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King's College, formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. [4] This college lies beside the River Cam and faces out onto King's Parade in the centre of the city. King's was founded in 1441 by King Henry VI soon after founding its sister institution, Eton ...
The world-famous Choir of King's College, Cambridge, consists of choral scholars, organ scholars [20] (male students at the college), and choristers (boys educated at the nearby King's College School). From 1982 until shortly before his death on 22 November 2019 the director of music for the choir was Sir Stephen Cleobury.
King's College School is a coeducational private preparatory school for pupils aged 4 to 13 in Cambridge, England, situated on West Road off Grange Road, west of the city centre. It was founded to educate the choristers in the King's College Choir during the 15th century.
The Choir of King's College, Cambridge is an English Anglican choir. It was created by King Henry VI , who founded King's College, Cambridge , in 1441, to provide daily singing in his Chapel , which remains the main task of the choir to this day.
The painting installed as an altarpiece at King's College Chapel, Cambridge. The painting was sold from the estate of Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster at Sotheby's in 1959 and bought for a world-record price of £250,000 by the property millionaire Alfred Ernest Allnatt. Two years later he offered it to King's College, Cambridge.
Saltmarsh was elected as a Fellow of King's at twenty-two. He became a full lecturer at Cambridge University in 1937 and was appointed college librarian. At the start of the Second World War, he was recruited to work at Bletchley Park, but after the war he returned to King's. In the following years, he lectured in Economic History for the ...
Provost Appointed William Millington 1441 John Chedworth: 1447 Robert Wodelark: 1452 Walter Field 1479 John Dogget: 1499 John Argentine: 1501 Richard Hatton
Photograph of King's Parade circa 1870, showing shops on the east side. The White Horse Tavern, [6] on King's Lane to the west of King's Parade, [7] was a 16th-century meeting place for English Protestant reformers to discuss Lutheran ideas, from as early as 1521. [8] When the King's College screen was extended in 1870, the tavern was demolished.