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3 Jul 2024: Welcome deskTours with Student Ambassadorsbegin outside N Staircase. ACCOMMODATIONL Staircase K StaircaseH Staircase. 4 & 5 July 2024COLLEGE SPACES &FACILITIESChapelThe Heong Gallery (from12pm)Maitland Robinson Library(from 10.30am)Rose Garden

5 Nov 2021: Maitland Robinson Library, Downing College Ground Floor. 3………Economics. 5………Engineering. 7………Mathematics and Physics. 8………Sciences. 9………Linguistics. 13…….Theology. 14…….Philosophy. OPAC (Online Public Access

12 Mar 2018: Sources: ‘The Griffin’, Downing College magazine, 1908-11, 1918. http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Cambridgeshire/SohamGrammarSchool.html http://www.saintolaves.net/uploads/admin/download/file/113/St_Olaves_fallen.pdf.

5 Sep 2018: First World War Roll of Honour: Henry William Huckle (1886 – 1918). Henry William Huckle was born in 1886, the second son of Henry and Emma Huckle of Hitchin. He was educated at Hitchin Grammar School before matriculating at Downing College in 1907

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

19 Oct 2020: RULES OF THE DOWNING COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION. Approved at the Annual General Meeting on 26 September 2020. 1 The Association shall be composed of past and present members of Downing College, Cambridge, and shall be called “The Downing College

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

28 Jan 2020: CAN AGE-RELATED CHANGES IN METABOLISM TRIGGER ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE? Thursday 21 November, 2019,6pm–8.30pm, London. Join outgoing Everitt-Butterfield FellowDr Priyanka Joshi for a talk about her research and findings in the field of Alzheimer’s

24 Mar 2017: WWI Roll of Honour: John George Will 1892 – 1917. The cheery alertness which was so characteristic of him in the football field was part of his very nature… So much alive was he that it is difficult for us to believe he is now for. ever still

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

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,

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

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

13 Nov 2023: Downing College Student. Accommodation Handbook 2023–2024. 2. Table of Contents. Table of Contents. 2. 1. Welcome to Downing College. 5. 2 College Accommodation. 6. 2.1 Your Accommodation. 7. 2.2 Furniture, Fittings and Decorations. 8. 2.3

4 Sep 2017: Harassment and Sexual Misconduct Policy. The following guidance and procedures have been designed to work alongside the University procedure for handling cases of harassment and sexual misconduct:

23 Feb 2021: Film of Downing and Cambridge life, 1928-30, by Air Commodore Iliffe Cozens (1904-1995) A fascinating 30 minute cine film showing student life in Downing and Cambridge between 1928 and 1930, kindly donated to the College in the 1990s by the family

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

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

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

17 Jan 2022: 40 YEARS OF WOMEN AT DOWNING COLLEGE. A VIRTUAL ARCHIVE EXHIBITIONDowning College admitted its first twenty-four female students in October 1980, two years after the first female Fellow had been elected. This online exhibition. brings together

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

8 Jun 2022: 1. DOWNING 360 CAMPAIGN. 1. DOWNING 360 CAMPAIGN. Downing 360 Campaign. 2. DOWNING 360 CAMPAIGN. 3. DOWNING 360 CAMPAIGN. DOWNING HAS LONG been a place where a rich sense of community is fostered by our shared values of academic rigour, intellectual

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

9 Jan 2017: WWI Roll of Honour – Robert Astley Franklin Eminson (1891 – 1916). Robert was born in August 1891, the son of Dr Thomas and Mrs Clara Eminson of Gonerby House, Scotter, Gainsborough. He was educated at Epsom before coming up to Downing in 1909.

21 Sep 2018: DO. WN. ING. CO. LL. EG. E20. 18. April ShowersPhotograph by Aayush Sonthalia Highly Commended Downing Alumni Photographic Competition. Front cover: Morning Shadows Photograph by Serenydd EverdenXxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxx xxxx xxxxx

28 May 2020: DO. WN. ING. CO. LL. EG. E20. 19. The Pillars of DowningNathan Parker Commended Downing Alumni Photographic Competition. Front cover: Downing in Spring Photograph by Neville Tait. DOWNING C O L L E G E 20. 19. A LU M N I A S S O C I AT I O N N E WS

25 Nov 2016: Sir Busick Harwood, First Professor of Medicine, and the College vault. In November 2014, Downing College commemorated its first Professor of Medicine, Sir Busick Harwood, who died 200 years earlier. He was named in the College’s founding charter

25 Nov 2016: From the Archives: Downing and the outbreak of war. The outbreak of war, 1914. On July 28th 1914, Austria declared war on Serbia following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serbian nationalist. As Russia mobilised, Germany declared

7 Jul 2009: The CharterThe Charter____________________. GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith and so forth. To all to whom these. Presents shall come, Greeting:. WHEREAS Sir George Downing, late