88-580: Rupert Chawner Brooke (3 August 1887 – 23 April 1915) was an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War , especially " The Soldier ". He was also known for his boyish good looks, which were said to have prompted the Irish poet W. B. Yeats to describe him as "the handsomest young man in England". He died of septicaemia following a mosquito bite whilst aboard
176-730: A "quiet essay", illustrated with woodcuts by Phyllis Gardner . Brooke's surviving brother, William Alfred Cotterill Brooke, fell in action on the Western Front on 14 June 1915 as a subaltern with the 1/8th (City of London) of the London Regiment ( Post Office Rifles ), at the age of 24. He had been in France on active service for nineteen days before his death. His body was buried in Fosse 7 Military Cemetery (Quality Street), Mazingarbe . In July 1917, Field Marshal Edmund Allenby
264-499: A French hospital ship moored off the island of Skyros in the Aegean Sea . Brooke was born at 5 Hillmorton Road, Rugby, Warwickshire , and named after a great-grandfather on his mother's side, Rupert Chawner (1750–1836), a distinguished doctor descended from the regicide Thomas Chaloner (the middle name has however sometimes been erroneously given as "Chaucer"). He was the third of four children of William Parker "Willie" Brooke,
352-500: A Provost of King's, the college declined the invitation to combine. Eventually, in 1893, the east and south wings of another new courtyard within King's – designed by George Frederick Bodley and overlooking the river – were completed. In 1909, the south range of a third new courtyard – named after its architect Aston Webb – was built to the south of the library. In 1927, designs by G. L. Kennedy completed Bodley's Court with
440-562: A Sunday. It is currently led by the incumbent Director of Music, Daniel Hyde . The other resident choir of the college is the mixed-voice choir King's Voices , founded in October 1997 under Dr John Butt , with the intention of giving women in King's the opportunity to sing in the chapel and be eligible for choral awards within the college. Currently, the choir sings evensong every Monday in university term, as well as performing at King's College Music Society (KCMS) and college events throughout
528-547: A bay off the Greek island of Skyros in the Aegean Sea, while on his way to the landings at Gallipoli . He was 27 at the time of his death. As the expeditionary force had orders to depart immediately, Brooke was buried at 11 pm in an olive grove on Skyros. The site was chosen by his close friend, William Denis Browne , who wrote of Brooke's death: I sat with Rupert. At 4 o’clock he became weaker, and at 4.46 he died, with
616-410: A further generation until completion by 1544 with the aid of Henry VIII . The chapel was the only part of Henry VI's Founder's Will to be realised. It has been speculated that the choice of the college as a beneficiary by the two later Henrys was a political one, with Henry VII in particular concerned to legitimate a new, post-civil war Tudor regime by demonstrating patronage of what was by definition
704-748: A mentor to him. In October 1906, he went up to King's College, Cambridge , to study classics. There, he became a member of the Apostles , was elected as president of the university Fabian Society , helped found the Marlowe Society drama club and acted, including in the Cambridge Greek Play . The friendships he made at school and university set the course for his adult life, and many of the people he met—including George Mallory —fell under his spell. Virginia Woolf told Vita Sackville-West that she had gone skinny-dipping with Brooke in
792-673: A minor character in A. S. Byatt 's novel The Children's Book (2009). Frederick Septimus Kelly wrote his "Elegy, In Memoriam Rupert Brooke for harp and strings" after attending Brooke's death and funeral. He also took Brooke's notebooks containing important late poems for safekeeping and later returned them to England. Brooke's poems have been set to music by groups and individuals including Charles Ives , Marjo Tal and Fleetwood Mac . Brooke's poems are quoted in F. Scott Fitzgerald 's debut novel This Side of Paradise (1920), Princess Elizabeth 's Act of Dedication speech (1947), TV series including M*A*S*H episode "Springtime" (1974) and
880-550: A month later. His eldest brother was Richard England "Dick" Brooke (1881–1907); his sister Edith Marjorie Brooke was born in 1885 and died the following year, and his youngest brother was William Alfred Cotterill "Podge" Brooke (1891–1915). Brooke attended preparatory (prep) school locally at Hillbrow , and then went on to Rugby School. At Rugby, he was romantically involved with fellow pupils Charles Lascelles, Denham Russell-Smith and Michael Sadleir . In 1905, he became friends with St. John Lucas , who thereafter became something of
