Emmanuel College, Cambridge
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Emmanuel College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1584 by Sir Walter Mildmay, Chancellor of the Exchequer to Elizabeth I. The site on which the colle
Front Court, Emmanuel College
A 1690 illustration of Emmanuel by David Loggan
College sports grounds
The chapel looking towards the altar
Walter Mildmay
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Sir Walter Mildmay was an English politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer to Queen Elizabeth I, and founded Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
Emmanuel College, Cambridge
…Emmanuel College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1584 by Sir Walter Mildmay, Chancellor of the Exchequer to Elizabeth I. The site on which the college sits was once Cambridge Blackfriars, a priory for Dominican monks, and the…
Portrait by Paul van Somer I (c. 1577–1621)
Apethorpe Hall, depicted in 1829, acquired by Mildmay in 1552
The tomb of Sir Walter and Lady Mary Mildmay in St Bartholomew-the-Great