Christ's College, Cambridge

It was originally founded in 1448 as God's House on land now occupied by King's College Chapel[?]. It was refounded in 1505 and moved to its present site by Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of King Henry VII.

Christ's has (2001) about 390 undergraduate and 100 graduate students.

Their webserver hosts the British division of the International Olympiad in Informatics, http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/bio/

Famous alumni

• Sacha Baron Cohen - British comedian
• Richard Clerke[?]
• Charles Darwin - British naturalist
• Colin Dexter - British author
• David Mellor[?] - British politician
• John Milton - English poet
• Lord Mountbatten - British Admiral of the Fleet[?] and statesman
• Simon Schama[?] - British historian, author, and television presenter
• Jan Smuts- South African general and statesman
• C.P. Snow - British novelist and philosopher
• Richard Whiteley[?] - British television presenter
• Rowan Williams - British theologian and Anglican bishop.

External link

• Official Christ's College website (http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/)