University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge was located in the English city of the same name. Liz Shaw was a graduate. (TV: Spearhead from Space)
Isaac Newton was admitted to Trinity College in June 1661 as a sizar. In 1665, he discovered the generalised binomial theorem and began to develop a mathematical theory that later became infinitesimal calculus, and obtained his degree. In 1667, he returned to Cambridge as a fellow of Trinity, but avoided being ordained an Anglican priest, postponing the matter indefinitely. Newton was appointed Lucasian Professor of Mathematics in 1669. The terms of the Lucasian professorship required that the holder not be active in the church. Newton argued that this should exempt him from the ordination requirement, and Charles II accepted this argument.
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; TV: Shada) His apartments, Room 314 in St. Cedd's, were really his TARDIS. (TV: 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.
The Doctor took an honourary 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. (TV: Shada, WC: Shada, AUDIO: Shada)
Chemistry student Chris Parsons studied at St Cedd's College in the later 1970s. ((TV: Shada), WC: Shada, AUDIO: Shada)
The Fourth Doctor and Romana were punting on the canal in October 1979; (TV: 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 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 would go on to be the first woman to land on Mars. (TV: The Waters of Mars)
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. (TV: 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
Known students
- Adelaide Brooke
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Ruth Ingram
- Isaac Newton
- Brendan Richards
- Liz Shaw
- Anne Travers
- Allison Williams
- John Winters
- The Doctor
