Peterhouse, Cambridge

Peterhouse is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. It is the oldest college of the University, having been founded in 1284 by Hugo de Balsham, Bishop of Ely. Peterhouse has 284 undergraduates, 130 graduate students and 45 fellows, making it the smallest of the university's traditional colleges (though larger than some of the colleges which admit only women, graduates, or mature students and which are smaller because of t... more

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Reginald Ely

Architect (or Master Mason) to King Henry VI until 1461, who designed and Supervised the earlier phases of Kings College Chapel, Cambridge. His other known work appears to be all in the cambridge area.
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