Canterbury College is founded on 16 June 1873 with 87 students. First faculty include:
• Alexander Bickerton, Chemistry & Physics
• John Macmillan Brown, Classics & English
• Charles Cook, Mathematics & Natural Philosophy
This breadth of disciplines persists 150 years later, with 7 faculties and over 900 academics and 22,000 students, it is a vibrant multidisciplinary research environment.