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• Bacon, Francis [memorial]    b. January 22, 1561  d. April 4, 1626
  Phliosopher, essayist and politician. Lord Chancellor of England. Alleged unwarrantably by some to have been the writer of Shakespeare's plays. Notable works include 'On the Advancement of Learning' , an early attempt at an encyclopaedia. Died after catching bronchitis when stuffing a chicken with snow to see whether it would be preserved, thus anticipating frozen food. The Latin inscription on the statue base begins (in translation): "Francis Bacon, first Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Albans...[Read More] (Bio by: David Conway)
  Trinity College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
  Plot: Chapel (he is buried at the Church of St. Michael, St. Albans, UK)
   
• Barrow, Isaac [memorial]    b. 1630  d. April 4, 1677
  Mathematician, Master of Trinity College and founder of its library. Buried in Westminster Abbey. (Bio by: David Conway)
  Trinity College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
  Plot: Chapel
   
• Beaumont, William John   d. August 6, 1868
  Senior Fellow of Trinity College and Vicar of the Church of St. Michael. (Bio by: David Conway)
  Trinity College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
  Plot: Chapel
   
• Benson, Edward White [memorial]    b. July 14, 1829  d. October 9, 1896
  Archbishop of Canterbury. (Bio by: David Conway)
  Cause of death: Heart attack
  Trinity College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
  Plot: Chapel
   
• Besicovitch, Abram Samuilovitch [memorial]    b. January 28, 1901  d. November 2, 1970
  Mathematician, of Karaite descent, who carried out research in pure mathematics. The inscription refers to 'his life-long idisyncrasies of speech' ; this is a reference to the Russian accent and usages which he never lost despite his many years in Britain after fleeing Russia. (Bio by: David Conway)
  Trinity College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
  Plot: Chapel
   
• Blore, Edward William   b. January 24, 1827  d. June 24, 1885
  Vice Master of Trinity College, 1880-1885 (Bio by: David Conway)
  Trinity College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
  Plot: Chapel
   
• Bragg, Sir William Lawrence [memorial]    b. March 31, 1890  d. July 1, 1971
  Physicist, Fellow of Trinity College. Son of Sir William Bragg, and awarded jointly with him a Nobel Prize for their work on crystallography in 1915. He remains the youngest person ever to have won the Nobel. According to the inscription 'he captivated the minds of his audiences with a style of lecturing at once lucid and elegant'. (Bio by: David Conway)
  Trinity College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
  Plot: Chapel
   
• Burnaby, John [memorial]   b. 1892  d. 1978
  Dean of Tinity College, Regius Professor of Divinity (Bio by: David Conway)
  Trinity College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
  Plot: Chapel
   
• Dobree, Rev. Peter Paul   b. 1782  d. September 24, 1825
  Regius Professor of Greek, and close friend of Richard Porson (q.v.) (Bio by: David Conway)
  Trinity College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
  Plot: Chapel
   
• Eddington, Sir Arthur Stanley [memorial]    b. December 28, 1882  d. November 22, 1944
  Mathematician and astrophysicist, expounder of relativity. His inscription translates in part: ' In books written with as much wit as clarity he explained his own and others' theories even to those who had scarcely any knowledge of the subject.' (Bio by: David Conway)
  Trinity College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
  Plot: Chapel
   
• Field, Frederick [memorial]   b. July 20, 1801  d. April 19, 1865
  Fellow of Trinity College. Bible scholar, specialising in early texts. (Bio by: David Conway)
  Trinity College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
  Plot: Chapel
   
• Frazer, Sir James George [memorial]    b. 1854  d. May 7, 1941
  Anthropologist, author of the enormously influential 'The Golden Bough': 'from (the) thorny and impassable forest he plucked his Golden Bough, and with it opened an avenue into the human mind' according to the inscription. (Bio by: David Conway)
  Trinity College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
  Plot: Chapel
   
• Gray, Alan [memorial]   b. 1855  d. 1935
  College Organist at Trinity for 37 years. (Bio by: David Conway)
  Trinity College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
  Plot: Chapel
   
• Hammond, James Lempriere   b. 1829  d. 1880
  Fellow of Trinity College, Tutor and Bursar. (Bio by: David Conway)
  Trinity College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
  Plot: Chapel
   
• Housman, Alfred Edward [memorial]   b. March 26, 1859  d. April 30, 1936
  Housman was a famous English poet and pre-eminent classicist. His most famous book 'A Shropshire Lad' was first published in 1896 and has never been out of print since. In 1911 he was made Kennedy Professor of Latin at Cambridge University, where he spent the rest of his life.
  Trinity College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
   
• Huxley, Sir. Andrew   b. November 22, 1917  d. May 30, 2012
  Nobel Prize Winner in Medicine. A physiologist, he was honoured in 1963 for elucidating the chemical and mathematical processes involved in nerve impulse conduction. Born to a family distinguished in both the literary and scientific worlds (his older half brothers included biologist Sir Julian Huxley and "Brave New World" author Aldous Huxley), he was exposed to advanced learning from early childhood and was educated at the University College School and at Westminster before earning a...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
  Trinity College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
   
• Kapitza, Piotr Leonidovich [memorial]    b. July 7, 1894  d. May 8, 1984
  Nuclear physicist who also carried out important research in low-tempearature and high-temperature physics. Seconded to the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge from Russia in 1921, he stayed in England until 1934, when the Russian authorities refures to give him a return exit visa after a holiday there. He continued his scientific work and, as the inscription states, 'he was a whimsical and generous man who never forgot the College'. Dismissed from his posts in 1946, he was reinstated after Stalin'...[Read More] (Bio by: David Conway)
  Trinity College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
  Plot: Chapel
   
• L'Isle, Denis   b. 1688  d. June 2, 1727
  University Proctor and Registrar of Trinity College. 'Second to none in integrity and friendship, protector of the weak and an ornament to his friends and family' (Bio by: David Conway)
  Trinity College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
  Plot: Chapel
   
• Luard, Henry Richards [memorial]   b. August 17, 1825  d. May 1, 1891
  Historian and Registrar of Cambridge University. (Bio by: David Conway)
  Trinity College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
  Plot: Chapel
   
• Macaulay, Thomas Babington [memorial]    b. October 25, 1800  d. December 27, 1859
  Poet. He wrote "Lays of Ancient Rome". and was the author of an enormously popular and influential history of England. (Bio by: David Conway)
  Trinity College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
  Plot: Chapel
   

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