Sidney Sussex College

And they're of, you know, gentleman class, gentry class, but not huge means of, And so and then Oliver Cromwell is educated there in Huntington at the grammar school.

And then he goes to Sydney Sussex College in Cambridge.

He's only there for a year before his father dies unexpectedly.

And Oliver has to hurry home.

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Sidney Smith's Sydney Sussex, that's right, college.

Sorry to skip ahead again.

Where did they put the statue? Outside Parliament? That's Victorian.

Which private owners possessed the head? Scholars point to a chain of collectors and museum trustees across London and Cambridge.

The head's journey included storage under an estate in Windsor, display in a London gallery, then acquisition by Sidney Sussex College.

How did Sidney Sussex come to bury it? In nineteen sixty, a commission from the college purchased what was believed to be Cromwell's skull for preservation.

They buried it within their campus as a final act of respect, or perhaps censure.