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St John's College, formally the College of St John the Evangelist in the University of Cambridge, is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, founded by the Tudor matriarch Lady Margaret Beaufort. In constitutional terms, the college is a charitable corporation established by a charter dated 9 April 1511. The aims of the college, as specified by its statutes, are the promotion of education, religion, learning and research. It is one of the largest Oxbridge colleges in terms of student numbers. For 2022, St John's was ranked 6th of 29 colleges in the Tompkins Table (the annual league table of Cambridge colleges) with over 35 per cent of its students earning first-class honours. It is the second wealthiest college in Oxford and Cambridge, after its neighbour Trinity College, Cambridge. Members of the college include the winners of twelve Nobel Prizes, seven prime ministers, twelve archbishops of various countries, at least two princes and three saints. The Romantic poet William Wordsworth studied at St John's, as did William Wilberforce and Thomas Clarkson, two abolitionists who led the movement that brought slavery to an end in the British Empire. Prince William was affiliated with the college while undertaking a university-run course in estate management in 2014. St John's is well known for its choir, its members' success in a variety of inter-collegiate sporting competitions and its annual May Ball. The Cambridge Apostles and the Cambridge University Moral Sciences Club were founded by members of the college. The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race tradition began with a St John's student and the college boat club, Lady Margaret Boat Club, is the oldest in the university. In 2011, the college celebrated its quincentenary, an event marked by a visit of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Source: Wikipedia (en)
Authors educated at St John's College 2282
Steve Furber
Roger Michael Needham
Vera Lengsfeld
John Ambrose Fleming
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Michael Mustill, Baron Mustill
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David Crighton
Charles Algernon Parsons
Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke of Northumberland
Frederick Sanger
Edward Victor Appleton
Joseph Wolstenholme
Barry Cunliffe
Donald Runnicles
Jin Yong
Maurice Wilkins
Nevill Francis Mott
William Gilbert
Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
William Sterndale Bennett
John Dee
William Wilberforce
Brook Taylor
Allan McLeod Cormack
Erasmus Darwin
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Howard Hayes Scullard
Derek Jacobi
Jennifer Egan
Sarah Teather
Harriet Hunt
John Stuart, Lord Mount Stuart
David Rowe-Beddoe, Baron Rowe-Beddoe
William Bateson
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