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Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Full name	Emmanuel College
Motto	-
Named after	Jesus Christ (Immanuel)
Previous names	-
Established	1584
Sister College(s)	Exeter College
Master	The Lord Wilson of Dinton
Location	St Andrew's Street
Undergraduates	500
Postgraduates	100
Homepage	Boatclub

Emmanuel College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, founded in 1584 by Sir Walter Mildmay on the site of a Dominican friary. Mildmay, a Puritan, originally intended Emmanuel to be a college of training for Protestant preachers to rival the successful Catholic theological schools that had trained Dominican friars for years. Emmanuel still has a few theological students, but has broadened itself to include students of a wide variety of subjects, and opened its doors to women in 1979.

Emmanuel graduates had a large involvement in the settling of North America. Of the first 100 university graduates in New England, one-third were graduates of Emmanuel College. Harvard University, the first college in North America, was named after John Harvard (B.A., 1632), who was an Emmanuel graduate.

Other alumni of Emmanuel include:

Choudhary Rahmat Ali Graham Chapman Alan J. Charig Joe Craig Francis Sacheverel Darwin Sebastian Faulks James Fox Michael Frayn Graeme Garden Edward George Joseph Hall John Harvard Richard Holmes (military historian) Fred Hoyle Jonathan James-Moore Griff Rhys Jones

Tom King, Baron King of Bridgwater F.R. Leavis Rory McGrath Richard W. Murphy Cecil Parkinson C. Northcote Parkinson Alan Rouse Stephen Sackur Herchel Smith Dan Stevens Stephen Timms Justine Waddell John Wallis Hugh Walpole Thomas Watson Tim Yeo Benjamin Yeoh

Emma, as it is known throughout the University, attracts large numbers of undergraduate applications owing to its reputation as a 'friendly college' (although several other colleges also claim this). Emmanuel topped the Tompkins Table in 2003, 2004 and 2006, which ranks colleges according to end-of-year examination results, and has been among the top five at least the last seven years (2000-2006).

Emmanuel is one of the wealthier colleges at Cambridge with an estimated financial endowment of £162m (2005).

Contents 1 Notable Features 2 Civil Partnerships 3 Students' Union 4 See also 5 External links

Emmanuel's chapel was designed by Christopher Wren. There is a large fish pond in the grounds, home of a colony of ducks. Until the late 1990s, these were largely Mallards, but a former Master donated a variety of more exotic duck species, including the Carolina, the Mandarin, the Pintail, the Tufted, and the Wigeon. There is a fine example of an Oriental plane tree in the Fellows' Garden, which is reputed to have lived far longer than is typical of the species. The Fellows' Garden also contains a swimming pool which is one of the oldest bathing pools in Europe.

In February 2006, Rev. Jeremy Caddick, the Dean of Emmanuel College, announced that Emmanuel's chapel would be open to the blessing of same-sex civil partnerships — becoming the first in the Church of England to do so. Emmanuel's chapel is not under the formal jurisdiction of the local Church of England bishop, and did not have to obey a House of Bishops ruling against such blessings. Only members and alumni of the college may be blessed in this way. The decision was supported both by the College council and the students' union.

The Emmanuel College Students' Union (ECSU) provides a bar, a common room, and funding for sports and other societies, as well as acting as a formal channel of communication between the students and the College authorities. ECSU's Executive Committee is elected on a yearly basis at the end of Michaelmas Term.

• Category:Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
• Category:Fellows of Emmanuel College, Cambridge

• Emmanuel College website
• Emmanuel College Students' Union
• Events Happening at Emmanuel College
• Emmanuel College Middle Combination Room (MCR)