Sidney Sussex College, a constituent college of…

Sidney Sussex College, a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, is founded in 1596 and named after its foundress, Frances Sidney, Countess of Sussex.

It is from its inception an avowedly Puritan foundation: some good and godlie moniment for the mainteynance of good learninge.

Oliver Cromwell, the future dictator of the English Commonwealth, is among the first students (although his father became ill and he never graduated), and his head is now buried beneath the College's chapel.