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Graves and memorials of notable individuals
Grave of astronomer
John Couch Adams and wife Eliza Adams
John Couch Adams Astronomer, discoverer of
Neptune ,
Lowndean Professor .
[1]
[2] He is unique in also having a commemorative memorial in
Westminster Abbey
Hugh Kerr Anderson , Physiologist, Master
Gonville and Caius College .
[1]
Elizabeth Anscombe , Fellow of
Newnham College , Philosopher, Professor of Philosophy.
[3] her husband
Peter Geach is buried with her.[
citation needed ]
Richard Appleton , Master
Selwyn College , Vicar of St. George's, Camberwell, Vicar of Ware.
[1]
[2]
Arthur John Arberry
[4] FBA Orientalist, Professor of Arabic, Fellow of
Pembroke College, Cambridge .
Grave of Sir
Robert Stawell Ball and wife Lady Frances Elizabeth Ball.
Sir Robert Stawell Ball , Astronomer,
Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry , founded the
screw theory .
[1]
[2]
Arthur Beer
[5] Astronomer, member of
Caius College .
Cecil Bendall Professor of Sanskrit, University of Cambridge; Honorary Fellow of
Gonville and Caius College .
Edwin Keppel Bennett , noms de plume: Francis Bennett, Francis Keppel, Fellow and President of
Gonville and Caius College .
[6]
J.A.W. Bennett ,
[7] New Zealand born literary scholar, a member of the informal Oxford literary group, the
Inklings , Fellow of
Magdalene College .
Arthur Christopher Benson , 28th
Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge noted for writing the words of the song "
Land of Hope and Glory ".
[1]
[2]
William Henry Besant
[8] FRS, Fellow of
St John's , mathematician
James Bethune-Baker , Theologian,
Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity and Dean of Pembroke College.
[1]
[2]
Frederick Blackman ,
[9] FRS Plant Physiologist, Fellow of
St John's .
Joan Boulind CBE, fellow and tutor at
Hughes Hall, Cambridge .{{cn}
John Buckley Bradbury ,
Downing Professor of Medicine .
[2]
Charles Oscar Brink , Classicist, fellow of
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (cremated remains).
[1]
Denis William Brogan , Historian, Political Scientist.
[1]
[2]
Zachary Nugent Brooke , Historian, Professor of Medieval History.
[1]
William Warwick Buckland , Professor of Law, President of
Gonville and Caius College ,
Regius Professor of Civil Law .[
citation needed ]
Robert Burn ,
[10] Fellow of
Trinity College, Cambridge , and wife Augusta Sophia, née Prescott (a descendant of
Oliver Cromwell )
John Burnaby ,
[11] Dean of
Trinity College, Cambridge ,
Regius Professor of Divinity , and wife Dorothy Burnaby, née Lock; also her brother
Robert Heath Lock is buried in the same grave
Geoffrey Bushnell , Archaeologist and Ethnologist, Fellow of
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge .
[1]
Memorial to
Sarah Clackson
James Cable ,
[12] Diplomat, Naval Strategist, and wife Lady Cable,
Viveca Hollmerus
[13]
John Walton Capstick
[14] Bursar and Fellow of
Trinity College, Cambridge Physicist, Musician
Neville Chittick ,
[15] Scholar, Archaeologist
Richard Chorley ,
[16] Quantitative Geographer, Vice-Master,
Sidney Sussex College
Sir Derman Christopherson
[17] FRS, Engineering Scientist, Master
Magdelene College : 1978 to 1985 and his wife Frances, Lady Christopherson
[18]
Sarah Clackson
[19] Coptologist; (cremated remains), first wife of
James Clackson of Friends of Ascension Parish Burial Ground.
Sir William Henry Clark , Civil Servant.
[1]
John Cockcroft Physicist, Nobel Prize winner, instrumental in the development of nuclear power, first Master of
Churchill College .
[1]
[2]
Agnes Bell Collier Vice Principal of
Newnham College , passed Maths. Tripos in 1883.
[2]
Frances Cornford , Poet, interred in grave of father
Sir Francis Darwin ; wife of
Francis Cornford .
[1]
Gravestone of Sir
Francis Darwin , FRS and his daughter
Frances Cornford
Reginald Hackforth
[23]
Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy , Classical Scholar, Fellow of
Sidney Sussex College .
Basil Hammond , Historian.
