Hughes Hall, Cambridge

Hughes Hall is the oldest College for graduate and mature students in the University of Cambridge. It was originally founded in 1885 as the Cambridge Training College (CTC) for women and the principal was Miss Elizabeth Phillips Hughes. In 1885 it started with fourteen students in a small house in Newnham called Croft Cottage. One of the first matriculants, Molly Thomas, recounted the experience of the first class of students in A London Girl of the 1880s (published under her married name, M. V. Hughes). By 1895 the College moved to its present site, which was designed by the Cambridge architect William Fawcett. Expanding slowly over the next 40 years, the college finally became part of the University in 1949 and was renamed Hughes Hall, after its first principal. Hughes Hall became an Approved Foundation in 1985 and achieved full College status in 2006.

The College's first male students arrived in 1973, and students began to arrive to study a wider range of affiliated post-graduate degrees. Student numbers have gradually risen over the eighties and nineties. Today, Hughes Hall has approximately 500 graduate and affiliated and mature (aged over 21) students, of both sexes, studying a wide range of subjects. The College is one of the most international Cambridge Colleges, with its students representing over 60 nationalities.

The majority of the Fellows of the College are academics engaged in teaching and research in the various departments and faculties of the University. They come from diverse backgrounds and work in many fields. Students and Fellows mix freely in all aspects of College life. Unusually, Hughes has no special provisions for Fellows at meals or in the use of the College's recreational facilities. All members have many opportunities to share interests and learn from one another in the interdisciplinary environment of the College.

In 2005 Hughes opened a new residential, dining, and meeting building, the Fenners Building, which overlooks the University cricket grounds, also named Fenners. A new library building is expected to open in 2009.

Hughes has many specialities, including students in professional disciplines such as medicine, law, business, and post-graduate studies in education, as well as a disproportionately high number of Cambridge 'Blues' - sports men and women who have excelled in fields including rugby, rowing, cricket, swimming, chess and others.

Presidents

• 1953-1973: Margaret Wileman (Principal, later President)
• 1973-1978: Sir Desmond Lee
• 1978-1984: Richard D'Aeth
• 1993-1998: John Dingle
• 1998-2006: Peter Richards
• 2006- : Sarah Squire

College Officers

Godwin, Dr Ray (Vice-President and Director of Studies - Medical Sciences - Cambridge Graduate Course in Medicine) Hughes Hall.

Blamire, Prof Mark G (Acting Deputy Vice-President) Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Melville, Dr Sara E (Deputy Vice-President) Hughes Hall

Raymont, The Rev'd Dr Philip (Senior Tutor and Director of Studies in Education) Hughes Hall.

Franklin, Dr Michael J (Praelector, Registrary, Undergraduate Admissions Tutor, Director of Studies in History, IT Director and HonoraryArchivist) Research Centre for English & Applied Linguistics, Keynes House, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1QA.

Taylor, Mr Neil E (Bursar) Hughes Hall.

Boat Club

Hughes Hall College Boat Club has enjoyed considerable successTemplate:Really? in recent years. In the 2007 May Bumps, both the Men's and Women's crews won blades in their respective divisions. By doing so, the Boat Club also won the 2nd Pegasus Cup, awarded annually to the most successful boat club in Cambridge. The achievements of the boat club is even more significant considering the fact that Hughes Hall admits many students on one-year degrees. As such, the boat club trains many novices each year, and top performers are often given opportunities in the first VIII. The Boat Club houses its four rowing shells in the Emmanuel Boathouse. The women's crew is organised jointly with Lucy Cavendish College Boat Club affectionately called Lucy/Hughes Boat Club.

Further reading

• M.V. Hughes, A London Girl of the 1880s (Oxford, 1936).
• Margaret Bottrall, Hughes Hall 1885-1985, Cambridge, 1985, pp.1-132.

External links

• College MCR website
• Hughes Hall Graduate Law Society
• Hughes Hall May Ball

Gallery

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  Hughes Hall
• Hughes Hall and the University Cricket Ground
  Hughes Hall and the University Cricket Ground
• Wollaston Lodge and the Margaret Wileman building, Hughes Hall
  Wollaston Lodge and the Margaret Wileman building, Hughes Hall
• Entrance and Fenner's, Hughes Hall
  Entrance and Fenner's, Hughes Hall

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