968-553: A moonlit pool when they were in Cambridge together. In 1907, his elder brother Dick died of pneumonia at age 26. Brooke planned to put his studies on hold to help his parents cope with the loss of his brother, but they insisted he return to university. There is a blue plaque at The Orchard , Grantchester, where he lived and wrote. It reads: "Rupert Brooke Poet & Soldier 1887–1915 Lived and wrote at The Orchard 1909–1911, and at The Old Vicarage 1911–1912". Brooke made friends among
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#17327833325261056-572: A new northern range, and Webb's Court with a new Provost's Lodge on its western side. In 1930, a Cambridge Borough Police officer was shot by a student who also shot his tutor in the same incident. On 1 September 1939, the day of the German invasion of Poland and the cause of the UK's entrance into World War II , permission was sought from the College Council to remove the stained glass from
1144-712: A part in his nervous collapse and subsequent rehabilitation trips to Germany. As part of his recuperation, Brooke toured the United States and Canada to write travel diaries for The Westminster Gazette . He took the long way home, sailing across the Pacific and staying some months in the South Seas . Much later it was revealed that he may have fathered a daughter with a Tahitian woman named Taatamata with whom he seems to have enjoyed his most complete emotional relationship. Many more people were in love with him. Brooke
1232-424: A provost. Henry had belatedly learned of William of Wykeham 's 1379 twin foundations of New College, Oxford and Winchester College , and wanted his own achievements to surpass those of Wykeham. The King had founded Eton College on 11 October 1440 but, up until 1443, King's and Eton had been unconnected. However, that year the relationship between the two was remodelled upon Wykeham's successful institutions and
1320-537: A schoolmaster, and Ruth Mary Brooke ( née Cotterill), a school matron. Both parents were working at Fettes College in Edinburgh when they met. They married on 18 December 1879. William Parker Brooke had to resign after the couple wed, as there was no accommodation there for married masters. The couple then moved to Rugby in Warwickshire, where Rupert's father became Master of School Field House at Rugby School
1408-443: A site which lies directly north of the modern college and which was formerly a garden belonging to Trinity Hall . William Millington, a fellow of Clare College (then called Clare Hall) was installed as the rector. Henry directed the publication of the college's first governing statutes in 1443. His original modest plan for the college was abandoned, and provision was instead made for a community of 70 fellows and scholars headed by
1496-581: A total of 29 rated colleges at the University of Cambridge in 2019. In terms of first-class degrees, King's ranked 9th in the university with 31.3% of final year students achieving a first. King's offers all undergraduate courses available at the university, except for education , land economy and veterinary medicine , although Directors of Studies for Anglo-Saxon Norse & Celtic and Management Studies visit from other colleges. With more than 100 fellows and some 420 undergraduate students, King's has one of
1584-498: Is Ben Parry , who is assistant director of Music at King's. In 2014, King's College established an Entrepreneurship Prize opened to King's College students with alumni as judges, including Hermann Hauser , and Stuart Lyons, the former chairman of Beales . In 2021, it launched the King's Entrepreneurship Lab to "support students with a future interest in innovation, entrepreneurship, and business" co-directed by King's fellows Kamiar Mohaddes and Thomas Roulet , who are faculty at
1672-424: Is Founder's Day, which begins with a Founder's Eucharist in the chapel, followed by a Founder's Breakfast with ale and culminating in a sumptuous dinner in his memory called "Founder's Feast" to which all members of college in their third year of studies are invited. The College Chapel, an example of late Gothic architecture , was built over a period of a hundred years (1446–1531) in three stages. The Chapel features
1760-469: Is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity." His name is recorded on the village war memorial in Grantchester. The wooden cross that marked Brooke's grave on Skyros, which was painted and carved with his name, was removed when a permanent memorial was made there. His mother, Mary Ruth Brooke, had the cross brought to Rugby, to the family plot at Clifton Road Cemetery. Because of erosion in
1848-573: Is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge . This college lies beside the River Cam and faces out onto King's Parade in the centre of the city. King's was founded in 1441 by King Henry VI soon after founding its sister institution, Eton College . Initially, King's accepted only students from Eton College. However, the king's plans for King's College were disrupted by the Wars of
