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2 days ago · The weapons were taken by the crew of HMB Endeavour on 28 April 1770 and four of the spears were donated to the University of Cambridge's Trinity College the following year. The university decided ...
Apr 17, 2024 · Institutions. Trinity College, Cambridge, Peterhouse, Cambridge. Signature. Charles Babbage KH FRS ( / ˈbæbɪdʒ /; 26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was an English polymath. [1] A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage originated the concept of a digital programmable computer.
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Apr 19, 2024 · 1823 letter discovered in Trinity’s Wren Library describes Byron's lost memoirs - Trinity College Cambridge. Elizabeth Palgrave’s 1823 letter describes the hand-written memoirs of Lord Byron seven years after his tumultuous marriage to Anne Isabella Milbanke had ended amid rumours of incest and homosexuality, which galvanised his departure ...
3 days ago · Photo: Jenny Magee. Trinity College and the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA) agreed in March 2023 to return the spears to representatives of the La Perouse Aboriginal Community, including direct descendants of the Gweagal people who crafted the spears more than 250 years ago. The four spears were taken by James Cook and Joseph Banks ...
1 day ago · Trinity Street in 2008 with Trinity College on the left and St John's College in the background St Bene't's Church, the oldest standing building in Cambridgeshire, next to Corpus Christi College Peterhouse was the first college to be founded at the University of Cambridge.
2 days ago · Byron was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, before he travelled extensively across Europe to such places as Italy, where he lived for seven years in Venice, Ravenna, and Pisa after he was forced to flee England due to threats of lynching.
Apr 17, 2024 · By Adrian Peel. - adrian.peel@iliffemedia.co.uk. Published: 12:00, 17 April 2024. Trinity College, Cambridge, is marking 200 years since its most famous literary alumnus, Lord Byron, died in Greece, on 19 April, 1824.
