Robert Forsyth Scott’s history of St. John’s College, Cambridge, chronicles one of the university’s largest, oldest, and most intellectually distinguished foundations — home to Wordsworth, Wilberforce, Clerke Maxwell, and numerous other figures central to British intellectual and public life. Founded in 1511 by Lady Margaret Beaufort, the college has played a central role in Cambridge’s history for over five centuries.
Scott traces the college’s architecture, its statutes and governance, its famous alumni, and its scholarly traditions, providing a detailed institutional history set within the broader context of Cambridge and British higher education. Download the free EPUB for this authoritative history of a great British academic institution.