimental philosophy at the University of Cambridge, becoming a fellow of Peterhouse.

at Peterhouse, Cambridge, in 1847.

He was educated at Marlborough College, and earned a first in architecture at Peterhouse, Cambridge where he became involved in stock theatre companies in his spare time.

At age 11, Henry attended Hackney Academy, a private school near London, and at age 18 ( on 24 November 1748 ) he entered the University of Cambridge in St Peter's College, now known as Peterhouse, but left three years later on 23 February 1751 without taking a degree ( a common practice ).

The embarrassing incident gave Trevor-Roper's enemies at Peterhouse and elsewhere the opportunity to criticise him openly.

He joined the Young Conservatives at 15 and studied at Peterhouse, Cambridge.

He obtained eight O-levels, and his subsequent A-levels earned him a place in Peterhouse at Cambridge University.

His step-father assumed charge of the boy and sent him, in 1581, to study at Peterhouse, Cambridge as a " gentleman pensioner "; he left the university after four years without taking a degree.

He was educated at Christ's Hospital and Peterhouse, Cambridge.

He was educated at Stanburn Primary School in Stanmore, Middlesex, and Harrow County School for Boys and then won a scholarship to Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he came under the influence of Maurice Cowling.

He was born at Hampstead, London, and was educated in Germany and at Peterhouse, Cambridge.

Born in London, he was educated at Eton College, and Peterhouse, Cambridge, which he left to become a member of Lincoln's Inn.

Heywood is said to have been educated at the University of Cambridge, eventually becoming a fellow of Peterhouse.

Lord Euston was educated at Westminster School, made the Grand Tour and obtained a degree at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge.

The court is named for John Cosin ( 1594 – 1672 ) who was successively Master of Peterhouse, Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University and Prince-Bishop of Durham.

* Herbert Butterfield-Historian ; Master of Peterhouse ( 1955 – 1968 ), Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge ( 1959 – 1961 ), and Regius Professor of Modern History ( 1963 — 1968 )

During World War II, the School decamped from London to University of Cambridge, occupying buildings belonging to Peterhouse.

He then entered Cambridge University as an undergraduate member of Peterhouse, and where he studied engineering and was tutored by William Dobson Womersley.

After attending the Edinburgh Academy and University of Edinburgh, he went up to Peterhouse, Cambridge, graduating as senior wrangler and first Smith's prizeman in 1852.

With around 500 students and fellows, it is also the second smallest of the traditional colleges of the University ( after Peterhouse ), and the smallest in terms of undergraduate student intake.

On 8 February 1635 Cosin was appointed master of Peterhouse, Cambridge ; and in 1640 he became Vice-Chancellor of the University.

In 1786, he was admitted as a sizar to study mathematics Peterhouse, Cambridge University, where he graduated as senior wrangler in 1790.

In 1942, Wild went up to the University of Cambridge ( Peterhouse ) to further his mathematics.

* Adrian Dixon, Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge University

He was pupil at St. Paul's School in London from 1939 to 1943 and then attended Cambridge University, graduating from Peterhouse, Cambridge in 1945.

Eyre was educated at Sherborne School, an independent school for boys in the market town of Sherborne in north-west Dorset in south-west England, followed by Peterhouse at the University of Cambridge and Lincoln College at the University of Oxford.

Fawcett was born in Salisbury, and educated at King's College School and the University of Cambridge: entering Peterhouse in 1852, he migrated to Trinity Hall the following year, and became a fellow there in 1856, the year he graduated BA as 7th Wrangler.