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HOMERTON COLLEGE CHARTER CAMPAIGN
One year on from receiving the Royal
Charter we are focusing on Homerton’s
future as part of the Cambridge collegiate
system. This year we have launched the
Charter Campaign focusing on three key
areas of College life: Students, Research
and Teaching. Our aim is to ensure that
all our students can enjoy an exceptional
and distinctive Homerton education
including outstanding facilities, teaching
and extra-curricular opportunities.
During the Easter vacation 2011 we
undertook our first Telephone Campaign.
Fifteen of our current students telephoned
Roll members over a two week period.
We hope this becomes an annual event,
allowing Homertonians to exchange news
and experiences at the College across the
generations. Over a third of the people
we spoke to have made a gift, while
others are giving the matter further
consideration. The College would like
to extend its gratitude to all of its donors,
past and present.
English, Geography, Law, Natural Sciences
and Theology. Their extra-curricular
pursuits included drama, music and sport,
but we also had a budding journalist
who has published nationally and
internationally, a Lay Chaplain, an
engineering student involved with
Engineering World Health and a student
hoping to set up allotments in the
College grounds. The students enjoyed
your wonderful memories of your time
at Homerton in addition to learning and
developing skills which will help them in
their future careers.
If you would like to know more about the
Homerton College Charter Campaign please
contact Alison Holroyd, Senior Development
Officer, at campaign@homerton.cam.ac.uk
or 01223 747270. Further details are also
available in the Homertonian section of the
website. All gifts, no matter their size, make
a real difference. Added together they
create an important resource to ensure
Homerton’s continued success and
excellence into the future.
Alison Holroyd
Senior Development Officer
The student callers who took part reflected
the diversity of subjects now on offer at
Homerton College. Their subjects included
Economics, Education, Engineering,
The telephone team
BENEFACTORS OF HOMERTON
Homerton has always relied heavily on
benefactors, and particularly legacies,
to support its work in teaching and
education. The earliest record we have
of a legacy comes just six years after
the King’s Head Society was formed:
Mr Charles Mason of the Victualling
Office, by Will dated 10 Aug. 1736,
bequeathed £150 to promote ‘…a work
carrying on for training up Youth in the
Grammar tongue for which purpose a
Society meet weekly at the King’s Head
Tavern, by Swithin’s Ally, by the Royal
Exchange.’ Another early benefactor was
Richard Moth, a minister who died shortly
after becoming a member in 1737. He
left both money and books to the Society;
the books were mostly theological works
and twenty five were selected, including
Gordon’s Geographical Grammar.
In our archives we have a list of early
benefactors in the period up to 1850.
Surprisingly there are sixteen of over £100
and one from the Rev. W. Miller of £769 in
1812 – a huge sum of money equivalent to
several million by modern standards. Another
given by a Mr Isaac Padman in 1829 was
for £895. An anonymous member of the
University of Oxford gave us £100 in 1833
– surprising because this was a time when
non-conformists could not enter Oxbridge.
Mr George Hammond left us £1,000 in
1839. One of the biggest all-time donations
to the College came from the celebrated
philanthropist Samuel Morley, who gave us
£2,000 in 1894 to assist with the move from
London and a ‘like sum’ in the following year
to help with refurbishment of the Cavendish
buildings in Cambridge. Samuel Morley is
consequently regarded as the founder of
Homerton in Cambridge. His portrait hangs
in the Hall and we use elements of the
Morley crest in our College coat of arms.
In 1936 we had the legacy in memory
of Mary Louise Macaulay, a student from
1909–11. She died prematurely in 1915
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