The forerunner of the Cambridge University Catholic Association was the Catholic Church Maintenance Association (CCMA), established in 1887 by Baron Anatole von Hügel, curator of the Museum of Ethnology, and Canon Scott, priest at the church of Our Lady and the English Martyrs. In February 1899, CCMA was reorganised as Cambridge University Catholic Association (CUCA). Von Hügel had been instrumental in persuading the Holy See in 1895 to lift its ban on Catholics attending English universities. He was also one of the leading lights in the establishment in 1896 of St Edmund's House as an academic institution for Catholic students at Cambridge. The first chaplain to the University was Fr. Edmund Nolan, selected by the Universities' Catholic Education Board in 1896. Thereafter, CUCA worked alongside the Board (from 1932 renamed the Oxford and Cambridge Catholic Education Board) in the appointment of a chaplain and provision of an oratory for Catholics in the University. All lay members of the University were, in the first decades of its existence, automatically considered members of CUCA. The Fisher Society was set up in 1895 as a literary and debating society for Catholic undergraduates, its membership overlapping with that of CUCA. In addition to his religious and pastoral duties, the chaplain organised weekly 'conferences' on philosophical, historical and religious subjects and engaged guest speakers. In 1966 the chaplaincy amalgamated with that provided for women which had operated from Lady Margaret House, near Newnham College, since 1937. Edmund Nolan was appointed the first chaplain 1896-1902. He was followed by: Arthur Stapylton Barnes 1902-16; James Bernard Marshall 1918-22; John Ludlow Lopes 1922-8; George John MacGillivray 1928-32; Alfred Newman Gilbey 1932-65; Richard Laurence Incledon 1966-77; Maurice Couve de Murville, 1977-82; Christopher Jenkins 1982-8; John Osman 1988-94; Allan White 1994-2000; Alban McCoy 2000-13; Mark Langham 2013- . By 1899 CUCA had rented rooms in 20 Green Street to act as chapel and sitting room for the chaplain who resided at St Edmund's House. For the period 1906-18 Llandaff House, St Andrew's Street, was occupied by the chaplaincy, followed from 1918 by 2 Round Church Street. In 1924 the Black Swan Inn on Guildhall Street was purchased for the chaplaincy. After conversion to provide chapels, accommodation, offices, library and club rooms, it opened as Fisher House in 1925. Saved from demolition in the 1950s and 1960s as part of the redevelopment of central Cambridge, it was extended in the 1970s with the addition of a new chapel by architect Gerard Goalen. The following publications provide background information: i) Peter Gregory-Jones A history of the Cambridge Catholic chaplaincy 1895-1965 (Cagliari, 1986), the copy in the University Library has the classmark Cam.c.986.16; ii) Nicholas Rogers (ed.) Catholics in Cambridge (Leominster: Gracewing, 2003), the copy in the University Library has the classmark Cam.c.2003.4.