University of Cambridge/Peterhouse

Peterhouse is the oldest college in the University of Cambridge. It was founded in 1284 by [Hugo de Balsham]?, Bishop of Ely?. Peterhouse has (2001) approximately 250 undergraduates, 90 graduate students, and 45 fellows, making it one of the smallest /Colleges in the University of Cambridge.

Famous alumni of Peterhouse

 Charles Babbage (His analytical engine anticipated the modern computer) 
 Richard Baker (News reader) 
 Henry Cavendish 
 Christopher Cockerell 
 [Richard Crashaw]? (Poet) 
 James Dewar 
 Duke of Grafton (Prime Minister 1768-1770) 
 Thomas Gray (Poet) 
 Colin Charles Greenwood (Bass Player of Radiohead) 
 Michael Howard 
 [Lord Kelvin]? 
 Sir A Klug OM PRS (Nobel Prize Winner, Peterhouse Fellow) 
 [Archer Martin]? (Nobel Prize for developing partition chromatography) 
 [James Mason]? (British film star) 
 [Sam Mendes]? (Film producer) 
 [Andrew Perne]? 
 [Max Perutz]? (Nobel Prize for determining the structure of haemoproteins) 
 [Michael Portillo]? 
 [Claudia Pugh-Thomas]? (Trapeze artist) 
 [John Whitgift]? 
 [Frank Whittle]? (Developed [jet propulsion]?) 

Official website, http://www.pet.cam.ac.uk/