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18 Jun 2024: General AdmissionFriday 28 June 2024. Welcome. It will be an honour and a privilege forme to confer your degrees at the Senate-House, and especially significant for meas this will be my first General Admissionas Master. Your admission to your degree

4 May 2020: This book describes life in Downing College during the two World Wars and gives some account of the military exploits of members of the College. At the centre of the book are the reminiscences and experiences of men who were at Downing before, during

25 Nov 2016: From the Archives: 250 years since Downing wasn’t founded! The 250th anniversary of the death of Sir Jacob Downing, 4th Baronet. 2014 marked the 250th anniversary of a significant event in the history of Downing College. On 6th February 1764, Sir

14 Sep 2017: From Edwardian stables to Heong Gallery: a history. The building housing the new Heong Gallery at Downing was built c.1903, following the decision on 1 November 1902 to replace the College’s original Wilkins-designed stable block with a smaller

24 Sep 2021: Together with his team of PhD students and Postdocs, Nick was able to travel into the Highlands in August 2020 and download crucial data from around volcanoes such as Askja and

6 Oct 2017: Guy Spencer Bryan-Brown (1885 – 1917) First World War Roll of Honour. ‘…he is a sterling man, the best of fellows, and one who has no enemy’. (The Griffin, Lent 1908). Guy Spencer Bryan-Brown was born on 3rd July 1885 in Stroud,

23 May 2022: Plantation Society and Economy: A Case Study of Indentured Labour in Seventeenth Century Barbados’ (PhD Thesis, University of Hull, 1980) https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/2732011.pdf 32 Simmons, Frederick

13 Oct 2017: Frederick Charles Davies (1884 - 1917). First World War Roll of Honour. Frederick Charles Davies was born in 1884, the youngest son of Mr. William Davies J.P., the first Mayor of Battersea, and his wife Ellen. He was educated at St Paul’s School

1 Mar 2017: DOWNING COLLEGE AND INDIA. This article, written by Downing postgraduate student Teresa Segura-Garcia, was based on research in the Downing College archive and was first published in the 2015 issue of Dow@Cam. Frederick Howard Marsh is not one of

12 Jan 2018: The History of. DOWNING COLLEGE. CAMBRIDGE. by Stan/ey French. The History of. DOWNING COLLEGE. CAMBRIDGE. by. Stan/ey Fre11ch. DOWNING COLLEGE ASSOCIATION 1978. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I THE MARRIAGE 7. CHAPTER 2 UNBREAKABLE BOND 15. CHAPTER 3 THE OLD