Christ's College, Cambridge

Christ's College is one of the colleges of the University of Cambridge. It is widely reputed for its highly academic bent - in recent years, it has consistently dominated the (unofficial) Tompkin league table of colleges. Many cite showers in the library and early bar closing times as examples of an absence of social life at this college. This is largely myth. The showers were accommodated in what was formerly known as the Bath Court because they could not be accommodated in the beautiful older buildings of the college. With pressure on space, the library was moved in the late C20 from its location in First Court to the upper floor of a redeveloped Bath Court. The bar opening times have recently (2003) been brought into line with those of other colleges.

Famous alumni

• Sacha Baron Cohen - British comedian
• Richard Clerke
• Charles Darwin - British naturalist
• Colin Dexter - British author
• Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham - British Foreign Secretary
• Dr.Michael Lynch - Software entrepreneur, founder of Autonomy Systems
• David Mellor - British politician
• John Milton - English poet
• Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool - British Prime Minister
• Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma - British Admiral of the Fleet and statesman
• Sir John Plumb - British historian
• Forrest Reid, Cambridge apostle, novelist, literary critic
• Simon Schama - British historian, author, and television presenter
• Jan Smuts- South African general and statesman
• C. P. Snow, Baron Snow - British novelist and philosopher
• Richard Whiteley - British television presenter
• Rowan Williams - British theologian, Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury
• Timothy Marschall Jones - British ambassador to Armenia
• Derry Irvine, Baron Irvine of Lairg - Lord Chancellor
• Sir Anthony Caro - Sculptor
• Sir Andrew Turnbull - Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service