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Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Emmanuel College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.
The college was founded in 1584 by Sir Walter Mildmay on the site of a Dominican friary. Mildmay, a Puritan, originally intended Emmanuel to be a college of training for Protestant preachers to rival the successful Catholic...
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John Wallis
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Griffiths was educated at Ashton Grammar School, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and Yale University. He worked in the Conservative Research Department and became...
Bob White FRS
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White is also a Fellow of the Geological Society, and a member of the American Geophysical Union...
Melvill Jones
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Frederick Waldegrave Head
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William Sancroft
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Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland
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John Harvard
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G. Evelyn Hutchinson
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C. Northcote Parkinson
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Jeremiah Horrocks
Jeremiah Horrocks (1618 – 3 January 1641), sometimes given as Jeremiah Horrox (the Latinised version that he used on the Emmanuel College register and in his Latin manuscripts), was an English astronomer who was the only person to predict, and one...
Graham Chapman
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John Bastwick
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William Powell
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Tim Yeo
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Ronald George Wreyford Norrish
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He...
Griff Rhys Jones
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Richard Kidder
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He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he was a sizar, from 1649, graduating 1652. He became a...
William Sutcliffe
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An alumnus of Haberdashers' Aske's School, Sutcliffe started his career with a novel about school life entitled New Boy (1996), which was followed by his best-known work so far, Are You...
Thomas Watson
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Cecil Parkinson
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Michael Spicer
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Mary Ann Ochota
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Mary-Ann presented the documentary Silbury Hill:The Heart of the Hill for BBC Four with exclusive access to the neolithic mound Silbury Hill in...
William Norman Birkett, 1st Baron Birkett
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F. R. Leavis
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Frank Raymond Leavis was born in...
Edward Elwyn Jones
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Jones studied music at Cambridge University, where he was Organ Scholar of Emmanuel College. He was also the conductor of three university orchestras. Upon moving to the...
William Gell
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George Fane
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Know as Colonel the...
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Young made notable...
Richard Farmer
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Leonard Elliott Elliot-Binns
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George Bracewell Smith
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John Moorman
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Born in Leeds, the son of Frederic William Moorman ...
Donald Chapman, Baron Northfield
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Robert Waley Cohen
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Stephen Sackur
Stephen John Sackur (born 9 January 1964) is a BBC journalist who presents HARDtalk, a current affairs interview programme on BBC World News and BBC News 24.
Stephen Sackur was born in Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England, and studied at Emmanuel College,...
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Thomas Shepard
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P. G. Ashmore
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The son of a schoolmaster who...
John Borlase Warren
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Fred Hoyle
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Richard Dawes
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Joseph George Cumming
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Born at Matlock in Derbyshire where his mother and father ran...
Robin Hill
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Eric A. Havelock
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Jonathan James-Moore
Jonathan James-Moore (22 March 1946 - 20 November 2005) was an English theatre manager and BBC radio producer and executive.
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