Editing King's College, Cambridge (section)

=== Victorian reforms and expansion ===

[[File:Scott's Building, King's College - geograph.org.uk - 818428.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.2|Scott's Building]]

Under the provostship of Richard Okes, from 1850 until his death in 1888, the college began a period of reform.  On 1 May 1851 it was agreed to abolish the privilege of King's members to be granted a degree without passing the university examinations. In 1861 the college statutes were amended so as to expand the college and, more radically, to allow for the election of non-Etonian King's members: the new statutes provided for 46 Fellows, 24 scholarships reserved for boys from Eton, and 24 "open" scholarships for boys from any school. At the same time all formal obligation to take Holy Orders – unenforced since the 17th century – was removed.{{sfn|Austen-Leigh|1899|pp=150, 221, 279}}  The statutes were again amended in 1882, this time ensuring fellowships were not always for life and were awarded on merit after submissions of original research. In his 1930 memoir ''As We Were, A Victorian Peep Show'',<ref>{{Cite book|title=As We Were, A Victorian Peep-Show|last=Benson|first=Edward Frederic|publisher=Longmans, Green And CO.|year=1930|isbn=0701205881|location=London, New York, Toronto|pages=[https://archive.org/details/aswewerevictoria00bens/page/124 124]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/aswewerevictoria00bens/page/124}}</ref> [[E. F. Benson]], an alumnus of King's,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search-2016.pl?sur=&suro=w&fir=&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&z=all&tex=BN887EF&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50|title=A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge|last=Benson|first=Edward Frederic|website=A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge|archive-url=https://archive.today/20180313195003/http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search-2016.pl?sur=&suro=w&fir=&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&z=all&tex=BN887EF&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50|archive-date=13 March 2018|url-status=live|access-date=13 March 2018}}</ref> recollected the peculiar behaviour of some of the surviving Life Fellows from his undergraduate years of 1887–1890 and before.   Of one he wrote, "He then shuffled out on to the big lawn, with a stick in his hand, and he prodded with it at the worms in the grass, muttering to himself, 'Ah, damn ye: ye haven't got me yet.'" The first non-Etonian students were admitted to study at King's in 1865, and the first non-Etonian scholars and the first non-Etonian fellow were elected in 1873. These reforms continued over subsequent decades and there are now no special privileges for Etonians at King's.

[[File:Bodley's Court, Kings College, Cambridge - geograph.org.uk - 849323.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Bodley's Court]]
Expansion of the college through the 1861 statutes necessitated more building work to accommodate the larger community. In 1869, the area along [[King's Parade]] between the Wilkins' Buildings and King's Lane was built upon after a design by [[George Gilbert Scott]].  When completed a year later, the new courtyard formed was named after Walter Chetwynd, a fellow of the college.{{r|kings-history}}{{sfn|Fay|1907|pp = 40–41}}  However, after subsequent plans to expand college accommodation fell through, King's opened negotiations to amalgamate with [[St Catharine's College, Cambridge|St Catharine's College]]. Although St Catharine's had been founded by [[Robert Woodlark]] (sometimes spelled Wodelarke), a Provost of King's, the college declined the invitation to combine.{{sfn|Fay|1907|p = 42}}  Eventually, in 1893, the east and south wings of another new courtyard within King's – designed by [[George Frederick Bodley]] and overlooking the river – were completed.{{sfn|Fay|1907|pp = 42–43}}