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#17327833325261936-557: Is attended by around 1,500 students, occupying the Front Court, bar, Hall and Chapel. Past performers have included The Stranglers , Fatboy Slim , Noah and the Whale and, in 2009, Clean Bandit . There are also large student-run college parties at the end of each term known as Mingles. King's has a number of competitive and casual sports clubs. King's College Boat Club has the largest active membership of any club in King's. In 2013
2024-467: Is both Wi-Fi and Ethernet internet access throughout the library as well as a library computer room. Special collections include a separate Music Library, the Keynes Library, a Global Warming collection, and an Audio Visual Library. The college has gradually broadened its intake to include many students from state schools , often having the highest proportion of maintained school acceptances of
2112-495: Is despised and dishonoured and that sane criticism is dead or moribund." American adventurer Richard Halliburton made preparations for writing a biography of Brooke but died before he could. Halliburton's notes were used by Arthur Springer to write Red Wine of Youth: A Biography of Rupert Brooke (1921). Brooke was an inspiration to Canadian fighter pilot John Gillespie Magee Jr. , known for his poems "Sonnet to Rupert Brooke" (1938) and " High Flight " (1941). Brooke also appears as
2200-701: Is possible that the two became lovers in a "complete sense" in May 1913 in Swanley . It was in Munich, where he had met Élisabeth, that a year later he finally succeeded in having intercourse with Ka Cox ( Katherine Laird Cox ). Brooke suffered a severe emotional crisis in 1912, resulting in the breakdown of his long relationship with Ka Cox. Brooke's paranoia that Lytton Strachey had schemed to destroy his relationship with Cox by encouraging her to see Henry Lamb precipitated his break with his Bloomsbury group friends and played
2288-511: Is the site of many social events, open mic nights, and informal meetings and debates between students, whilst a venue known as the Bunker (formerly the Cellar), a second bar in a basement of the college, acts occasionally as a music or dance-night venue and most recently the set for a King's Drama productions including Sartre's No Exit and a series of monologue showcase events. Even more recently,
2376-662: The Bloomsbury group of writers, some of whom admired his talent while others were more impressed by his good looks. He also belonged to another literary group known as the Georgian Poets and was one of the most important of the Dymock poets , associated with the Gloucestershire village of Dymock where he spent some time before the war. This group included both Robert Frost and Edward Thomas . He also lived at
2464-552: The Cambridge Judge Business School . In 2022, it received an additional donation from the Gatsby Foundation to enlarge its scope. The college has had a number of notable alumni in business, including Alfred Allen Booth , Phil Vincent , Nancy Zhang and famous innovators such as Charles Townshend . Once someone has been admitted to the college, they become a member for life. Alumni of
2552-497: The Gothic Revival style rather than Wilkins's preferred Neoclassical. With the courtyard to the south of the chapel now able to accommodate the college, the land to the north was sold to the university in 1828. This was the site of the world's first bonsai tree, cultivated in King's College in the mid 18th century. The university demolished most of the original Old Court buildings in order to make room for an extension to
2640-930: The Old Vicarage , Grantchester , which stimulated one of his best-known poems, named after the house , written with homesickness while in Berlin in 1912. While travelling in Europe, he prepared a thesis, entitled " John Webster and the Elizabethan Drama ", which earned him a fellowship at King's College, Cambridge , in March 1913. Brooke had his first heterosexual relationship with Élisabeth van Rysselberghe , daughter of painter Théo van Rysselberghe . They met in 1911 in Munich . His affair with Élisabeth came closest to be consummated than any other he ever had so far. It
2728-453: The River Cam (which runs through the college) and regularly runs climbing, walking and kayaking trips for students of the college during university vacations. Its rugby team is joint with Corpus Christi and Clare colleges and consequently known as CCK. Its historic crest is the hallowed Elephant of Wisdom. King's College is home to the Choir of King's College, Cambridge , which was founded in
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2816-536: The University Library ; only the gateway arch opposite Clare College survives. The library subsequently moved away from this site, known as the Old Schools , and the buildings are currently used for the main administrative offices of the university. Under the provostship of Richard Okes, from 1850 until his death in 1888, the college began a period of reform. On 1 May 1851 it was agreed to abolish
