A fascinating history of mid-eighteenth-century Cambridge focusing on the Duke of Newcastle, politician and Chancellor of the University.

Denys Arthur Winstanley (1877 1947), was a Fellow of Trinity College from 1906 until his death. His work included four important books on the history of the University of Cambridge between 1750 and 1882. This volume describes the many reforms to the educational system made during the early Victorian period: changes in college and university statutes, reform of the examinations, the foundation of Downing College and of Regius Professorships. Adopting an episodic rather than chronological approach, he is able to tease out specific controversies of the period such as a contested change of...

A gold-mine of facts and anecdotes about the decadence of Cambridge University in the eighteenth century.