Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

Sidney Sussex College
Sidney Sussex College
University of Cambridge
	Cloister Court, Sidney Sussex College
	Arms of Sidney Sussex College, being the arms of the foundress Frances Sidney, Countess of Sussex, namely Radclyffe (Argent, a bend engrailed sable) impaling Sidney (Or, a pheon point down azure)
Location	Sidney Street (map)
Full name	The College of the Lady Frances Sidney Sussex
Abbreviation	SID
Motto	Dieu me garde de calomnie (Middle French)
Motto in English	God preserve me from calumny
Founder	Frances Sidney, Countess of Sussex
Established	1596
Sister college	St John's College, Oxford
Master	Martin Burton
Undergraduates	396 (2022-23)
Postgraduates	240 (2022-23)
Fellows	80
Endowment	£29m (2022)
Visitor	Viscounts De L'Isle ex officio
Website	www.sid.cam.ac.uk
Sidney Sussex College Students' Union (SSCSU)	sscsu.org.uk
MCR	www.srcf.ucam.org/sidneymcr/
Map
	Location in Central Cambridge Location in Cambridge

Sidney Sussex College (referred to informally as "Sidney") is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge^[5] in England. The College was founded in 1596 under the terms of the will of Frances Sidney, Countess of Sussex (1531–1589), wife of Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, and named after its foundress. In her will, Lady Sidney left the sum of £5,000 together with some plate to found a new College at Cambridge University "to be called the Lady Frances Sidney Sussex College".^[6] Her executors Sir John Harington and Henry Grey, 6th Earl of Kent, supervised by Archbishop John Whitgift, founded the Protestant College seven years after her death.^[7]

^ Usually shown in a lozenge-shaped shield as appropriate for female armigers
^ University of Cambridge (6 March 2019). "Notice by the Editor". Cambridge University Reporter. 149 (Special No 5): 1. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
^ "Annual report and Financial Statements for the year ended 30 June 2022" (PDF). Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Retrieved 8 July 2023.
^ Cite error: The named reference sid-cam-statutes was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Walker, Timea (2 February 2022). "Sidney Sussex College". www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
^ Hearn, Karen, ed. Dynasties: Painting in Tudor and Jacobean England 1530–1630, p. 95
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