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Gonville Bromhead British army major

Major Gonville Bromhead VC was a British Army officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to members of the British armed forces. He received the medal for his part in the defence of Rorke's Drift in January 1879 where a small British garrison of 139 soldiers successfully repulsed an assault by some 4,000 Zulu warriors. Bromhead was portrayed by Michael Caine in the film Zulu, which depicted the battle.

The Very Revd Gonville Aubie ffrench-Beytagh, Anglican priest, was the Dean of Johannesburg and an anti-apartheid activist.

Edmund Gonville founded Gonville Hall in 1348, which later was re-founded by John Caius to become Gonville and Caius College. Gonville Hall was his third foundation. Before this he had founded two religious houses, a College at Rushford, Norfolk, 1342 and the Hospital of St John at Lynn, Norfolk. The origin of his wealth is obscure.

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Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge college of the University of Cambridge

Gonville & Caius College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. The college is the fourth-oldest college at the University of Cambridge and one of the wealthiest. The college has been attended by many students who have gone on to significant accomplishment, including fourteen Nobel Prize winners, the second-most of any Oxbridge college.

The Gonville and Caius Range is a range of peaks, 1,000 to 1,500 metres high, between Mackay Glacier and Debenham Glacier in Victoria Land Antarctica. It was first mapped by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13, under Robert Falcon Scott, and was named for Gonville and Caius College, of Cambridge University, the alma mater of several members of the expedition.

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John Gostlin English academic and physician, Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

John Gostlin or Gostlyn MD was an English academic and physician, Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge from 1619 and Regius Professor of Physic.

Spencer Cecil Carpenter, was an Anglican priest and author. He was the Dean of Exeter in the Church of England from 1935 to 1950.

William Rougham was the second master of Gonville Hall, Cambridge from c. 1360. He had been a fellow of the college since the 1350s and was Bachelor of Medicine by 1366. He was also a priest with livings in the Diocese of Norwich and was personal physician to Henry le Despenser, Bishop of Norwich.

Thomas Bacon was the fifteenth master of Gonville Hall, Cambridge from 1552.

Physwick or Fishwick Hostel is a former constituent of The University of Cambridge located on the south side of the present Trinity Great Court, between the Queen’s Gate and Trinity Street. It was founded in 1393 when William Fiswick, the first esquire or armiger bedel of the university, bequeathed his Trinity Lane hall to Gonville Hall.

Thomas Boleyn (priest) English academic administrator

The Very Reverend Dr Thomas Boleyn, also known for ease as Thomas Boleyn II, was the Master of Gonville Hall, Cambridge from 1454 to 1472. He was the eldest surviving son of Geoffrey Boleyn yeoman of Salle, Norfolk and brother of Sir Jeffery Boleyn, Lord Mayor of London. He was also the great grand uncle of Anne Boleyn, Queen consort of England.

John Ellys (Caius) English academic

Sir John Ellys or Ellis (1634?–1716) was an English academic, Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge from 1703.

John Forbes Cameron was a Scottish mathematician, academic and academic administrator. He was Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge from 1928 to 1948 and was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge from 1933 to 1935.

William Buckenham was a 16th century priest and academic.

Henry Costessey, B.D. was a priest and academic in the 15th century.