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Hervey de Stanton, founder of Michaelhouse, 1324. Ob. York 1327,
bur. in S. Michael’s church near his college.
Richard de Badew, founder of University Hall, 1326, Chelmsford,
Essex.
King’s Hall, Edward II. and Edward III., 1337.
Elizabeth de Clare, founder of Clare Hall, 1338 b. at Acre of
Norman settlers in England, Wales and Ireland; married to two
Irishmen. Ob. 1360, bur. Ware, Herts.
Marie de Chatillon, founder of Pembroke Hall, 1347. French, married
a Welsh earl. Ob. 1377, bur. in the choir of Denney Abbey.[247]
Edmund Gonville, founder of Gonville Hall, 1348. East Anglian. Ob.
1351.
William Bateman, founder of Trinity Hall, 1350, East Anglian (b.
Norwich). Ob. 1354, bur. Avignon.
Two Cambridge guilds, founders of Corpus Christi College, 1352.
William Byngham co-founder with Henry VI. of God’s House, 1439,
1448 (Rector of S. John Zachary, London; Proctor of the university
in 1447) (Fuller pp. 150, 161).
King’s College, Henry VI., 1441.
Margaret of Anjou, founder of Queens’ College, 1448, French. Ob.
1482, bur. at the cathedral of Angers.[248]
Elizabeth Woodville, co-founder of Queens’. Northants. Ob. 1492,
bur. at Windsor, near Edward IV.
Robert Woodlark, founder of S. Catherine’s, 1473, b. Wakerly near
Stamford, Northants. Ob. 1479.
John Alcock, founder of Jesus College, 1495, b. Beverley, Yorks.
Ob. 1500, bur. at Ely.
Margaret Beaufort, founder of Christ’s and S. John’s Colleges,
1505, 1509, b. Bletsoe, Beds.[249] Ob. 1509, bur. Westminster
Abbey, in the south aisle of Hen. VII.’s chapel.
John Fisher (her coadjutor) b. Beverley, Yorks. Beheaded 1534, bur.
in the Tower.
Magdalene College [first founded by the Fen abbeys and Walden 1428]
Henry and Edward Stafford 2nd and 3rd Dukes of Buckingham, then
Thomas first Baron Audley of Walden 1544. The two former (whose
family came from Staffordshire) were beheaded 1483 and 1521, and
bur. at Salisbury, and Austinfriars, London.[250] Lord Audley b.
Essex, ob. 1544, bur. Saffron Walden.
Trinity College, Henry VIII., 1546.
John Caius, founder of Caius College 1557. Yorks, but b. Norwich,
ob. 1573, bur. in the college chapel.
Sir Walter Mildmay, founder of Emmanuel College, 1584, Chelmsford,
Essex. Ob. 1589, bur. at S. Bartholomew the Great, London.
Frances Sidney, founder of Sidney Sussex College, 1595, Kent (the
family came from Anjou with Henry II.). [Her father and husband
were both Lords deputy for Ireland, and her father also President
of Wales.] Ob. 9th March 1589, bur. Westminster Abbey.
Sir George Downing, founder of Downing College, 1803,
Cambridgeshire. Ob. 1749, bur. Croydon, Cambridgeshire.
[Illustration: THE GATE OF VIRTUE, GONVILLE AND CAIUS COLLEGE
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