RECORD: 'Admissions 1818-1828' CC-T.1.4 Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Scanned (with Geoffrey Thorndike Martin) and transcribed by John van Wyhe 8.2006. RN2
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here.
This admissions book records Darwin's admission, not his residence in College, which began in Lent Term 1828.
Reproduced with permission of the Master and Fellows of Christ's College, Cambridge.
See an introduction to the admissions books by John van Wyhe.
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October 15. 1827
Charles Darwin admd. a Pensr.1
Caution & Fees not Paid
Paid £15.19.6
1 Darwin was admitted as a 'pensioner', one of three ranks of students: fellow commoners (younger sons of noblemen or very wealthy individuals), pensioners (coming from the French for boarder) and sizars. A pensioner being a commoner who was able to pay all of his own fees and expenses without a scholarship.
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Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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