educated_at keston sutherland
The ___MASK21___ is a public research university situated in Falmer , near Brighton in Sussex . The university received its Royal Charter in August 1961 , and was a founding member of the 1994 Group of research - intensive universities promoting excellence in research and teaching . A royal charter is a formal document issued by a monarch as letters patent , granting a right or power to an individual or a body corporate . They were , and are still , used to establish significant organisations such as cities ( with municipal charters ) or universities and learned societies . Charters should be distinguished from warrants and letters of appointment , as they have perpetual effect . Typically , a Royal Charter is produced as a high - quality work of calligraphy on vellum . The British monarchy has issued over 980 royal charters . Of these about 750 remain in existence . The earliest was to the town of Tain in 1066 , making it the oldest Royal Burgh in Scotland , followed by the ___MASK40___ in 1231 . Charters continue to be issued by the British Crown , a recent example being that awarded to the Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity , on 7 April 2011 . Keston M . Sutherland ( born 1976 ) is a British poet , and Professor of Poetics at the ___MASK21___ . He is currently ( Autumn 2013 ) the Holloway Poetry Fellow at the University of California , Berkeley .