History - History 1
The College
Fitzwilliam College is one of the more modern colleges within the University of Cambridge, and enjoys a large and peaceful site within ten minutes cycle ride of all the major Faculties and Departments. It is a fairly large community with around 475 undergraduates, 275 graduate students and over 60 Fellows.
Fitzwilliam started life in 1869 as a non-collegiate institution, to provide undergraduates unable to afford membership of a college with an opportunity to study at Cambridge. It organised teaching from a handsome house opposite the Fitzwilliam Museum. In the second half of the twentieth century Fitzwilliam House, as it was then called, became Fitzwilliam College, moved to its current site and received its royal charter in 1966.
Fitzwilliam College is one of the more modern colleges within the University of Cambridge, and enjoys a large and peaceful site within ten minutes cycle ride of all the major Faculties and Departments. It is a fairly large community with around 475 undergraduates, 275 graduate students and over 60 Fellows.
Fitzwilliam started life in 1869 as a non-collegiate institution, to provide undergraduates unable to afford membership of a college with an opportunity to study at Cambridge. It organised teaching from a handsome house opposite the Fitzwilliam Museum. In the second half of the twentieth century Fitzwilliam House, as it was then called, became Fitzwilliam College, moved to its current site and received its royal charter in 1966.
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