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A note from Lord McNair records that Charles Wright was one of his father's oldest friends in Lloyds, and the father of his own friend, Harold Wright.

Bernard Groom was Professor of English at the University of Montevideo, Uruguay. He was also Director of Higher Studies at the Anglo-Uruguayan Cultural Institute in Montevideo.

Bedford College for Women, University of London.

On Sunday, May 7th 1905, a party of Caius College first year students made an expedition on a steam launch from Cambridge to Ely. On their return that evening they dined at Buol's restaurant on Kings Parade. These six men and eight others who made the trip to Ely were to become the original members of the Bargees Club. The Club met up for an annual dinner on the evening of the Oxford vs. Cambridge Rugby Match every December. This took place from 1905 - 1948 until the meeting was changed to the summer due to the age of the members.

The Fortnightly Society was founded in Gonville and Caius College in approximately 1883. Its committee comprised a President, Vice President, Secretary and two members. The Society met every Saturday and presented papers on various intellectual topics.

The Caius Musical Society was founded on the 20th February 1865. It was managed by a committee consisting of a President, Secretary, Treasurer and four other members of the Society. Its aim was to organise musical concerts for the rest of the College.

The Rifle Club was founded before 1909 and re-formed in the 1920s. Later it became part of the Amalgamated Clubs who partly financed it. The Club consisted of members of the College and appointed Honorary members, while it was managed by a President, Secretary, Treasurer and an additional Committee. The Club's objective was to represent the College in rifle competitions.

The Swallows were founded in 1965, and elected a President, Secretary and Treasurer to organise the Club. It comprised of a group of friends from Caius College who met socially every Thursday evening in the Eagle Tavern. No new members were allowed to join.

In 1923 the Estate Management Branch of the School of Agriculture was established in order to provide teaching for the University examination in estate management, and also to provide professional management services for University and college properties. The Estate Management branch was controlled by the Faculty Board of the School of Agriculture through the Estate Management Committee. Continuing growth in demand for professional services in estate management led to the establishment in 1946 of an independent Department of Estate Management, directly responsible to the General Board through the Board of Estate Management. The Department retained the twin functions of teaching and professional services until they were split in 1962 between the Department of Land Economy and the Estate Management and Advisory Service. In 1973, the department was again renamed as the Estate Management and Building Service.

(For further information relating to the history of the department, see Todd-Jones, 'The University's Estate Management and Building Service: its history and development', Cambridge 25 (1989), pp.76-82)

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The Biographical History is a biographical dictionary of all members of Gonville Hall and Gonville and Caius College, with further appendices relating to buildings, benefactors, estates and the major events of individual masterships.The first four volumes of the Biographical History were compiled by John Venn starting at the end of the nineteenth century, and have been updated regularly, the most recent volume being published in 1998.

The Admissions Office, under the auspices of the Admissions Tutor, is responsible for the production of the College prospectus, the organization of external liaisons with schools and potential applicants, including College Open Days; and for overseeing the annual admissions process for applicants for undergraduate and postgraduate entry to the College, including interviews and entrance examinations.

The separate post of Admissions Tutor was created in 1976, and is filled by a Fellow who has served as a Tutor. Until that date the function of Tutor for Admissions formed part of the work of the Senior Tutor.

Former Senior Bursar, in charge of development projects.

In 1431-4 the rectory of Barnby, in the diocese of Norwich and the county of Suffolk, and in the gift of the Priory of Butley, Suffolk, was consolidated with the vicarage of Mutford; the College and the Priory having alternate presentations. The advowson of Mutford in the diocese of Norwich and the county of Suffolk had been purchased under agreement by William Bateman for Gonville Hall in 1354, and appropriated by the College. Rectorial revenues came to the College following its first presentation in 1361. In 1454 the advowson and the 3 roods of patronage land was given to the College in exchange for use of 1 College room for Butley. The College's right to present was challenged by the priory (see the lawsuit of 1470, as reported in The Caian, 1895, p.14), and as a result, between 1471 and 1583, there were separate presentations to Mutford and Barnby. In 1542 the right of alternate presentation to the advowson was claimed by the Crown, which had confiscated the lands of the priory.

By the sixteenth century, ownership of land at Barnby had become an annual rent-charge, which was last paid in 1628, and any claim to land was lost at enclosure. The rectorial glebe of Mutford was lost by 1624. In 1799, the land-tax payable by the rector of Barnby was redeemed by the College to improve the living. In 1800 under the enclosure award for the two parishes the rector was allotted 3 ares in lieu of common. In 1859 an exchange of land took place. In 1880 the College took all tithes for Mutford in return for repair of the chancel and free use of the parsonage house for whoever was resident curate, plus £100 per annum. In 1922 North Cove was added to Barnby. Between 1923 and 1954 the tithe rent charges for Mutford were to be redeemed by annuity. Between 1924 and 1959 the College still presented jointly to Mutford cum Barnby. In 1969 other parishes were added to Mutford cum Barnby to form a group ministry based in Rushmere. In 1983, following the removal of Mutford from the group ministry, all interest in Barnby was lost to the College.

