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| named_for = Charles Darwin | established = 1970 | master = Dermot O'Brien | president = Grace Mercer | website = }} Darwin College is the fourth oldest college of the University of Kent, an English institution in the United Kingdom. It was opened in 1970. == Namesake == After heavy debate, it was named after Charles Darwin, the biologist.〔Graham Martin, ''From Vision to Reality: the Making of the University of Kent at Canterbury'' (University of Kent at Canterbury, 1990) page 125-126 ISBN 0-904938-03-4〕 Unusually for a namesake of a Kent college, Darwin had strong connections to the historic county of Kent, having lived in Down House at Downe (now in the London Borough of Bromley) for the last forty years of his life. Other names considered in the lengthy process included: *Anselm, after Anselm a former Archbishop of Canterbury *Attlee, after Clement Attlee, the post war Prime Minister *Becket, after Thomas Becket, another former Archbishop (this was the recommendation of the college's provisional committee but rejected by the University Senate) *Conrad *Elgar, after Edward Elgar *Maitland *Marlowe, after Christopher Marlowe *Russell, after Bertrand Russell (this was the recommendation of the Senate but rejected by the Council; Russell's political activism was the cause of much opposition) *Tyler, after both Wat Tyler and the nearby Tyler Hill The name was eventually decided by a postal ballot of members of the Senate, choosing from: Attlee, Conrad, Darwin, Elgar,Maitland, Marlowe and Tyler.〔Graham Martin, ''From Vision to Reality: the Making of the University of Kent at Canterbury'' (University of Kent at Canterbury, 1990) pages 122-126 ISBN 0-904938-03-4〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Darwin College, Kent」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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