Peterhouse, Cambridge

Peterhouse is the oldest college in the University of Cambridge. It was founded in 1284 by Hugo de Balsham, Bishop of Ely. Peterhouse has 270 undergraduates, 125 graduate students and 45 fellows, making it the smallest College in Cambridge.

Famous Fellows of Peterhouse

• Kingsley Amis (novelist)
• Charles Babbage (his analytical engine anticipated the modern computer)
• Herbert Butterfield (historian)
• Henry Cavendish (scientist)
• Christopher Cockerell (inventor of the hovercraft)
• Maurice Cowling (historian)
• Richard Crashaw (poet)
• James Dewar (scientist)
• Niall Ferguson (historian)
• Thomas Gray (poet)
• Lord Kelvin (scientist)
• Aaron Klug OM PRS (Nobel Prize Winner, Peterhouse Fellow)
• Archer Martin (Nobel Prize for developing partition chromatography)
• Andrew Perne
• Max Perutz (Nobel Prize for determining the structure of haemoproteins)
• Roger Scruton (philosopher)
• John Whitgift (archbishop)