Trinity College, Cambridge
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Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.[5] Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges,[6] with the largest financial endowment of any Oxbridge college. Trinity performs exceptionally as measured by the Tompkins Table (the annual unofficial league table of Cambridge colleges), coming top from 2011 to 2017.[7] Trinity was the top-performing college for the 2020–21 undergraduate exams, obtaining the highest percentage of good honours.[8]
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| University of Cambridge | ||||||||
 Trinity College Great Court
Scarf colours: navy, with three equally-spaced narrow stripes, the outer stripes of yellow and slightly narrower, the central stripe of red and slightly wider | ||||||||
 Coat of arms of Trinity College Arms: Argent, a chevron between three roses gules barbed and seeded proper and on a chief gules a lion passant gardant between two closed books all Or | ||||||||
| Location | Trinity Street (map) | |||||||
| Full name | The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity within the Town and University of Cambridge of King Henry the Eighth's Foundation | |||||||
| Latin name | Collegium Trinitatis | |||||||
| Motto | Virtus Vera Nobilitas[1] (Latin) | |||||||
| Motto in English | Virtue is true nobility | |||||||
| Founder | Henry VIII of England | |||||||
| Established | 1546; 478 years ago (1546) | |||||||
| Named after | The Holy Trinity | |||||||
| Previous names | King's Hall and Michaelhouse (until merged in 1546) | |||||||
| Sister college | Christ Church, Oxford | |||||||
| Master | Dame Sally Davies | |||||||
| Vice-Master | Professor Louise Merrett | |||||||
| Undergraduates | 735 (2022-23) | |||||||
| Postgraduates | 336 (2022-23) | |||||||
| Senior tutor | Professor Catherine Barnard[2] | |||||||
| Endowment | £2bn (2022)[3] | |||||||
| Visitor | .svg){kind=small} Charles III, The Crown ex officio[4] | |||||||
| Website | trin | |||||||
| Students' union | www | |||||||
| BA society | basociety | |||||||
| Map | ||||||||
  Location in Central Cambridge Show map of Central Cambridge Location in Cambridge Show map of Cambridge | ||||||||
Members of Trinity have been awarded 34 Nobel Prizes out of the 121 received by members of the University of Cambridge (the highest of any college at either Oxford or Cambridge).[9] Members of the college have received four Fields Medals, one Turing Award and one Abel Prize.[10] Six British prime ministers (the highest of any Cambridge college) and two members of the British royal family have studied at Trinity and been awarded degrees.[11] Trinity is also the largest Oxbridge college measured by the number of undergraduates (730), and has 300 graduate students and 180 fellows.
Trinity's many college societies include the Trinity Mathematical Society, the oldest mathematical university society in the United Kingdom, and the First and Third Trinity Boat Club, its rowing club which gives its name to the May ball. Along with Christ's, Jesus, King's and St John's colleges, it has provided several well-known members of the Cambridge Apostles, an intellectual "secret society". In 1848, Trinity hosted the meeting at which Cambridge undergraduates representing fee-paying private schools codified the early rules of Association football, known as the Cambridge Rules.[12] Trinity's sister college is Christ Church, Oxford. Trinity has been linked with Westminster School since the school's re-foundation in 1560, and its Master is an ex officio governor of the school.[13]