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Pembroke Hall, Cambridge

Pembroke College
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Pembroke College heraldic shield
University Cambridge University
Location Trumpington Street (map)
Full name The College or Hall of Valence Mary (commonly called Pembroke College) in the University of Cambridge
Founder Marie de St Pol, Countess of Pembroke
Established 1347
Named for Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke
Previous names Marie Valence Hall (1347-?)
Pembroke Hall (?–1856)
Sister college Queen's College, Oxford
Master Chris Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury
Undergraduates 442
Postgraduates 264
Boat club www.pembrokecollegeboatclub.com

Pembroke College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college is the third-oldest college of the university and has over seven hundred students and fellows. Physically, it is one of the university's larger colleges, with buildings from almost every century since its founding, as well as extensive gardens.

As of 2014 the college has a financial endowment of £67 million. Pembroke has a level of academic performance among the highest of all the Cambridge colleges; in 2013, 2014 and 2016 Pembroke was placed second in the Tompkins Table.

Pembroke is home to the first chapel designed by Sir Christopher Wren and is one of the 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, is endowed with an original copy of the first encyclopaedia to contain printed diagrams.

The college's current master is Chris Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury.

Marie de St Pol, Countess of Pembroke (1303-1377) founded Pembroke College, Cambridge. Christmas Eve 1347, Edward III granted Marie de St Pol, widow of the Earl of Pembroke, the licence for the foundation of a new educational establishment in the young university at Cambridge. The Hall of Valence Mary ("Custos & Scolares Aule Valence Marie in Cantebrigg'"), as it was originally known, was thus founded to house a body of students and fellows. The statutes were notable in that they both gave preference to students born in France who had already studied elsewhere in England, and that they required students to report fellow students if they indulged in excessive drinking or visited disreputable houses.


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