[2]
William Emerton Heitland Classicist, Fellow of [[Emmanuel College, Cambridge|Emmanuel].
[2]
Margaret Heitland journalist and suffragette.
[2]
Robert Drew Hicks Fellow of
Trinity College, Cambridge , classicist, blind for 30 years.[
citation needed ]
Ernest William Hobson
[24] Mathematician,
Sadleirian Professor , Fellow of
Christ's College, Cambridge .
Frederick Gowland Hopkins , Biochemist, Nobel Prize winner for discovery of vitamins.
[2]
Bertram Hopkinson , Patent Lawyer, Engineer,
Professor of Mechanism and Applied Mechanics .
[1]
[25]
Tristram Frederick Croft Huddleston , Classicist and
Censor of Fitzwilliam House 1890–1907.
[2]
Arthur Hutchinson , Mineralogist and Master
Pembroke College .
[1]
Horace Lamb , Mathematician and physicist.
[1]
[2]
Guy Lee , Cambridge professor, classicist, translator of Ovid, Horace and Catullus, Fellow of
St John's College, Cambridge .[
citation needed ]
Edward Hubert Linfoot
[26] Mathematician, Fellow of
Wolfson College
George Downing Liveing
[27] FRS, Professor of Chemistry, Fellow and President of
St John's College, Cambridge and his wife Catharine
John Bascombe Lock , Bursar of
Gonville and Caius College , author of books on trigonometry, Chair of
Addenbrooke's Hospital .
[2]
Robert Heath Lock , botanist and geneticist, wrote the first English textbook on genetics.
[2]
Henry Richards Luard
[28] Fellow of
Trinity College, Cambridge , mathematician and clergyman
Gravestone of philosopher
G. E. Moore OM and wife Dorothy Moore
Alexander Macalister ,
Professor of Anatomy, Cambridge University , Egyptologist, Fellow of
St John's College, Cambridge .
[2]
R. A. Stewart Macalister , archaeologist, son of
Alexander Macalister .
[2]
Sir Donald MacAlister , Pysician, Vice-Chancellor Glasgow, Member of the
Cambridge Apostles .
[1]
[2]
Sir Desmond MacCarthy , Literary and drama critic, Member of the
Cambridge Apostles .
[1]
Norman McLean , Orientalist and Member of the
Cambridge Apostles , Master
Christ's College, Cambridge .
[1]
Alfred Marshall ,
Professor of Political Economy one of the founders of
Neoclassical economics ,
[2] married to
Mary Paley , co-founder of
Newnham College .
Sir Charles James Martin
[29] FRS, Scientist, Fellow of
King's College, London .
Brigadier
Arthur Gordon Matthew
[30]
Jeremy Maule , English scholar and teacher; Fellow and Lecturer in English, Trinity College.[
citation needed ]
Edwin Arthur Maxwell , Mathematician; Director of Studies in Mathematics, University of Cambridge, Honorary Fellow of
Queens' College, Cambridge .[
citation needed ]
John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor , Professor of Latin, Antiquarian, early vegetarian and President of
St John's College, Cambridge .
[1]
[2]
Robert Williams Michell Surgeon.
[31]
Sir Geoffrey Fitzhervey de Montmorency
[32] Indian Civil Service
William Loudon Mollison ,
[33] Master of Clare College, Cambridge
G. E. Moore , Philosopher, Fellow of
Trinity College, Cambridge , Member of the
Cambridge Apostles , the intellectual secret society.
[1]
[2]
Andrew Munro , bursar and mathematician of
Queens' College, Cambridge .[
citation needed ]
Conrad Pepler
[35] Priest, Writer, Editor, Publisher
Max Perutz
[36] OM, FRS, Molecular Biologist, Nobel Prize winner, Fellow of
Peterhouse , and wife Gisela Perutz; their cremated remains are buried together with his parents Hugo and Dely Perutz
Sir Leon Radzinowicz
[37] FBA, Criminologist, Fellow of
Trinity College, Cambridge .
Arthur Stanley Ramsey Mathematician and philosopher, President of
Magdalene College .
[2]
Frank P. Ramsey Philosopher and mathematician, Member of the
Cambridge Apostles , the intellectual secret society, buried in same grave as his parents:
Arthur Stanley Ramsey and Mary Agnes Ramsey.Cite error: The <ref>
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help page ).