2904-539: The University of Cambridge and the college. King's is the link Cambridge college for schools in North East England through Cambridge University Area Links Scheme. Generally, the atmosphere at King's is considered to be easier than that of other colleges to integrate into for students from a working-class or minority background. However, a survey conducted by Varsity Newspaper in January 2009 revealed that
2992-539: The baroque artwork obscuring the bottom of the Tudor east window. However 20 fellows and the honorary fellow E. M. Forster signed a letter urging the college to reverse its plan and "admit that it has made a mistake"; the levelling of the floor nevertheless went ahead. The newly refitted east end opened in 1968 and proved highly controversial, with the Architects' Journal criticising it as "motivated not by
3080-503: The 15th century and is now one of today's most well-renowned representatives of the English choral tradition. In 2013, the choir launched its own label, King's College Recordings, allowing it to gain more artistic freedom over its releases. Its releases and worldwide fame have led to global tours and performances. The Choir of King's College sings evensong and Eucharist services on all days of the week apart from Mondays, with two services on
3168-661: The 16th-century Protestant martyr John Frith , the 16th Century Russian Orthodox Priest Rex Phillips-Dibb, the Chassidic Rabbi George O'Rourke, the Archbishop of Canterbury John Sumner , and Richard Cox , who served as Chancellor of Oxford before appointment as Dean of Westminster and eventually Bishop of Ely . Notable alumni in literature and poetry include the authors Zadie Smith , Salman Rushdie , Martin Jacques , J. G. Ballard and E. M. Forster ,
3256-466: The 17th century – was removed. The statutes were again amended in 1882, this time ensuring fellowships were not always for life and were awarded on merit after submissions of original research. In his 1930 memoir As We Were, A Victorian Peep Show , E. F. Benson , an alumnus of King's, recollected the peculiar behaviour of some of the surviving Life Fellows from his undergraduate years of 1887–1890 and before. Of one he wrote, "He then shuffled out on to
3344-610: The British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force on 28 February 1915, but developed severe gastroenteritis whilst stationed in Egypt followed by streptococcal sepsis from an infected mosquito bite. French surgeons carried out two operations to drain the abscess, but he died of septicaemia at 4:46 pm on 23 April 1915, on the French hospital ship Duguay-Trouin [ fr ] , moored in
3432-548: The Bunker has been used by the King's Electronic Music Society, allowing students to learn how to DJ. Whereas many Cambridge colleges celebrate May Week with a May Ball (which actually falls in June), since the early 1980s King's has instead held a June Event (an informal version of a May Ball with fancy dress) known as The King's Affair. This takes place annually on the Wednesday night of May Week (usually around 20 June), and
3520-518: The King's College. Later building work on the chapel is marked by an uninhibited branding with the Tudor rose and other symbols of the new establishment, quite against the precise instructions of the Founder's Will . The college remained as the Old Court, chapel and a few small surrounding buildings for nearly two-hundred years until in 1724 the architect James Gibbs provided a new plan to complete
3608-472: The Nobel Prize winner Patrick White , the poets Rupert Brooke , Walter Raleigh and Xu Zhimo , and the playwright Stephen Poliakoff . The ghost story writer and medievalist M. R. James spent much of his life at King's as a student, fellow and Provost. The author and translator of Aristotle Sir John Harington is also an alumnus, and a benefactor of mankind for having invented the flush toilet . In
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3696-469: The Roses and the resultant scarcity of funds, and then his eventual deposition. Little progress was made on the project until 1508, when King Henry VII began to take an interest in the college, probably as a political move to legitimise his new position. The building of the college's chapel began in 1446, and was finished in 1544 during the reign of Henry VIII . King's College Chapel is regarded as one of
3784-529: The arts, alumni include the philosopher George Santayana ; the historians Benedict Anderson , Eric Hobsbawm and Tony Judt ; composers George Benjamin , Judith Weir ( Master of the Queen's Music ), Thomas Ades , and Julian Anderson ; the original members of the Grammy Award -winning a cappella group King's Singers ; the folk musician John Spiers ; the comedian David Baddiel ; the model Lily Cole ;
3872-424: The average parental income of students who participated in the survey at King's was higher than the university average. In June 2018, Dr. Priyamvada Gopal alleged racial profiling by college porters at the gate of King's College, Cambridge. Gopal said that she was subjected to racial profiling and aggression by the porters and gatekeepers of King's and said porters frequently hassled non-white staff and students at
