Queens' College, Cambridge

Queens' College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Queens' is one of the 16 "old colleges" of the university, and was founded in 1448 by Margaret of Anjou. Its buildings span the River Cam with the Mathematical Bridge and Silver Street connecting the two sides. College alumni include Desiderius Erasmus, who studied at the college during his trips to England between 1506 and 1515. Other notable alumni include author T. H. White; Israeli politician Abba Eban; founding father of Ghana William Ofori Atta; news presenter and journalist Emily Maitlis; actor and writer Stephen Fry; author and long-term BBC Rome and Vatican correspondent David Willey the Governor of the Bank of England Andrew Bailey; the British members of Parliament Stephen Kinnock, Liz Kendall and Suella Braverman; and Fields Medallist James Maynard. The college's first Nobel Prize winner is Sir Demis Hassabis who received this award in 2024 for developing artificial intelligence models. It is a registered charity and as of June 2024, the college held non-current assets valued at £197 million. The current president of the college is British diplomat Dame Menna Rawlings, previously the British Ambassador to France. Past presidents include a number of notable figures, including the Catholic martyr John Fisher.

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