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    Sidney Sussex College (referred to informally as "Sidney") is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England. The College was founded...
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    Countess of Sussex (née Sidney; 1531–1589) was a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth I and the founder of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. She...
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    collectors and museums until 25 March 1960, when it was buried at Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge, Cromwell's alma mater. The symbolic value of the head...
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  • The Choir of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge is a Cambridge collegiate choir, under the direction of the musicologist and conductor David Skinner, with...
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  • Kwarteng – Trinity College, Cambridge, 1995 David Lidington – Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, 1978 David Mellor – Christ's College, Cambridge Malcolm...
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    31 colleges, founded between the 13th and 20th centuries. No colleges were founded between 1596 (Sidney Sussex College) and 1800 (Downing College), which...
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  • Abigail Morris (category Alumni of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge)
    Woodhouse School and then Camden School for Girls. She studied at Sidney Sussex College at the Cambridge University where she founded women's theatre company...
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  • M*A*S*H Sidney, British Columbia Sidney, Manitoba Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge Sidney, Arkansas Sidney, Illinois Sidney, Indiana Sidney, Iowa Sidney, Kentucky...
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  • The following have served as Master of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge: 1596 James Montagu 1608 Francis Aldrich 1610 Samuel Ward 1643 Richard Minshull...
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  • William Pattison (poet) (category Alumni of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge)
    mostly remembered for his erotic poems. Pattison was admitted to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge in 1724, but in 1726 left for a literary life in London...
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    was a visiting fellow at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, during Michaelmas (Autumn) Term. He composed a piece for the college choir, and worked with students...
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    Oliver Cromwell (category Alumni of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge)
    Huntingdon Grammar School. He went on to study at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, then a recently founded college with a strong Puritan ethos. He left in June...
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  • John Madden (director) (category Alumni of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge)
    began his career in British independent films, and graduated from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge in 1970 with a B.A. in English Literature. He started...
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    R. G. D. Allen (category Alumni of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge)
    Royal Grammar School Worcester, from which he won a scholarship to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He gained a First Class Honours in Mathematics, ranking...
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    Alex Horne (category Alumni of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge)
    Chichester, West Sussex, England on 10 September 1978. He was educated at independent Lancing College (1991–1996) and at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge,...
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  • Rachel Horne (category Alumni of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge)
    and taught English in Vietnam. After reading Law and Theology at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, she studied for a postgraduate degree in Broadcast Journalism...
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    Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (category Alumni of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge)
    graduated from the college with a BSc. He won a scholarship to attend Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he became interested in physics and chemistry...
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    Nigel Davenport (category Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford)
    Lucy (née Meiklejohn). His father was an engineer, educated at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge before being employed as an engineer for the Midland...
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  • Bentley Purchase (category Alumni of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge)
    goods such as hats. The family had means to enroll young Bentley in Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he pursued the liberal arts. Graduating from Cambridge...
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    in 1977 went to the University of Cambridge to study medicine at Sidney Sussex College. There, she experienced racism and isolation and left after three...
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  • Craven graduated B.A. from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge in 1675, M.A. in 1678 and B.D. in 1685. He was elected a Fellow of Sidney in 1676; Proctor from...
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    Carol Vorderman (category Alumni of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge)
    nearby Rhyl. In 1978, aged 17, she began studying engineering at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. She left with a third-class degree, a result which she...
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  • Ben Lockspeiser (category Alumni of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge)
    Local Examination. Two years later he won an open scholarship to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he gained a first in part one of the natural sciences...
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    Professor of Mathematics at the Royal Holloway College, Egham, Surrey, and a fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, England. He authored a number of...
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  • Norman Crowther Hunt, Baron Crowther-Hunt (category Alumni of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge)
    Exeter College, Oxford in 1982. Hunt was born in Bradford in 1920. He was educated at Belle Vue High School in Bradford, and studied history at Sidney Sussex...
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    Alice Fraser (category Alumni of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge)
    Alice Fraser is an Australian comedian, writer, podcaster, and actor. Fraser studied law at the University of Sydney before going on to earn a master's...
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    Sidney Sussex Boat Club (often referred to as just Sidney or SSBC) is the rowing club for members of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, in England. Founded...
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    chronology; proceedings of the third BICANE colloquium held at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge 26–27 March, 2011, edited by Peter J. James, Peter G...
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  • John Patten, Baron Patten (category Alumni of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge)
    Catholic, he was educated by the Jesuits at Wimbledon College before graduating from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Patten then moved to the University of...
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    Harry Seeley (category Academics of King's College London)
    encouraged him to study geology. In 1859, Seeley began studies at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and worked as an assistant for Adam Sedgwick at the...
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