18 Facts About Trinity College Cambridge

Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.

Two members of the British royal family have studied at Trinity College Cambridge and been awarded degrees: Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh who gained an MA in 1790, and King Charles III, who was awarded a lower second class BA in 1970.

Royal family members who have studied at Trinity College Cambridge without obtaining degrees include King Edward VII, King George VI, and Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester.

In 1848, Trinity hosted the meeting at which Cambridge undergraduates representing fee-paying private schools codified the early rules of Association Football, known as the Cambridge Rules.

Trinity College Cambridge has been linked with Westminster School since the school's re-foundation in 1560, and its Master is an ex officio governor of the school.

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Trinity College Cambridge was founded by Henry VIII in 1546, from the merger of two existing colleges: Michaelhouse, and King's Hall .

The universities of Oxford and Trinity College Cambridge, being both religious institutions and quite rich, expected to be next in line.

In terms of architecture and royal association, it was not until the Mastership of Thomas Nevile that Trinity College Cambridge assumed both its spaciousness and its association with the governing class that distinguished it since the Civil War.

In 2019, Trinity College Cambridge confirmed its plan to withdraw from the Universities Superannuation Scheme, the main pre-1992 UK University pension provider.

Trinity College has a long-standing relationship with the Parish of St George's, Camberwell, in South London.

Students from the Trinity College Cambridge have helped to run holiday schemes for children from the parish since 1966.

Trinity College Cambridge bridge is a stone built tripled-arched road bridge across the River Cam.

River Cam as it flows past the back of Trinity College Cambridge, Trinity College Cambridge Bridge is visible and the punt house is to the right of the moored punts.

Trinity College Cambridge admitted its first woman graduate student in 1976 and its first woman undergraduate in 1978.

The Trinity College Cambridge offers a number of other bursaries and studentships open to external applicants.

Later that same day, the Trinity College Cambridge Choir gives a second open-air concert, known as Singing on the River, where they perform madrigals and arrangements of popular songs from a raft of punts lit with lanterns or fairy lights on the river.

Four members or alumni of Trinity College have been awarded the prestigious Fields Medal.

Trinity College Cambridge was succeeded by Dame Sally Davies, the first female Master of Trinity College, on 8 October 2019.