Standing on the banks of the River Cam, Darwin College was founded in 1964 by three other colleges; Trinity, Gonville and St. John’s. It was the first graduate only college at the university and the first at either Oxford or Cambridge to accept both men and women. The college is named after the family of British naturalist Charles Darwin, who owned a great deal of the land on which the college is built. The college is famous for hosting the annual Darwin Lectures, where a distinguished academic gives a talk.