Queens' College, Cambridge

Cambridge College Infobox
name = Queens' College
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full_name = The Queens' College of Saint Margaret and Saint Bernard in the University of Cambridge
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latin_motto = Floreat Domus
english_motto = May this house flourish
founder = Margaret of Anjou (1448)
Elizabeth Woodville (1465)
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named_for = Saint Margaret the Virgin
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
established = 1448
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location = [http://www.cam.ac.uk/map/v3/drawmap.cgi?mp=main;xx=1649;yy=1052;mt=c;ms=100;tl=Queens%27%20College Silver Street]
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head_label = President
head = The Lord Eatwell
undergraduates = 490
JCR_President =
graduates = 270
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sister_college = Pembroke College, Oxford
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homepage = http://www.quns.cam.ac.uk/
boat_club = http://www.srcf.ucam.org/qcbc/ in the University of Cambridge."'

Queens' is the second southernmost of the colleges on the banks of the Cam, primarily on the East bank. (The others - in distance order - are King's, Clare, Trinity Hall, Trinity, St John's, and Magdalene to the north and Darwin to the south.)

The "President's Lodge" of Queens' is the oldest building on the river at Cambridge (ca. 1460). Queens' College is also one of only two colleges with buildings on its main site on both sides of the Cam (the other being St John's).

The Mathematical Bridge

The Mathematical Bridge connects the older half of the college (affectionately referred to by students as "The Dark Side") with the newer half ("The Light Side"). It is one of the most photographed scenes in Cambridge; the typical photo being taken from the nearby Silver Street bridge. Popular fable is that the bridge was designed and built by Sir Isaac Newton without the use of nuts or bolts, and at some point in the past students or fellows attempted to take the bridge apart and put it back together. The myth continues that the over-ambitious engineers were unable to match Newton's feat of engineering, and had to resort to fastening the bridge by nuts and bolts. This is why nuts and bolts can be seen in the bridge today. This story is false: the bridge was built in 1749 by James Essex the Younger (1722–1784) to the design of William Etheridge (1709–1776), 22 years after Newton died. It was later rebuilt in 1866 and 1905, albeit to the same design.It was never disassembled, as the weight of the students on the bridge would cause it to collapse.

Notable alumni

"See also "

See also

* The Queen's College, Oxford

External links

* [http://www.quns.cam.ac.uk Queens' College website]
* [http://jcrwww.quns.cam.ac.uk/ Queens' College Student Union]
* [http://www.quns.cam.ac.uk/Queens/Misc/Eminent.html The College's larger list of eminent alumni]