Pembroke College, Cambridge

Pembroke College
University of Cambridge
Old Court, Pembroke College
Old Court, Pembroke College
Pembroke College heraldic shield
Arms of Pembroke College, Cambridge: Arms of Valence (Barry (of ten) argent and azure, an orle of French martlets gules) dimidiating St Pol (Châtillon): (Gules, three pales vair a chief or with a label of three points azure for difference)
Scarf colours: dark blue, with two equally-spaced narrow Cambridge blue stripes
LocationTrumpington Street (map)
Coordinates52°12′07″N 0°07′12″E / 52.202°N 0.120°E / 52.202; 0.120
Full nameThe College or Hall of Valence Mary (commonly called Pembroke College) in the University of Cambridge
AbbreviationPEM[1]
FounderMarie de St Pol, Countess of Pembroke
Established1347; 677 years ago (1347)
Named afterAymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke
Previous names
  • Marie Valence Hall (1347–?)
  • Pembroke Hall (?–1856)
Sister collegeThe Queen's College, Oxford
MasterThe Lord Smith of Finsbury
Undergraduates484 (2022-23)
Postgraduates282 (2022-23)
Endowment£139.0m (2023)[2]
Websitewww.pem.cam.ac.uk
JPpemjp.soc.srcf.net
GPpemgp.soc.srcf.net
Boat clubwww.pembrokecollegeboatclub.com
Map
Pembroke College, Cambridge is located in Central Cambridge
Pembroke College, Cambridge
Location in Central Cambridge
Pembroke College, Cambridge is located in Cambridge
Pembroke College, Cambridge
Location in Cambridge

Pembroke College (officially "The Master, Fellows and Scholars of the College or Hall of Valence-Mary") is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge,[3] England. The college is the third-oldest college of the university and has over 700 students and fellows. It is one of the university's larger colleges, with buildings from almost every century since its founding, as well as extensive gardens. Its members are termed "Valencians".[4] The college's current master is Chris Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury.

Pembroke has a level of academic performance among the highest of all the Cambridge colleges; in 2013, 2014, 2016, and 2018 Pembroke was placed second in the Tompkins Table. Pembroke contains the first chapel designed by Sir Christopher Wren and is one of only six Cambridge colleges to have educated a British prime minister, in Pembroke's case William Pitt the Younger. The college library, with a Victorian neo-gothic clock tower, has an original copy of the first encyclopaedia to contain printed diagrams.

  1. ^ University of Cambridge (6 March 2019). "Notice by the Editor". Cambridge University Reporter. 149 (Special No 5): 1. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
  2. ^ "Annual Report and Accounts 2023" (PDF). Pembroke College, Cambridge. Retrieved 17 June 2024.
  3. ^ Walker, Timea (2 February 2022). "Pembroke College". www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
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