3960-440: The big lawn, with a stick in his hand, and he prodded with it at the worms in the grass, muttering to himself, 'Ah, damn ye: ye haven't got me yet.'" The first non-Etonian students were admitted to study at King's in 1865, and the first non-Etonian scholars and the first non-Etonian fellow were elected in 1873. These reforms continued over subsequent decades and there are now no special privileges for Etonians at King's. Expansion of
4048-407: The building completed six years later. Front Court was finally completed in 1828 under plans drawn up by William Wilkins . The courtyard was closed by a screen and gatehouse to the east; and residential staircases either side of a hall to the south. The southern buildings continued towards the river with a library and Provost's lodge. All these buildings were, at the college's insistence, built in
4136-432: The chapel was laid by the King on St James's Day, 25 July 1446. The King encouraged support for the college. In 1448, John Conches, former prior of Wootton Wawen gave the priory's lands to "John Chedworth provost of the king's college of St. Mary and St. Nicholas Cantebrigge and the scholars thereof, and to their successors." Within a decade Henry's engagement in the Wars of the Roses meant that funds began to dry up. By
4224-530: The college could not be broadcast for security reasons. King's took the opportunity of these years to clean, repair and photograph the glass. By 1949, all the windows had been restored. In 1961, the property millionaire Alfred Ernest Allnatt offered King's the Adoration of the Magi by Peter Paul Rubens , which he had purchased in 1959 for a world-record price. The college accepted "this munificent gift" with
4312-441: The college dean Eric Milner-White in 1918) is broadcast from the chapel to millions of listeners worldwide. On 12 February 1441, King Henry VI issued letters patent founding a college at Cambridge for a rector and 12 poor scholars. This college was to be named after Saint Nicholas upon whose feast day Henry had been born. The first stone of the college's Old Court was laid by the King on Passion Sunday , 2 April 1441 on
4400-404: The college includes prime ministers, archbishops, presidents and academics. Time published in 1999 a list of what it considered the most "influential and important" people of the 20th century. In a list of one hundred names, King's claimed two: Alan Turing and John Maynard Keynes who had been both students and fellows at the college. Heads of State and Government educated at King's include
4488-566: The college itself and the university. The college students have a reputation for radical political activity going back to the late 1960s, and the college has not infrequently been the centre of demonstrations, rent strikes and so forth, sparked by political events. There are a number of rooms around college which students can book out to hold society events. Societies who commonly do this include King's Politics, The Turing Maths Society, The History Society, The Marxist Society, Keynes Economics Society and King's Feminist Society. The main bar at King's
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#17327833325264576-664: The college through the 1861 statutes necessitated more building work to accommodate the larger community. In 1869, the area along King's Parade between the Wilkins' Buildings and King's Lane was built upon after a design by George Gilbert Scott . When completed a year later, the new courtyard formed was named after Walter Chetwynd, a fellow of the college. However, after subsequent plans to expand college accommodation fell through, King's opened negotiations to amalgamate with St Catharine's College . Although St Catharine's had been founded by Robert Woodlark (sometimes spelled Wodelarke),
4664-424: The college. Every fellow was to study theology, save for two who were to study astronomy, two civil law, four canon law, and two medicine; all fellows save those studying secular subjects were obliged to take Holy Orders and become priests, on pain of expulsion. In 1445, a Papal Bull from Eugenius IV exempted college members from parish duties, and in 1457, an agreement between the provost and chancellor of
4752-452: The courtyard of which the chapel formed the north side. Although his design was for the courtyard to be closed by three similar detached Neoclassical buildings, due to lack of funds only the western of these was constructed. The first stone of what became known as the Gibbs' Building was laid by Provost Andrew Snape , at the time also vice-chancellor of the university, on 25 March 1723 and
4840-530: The demands of liturgical worship but by those of museum display." The last main-site building to be erected by the college was the Keynes Building, finished in 1967 and named after the former college bursar John Maynard Keynes . This building enclosed Chetwynd Court along with the Wilkins' and Scott's buildings, and provided more than 70 en-suite accommodation rooms along with other facilities. The first women students arrived at King's in 1972, one of
