Talk:Girton College, Cambridge

I'm possibly going to make some more changes to this page, as it seems like a slightly random collection of things and not a lot of fact.

The site was purchased originally, not rented from Trinity College (I'm not sure who it was bought from, but it wasn't Trinity). There is no evidence at all the site was designed as a madhouse. If anyone would like to provide any evidence for that it can go back in, but from the various histories of the college I've never heard such a thing.

That "unoffical song" I believe must have only existed for a short time, as I went to Girton and never heard it. Also do we care what the sun said in some random article? Mrjeff 14:11, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Girton song
Would be good to find out roughly when this is from, I'm a 4th year student & its been around since I've been here and when i was a fresher it was known by everyone in higher years... Which only puts it back to prob at least 7 years... Maybe we can track down when it originated? 131.111.8.104

We sang that song in freshers week last term! I like the entry, it was up to date - good effort.

I sang the song throughout my time at Girton including on the steps to Senate house at graduation!

When I was there (c 1980), we were still singing :


 * ''"Play up!" all the College cried;
 * ''"Pass out to the wing, girls!
 * ''That's the sort of thing, girls!"
 * ''Run! I thought I should have died!
 * Knocked it through the Newnham goal! 

-- Beardo 05:25, 15 June 2007 (UTC)


 * I don't know the song at all but the tune must be Knocked 'em in the Old Kent Road; the words (and, I think, the spirit) fit exactly. Can anyone confirm first hand? Brother Francis 11:37, 15 June 2007 (UTC)


 * This is correct. PeterBrett (talk) 09:29, 22 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Someone recently deleted the song without explanation. I've reinstated it. It is an important part of Girton identity. Perhaps we should also include the song that Beardo mentions; I remember that being sung by the choir. 87.115.0.126 (talk) 09:22, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

external reference removed
I've removed the external reference to the varsity (Student newspaper) article - this is a minor event of little relevance and a clear example of sensationalist reporting. The selection of just one (negative) press article is also hardly neutral.

Furthermore, the case has now been dropped by the CPS. SJMurdoch 11:16, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Full text of grant of arms
"To All and Singular to whom these Presents shall come Sir Henry Farnham Burke Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath Garter Principal King of Arms and Arthur William Stewart Cochrane Esquire, Member of the Royal Victorian Order Norroy King of Arms Send Greeting Whereas Edith Helen Major, Spinster, Mistress of Girton College in the University of Cambridge, and Master of Arts of Trinity College Dublin, hath represented unto Edmund Bernard Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, One of His Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council and Deputy to the Most Noble Bernard Marmaduke Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal of England that by Letters Patent under the Great Seal bearing date the twenty fourth day of August that the Members of the Governing Body of Girton College Cambridge should for ever thereafter be one body politic and corporate by the name and style of the Mistress and Governors of Girton College, and by the same name should have perpetual succession and a Common Seal, that the Mistress and Governors of the said College being desirous that their Common Seal should contain fit and proper Armorial Ensigns which should bear suitable allusion of the founders and benefactors of the said college requested the favour of his Lordship’s Warrant for Our granting and assigning such Armorial Ensigns as might be proper to be borne and used by them and their successors upon Seal Shields or otherwise according to the Laws of Arms and forasmuch as His Lordship did by Warrant under this hand and the Seal of the Earl Marshal bearing Warrant dated the twentieth day of December following authorise and direct Us to grant and assign such Armorial Ensigns accordingly Know ye therefore that We the said Garter and Norroy in pursuance of His Lordship’s Warrant and by virtue of the Letters Patent of Our several Offices to each of Us respectively granted do by these Presents grant and assign unto The Mistress and Governors of Girton College the Arms following that is to say: Quarterly Vert and Argent a cross flory countercharged a Roundel Ermine and in the second and third quarters a Crescent Gules, as the same are in the margin here of more plainly depicted to be borne and used for ever, hereafter by the Mistress and Governors of Girton College and by their Successors upon Seals Shields or otherwise according to the Laws of Arms. In witness whereof We the said Garter and Norroy Kings of Arms have to these presents subscribed Our names and affixed the Seals of Our several Offices this fourteenth day of February in the Eighteenth year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord George the Fifth by the Grace of God of Great Britain Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas King Defender of the Faith &c. and in the year of Our Lord One thousand nine hundred and twenty eight."

This was quoted fully on the main page; I abbreviated it to the essentials. PeterBrett (talk) 09:14, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

First in England?
Is there a particular reason for calling it the first residential college for women in England? The Girton website claims that it was "Britain's first residential college for women offering an education at degree level." That's both geographically more broad but also more restrictive in the type of college. Is there another one that opened earlier, in Scotland or Wales, but didn't offer degrees? GoldenRing (talk) 12:14, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

ELLEN WORDSWORTH DARWIN, NEE CROFTS : THE SECOND WIFE OF SIR FRANCIS DARWIN
Does anyone know of any connection with 'Girton': college or is she buried in the immediate area?

Martin

2.27.124.217 (talk) 17:48, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

Site of Girton College.
According to this site, the area of Girton College is 18.6 hectares. It would seem to be sensible to use the detailed information from Parks and Gardens UK to enhance this article. Any comments or suggestions? Michael Glass (talk) 04:55, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

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