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Luigi Renato Cavalli matriculated at Caius in 1949 when he became Assistant in research in Genetics. He was Professor of Genetics at the University of Palma, and was later known as L.L. Cavalli-Sforza

Peter Thomas Bauer, economist: born in Budapest 1915; admitted as student at Caius College 1934; Leon Research Fellow in Economics, London University 1943-5; Reader in Agricultural Economics 1947-8; Professor of Economics 1960-3; Fellow at Caius 1946-60, 1968-2002; University Lecturer in Economics, Cambridge University 1948-56; 1982 created Lord Bauer; died London 3 May 2002.

Former Senior Bursar, in charge of development projects.

The Registrum Magnum provides the following notes on 'Lady Anne Scroope, her pedegree from Edmund Gonvile, our Founder', with description of the deed:

'Now this Lady Anne Scroope was later wife to the Lord Scroope of Bolton and before that the wife of Sir Robert Wingfield and first the wife of Sir William Chamberlaine. She was also Daughter and heire as well of Sir Robert Harling as of Dame Jane, his wife; which Jane was daughter and heire of John Gonvile Esq., sonne and heir of Sir Nicholas Gonvile, knight, brother and heir of Sir Edmund Gonvile, sometime parson of Rushworth, first Founder and Patron of the Colledge of the said Rushworth in the reigne of Edward the third.'

The Manor of Bincombe was purchased in 1570, together with the manor of Oborne and the advowson of Bincombe, in reversion on the death of Lady Margaret Allington, who died in 1592. Much of the property and the lordship of the manor are still in College hands.

Nos. 16, 17, 18, 18a, 19 and 19a Market Hill were sold to Caius College by Corpus Christi College in 1914.

Colleges are religious institutions in origin, one of the main purposes of which was religious worship. From the Reformation until the mid-nineteenth century both the College and University were Anglican monopolies, protected by religious tests for all fellowships and offices; and a requirement of daily common prayers was laid down in the statutes. Compulsory attendance of Chapel, which finally died out during the First World War, was upheld not only on religious grounds, but as an important part of the general disciplinary structure of the College alongside attendance of dinner in Hall and observance of a curfew. Enforcement of the rule was primarily the responsibility of the College deans, of which there were usually two, a Senior Dean and a Junior Dean.

The office of Dean, dating from the sixteenth century statutes, had traditionally been both a religious and a disciplinary role; carrying not only responsibility for performance of all Divine Services in the College but also charge of the religious and moral discipline of the students. Until the mid/late nineteenth century, the office of Dean traditionally passed among the clerical Fellows by rotation; however, with the decreasing number of clerical Fellows available and willing to serve, only one Dean was appointed and the post was taken on by career clergyman. The disciplinary role of the Dean declined, and the pastoral and religious care of undergraduates became of greater importance. This was underlined by the appointment, from 1896 onwards, of a Chaplain, whose role was not only to assist the Dean, but, as a younger man, to be in closer contact with the students. With the growth of formal theological study, the Dean was commonly expected to teach and direct studies.

(See Volume III of the Biographical History for further information regarding the history of the fabric of the Chapel).

Admitted Gonville and Caius College Cambridge, 1983. Webmaster, Gonville and Caius College.

From the time of the sixteenth century statutes, the Fellow in charge of the domestic management of the College, particularly the provision of food, was the Steward. By 1882, the office was described as follows: ' manage the domestic affairs of the College and receive and pay all sums of money which become due in the transactions incident to such management'. As such the Steward was responsible for a range of duties and staff, from the provision of food by the Cook, Butler and Buttery man in the Hall and Buttery, to the cleaning of the Combination Room, the porters at the gates, the wine and coal cellars, the cleaning of College rooms by the bedmakers and relationships with College tradesmen. In 1885, the Steward also became directly responsible for the internal management of the kitchens, previously the domain of the Cook, an independent contractor to the College. The accounting role of the Steward was increasingly absorbed by the Bursary and in 1951, the College employed a Steward who was not a fellow. In 1962 the management of domestic affairs was taken over by the appointment of a fellow as Domestic Bursar, and between 1967 and 1984, a Junior Bursar administered the upkeep of the College fabric. The remit of the Domestic Bursar has increased to include both security and personnel issues and policy as well as the management of domestic services and buildings. Day to day running of these matters is devolved to a range of heads of department who report to the Domestic Bursar: the Head Porter, the Butler, the Housekeeper, the Clerk of Works, the Kitchen/Conference manager and the Executive Head Chef.

(A list of the holders of the offices of Steward, Junior Bursar and Domestic Bursar was compiled by Catherine Hall, and published in The Caian, 1990).

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Gonville Hall had acquired a lending collection of common books for the fellowship by the early 15th century; by the 1430s these had a dedicated home in a library which remained on the same site (the east side of Gonville Court) until the 1850s when it was moved to the north east corner of the College. A reading room was added in 1909, and the Library gradually expanded into the upper floors of Gonville Court until its removal to the former University Library, the Cockerell Building, in 1996.

The College's library collection of manuscripts and of printed books, was largely built up out of the gifts of succeeding generations of scholars. To a quite exceptional degree, the College has preserved its medieval library. The Library was also regarded as a place of safe-keeping for objects of value to the College, such as artefacts like the astrolabes, and historical records, like Dr Caius' statutes. From 1839 onwards, a Library fund, levied from the fees of students to provide for the purchase of new books was revived. The purchase of new books, and the provision of a reading room in the early twentieth century reflected the development of a new role for the Library, in providing a service to the junior as well as the senior members of the College. A division emerged between the 'Working Library', a borrowing collection for use by all member of the College; and the 'Old Library' housing the manuscripts and early printed books.

The first mention in College records of the appointment of a Librarian from among the fellowship is in 1629. During the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the running of the Library has continued to be the responsibility of a fellow Librarian, with increasing support from professionally qualified staff led by a Sub-Librarian.

(For further information regarding the history of the Library and its collections, see the Library Booklet published annually by the Library, Caius and Cockerell: the transformation of a library (1997), J. Venn, Biographical History, Volume III, p.188 and C.N.L. Brooke, History of Gonville and Caius College, pp.33-7).

(1915-2000) Electro-chemist. Admitted Gonville and Caius College Cambridge, 1933. BA, 1936; MA, 1945; PhD, 1948. Barker worked on the development of electronic detection systems, working during the war on the radar programme at Swanage and at the Telecommunications Research establishment at Great Malvern; and afterwards at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell.

(For further biographical information see Barker's obituary in The Times)

Member of Chancels Committee.

Lord McNair was Vice-Chancellor of Liverpool University from 1938 to 1945. On his appointment Lord McNair said: 'I do not want to be regarded as a professional administrator. I would rather be looked upon as a teacher and student who has temporarily left those paths in order to try to smooth the way for fellow-teachers and fellow-students. I sincerely hope I shall never forget that administration is a secondary function. It is merely a means to an end - merely the handmaiden of teaching, learning and investigation; and I am open to every suggestion whereby my terms of administration can be made so effective as to serve that end.' (Source, Liverpool Daily Post Oct 9, 1937).

Alec Ramsay matriculated at Caius College in the same year as Lord McNair (1906). He was killed in action in France in April 1915.