4928-461: The east window of the chapel. By the end of 1941, all the ancient glass had been removed to various cellars in Cambridge for safekeeping. Despite most of the windows of the chapel being covered over by sheets of tar-paper, which rattled loudly in the wind, the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols continued to be broadcast from the chapel every Christmas Eve throughout the war – even though the name of
5016-530: The finest examples of late English Gothic architecture . It has the world's largest fan vault , while its stained-glass windows and wooden chancel screen are considered some of the finest from their era. The building is seen as emblematic of Cambridge. It houses the Choir of King's College, Cambridge . Every year on Christmas Eve, the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols (a service originally devised for Truro Cathedral by Edward White Benson in 1880, adapted by
5104-595: The first Prime Minister of Great Britain, Robert Walpole . Also in the 18th century, alumni include the Secretary of State Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend (Turnip Townshend), who was also known for his interest in agriculture and his role in the British agricultural revolution , the judge and Lord Chancellor Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden . Historical figures include Francis Walsingham , spymaster to Queen Elizabeth . Politicians educated at King's include
5192-602: The first men's boat qualified to race in the Temple Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta . After several years of poor performances, the boat club has returned to success in the Lent and May Bumps, with blades being awarded four times in 2023, including twice to the first women's VIII. Another major club is the King's Mountaineering and Kayaking Association, which has a fleet of kayaks for use on
5280-426: The first three previously all-male colleges to admit women. The college, along with most others at the university, had been all-male since its foundation. However, under the provost Edmund Leach , King's together with Churchill and Clare became the first three previously all-male colleges to admit women. Henry VI is not completely forgotten at the college. The Saturday after the end of Michaelmas term each year
5368-586: The former British Home Secretary Charles Clarke , the peer and Chancellor of the University of Cambridge David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville , and Martin Bell . In law, alumni include the barrister and vice-chancellor Robert Alexander, Baron Alexander of Weedon , and the former President of the British Supreme Court Nicholas Phillips, Baron Phillips of Worth Matravers . Alumni in religion include William Thomas ,
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#17327833325265456-607: The furore this inevitably occasioned – which quickly became acceptance of a solution to a difficult problem." As the first stage of this project, the Edwardian reredos and 17th-century wood panelling were removed and the Rubens installed in their stead behind the altar in April 1964. The painting was so big that the raised floor of the chapel's east end, required by the 1448 Founder's Will , would have to be levelled so as to prevent
5544-406: The gates. While several students and staff corroborated her accusations, a King's College spokeswoman denied wrongdoing by staff. As a result of the attention the issue received, Cambridge University students came forward describing similar experiences. Gopal said that she received hate mail following her announcement. Gopal announced that she would no longer supervise students at King's until there
5632-469: The highest ratios of fellows to students of all the Cambridge colleges. Since its foundation, the college has housed a library, providing books for all students, covering all the subjects offered by King's. Around 130,000 books are held: some available for teaching and for reference, others being rare books and manuscripts . The library operates a user-oriented purchasing policy: students and Directors of Studies recommend new purchases in their subject. There
5720-477: The intention of displaying the painting in the chapel, possibly as an altarpiece. The painting was initially displayed in the antechapel but a significant faction of the fellowship – including Michael Jaffé and the Provost Noel Annan – were determined for the painting to become the focal point of an entirely redesigned east end planned by the architect Sir Martyn Beckett, who was "philosophical about
5808-426: The latter was then read from the pulpit of St Paul's Cathedral on Easter Sunday (4 April). His most famous collection of poetry, containing all five sonnets, 1914 & Other Poems , was first published in May 1915 and, in testament to his popularity, ran to 11 further impressions that year and by June 1918 had reached its 24th impression, a process undoubtedly fuelled through posthumous interest. Brooke sailed with
