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The '''University of Cambridge''' was located in the [[English]] city of [[Cambridge|the same name]]. [[Liz Shaw]] was a graduate from this university. ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space (TV story)|Spearhead from Space]]'') | |||
The [[Time Lord]] criminal [[Salyavin]], one of [[the Doctor]]'s boyhood heroes, was a fellow of [[St Cedd's College]] from ''c''. late 17th century, holding the chair of Regius Professor of Chronology under the name Professor Urban Chronotis. ([[WC]]: ''[[Shada (webcast)|Shada]]''; [[HOMEVID]]: ''[[Shada (TV story)|Shada]]'') His apartments, Room 314 in St Cedd's, were really [[Chronotis' TARDIS|his TARDIS]]. ([[HOMEVID]]: ''[[Shada (TV story)|Shada]]'') | == History == | ||
The [[Time Lord]] criminal [[Salyavin]], one of [[the Doctor]]'s boyhood heroes, was a fellow of [[St Cedd's College]] from ''c''. late [[17th century]], holding the chair of Regius Professor of Chronology under the name Professor Urban Chronotis. ([[WC]]: ''[[Shada (webcast)|Shada]]''; [[HOMEVID]]: ''[[Shada (TV story)|Shada]]'') His apartments, Room 314 in St Cedd's, were really [[Chronotis' TARDIS|his TARDIS]]. ([[HOMEVID]]: ''[[Shada (TV story)|Shada]]'') | |||
[[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]] attended Jesus College from [[1791]] until [[1794]]. In [[1792]], he won the Browne Gold Medal for an ode that he wrote on the slave trade.{{Fact}} | [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]] attended Jesus College from [[1791]] until [[1794]]. In [[1792]], he won the Browne Gold Medal for an ode that he wrote on the slave trade.{{Fact}} | ||
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Revision as of 13:47, 8 January 2019
This article contains far too many bulleted lists. These sections should be converted into normal prose.
The University of Cambridge was located in the English city of the same name. Liz Shaw was a graduate from this university. (TV: Spearhead from Space)
History
The Time Lord criminal Salyavin, one of the Doctor's boyhood heroes, was a fellow of St Cedd's College from c. late 17th century, holding the chair of Regius Professor of Chronology under the name Professor Urban Chronotis. (WC: Shada; HOMEVID: Shada) His apartments, Room 314 in St Cedd's, were really his TARDIS. (HOMEVID: Shada)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge attended Jesus College from 1791 until 1794. In 1792, he won the Browne Gold Medal for an ode that he wrote on the slave trade.[source needed]
The Doctor took an honorary doctoral degree at St Cedd's College in 1960 and was known to college porter Wilkin. Accounts differ as to whether it was in his fourth or eighth incarnation. (HOMEVID: Shada, WC: Shada, AUDIO: Shada)
Chemistry student Chris Parsons studied at St Cedd's College in the later 1970s. (HOMEVID: Shada, WC: Shada, AUDIO: Shada)
The Fourth Doctor and Romana II were punting on the canal in October 1979, (HOMEVID: Shada) whereupon they were abducted by use of the Time Scoop. (TV: The Five Doctors)
In the late 1980s and the early 1990s, Brendan Richards studied at Cambridge. (PROSE: Housewarming)
Dr John Winters took a degree at St Cedd's. (GAME: Torchwood Mission Game)
The Eighth Doctor and Romana II visited St Cedd's College to visit (once again) Professor Chronotis. (WC: Shada, AUDIO: Shada)
Harold Saxon's file stated that he had gone to Cambridge. It was fake. (TV: The Sound of Drums)
At some point after their adventures with the First Doctor, Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright became professors at Cambridge. They were still professors in 2010, and rumoured not to have aged since the 1960s. (TV: Death of the Doctor)
During the late 2010s, Adelaide Brooke went to Cambridge where she took her first honours in Physics and Mathematics. She went on to be the first woman to land on Mars. (TV: The Waters of Mars)
Julia Dornay was an expert in cybernetics at University of Cambridge. (AUDIO: Situation Vacant)
Known faculty
- Professor Ian Chesterton (TV: Death of the Doctor)
- Professor Barbara Chesterton (TV: Death of the Doctor)
- Professor Urban Chronotis, Saint Cedd's College. (HOMEVID: Shada)
- Professor Rachel Jensen (PROSE: The Scales of Injustice)
- Professor Gordon Jones, Churchill College (TV: The Invasion)
- Professor Lennox (TV: The Ambassadors of Death)
- Professor Meechley (PROSE: The Dark Planet)
- Professor Sir Isaac Newton (AUDIO: Entanglement)
Known students
- Adelaide Brooke
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Ruth Ingram
- Isaac Newton
- Brendan Richards
- Liz Shaw
- Anne Travers
- Allison Williams, Girton College
- Sylvia Wimpole
- John Winters
- The Doctor
Behind the scenes
Location information
Though it's possible that a real world location doesn't exist in the same geographic space in the Doctor Who universe, such cases are few and far between. Thus, the map to the right is probably a good indicator of the DWU location of University of Cambridge.
