Frederick Duke of Sussex patron of all the fine arts the oldest order of architecture the highest among the English the foundation stone of the London University between city state [i.e. citizens] and brothers standing around will be placed by his hand to applause. Day before the day before the Kalends of May The work of God desired by the most fortunate citizens of this town has begun at last in the year of human greeting 1827 and in the year of light 5827. In the name of these most illustrious men who are present and with the guidance of Henry Duke of Norfolk, Henry Marquis of Lansdown, Lord John Russell, John, Viscount Dudley and Ward, George, Baron Auckland, the Hon. James Abercrombie and Sir James Macintosh, Alexander Baring, Henry Bougham, Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, George Grote, Zachary Macaulay, Benjamin Shaw, William Tooke, Henry Waymouth, George Birkbeck, Thomas Campbell, Olinthus Gregory, Joseph Hume, James Mill, John Smith, Henry Warburton, John Wishaw, Thomas Wilson, and William Wilkins, architect. Supporters Benefactors Sir Herbert Bartlett (1842–1921), civil engineer, enabled the establishment of the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid (1778–1859), financier, promoter of UK Jewry's emancipation; advocate for the foundation of UCL and a very generous benefactor Council members Timothy Clement-Jones, Baron Clement-Jones, (1949–) Shreela Flather, Baroness Flather (1934–), British politician, UCL alumna, and the first South Asian woman to receive a peerage Sir Stephen Wall, British diplomat, leading Catholic layman, chairman of Council (2008–) Thomas Wilson (1764–1843), Congregationalist benefactor of chapels and educational institutions, founder member of the UCL Council from 1825. Thomas Field Gibson (1803-1889), Manufacturer and benefactor – on Council 1851–68 Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf, UCL alumnus; variously Visitor, Deputy Chairman and Chairman of the Council (2005–08), and Chairman of the UCL Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. Nobel laureates Fields Medallists The Fields Medal is often described as the "Nobel Prize in Mathematics". The UCL mathematical community has produced three Fields Medallists, 1998: Timothy Gowers Faculty member of the Department of Mathematics (1991–1995) 1970: Alan Baker BSc (1961), Professor (1964–1965) 1958: Klaus Roth MSc (1948), PhD (1950), Professor (1948–1966) Former staff Art, architecture, and design Dame Phyllida Barlow, Sculptor Tancred Borenius (1885–1948), art historian, diplomat and British wartime spy Sir Peter Cook (1936–), architect, The Bartlett Professor of Architecture Stuart Brisley, performance artist Thorold Dickinson (1903–84), film maker; Britain's first Professor of Film Studies Thomas Leverton Donaldson (1795–1885),