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Cambridge University, Pembroke College from Trumpington Street, with Wren's chapel to the right
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Cambridge and Pembroke
In 1571 he entered Pembroke Hall, Cambridge and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree, proceeding to a Master of Arts degree in 1578.
In 1576 he was elected fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge ; in 1580 he took orders and in 1581 was incorporated MA at Oxford.
He was educated at Radley College and Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he studied French and German.
It was at Pembroke that Cook performed and wrote comedy sketches as a member of the Cambridge Footlights Club, of which he became president in 1960.
Pembroke has a level of academic performance among the highest of all the Cambridge colleges, with an average rank of 6. 7 out of 29 in the unofficial Tompkins Table.
Pembroke College is home to the first chapel designed by Sir Christopher Wren and is also one of the Cambridge colleges to have educated a British prime minister, William Pitt the Younger.
On Christmas Eve 1347, Edward III granted Marie de St Pol, widow of the Earl of Pembroke, the licence for the foundation of a new educational establishment in the young university at Cambridge.
Pembroke is the only Cambridge college to have a programme for international students to spend a semester ( mid-January to mid-June ) in Cambridge.
During the same year Hughes won an open exhibition in English at Pembroke College, Cambridge, but chose to do his National Service first.
As a teenager Williams was apprenticed with Sir Edward Coke ( 1552 – 1634 ), the famous jurist, and under Coke's patronage, Williams was educated at Charterhouse and also at Pembroke College, Cambridge ( B. A., 1627 ).
At Pembroke, he was invited to join the prestigious Cambridge University Footlights Club by the President of the Footlights Club, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Footlights Club member Bill Oddie.
Wren's first architectural project was the chapel of Pembroke College in Cambridge, which his uncle, the Bishop of Ely, asked him to design in 1663.
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