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5 Sep 2018: was an active member of the Boat Club, rowing in the 1909 Lent Boat and 2nd Boat the following year.

11 Dec 2017: From the Archives: 300 Years since the Founder’s Will Three hundred years ago, on 20 December 1717, Sir George Downing, 3rd Bt, signed the will which would lead eventually – and almost miraculously – to the foundation of Downing College on 22

14 Sep 2017: although the Governing Body minutes in the archive sadly contain very little information on the building after its completion. ... above. When the College began planning the redevelopment of its large commercial premises, Parker’s House, on Regent

6 Oct 2017: He was at an advanced dressing station, which was so full that many of the wounded had to be left outside, and while attending to the sick and wounded he was

13 Oct 2017: He was educated at St Paul’s School before matriculating at Downing in 1903 with an Entrance Scholarship.

23 Feb 2021: He was an active member of College, rowing in the second and first Downing boats during his two years at Downing. ... He continued pursuing his interest in film-making, making an important training film, Night Bombers, in 1944 which chronicled a raid

28 Nov 2016: WWI Roll of Honour: Sydney Garner Bennett (1888 – 1916) Sydney Garner Bennett was born in 1888 in Lowestoft, Suffolk, the only son of Henry and Mary Bennett. His father served as a Primitive Methodist Minister at various churches in Suffolk and

9 Jan 2017: After leaving, he was appointed as an assistant entomologist for the British South Africa Company and, in January 1913, was sent to Northern Rhodesia to research the tsetse fly.

25 Nov 2016: It must, indeed, have been an unusual sight!" However, the same editorial gave an indication of the subdued atmosphere in College at the start of the new academic year:. ... is an invaluable source of information on the activities and sacrifices of