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Jesus College, Cambridge University is in Cambridge University.
In 1503 Archbishop Thomas Cranmer (age 13) educated at Jesus College, Cambridge University.
Around 1520 Bishop Edmund Scambler was born at Gressingham. He was educated at Peterhouse College, Cambridge University [Map] and Jesus College, Cambridge University.
Around 1560 Francis Willoughby (age 14) educated at Jesus College, Cambridge University.
Around 1568 Fulk Greville 13th Baron Latimer 5th Baron Willoughby 1st Baron Brooke (age 13) educated at Jesus College, Cambridge University.
Around 1569 Henry Belasyse 1st Baronet (age 13) was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge University.
Around 1592 Thomas Belasyse 1st Viscount Fauconberg (age 15) educated Jesus College, Cambridge University.
On 15th June 1638 James Herbert (age 15) matriculated at Jesus College, Cambridge University.
John Evelyn's Diary. 31st August 1654. Jesus College, Cambridge University, one of the best built, but in a melancholy situation. Next to Christ-College [Map], a very noble erection, especially the modern part, built without the quadrangle toward the gardens, of exact architecture.
In September 1670 John Flamsteed (age 24) visited Cambridge and entered his name as an undergraduate at Jesus College. While it seems he never took up full residence, he was there for two months in 1674, and had the opportunity to hear Isaac Newton's (age 27) Lucasian Lectures.
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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
Around 1686 Thomas Willoughby 1st Baron Middleton (age 13) educated at Jesus College, Cambridge University.
In 1700 Thomas Frankland 3rd Baronet (age 15) admitted at Jesus College, Cambridge University.
In 1712 Francis Willoughby 2nd Baron Middleton (age 19) graduated Master of Arts at Jesus College, Cambridge University.
Around 1742 Henry Willoughby 5th Baron Middleton (age 15) educated at Jesus College, Cambridge University.
In 1744 Francis Willoughby 3rd Baron Middleton (age 17) educated at Jesus College, Cambridge University.
In 1745 Thomas Willoughby 4th Baron Middleton (age 16) educated at Jesus College, Cambridge University.
In 1814 John Tyssen Tyrell 2nd Baronet (age 18) migrated to Jesus College, Cambridge University.
In 1858 Dean Herbert Mortimer Luckock (age 24) graduated B.A. with a second class in the classical tripos at Jesus College, Cambridge University. He proceeded M.A. in 1862 and D.D. in 1879.
On 6th May 1861 Charles Michael Edgeworth Brinkley was born at Knockmaroon. He was educated at Clifton College Bristol, Jesus College, Cambridge University and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
In 1862 Dean Herbert Mortimer Luckock (age 28) was elected Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge University.
In 1904 Captain Charles Noel Ridley (age 19) began his education at Jesus College, Cambridge University where he spent two years.
Ambrose Browne 1st Baronet educated at Jesus College, Cambridge University.