Downing College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge and currently has around 650 students. Founded in 1800 it was the only college to be added to Cambridge University between 1596 and 1869 and is often described as the oldest of the new colleges and the newest of the old.The current Master of the college is Geoffrey Grimmett Professor of Mathematical Statistics at the University.
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