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The Environs of London
… 5, 1789." Mr. Reid was many years assistant-surgeon at the college. He published an edition of Mihles's Elements of … the advanced age of 95, having resided many years in the college. Christian Davies, alias Mother Ross. Hannah Snell. I … Davies, alias Mother Ross, who was interred in the college burial-ground in the month of July 1739, with …
Old and New London
… some soldiers, who formed a part of the guard at Chelsea College, were fired at from behind the hedge. One of these … House, on the north side of the King's Road, is St. Mark's College, which was established in 1841 by the National … whom it subsequently passed to the National Society. The college consists of an upper, middle, and lower schools, and …
Old and New London
… CollegeArchbishop Bancroft's LegacyTransference of the College to the Royal SocietyThe Property sold to Sir Stephen … occupied the site of this great national edifice. This college was originated, soon after the commencement of the … in May, 1609, and bestowed on it the name of "King James's College at Chelsey." According to the Charter of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… town. It obtained also the name Striguil from the earls of Pembroke, to whom it belonged at the time of the Conquest, … chalybeate spring was discovered in 1820. At Asheridge, a college for a rector and twenty brethren was founded in 1283, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Before 1885 there were only a few houses and the Cavendish College hostel along the Hills Road, but in 1885 the Rock … Lane. In 1993 a further 100 houses were built on former college land off Daws Lane. In the 1990s the former 15 a. (6 … 1892, performing plays, had strong links with St. John's College, Cambridge. 61 A Women's Institute, founded in 1924, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… scholars of Peterhouse, appropriated the rectory to that college. The grant was confirmed in 1363 by Bishop Simon … World War the living ceased to be held by fellows of the College. 63 L. G. Forrest, who served as vicar between 1948 … services were conducted in the chapel of Cavendish College, but by 1897 the first two bays of the nave, of red …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… churches and colleges in Cambridge. 4 Corpus Christi College had its own quarry in the late 14th century. 5 In … 1449 it had its own quarry. 6 The great gateway at Trinity College and parts of Peterhouse in the late 15th century, and the chapel at Corpus Christi College in the 16th were built from Hinton stone. 7 The chalk …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the vicar vested the freehold of the school site in the college. 93 The school was staffed in the mid 19th century by … to provide teaching practice for Homerton Teacher Training College. 5 In 1905 the school had on average 210 children, … and in 1979 Coleridge was designated as a community college. It still occupies its original buildings of 1938, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… eldest (d. 1835), wife of William Pearce, master of Jesus College, Cambridge, and from 1797 dean of Ely, 33 bought out … of Peterhouse, the church was finally appropriated to the college in 1395. The rectorial estate remained with … members of the Doggett family c. 1883-1929. 49 In 1965 the college owned 300 a. of farmland, chalk pits (10 a.), …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire
… door-frames remain. ConditionGood. b(15). Water Lane Farm, College Road, is a two-storeyed house of rough-cast, brick, …