KING'S COLLEGE. A college of Cambridge University. originally known as the College of Saint Nicholas. It was founded by Henry VI. in 1441. along with Eton College. Windsor. as its preparatory school. The college was the first in Cambridge to be designed on a splendid architec tural scale, of which the chapel, begun by Henry VI., continued by Henry VIL, and completed by Henry V111.. is now the most striking feature and the only part of the original plan fully ear ried out. The foundation consisted of a provost, 70 fellows, and scholars, chaplains, clerks, (.ho•is ters, and servitors to the extraordinary number. of 140. The college had, from the first, unusual privileges, like New College, Oxford, such as exemption from the jurisdiction of the Arch bishop of Canterbury. the Bishop of Ely, and even of the university, in matters scholastic. Till 1857, the members of College could taco a degree without passing the university examina tions, which privilege tended to lower the schol arship of its members. The revenues of col
lege are said to have liven reduced by Ed NV,1 rd IV., but were increased by succeeding be The college had, in 1902, a provost, 46 fellows, and 4S scholars, with lecturers, tutors, and college ()dicers, and !-once 120 undergraduates. It pre sents to some 40 livings. Except the chapel. the buildings are not of pronounced excellence. The ehapel, however. is the finest college chapel in existence, and probably the finest example of its style of architecture in the world in size, form. and deeoration. it contains some of the best glass and Nye. ,(1 carving in England. Among the worthies of King's have been Sir Robert Wal pole, the first Sir William Temple. Lord Strat ford he Redeliffe. Archbishop Sumner, Bishop Pearson. and Bichard Croke. the Greek scholar. See E ION COLLEGE :111(1 CAMBRIDGE, UN IYER. SECT OP.