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Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

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Sidney Sussex College was founded in 1596 and named after its foundress, Lady Frances Sidney, Countess of Sussex. It is one of the Colleges that makes up the University of Cambridge. It was from its inception an avowedly Puritan foundation: some good and godlie moniment for the mainteynance of good learninge. Oliver Cromwell was among the first students, and it is rumoured that his head is buried beneath the College's chapel.

It is nicknamed by neighbouring Cambridge students "That college opposite Sainsbury's" or, to the slightly more enlightened, "Sidney Sainsbury's".


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