City, University of London 2001, a fire in the college building gutted the fourth floor offices and roof. In August 2001 City and the Inns of Court School of Law agreed to merge. Following a donation from Sir John Cass's Foundation, a multimillion-pound building was built at 106 Bunhill Row for the Cass Business School. A new £23 million building to house the School of Social Sciences and the Department of Language and Communication Science was opened in 2004. The reconstruction and redevelopment of the university's Grade II listed college building (following the fire in 2001) was completed in July 2006. In 2007 the
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