Thomas Young Room

This small but dignified room overlooks Front Court and the elegant Wren Chapel: the classic Emmanuel College view. It is a warm and intimate dining room with rich burgundy flock wallpaper, and hung with portraits of historic Fellows and benefactors. The focal point is a long, oval dining table that can seat up to 10 people in boardroom style, for private lunches, dinners, and meetings.

Traditionally where the Fellowship took their breakfast, it is named for Thomas Young, who came to Emmanuel as a mature student at the end of the eighteenth century. He developed the wave theory of light, devised the Young modulus, and made important early contributions to the decipherment of the Rosetta Stone's hieroglyphs. He was known as "the last man who knew everything": a genuine polymath.