John Stanley Gardiner (1872–1946) was a British zoologist.
29-603: WCSA may refer to: Wesleyan Council on Student Affairs Wolfson College Student Association Working-Class Studies Association Worle Community School Academy , a secondary school academy in the South West of England. World Complexity Science Academy World Crossbow Shooting Association, one of the two major crossbow federations. World Championship disciplines: Target, Target match play, Forest, Forest match play, 3D, Bench & prone target and Indoor target. WCSA (AM),
58-462: A miscarriage ("abortus" on her death certificate). Stanley remarried in 1909. His wife was Edith Gertrude Willcock . She attended Newnham College, Cambridge from 1900 to 1904 and received a doctoral degree from Trinity College Dublin . (Apparently at the time, women could not receive doctoral degrees in England). Edith was a chemist and did some pioneering research work with radium , and into
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116-505: A guided tour of the gardens to local interested groups. During the summer, Wolfson opens its gardens to the public as part of the NGS Open Gardens network. The college is known for its entertainment events and performances, which attract visitors from many other colleges of the university. These activities include formal dinners, concerts, dancing nights, and music displays. The college frequently hosts live comedy nights, called
145-565: A member of the college in 1891. He studied zoology and graduated in 1894 with a first class degree in Natural Sciences. He played hockey for Cambridge in 1894. The period from 1896 to 1909 was spent by Stanley in doing field work in coral research. He spend considerable time in remote locations in the Indian Ocean as a member of three expeditions. He was particularly fascinated by marine biology and in 1896, aged 26, he joined
174-591: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Wolfson College, Cambridge Wolfson College ( / ˈ w ʊ l f s ən / ) is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge , England. The majority of students at the college are postgraduates . The college also admits "mature" undergraduates (aged 21 and above), with around 15% of students studying undergraduate degree courses at
203-577: Is one of the strongest graduate rowing colleges in Cambridge. The college is also a constituent member of the All Greys, the Cambridge mature college rugby side. The head of Wolfson College is called the President . 52°11′54″N 0°06′04″E / 52.1982°N 0.1012°E / 52.1982; 0.1012 ( Wolfson College ) John Stanley Gardiner Stanley, as he
232-1146: The Fellowship of the Royal Society in 1908; his award of the Agassiz Medal of the American National Academy of Science in 1929, the Linnean Medal of the Linnean Society of London in 1936 and the Darwin Medal of the Royal Society in 1944. A listing of some of his major publications can be found in his obituary by Forster Cooper as well as in the article detailing his legacy to reef science referenced below. Stanley married Rachel Florence Denning on 12 September 1900. They were married at All Souls' Church in Marylebone , London. Sadly, Rachel died in March 1901 from
261-633: The Royal Society Expedition to Funafuti in the Ellice Islands in the Pacific . This must have been a very formative experience for thereafter he devoted much of his research to the scleractinian corals and the environmental factors influencing their distribution. This research encompassed not only the identification and taxonomy of corals but also studies of their growth rates and feeding biology. Much of his subsequent work
290-573: The University Library . In February 2018, students at the college were evacuated from the Lee library, and a number of accommodation blocks, after a WWII practice grenade was found in the President's Garden. There were no injuries and it was soon discovered that the device was a practice grenade with no live ammunition. In the first half of the twentieth century, much of the land on which
319-475: The Wolfson Howler, featuring acts performed by comedians ranging from fellow students to internationally-recognised names. The Club Room, at the heart of the college, includes the college bar and a dance floor space, and is a café during the day. It is the main communal space for students, and is the venue for many entertainment events. The Wolfson College Boat Club is a popular society, and Wolfson
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#1732786567404348-537: The college is now situated comprised gardens which belonged to houses in Selwyn Gardens . As the college grew particular natural landmarks, such as the mulberry tree outside the Porters' lodge, were retained as features. The garden comprises a wide variety of trees, scented shrubs, dwarf conifers , as well as a distinctive range of shrubs with colourful stems. The college's head gardener occasionally provides
377-499: The college's East and West Courts. In recognition of this, the college was renamed Wolfson College on 1 January 1973. The new buildings (designed by the architect Michael Mennim ) were opened by Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh in 1977. Though most of the college's buildings are modern, the design of the campus is similar to that of the university's older colleges, with buildings grouped around two main courts. The floor of
406-431: The college's founding there has been no " High Table " reserved for Fellows at Formal Hall dinners; students and Fellows mix and dine together, and the tradition of wearing academic gowns to such occasions is encouraged but is not compulsory. Both Fellows and students at the college have access to all the facilities. With students from over 70 countries, Wolfson claims to be one of Cambridge's most cosmopolitan colleges. It
435-406: The entrance hall to the main building is made of thin slices of granite taken from the old London Bridge (the main section of which was taken to Arizona to be rebuilt in the late 1960s). Further building and acquisition of neighbouring properties has continued. In the 1980s, the college purchased the house and garden owned by Sir Vivian Fuchs on the western side on the college. Plommer House on
