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Trinity College, Cambridge -- Stained Glass in the Chapel Windows      North 1

I couldn't find many pictures of Henry Holiday's Stained Glass windows in Trinity College, Cambridge so I decided to create my own pages. The windows are numbered 1 to 8 from the Ante Chapel to the Altar. I have tried to identify the person depicted in each window and provide links with information about that person. If you have any corrections, comments or advice please contact me at john-saville@ntlworld.com.

Richard Bentley Isaac Newton Roger Cotes John Ray
Master 1700-1742.

Educated at St John's. On being made Master of Trinity said: "With the help of my God I have leapt over the wall" [between Trinity's Bowling Green and St John's Lane]

 Newton, with an apple

Mathematician & Scientist.

Laws of motion, spectrum, gravity.....

Cotes (with a telescope) had an observatory built over the Great Gate at Trinity, but it was demolished in 1797. Cotes died at the early age of 33, and Newton said of him, "Had he lived, perhaps we would have known something." Naturalist
John Dryden Abraham Cowley Isaac Barrow John Pearson
Poet & Playwright Poet Master (1672-1677) .Barrow gave up the Lucasian Professorship in favor of his student Newton. Master (1662-1672)
 

 

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