Hugh de Balsham
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Hugh de Balsham was a medieval English bishop.
Balsham shown in the window of Thriplow church in Cambridgeshire, holding the Peterhouse coat of arms
Peterhouse, Cambridge
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Peterhouse is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England, founded in 1284 by Hugh de Balsham, Bishop of Ely. Peterhouse has around 300 undergraduate and 175 graduate students, and
Hugh de Balsham
…four years later entirely differentiated these scholars from the brethren of the hospital, and for them Balsham founded and endowed the college of Peterhouse, the first Cambridge college. He left 200 pounds to the college in his will. Balsham died on 16 June 1286 at the manor of Doddington on the Isle of…
Old Court, facing the Chapel
Church of St Mary the Less
Peterhouse, view from Coe Fen
St Peter's College, view from Trumpington Street, 1815