Pembroke has a long and distinguished history. Its poets and politicians, its mathematics and its music, have won the College
a reputation for various distinction. Pembroke is also well known for relaxed but disciplined achievement, in academic life
and beyond. Pembroke today is committed to building on those traditions of diversity in excellence.
Pembroke is the third oldest college in Cambridge. It was founded in 1347 by the Countess of Pembroke, Marie de St Pol, who
gave the nucleus of the present site and an endowment.
