Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

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Gonville and Caius College
University of Cambridge
Gonville & Caius College from King's Parade
Arms of Gonville & Caius College
Scarf colours: four equal stripes alternating black and Cambridge blue
LocationTrinity Street (map)
Coordinates52°12′21″N 0°07′04″E / 52.2059°N 0.1179°E / 52.2059; 0.1179
AbbreviationCAI[1]
Founders
Established1348, refounded 1557
Previous names
  • Gonville Hall (1348–1351)
  • Hall of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1351–1557)
Sister collegeBrasenose College, Oxford
MasterPippa Rogerson
Undergraduates618 (2022-23)
Postgraduates256 (2022-23)
Endowment£254.5m (2022)[2]
Websitewww.cai.cam.ac.uk
Boat clubwww.caiusboatclub.org
Map
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge is located in Central Cambridge
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Location in Central Cambridge

Gonville and Caius College, often referred to simply as Caius (/kiːz/ KEEZ), is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge[3] in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1348 by Edmund Gonville, it is the fourth-oldest of the University of Cambridge's 31 colleges and one of the wealthiest. In 1557, it was refounded by John Caius, an alumnus and English physician.

The college has been attended by many students who have gone on to significant accomplishment, including fifteen Nobel Prize winners, the second-largest number of any Oxbridge college.[4][5][6]

Several streets in the city, including Harvey Road, Glisson Road, and Gresham Road, are named after Gonville and Caius alumni.[7] The college and its masters have been influential in the development of the university, including in the founding of other colleges, including Trinity Hall and Darwin College and providing land on Sidgwick Site on which the Faculty of Law was built.

  1. ^ University of Cambridge (6 March 2019). "Notice by the Editor". Cambridge University Reporter. 149 (Special No 5): 1. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
  2. ^ "Trustee's Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 30 June 2022" (PDF). Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Retrieved 28 March 2024.
  3. ^ Walker, Timea (2 February 2022). "Gonville & Caius College". undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
  4. ^ "College History – Caius College Cambridge". Gonville & Caius College. Archived from the original on 16 July 2012. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
  5. ^ "College Research – Caius College Cambridge". Gonville & Caius College. 15 October 2012. Retrieved 16 November 2012.
  6. ^ "Nobel Prize Winners – Research – University of Cambridge". University of Cambridge. Retrieved 6 October 2012.
  7. ^ Brooke, Christopher A History of Gonville & Caius College (Rochester, 1985), p. 225, n10.