Cambridge Ophthalmological Symposium 2013

43rd Cambridge Ophthalmological Symposium

The conference will be centred inOld Divinity Schoolopposite the main gate of St John's college and you will find it hard to avoid the feeling of sharing its history.St John's Collegewas founded by Lady Margaret Beaufort, (mother of Henry VII) whose descendants formed the Tudor dynasty. Its fine sixteenth and seventeenth century courts are linked to the later nineteenth century Gothic "New Court" by the picturesque Bridge of Sighs, and within the College can also be found the oldest surviving secular building in Cambridge, The School of Pythagoras, dating from about 1200. It was theSt John's CollegeBoat Club which first challenged Oxford to a race, so originating the annual University Boat Race on the Thames.