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Excerpt from Biographical History of Gonville and Caius College, 1349-1897, Vol. 1: Containing a List of All Known Members of the College From the Foundation to the Present Time, With Biographical Notes
The following pages comprise, I believe, the first serious attempt at compiling what may be called a biographical history of one of our ancient educational foundations; in the sense of not only giving a chronological list of all the members, but of affording also some information as to their subsequent career. It need hardly be added that neither of these objects has been entirely secured; and that in the case of the latter, success has fallen considerably short of what was desired.
As regards the completeness of the list of members of the college: from 1559 onwards, thanks to the foresight of Dr Caius, our Entrance List may be considered as nearly perfect; at any rate we have no ground to suppose that more than a few names of the ordinary students or of those graduates who came to reside as fellow-commoners, have been omitted from the register. Those who first entered the college as fellows, it is true, were not included; but they are very few in number, and can generally be ascertained either by the inclusion of their names in the account-books, or by some reference to them as tutors. Practically, therefore, the name of every member of the college, in the modern sense of the term, is certainly known from This leaves an interval of about 220 years from the first foundation, which can only partially be filled up. The University matri culations commence in 1544, and therefore carry us a few years further back; but their information is-defective in two respects. They only assign the college at which a student matriculated, but give no hint of any subsequent migration. Moreover they give the names only, omitting all account of birthplace and parentage. They are also far from complete, as many students, especially those who did not contemplate staying for a degree, altogether omitted to matriculate.
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