Downing College, Cambridge

Downing College
Downing College
University of Cambridge
	Downing College Chapel
	Arms of Downing College; Arms: Barry of eight argent and vert, a griffin segreant or within a bordure azure charged with eight roses of the first seeded and barbed proper.
Location	Regent Street, Cambridge (map)
Coordinates	52°12′03″N 0°07′29″E / 52.2008°N 0.1248°E
Full name	Downing College in the University of Cambridge
Abbreviation	DOW
Motto	Quaerere Verum (Latin)
Motto in English	Seek the truth
Founder	Sir George Downing
Established	22 September 1800
Sister college	Lincoln College, Oxford
Master	Graham Virgo
Undergraduates	493 (2022-23)
Postgraduates	455 (2022-23)
Endowment	£70.7m (2022)
Visitor	The Crown ex officio
Website	www.dow.cam.ac.uk
JCR	www.jcr.dow.cam.ac.uk
MCR	downingmcr.soc.srcf.net
Boat club	www.downingboatclub.co.uk
Map
	Location in Central Cambridge Location in Cambridge

Downing College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge^[5] and currently has around 950 students. Founded in 1800, it was the only college to be added to Cambridge University between 1596 and 1869, and is often described as the oldest of the new colleges and the newest of the old.^[6] Downing College was formed "for the encouragement of the study of Law and Medicine and of the cognate subjects of Moral and Natural Science", and has developed a reputation amongst Cambridge colleges for Law^[7] and Medicine.

Downing has been named one of the two most eco-friendly Cambridge colleges.^[8]

^ University of Cambridge (6 March 2019). "Notice by the Editor". Cambridge University Reporter. 149 (Special No 5): 1. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
^ "Downing welcomes Professor Graham Virgo KC (Hon) as the 19th Master". Downing College Cambridge. 2 October 2023. Retrieved 6 October 2023.
^ "Annual report and Accounts for the year ended 30 June 2022" (PDF). Downing College, Cambridge. Retrieved 26 May 2023.
^ Cite error: The named reference dow-cam-statutes was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Walker, Timea (2 February 2022). "Downing College". www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
^ "Downing College". University of Cambridge. Retrieved 2 September 2010.
^ Chappell, Peter (16 September 2018). "How a small society of Indian Cambridge students helped destroy the British Raj". Varsity. Retrieved 18 September 2018. Downing admitted one third of all Indian students as the College's heavy focus on Law drew many applications from the Empire.
^ "Jesus and Downing named 'greenest' Cambridge colleges". 30 April 2012.

[1] University of Cambridge (6 March 2019). "Notice by the Editor". Cambridge University Reporter. 149 (Special No 5): 1. Retrieved 20 March 2019.

[2] "Downing welcomes Professor Graham Virgo KC (Hon) as the 19th Master". Downing College Cambridge. 2 October 2023. Retrieved 6 October 2023.

[Downing_College_Financial_Statement_22/23-3] "Annual report and Accounts for the year ended 30 June 2022" (PDF). Downing College, Cambridge. Retrieved 26 May 2023.

[dow-cam-statutes-4] Cite error: The named reference dow-cam-statutes was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[5] Walker, Timea (2 February 2022). "Downing College". www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2 November 2022.

[6] "Downing College". University of Cambridge. Retrieved 2 September 2010.

[7] Chappell, Peter (16 September 2018). "How a small society of Indian Cambridge students helped destroy the British Raj". Varsity. Retrieved 18 September 2018. Downing admitted one third of all Indian students as the College's heavy focus on Law drew many applications from the Empire.

[8] "Jesus and Downing named 'greenest' Cambridge colleges". 30 April 2012.

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