464-745: The help of the Gatsby Foundation , the college purchased the "western field" on which was built the Chancellor's Centre and further residential blocks. Opened in 1994, the Lee Seng Tee Library (Lee Library) was donated to the college by the Singaporean businessman and philanthropist Lee Seng Tee (whose daughter studied at the college). Lee also donated the funds used to build the Lee Seng Tee Hall. The library
493-415: The importance of amino acids in diet. Edith and Stanley had two daughters – Nancy Emma Gardiner born in 1911 and Joyce Critchley Gardiner born in 1913. Their daughter Nancy died young at the age of 45. She was married but had no children. Joyce, an accomplished painter, married and had three children. Stanley and Edith lived at Bredon House, Cambridge . In 1965, this became the administrative offices for
522-591: The key questions asked by the expedition were based on Gardiner's initial research in the Indian Ocean. Gardiner became Professor of Zoology in Cambridge in 1909 and retained this position until 1937. During this period recognition of Gardiner's contribution to marine science, and coral reef research in particular, was evident through his presentation of the Murchison Award of the Royal Geographical Society in 1902; his admission to
551-557: The northern side of the college was also left to the college in his will by Hugh Plommer, a founding Fellow of the college. The acquisition of property has allowed for the building of a number of new facilities, mainly funded by donations from philanthropic foundations and individuals. Other major benefactions have come from the Fairleigh Dickinson Foundation and the Toda Foundation. In the 1990s, with
580-588: The older, more traditional Cambridge colleges, with no Senior Combination Room , no "High Table" reserved for Fellows at formal dinners in the college and no portraits hung in the Dining Hall. The college's founding deed required the college to either find an endowment within 10 years or face dissolution. In 1972, the Wolfson Foundation agreed to provide a capital endowment and help to fund the construction of central buildings around Bredon House and
609-504: The position of Curate there. In 1876, Jephson and his two sons moved to Wonersh , near Guildford , Surrey. There Arthur and Stanley were pupils at a boarding school at 108 High Street, Guildford. Stanley attended Marlborough College from January 1885 until July 1890. While there "his critical thinking was shaped by the science masters and where he was a great supporter of the school's Natural History Society". Stanley won an exhibition to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and became
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#1732786567404638-505: The university. The college was founded in 1965 as " University College ", but was refounded as Wolfson College in 1973 in recognition of the benefaction of the Wolfson Foundation . Wolfson is located to the south-west of Cambridge city centre, near the University Library . As one of the more modern colleges in Cambridge, Wolfson does not follow all of the traditions of some of the university's older colleges. For example, since
667-584: The wide range of research he undertook into the biology of corals . A significant element of his legacy to coral reef research lies in his contribution to the Great Barrier Reef Expedition of 1928–29. This was a major expedition, led by a British scientist, C.M. Yonge, appointed and funded as a result of Gardiner's initiatives. The expedition proved to be a turning point in coral reef science with far reaching results that are still cited by reef workers in their publications today. Many of
696-400: Was based at Bredon House, a property built in the early twentieth century by John Stanley Gardiner , who was a Professor of Zoology at the university from 1909 to 1937. He donated the house, with its long narrow garden running from Barton Road to Selwyn Gardens, to the university upon his death in 1946. The college then purchased further property on its eastern boundary. University College
725-587: Was carried out in the Indian Ocean, first of all in the Laccadives and Maldives and then through expeditions to the Chagos Archipelago , Seychelles , Amirantes , Coetivy , Cargados Carajos , Farquhar , Providence , St. Pierre and Mauritius . He was certainly an early pioneer in coral reef research not only in terms of his careful observational work on Indian Ocean reefs, many of whom have not been revisited by modern scientists, but also in
754-477: Was designed by architects Brewer, Smith and Brewer. The ground floor foyer contains a scale model of the armillary sphere on the roof of the Peking Observatory . On the first floor is a bust of Lee Kong Chian, father of the benefactor. The library contains over 60 quiet places to work and is open 24 hours a day all year, apart from 25–26 December and 1 January. The college is located a short walk from
783-682: Was known, was the younger son of John Jephson Gardiner and Sarah McTier. He was born in Jordanstown ( Belfast ) in 1872 – two years after his brother Arthur. Jephson was a member of the Anglican clergy and, at the time of his marriage to Sarah in 1868, was chaplain to Lord Dufferin at Carrickfergus (near Belfast). Stanley's mother died five months after he was born and in 1874, he and Arthur were taken by their father to England. They initially lived in Marshfield , Wiltshire, with Jephson having
812-452: Was opened on 30 June 1965 as a college for postgraduate students, with the classicist John Sinclair Morrison as its first President. At the time, all the undergraduate colleges of the university were single-sex institutions and University College was the first in the university to admit men and women as both students and Fellows. The college, from its outset, set out to be a cosmopolitan and egalitarian institution with distinct differences from
841-494: Was the first college of the university to admit men and women as both students and Fellows . The current President of Wolfson College is Professor Ijeoma Uchegbu . After the Second World War , the number of graduates of other universities who went to Cambridge to do research increased significantly. The university therefore decided to found University College in 1965 to help accommodate these students. The college
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