You may be looking for Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. Full name Fitzwilliam College Motto Ex antiquis et novissimis optima Best of the old - and of the latest Named after Fitzwilliam Museum, named after Richard Fitzwilliam Previous names Fitzwilliam Hall [Non collegiate] (1869), Fitzwilliam House [Non collegiate] (1924) Established 1966 Sister College St Edmund Hall Master Prof. ...
Fitzwilliam is a large village on the edge of West Yorkshire. It is located in the Wakefield district, to the west of Hemsworth. Like most of this district, it was an old coal-mining area, although Fitzwilliam has yet to fully recover from the effect of pits closures. Over the last 5 years, a very large proportion of the village has been demolished, due to the dominance of derelict properties; fortunes are now starting to improve. Unemployment is high, although not as high as it once was. Heroin abuse remains a problem. In response to this situation, Fitzwilliam is included in a special regeneration area and has received special funding to aid its recovery. It has a train station on the Wakefield line, providing it with connections to Wakefield, Doncaster and Sheffield. A village is a human settlement commonly found in rural areas. ... West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in England, corresponding roughly to the core of the West Riding of the traditional county of Yorkshire. ... For other uses of the word, see Wakefield (disambiguation). ... Hemsworth is a small town on the edge of West Yorkshire in the Wakefield district. ... The Wakefield line is a railway connecting Leeds and Wakefield with Sheffield and Doncaster in the north of England. ... For other uses of the word, see Wakefield (disambiguation). ... Map sources for Doncaster at grid reference SE5702 Doncaster is a town in South Yorkshire, England. ... Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough in the south of England. ...
William Fitzwilliam, a younger son in a cadet branch of a relatively undistinguished Yorkshire family, was probably chosen at the age of ten as a companion for Prince Henry as a result of his mother's second marriage to Sir Anthony Browne, the King's standard-bearer and constable of Calais.
Fitzwilliam's career during the years which followed is liable to confusion with that of a namesake, the treasurer of Wolsey's household: both were associated with Calais and both became members of the Council, but it was probably the courtier who was appointed to sit in the Star Chamber in 1517.
Fitzwilliam's duties in the Household were not onerous, and he was appointed in turn to greater and more demanding offices: in 1529 he succeeded More as chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, in 1536 he replaced the Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond as admiral and in 1540 he followed Cromwell as lord privy seal.
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