Cass Business School moved to new premises in the London Borough of Islington, and changed its name as part of a strategy formed by Lord Currie of Marylebone, who had become Dean the year before, to compete as an international business school in a market dominated by US universities. The school had previously been spread out across the City of London's mainly residential Barbican Centre development. Half of the £40 million funding for the new building came from the reserves of City, University of London. The school also received a gift from Sir John Cass's Foundation, founded in 1748 to educate children in
Thomas Cass (surveyor) Thomas Cass (surveyor) Thomas Cass (1817 – 17 April 1895) was one of New Zealand's pioneer surveyors. Cass was born in Yorkshire in 1817. He received his education at the Royal Mathematical School, in Christ's Hospital school in London, UK. He left England in 1841 on the "Prince Rupert" to take up survey work for the New Zealand Company, but the ship was wrecked at the Cape of Good Hope and Cass lost most of his gear. He continued his journey on the "Antilla" and arrived in Auckland, New Zealand, in December 1841. He helped with the survey of parts