Thomas Nevile
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Thomas Nevile was an English clergyman and academic who was Dean of Peterborough and Dean of Canterbury, Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Thomas Nevile
Trinity Great Court as remodelled by Nevile
Monument with kneeling effigies of Thomas Nevile and his brother Alexander Nevile, in Canterbury Cathedral
Trinity College, Cambridge
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Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of a
Thomas Nevile
…academic who was Dean of Peterborough (1591–1597) and Dean of Canterbury (1597–1615), Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge (1582–1593), and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge (1593–1615). He was born in Canterbury, a son of Richard Neville of South Leverton, Nottinghamshire (who moved to Canterbury in his retirement), a son…
Trinity College Great Court
David Loggan's print of 1690 showing Nevile's Great Court (foreground) and Nevile's Court with the then-new Wren Library (background) – New Court had yet to be built.
Trinity established Cambridge Science Park, the UK's first science park, in 1970.
Remembrance Service at the Great Court in 2018