5896-621: The nearby King's College School ). The choir sings services on most days in term-time, and also performs concerts and makes recordings and broadcasts. In particular, it has broadcast its Nine Lessons and Carols on the BBC from the Chapel on Christmas Eve for many decades. Additionally, there is a mixed-voice Chapel choir of male and female students, King's Voices , which sings evensong on Mondays during term-time. The unofficial Tompkins Table comparing academic performance ranked King's 12th out of
5984-614: The open air, it was removed from the cemetery in 2008 and replaced by a more permanent marker. The Skyros cross is now at Rugby School with the memorials of other Old Rugbeians. The first stanza of " The Dead " is inscribed onto the base of the Royal Naval Division War Memorial in London. The Cenotaph in Wellington , New Zealand , has the words from " The Dead ", "These laid the world away; poured out
6072-674: The original sizes of the colleges scaled up to surpass Wykeham's. A second royal charter which re-founded the now much larger King's College was issued on 12 July 1443. On 1 September 1444, the Provosts of King's and Eton and the Wardens of Winchester and New College formally signed the Amicabilis Concordia ("friendly agreement") in which they bound their colleges to support one another legally and financially. Members of King's were to be recruited entirely from Eton. Each year,
6160-846: The outbreak of war in August 1914. He was commissioned into the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve as a temporary sub-lieutenant shortly after his 27th birthday, and was assigned to the Royal Naval Division , a branch of the Royal Navy but serving as an infantry unit. He took part in the Division's Antwerp expedition in October 1914. Brooke came to public attention as a war poet early the following year, when The Times Literary Supplement published two sonnets ("IV: The Dead" and "V: The Soldier") on 11 March;
6248-415: The pencil poised in his hand and the blank sheet of paper, symbolising work unfulfilled). In the afterword of his Collected Poems (1919), Lord Alfred Douglas wrote: "... never before in the history of English literature has poetry sunk so low. When a nation ... can seriously lash itself into enthusiasm over the puerile crudities (when they are nothing worse) of a Rupert Brooke, it simply means that poetry
6336-465: The privilege of King's members to be granted a degree without passing the university examinations. In 1861 the college statutes were amended so as to expand the college and, more radically, to allow for the election of non-Etonian King's members: the new statutes provided for 46 Fellows, 24 scholarships reserved for boys from Eton, and 24 "open" scholarships for boys from any school. At the same time all formal obligation to take Holy Orders – unenforced since
6424-559: The provost and two fellows travelled to Eton to impartially select the worthiest boys to fill any vacancies at the college, always maintaining the total number of scholars and fellows at exactly 70. Membership of King's was a vocation for life. Scholars were eligible for election to the fellowship after three years of probation, irrespective of whether they had achieved a degree or not. Undergraduates at King's – unlike those from other colleges – did not have to pass university examinations to achieve their BA degree and instead had only to satisfy
6512-408: The red Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene, That men call age; and those who would have been, Their sons, they gave, their immortality" inscribed on the pediment. In 1988, the sculptor Ivor Roberts-Jones was commissioned to produce a statue of Brooke at Regent Place, a small triangular open space, in his birth town of Rugby, Warwickshire . The statue
6600-452: The rest was completed in a temporary fashion to serve until the new court was ready. The new college site was itself left unfinished and the "temporary" Old Court buildings, arranged to accommodate 70, served as the permanent residential fabric of the college until the beginning of the 19th century. Henry's grand design for the new college buildings survives in the 1448 Founder's Will , which describes his vision in detail. The new college site
6688-671: The second episode of SAS: Rogue Heroes (2022), as well as in films including Making Love (1982). Notes General references Ideal (ethics) Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.150 via cp1114 cp1114, Varnish XID 917559582 Upstream caches: cp1114 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 08:42:12 GMT King%27s College, Cambridge King's College , formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge ,
6776-497: The sun shining all round his cabin, and the cool sea breeze blowing through the door and the shaded windows. No one could have wished for a quieter or a calmer end than in that lovely bay, shielded by the mountains and fragrant with sage and thyme. Another friend and war poet, Patrick Shaw-Stewart , assisted at his hurried funeral. His grave remains there still, with a monument erected by his friend Stanley Casson, poet and archaeologist, who, in 1921, published Rupert Brooke and Skyros ,
