Cambridge University Reporter


Notice of benefactions

1 December 2008

The Vice-Chancellor gives notice that she has accepted with gratitude the following benefactions:

(a) a generous bequest of approximately £1.6m under the Will of Dr W. D. Armstrong, M.A., Ph.D., a former Engineering student in the University, a member of the Department of Chemical Engineering, a Fellow of St John's College, and a Founding Fellow of Churchill College, to encourage the application of Engineering in Medicine in the University. Dr Armstrong also left a bequest of his collection of silver objects to the Fitzwilliam Museum.
(b) a benefaction from Professor Quentin Skinner, FBA, Regius Professor of Modern History Emeritus which comprises (i) a sum of £112,000, this being part of the sum awarded to Professor Skinner by the Balzan Foundation as winner of a Balzan prize in 2006, to fund for a period of five years an annual Balzan-Skinner Lecture in Modern Intellectual History since c. 1500, and (ii) a sum of £12,800 to endow a Quentin Skinner Prize in History, to be awarded to a student undertaking the M.Phil. course in Political Thought and Intellectual History.

The Council is submitting Graces to the Regent House (Graces 4 and 5, p. 291) for the approval of regulations to govern the W. D. Armstrong Fund and the Quentin Skinner Prize Fund.