Queens' College, Cambridge

Queens' College
University of Cambridge
Queens' College Gatehouse
Arms of Queens' College, being the arms of Margaret of Anjou
Scarf colours: dark green, with two equally-spaced narrow white stripes
Location	Silver Street (map)
Full name	The Queen's College of St Margaret and St Bernard[1]
Abbreviation	Q[2]
Motto	Floreat Domus (Latin)
Motto in English	May this house flourish
Founders	Margaret of Anjou (1448) Elizabeth Woodville (1465)
Established	1448; 576 years ago (1448) Refounded 1465
Named after	Margaret the Virgin Bernard of Clairvaux
Sister colleges	Pembroke College, Oxford Ezra Stiles College, Yale Osaka Gakuin University
President	Mohamed A. El-Erian
Undergraduates	546 (2022-23)
Postgraduates	544 (2022-23)
Endowment	£119.67 million [3]
Website	www.queens.cam.ac.uk
JCR	qjcr.org.uk
MCR	qmcr.org.uk
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Queens' College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.^[4] Queens' is one of the 16 "old colleges" of the university, founded in 1448 by Margaret of Anjou. Its buildings span the River Cam with the Mathematical Bridge and Silver Street connecting the two sides.

College alumni include Desiderius Erasmus, who studied at the college during his trips to England between 1506 and 1515. Other notable alumni include author T. H. White, Israeli politician Abba Eban, founding father of Ghana William Ofori Atta, newsreader and journalist Emily Maitlis, actor Stephen Fry, the Governor of the Bank of England Andrew Bailey, the British members of Parliament Stephen Kinnock and Liz Kendall, and number theorist James Maynard (recipient of the Fields Medal in 2022).

As of June 2023^[update], the college held non-current assets valued at £179 million.^[3]

The president of the college is the economist Mohamed A. El-Erian. Past presidents include the Catholic martyr John Fisher.