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Stephen Perse

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of Stephen Perse is commemorated by a memorial in the Caius College chapel and he is remembered at the College's annual Perse Feast. His epitaph there reads:
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priest and deacon, he was subsequently permitted to change his fellowship to "physick" and took the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1581.
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In his will, Perse gave a significant sum of money for the establishment of "a Grammar Free Schoole", and adjoining
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Perse amassed a fortune of around £10,000, probably from profits on business loans. He gave money to the
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for six poor widows. The school was to teach five score scholars born in Cambridge,
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in 1569, where he was elected to a fellowship. Ordained in May 1573, as a
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was founded in Cambridge. His foundation is commemorated by a
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Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Norwich School
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Church of England
University Library
Maid's Causeway
Nine Wells
Hobson's Conduit
grave

Blue plaque
Free School Lane
almhouses
Barnwell
Chesterton
Trumpington
the Perse School
blue plaque
Whipple Museum
Free School Lane
Perse School for Girls
Stephen Perse Foundation
"History"
"Pearse, Stephen (PRS565S)"
"Pearse, Stephen (PRS565S)"
Find-a-grave - Dr Stephen Perse
The original Perse School (now the Whipple Museum)
Cambridge Blue Plaques
Archived

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