William Halse Rivers Rivers
[38] FRS, Fellow of
St John's College, Cambridge , Anthropologist, Neurologist, Ethnologist, Psychologist
David Roberts , architect and fellow of Magdalene College.[
citation needed ]
Walter William Rouse Ball , Mathematician, author on the History of Mathematics, endowed professorships.
[1]
[2]
John Edwin Sandys , Classicist and
Public Orator of Cambridge University.
[1]
[2]
Sir
Charles Henry Sargant ,
[39] Lord Justice of Appeal, Privy Counsellor
Charlotte Scott , mathematician, first unofficial
wrangler , buried in the grave of cousin Eliza Nevin.
[1]
[2]
Isabel May Griffiths Seltman, wife of
Charles Seltman , art historian, fellow of
Queens' College, Cambridge and a University Lecturer in Classics.[
citation needed ]
Gerald Shove ,
[40] economist and Member of the Cambridge Apostles, the intellectual secret society, and
Fredegond Shove , poet, step-daughter of Sir
Francis Darwin ; her mother was Lady Darwin, formerly Florence Maitland;
Walter William Skeat , Philologist,
Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon .
[1]
[2]
Lucy Joan Slater Mathematician and Recorder of Ascension Parish Burial Ground,[
citation needed ] buried in her mother's grave (Lucy Slater, Classicist
[2] )
George Smee, solicitor, and wife Eliza Smee; monument designed by
Jacob Epstein .
[2]
Bridget Spufford,
[1] after whom "Bridget's Hostel", Cambridge was named; daughter of Professors
Peter Spufford and the late
Margaret Spufford , sister of
Francis Spufford . She is buried with her grandmother, Mary Clark, née Johnson.
Vincent Henry Stanton ,
Regius Professor of Divinity , Member of the
Cambridge Apostles , the intellectual society at
Cambridge University .
[2]
Joseph Peter Stern , Germanist, Fellow of
St John's College, Cambridge , (cremated remains).
[1]
Stanley Stubbs
[41] Headmaster of Perse School.
Joseph Robson Tanner , Bursar of
St John's , Samuel Pepys expert.[
citation needed ]
Charles Taylor
[42] Vice-Chancellor and Master St. John's College: 1881 to 1908, Fellow of
St John's College, Cambridge , mathematician and Hebrew scholar
Harold McCarter Taylor
[43] Mathematician, Barrister, a Fellow of
Clare College , (cremated remains)
Henry Martyn Taylor , Mathematician, braille expert.
[1]
[2]
Sir Alfred St Valery Tebbitt ,
[44] managing director of Kirby, Beard & Co. and British Chamber of Commerce, Paris, and of the Hertford British Hospital, Paris, and wife Lady Gladys St. Valery Tebbitt, née Pendrell Smith.
Gravestone of
Ludwig Wittgenstein in 2004, before its 2015 restoration
Harry Marshall Ward , colleague of Sir
Francis Darwin .[
citation needed ]
Sir Percy Henry Winfield
[45] FBA,
Rouse Ball Professor of English Law , Fellow of
St John's College, Cambridge , author of The Law of Torts and his wife Lady Helena Winfield, née Scruby
Denys Winstanley
[46] Vice Master
Trinity College, Cambridge : 1935–1947
John Wisdom (cremated),Professor of Philosophy, Fellow of
Trinity College, Cambridge , philosopher, and Honorary Fellow of
Fitzwilliam College .
[1]
Ludwig Wittgenstein , philosopher, Professor of Philosophy, Fellow of
Trinity College, Cambridge , Member of the
Cambridge Apostles .
[47]
[2]
Charles Wood , Professor of Music, Fellow of
Gonville and Caius College , composer.
[1]
William Aldis Wright , Shakespearean and Biblical scholar, Vice-Master
Trinity College, Cambridge .
[1]
[2]
Five members of the family of
Charles Darwin are interred here: two sons: Sir
Francis Darwin
[2] and Sir
Horace Darwin ,
[2] two daughters-in-law: Lady
Florence Darwin (third wife of Francis) and Lady
Ida Darwin
[2] (wife of Horace), and a granddaughter:
Frances Cornford ,
[2] the daughter of Francis Darwin by his second wife,
Ellen Wordsworth Darwin , née Crofts.
Charles Darwin himself is buried in
Westminster Abbey .
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