6864-470: The tenor James Gilchrist ; and the countertenor John Whitworth . In the sciences and social sciences , King's alumni include the British sociologist Anthony Giddens , the physicist Patrick Blackett , the chemist Frederick Sanger , The psychologist Edgar Anstey , the palaeontologist Richard Fortey , the economist John Craven , the political theorist John Dunn , the engineer Charles Inglis , and
6952-487: The time of Henry's deposition in 1461, the chapel walls had been raised 60 ft high at the east end but only 8 ft at the west; a building line which can still be seen today as the boundary between the lighter stone below and the darker above. Work proceeded sporadically until a generation later in 1508 when the Founder's nephew Henry VII was prevailed upon to finish the shell of the building. The interior had to wait
7040-534: The undergraduate colleges. This has led to accusations of reactionary bias against public school pupils and of affirmative action (positive discrimination), although the relatively high proportion of state-school students reflects the far greater number of applications from pupils at maintained schools in comparison to other Cambridge colleges. King's has established a Schools Liaison Officer post in order to provide support to students, whatever their background, and schools and colleges of any type to find out more about
7128-405: The university limited the chancellor's authority and gave the college full jurisdiction over internal matters. The original plans for Old Court were too small comfortably to accommodate the larger college community of the second foundation, and so in 1443 Henry VI began to purchase the land upon which the modern college now stands. The gateway and south range of Old Court had already been built, but
7216-444: The world's largest fan vault ceiling; 26 large stained-glass windows, 24 of which date from the 16th century; and Peter Paul Rubens 's painting the Adoration of the Magi as an altarpiece . The chapel is actively used as a place of worship and also for some concerts and college events. The Chapel choir consists of organ scholars, choral scholars (male students from the college and other colleges) and choristers (boys educated at
7304-788: The year. King's Voices has also appeared on albums alongside the Choir of King's College, most recently in the Te Deum and Magnificat of the Collegium Regale service by Herbert Howells on a double album of music by Howells. Sopranos in King's Voices also featured in a live recording of Benjamin Britten 's Saint Nicolas alongside the BBC Singers and Britten Sinfonia as part of Sir Stephen Cleobury 's Farewell Concert, broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 2019. The choir's current director
7392-431: Was a resolution to the long-standing problem. Many students from Asian heritages have corrobated racial profiling by porters, who often mistake Asian students to be tourists. King's has its own student unions, both for undergraduates (King's College Student Union or KCSU) and for graduates (King's College Graduate Society or KCGS). Students at King's have used both organisations to assist in the decision-making processes in
7480-530: Was informed of the death in action of his son Michael Allenby, leading to Allenby's breakdown in tears in public while he recited a poem by Rupert Brooke. On 11 November 1985, Brooke was among 16 First World War poets commemorated on a slate monument unveiled in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey . The inscription on the stone was taken from Wilfred Owen 's "Preface" to his poems and reads: "My subject
7568-481: Was romantically involved with the artist Phyllis Gardner and the actress Cathleen Nesbitt , and was once engaged to Noël Olivier , whom he met, when she was aged 15, at the progressive Bedales School . Brooke's accomplished poetry gained many enthusiasts and followers, and he was taken up by Edward Marsh , who brought him to the attention of Winston Churchill , then First Lord of the Admiralty . He enlisted at
7656-421: Was to be centred on a great courtyard, bordered on all sides by adjoining buildings: a chapel to the north; accommodation and the entrance gate to the east; further accommodation and the provost's lodge to the south; and a library, hall and buttery to the west. Behind the hall and buttery was to be another courtyard, and behind the library a cloistered cemetery including a magnificent bell tower. The first stone of
7744-464: Was unveiled by Mary Archer . A 2006 portrait statue of Rupert Brooke in army uniform by Paul Day stands in the front garden of The Old Vicarage, Grantchester. In 2023, artist Stephen Hopper painted a portrait in oils celebrating Brooke's life and featuring references to his grave on Skyros and his service with the Hood Battalion, part of the 63rd (Royal Naval) Division . (See detail on
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