In 1789 the living of Wheatacre in the diocese of Norwich and the county of Suffolk was consolidated with that of Mutford cum Barnby. The advowson of the Rectory of All Saints had been conveyed to the College in 1736 except for the next presentation reserved for the son of the donor. Following the consolidation a new parsonage house was built at Wheatacre for the resident curate there. In 1856 the living was separated from Mutford and held separately with a resident incumbent to 1922. In 1922 Wheatacre was united with Aldeby vicarage and the old parsonage house was sold (see Biographical History Volumes VI, p.559; VII, p.545). In 1960 Burgh St Peter was added to Wheatacre and Aldeby; and in 1966 Wheatacre became part of the Raveningham group of parishes.

(Further information regarding the Mutford, Barnby and Wheatacre estates is given in the Estates Chronicle, pp.5-6, 66-8, 97; and lists of presentations to the livings are given in the Biographical History Vols. V, p.26, 29-31; VI, pp.558-9; VII, p.545)

The advowson was purchased together with that of Wilton from the Prioy of Lewes in 1354 and appropriated 1362-5. In 1479R. Powle gave a gift of 12 acres and a new vicarage house. In 1557, a further gift of house, lands and the lease of Nunne's barn was received from L. Mapted; the barn was later purchased in 1663 and was pulled down in 1843.

Lady Anne Scroop devised this Manor to the College in 1498. In 1501-2 the Mayor, Bailiffs and Burgesses of Cambridge gave their licence to her trustees to assign the Manor to the College. The demesne of the Manor was therein said to consist of: the Newnham Mill, with one close adjoining; one close, called Newnham Close; and 99 acres in the town and fields of Cambridge.

From Christopher Brooke 'A History of Gonville and Caius College':

'From 1478 to 1500 came a series of modest additions to the endowments.. The Executors of the Lady Anne Scroop handed over a property in the manor of Mortimers mainly in the west and east fields of Cambridge to support "one well disposed priest or.. one good young man disposed to learn, born in the diocese of Norwich" to be nominated by the executors while they lived and elected by the College, "which young man shall within the space of one year be priest and be called Dame Anne's priest". Anne Scroop was the last surviving descendant of Edmund Gonville's brother, and she showed an interest in both Rushford and Gonville Hall. She was married three times, but had no children: her considerable wealth passed mainly to a nephew, but she managed to distribute gifts in her lifetime and after her death to a number of institutions and to almost everyone of note in Norfolk. In 1490 she had made elaborate provision for enlarging Rushford to provide additional fellows and a school there, as well as a chantry for her first and second husbands and herself. Her provision for Gonville Hall was more modest and more laconically expressed. But it meant much to a small college, for it included pasture land in Newnham and arable in Newnham and Barnwell; and in due course this became some of the college's most valuable land. Mortimer Road commemorates her manor and Scroope Terrace her name - and a stretch of Cambridge was developed in the 19th century scoring the map with College names, Gonville, Harvey, 'Lyndewode' among them. The pasture closes in Newnham run from West Road to the south end of the Backs, and supply the lung for a college whose island site in central Cambridge has always been circumscribed; on Dame Anne's pastures now lie a line of gardens and buildings from Harvey Court to the Fellows' garden.'

The manor of Runcton (Runcton-Holme), Norfolk, was purchased by Dr Caius from the Crown for the sum of £440. It had previously belonged to the Abbey of St. Edmund's Bury. The manor was given by Dr Caius, together with the manors of Burnham Thorpe and Croxley, to his new foundation in 1557.

Bursar.

The Computer Office was established to support the provision of computer support for fellows and staff of the College, meet student computing needs pertaining to pursuit of a university course, and administer and maintain both a College wide network and the College internet presence. Computers appear to have been introduced into College tutorial administration in 1981. A computing management committee was established in the College in 1985, to meet the computing needs of fellows with regard to teaching, research and administration. Computers for student use appear to have been introduced in the early 1990s. The College developed its first website, the 'Virtual Caian' in 1995; and in 1997 established a student web server.

Staffing to support computing provision has been of two types, that of consultants brought in to set up particular systems; and also, directly employed computer officers. The Computer Officer and his staff report to the Senior Tutor, and more generally to the College Computer Committee.(Further information regarding the history of the development of the College web-site is available in M. Baddeley and M. Clewlow, 'The Changing Face of the College Web-Site', The Caian 2001)