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• Ashton, Hugh [memorial]   d. November 23, 1522
  Religous Leader. Archdeacon of York who was a protegee of Margaret Beaumont and like her a supporter of St. John's College. This memorial was built for a chapel he endowed at the College; he is actually buried at York Minster. (Bio by: David Conway)
  St Johns College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
  Plot: Chapel
   
• Benians, Ernest Alfred [memorial]   b. 1880  d. 1952
  Historian, Master of St. John's College, 1933-1952 (Bio by: David Conway)
  St Johns College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
  Plot: Chapel
   
• Fleming, Sir John Ambrose [memorial]    b. November 29, 1849  d. April 18, 1945
  Inventor of the thermionic valve and a pioneer of telephony and telegraphy. Knighted in 1927. (Bio by: David Conway)
  St Johns College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
  Plot: Chapel
   
• Gilbert, William [memorial]    b. 1540  d. 1603
  Educated at St. John's, became a leading doctor and President of the College of Physicians. Published in 1600 'De Magnete', the first great book on physics published in England, containing a detailed study of magnetism. (Bio by: David Conway)
  St Johns College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
  Plot: Chapel
   
• Howland, Robert Leslie [memorial]   b. March 25, 1905  d. March 7, 1986
  Master of St. John's College, in his youth an Olympic athlete for Britain. (Bio by: David Conway)
  St Johns College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
  Plot: Chapel
   
• Maris, Matthew (Matthijs)    b. 1839  d. 1917
  Dutch artist who settled in London, specialising in landscape pinting and etching. Works of his are in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam and the Metropolitan Museum, New York. (Bio by: David Conway)
  St Johns College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
  Plot: Churchyard extension
   
• Parsons, Sir Charles Algernon [memorial]    b. June 13, 1854  d. February 11, 1931
  Engineer, scientist and industrialist. Pioneer of turbine technology, founding the succesful company C. A. Parsons Ltd. based in Newcastle. Also invented the 'auxetophone' for amplifiynig double-basses, but this proved less popular and profitable. Died on his yacht in Jamaica. (Bio by: David Conway)
  St Johns College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
  Plot: Chapel
   
• White, Henry Kirke    b. March 21, 1785  d. October 10, 1806
  Enthusiastic, if not gifted, poet. His popularity probably owed more to his romantic early death ('...the martyr student faded and retired...' to quote the inscription) than to the merit of his work. (Bio by: David Conway)
  Cause of death: Consumption
  St Johns College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
  Plot: Chapel
   
• Wilberforce, William [memorial]    b. August 24, 1759  d. July 29, 1833
  Wilberforce was an English philanthropist, best known for his work on the abolition of the slave trade.
  Cause of death: Influenza
  St Johns College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
  Plot: Chapel
   

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