Selwyn College, Cambridge

Selwyn College is one of the colleges of the University of Cambridge. It was founded in memory of the Rt Revd George Augustus Selwyn (1809–1878), the first Bishop of New Zealand (1841–1868) and, at the end of his life, Bishop of Lichfield (1868–1878). The Selwyn College coat of arms incorporates the arms of the Selwyn family impaled with those of the Diocese of Lichfield.

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Colleges - University of Cambridge - George Augustus Selwyn - 1809 - 1878 - Bishop of New Zealand - 1841 - 1868 - Bishop of Lichfield - Coat of arms

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With an explicitly Christian foundation, Selwyn remains relatively poor in cash terms, with the smallest financial endowment of any college at Cambridge at £1m (2003).

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Christian - Financial endowment - £ - 2003

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