Caius College and Senate House, Cambridge

Gonville and Caius College

History of Gonville & Caius College

A dark carved oak bracket featuring a winged figure in relief mounted on a white wall with a small identification label.

Oak bracket made in 1918 by Samuel Cowle of the Museum of Archaology, Cambridge from a beam of the 1414 roof of the hall of Caius College, from Mr N Tuelon Porter (MoC)

General information about Gonville and Caius College can be found on Wikipedia.

Coloured engraving showing the ornate Gate of Honour at Caius College, surrounded by academic buildings, lawns, and figures.

Gate of Honour Caius College, 1841 (Le Keux)

c.1860 photo of Gonville and Caius college site on Trinity Street corner (MoC5/53/49)(J Palmer Clarke)

A street corner view showing a stone classical building on the left and two adjacent brick buildings with a tall gas lamp.

Old Gonville and Caius college 1860

The college acquired the houses on the corner of Trinity Street in 1782 and partly converted them into rooms for students in 1854. They were demolished 1868-1879 when Tree Court was rebuilt.

Ornate stone buildings in Cambridge, featuring a central tower and arched gateway, overlook a paved square with pedestrians.

Black and white newsprint showing a view of Trinity Street lined with tall buildings, with pedestrians walking on pavement.

Trinity Street (MoC19/53/49) prior to modern Caius building

A view down a cobbled Trinity Street, framed by historic stone buildings with shops on the ground level and distant figures.

Gonville and Caius, Trinity Street, undated

A colourised postcard view of a stone classical building beside a Gothic college with a tall tower and a horse-drawn carriage.

Caius College and Senate House c1904

1891

Ernest Stewart Roberts, college tutor, 43, b Lincs,

Mary, 41, b Oxon

Caroline M S , 3, Oxon,

Walter S, 1, b Oxon,

Margaret S, 5 mos, b Ireland

Mary Ann J Lee, 29, housemaid, b Germany

Maria Weis, 38, nurse, b Berks

Mary Annie Illsley, 17, nurse, b Berks

William Beckley, 47, head porter, b Herts

Alice Beckley, 40, b Herts

Job Bendall, 35, under butler, b Cambridge

Albert Beckley, 16, b Hants

Richard Briggs, 26, under porter, b Histon

Samuel G Humphrey, 37, under porter, b Essex

Mary Ann Humphrey, 37, b Oakington

Samuel T Humphrey, 10, b Cambridge

Mary Ann Humphrey, 7, b Cambridge

Alice Maud Humphrey, 6 mos, b Cambridge

Arthur Tilbrook Humphrey, 2, b Cambridge

Arthur Sheridan Lea, fellow, 37, assistant tutor, b New York

William T Lendrum, fellow, 35, lecturer, b Ireland

Ralph F Darcy, 26, graduate student, b Ireland

A vintage postcard showing the neoclassical Senate House and the ornate, multi-story tower of Caius College with horse-drawn carriages on the street.

Caius College and Senate House c1903

1900

Three men stand beside a horse-drawn delivery van lettered with city names, while a fourth person sits in the driver's seat.

Great Eastern Railway parcels van outside Caius College in Trinity Street c.1900

In the picture are: George Frederick Conquest, driver for 26 years, from left to right, Mr Walpole, chief clerk of booking office, George Long, chief clerk of the goods department, and Mr Banham, chief clerk of the town office.

1901

During the period 1903-5 Harold Delph Gillies was a student at Caius. His work during WWI has led to him being widely considered the father of modern plastic surgery. Harold Gillies Close (CB5 8ZD) is named in his honour.

1904

Black and white postcard of Gonville and Caius College buildings with handwritten annotations at the top and a horse-drawn cart.

Gonville and Caius, c.1904

A vintage postcard back featuring handwritten correspondence, two postage stamps, and a Cambridge postmark dated December 1904.

Gonville and Caius, c.1904

Rather cryptic postcard sent to be forwarded back by the Master of Gonville and Caius:

20/12/04 135 Devonshire Road, Forest Hill, Kent

Dear Sir, May I ask you to kindly return this card to the above and fill in the lines as ever as I want this for my postal collection. thanking you in anticipation. Yours faithfully W Reginald May

A horse-drawn carriage sits on a street between the neoclassical Senate House and the ornate stone building of Caius College.

Gonville and Caius Vollege, Senate House c1917

The ornate stone facade of Gonville and Caius College stands behind iron railings, with horse-drawn carriages on the street.

Gonville and Caius, undated

1911

Edward Davis, 48, naval pensioner, Royal Hut Reserve, College Head Porter, b Middlesex

Ellen Jane, 45, b Middlesex

Newspaper clipping showing a building with exposed timber framework beside a stone church tower with a spire in Cambridge.

Caius College building scheme 1934 (MoC522/55)

Sources

1891 census
1911 census
Museum of Cambridge
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