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• Adams, John Couch    b. June 5, 1819  d. January 21, 1892
  Astronomer. He deduced the existence of the planet Neptune in 1845. Although his calculations were given to the Astronomer Royal, the latter did nothing about them, so a German observer was the first to actually spot the planet in 1846. He refused a knighthood in 1847. (Bio by: David Conway)
  Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
   
• Anderson, Sir. Hugh Kerr    b. July 6, 1865  d. November 2, 1928
  Scientist, Educator. A prominent physiologist, he served as Master of Gonville and Caius College in Cambridge, and was the Chairman of the Cambridge University Press in 1918. (Bio by: David Conway)
  Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
   
• Appleton, Richard   b. February 17, 1849  d. March 1, 1909
  Educator. Master of Selwyn College, Cambridge. (Bio by: David Conway)
  Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
   
• Benson, Arthur Christopher    b. April 24, 1862  d. June 17, 1925
  Educator, Author. Master of Magdalene College Cambridge and writer (including the words 'Land of Hope and Glory' to Elgar's first 'Pomp and Circumstance' march). (Bio by: David Conway)
  Cause of death: Heart failure following pleurisy
  Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
   
• Cockroft, John Douglas    b. May 27, 1897  d. September 18, 1967
  Scientist. Nobel Prize Winner (Physics, 1951). Taught by Sir Horace Lamb, later a colleague of Peter Kapitsa and Lord Rutherford in the Cavendish Laboratories. A member of the Tizard Mission to the Us in 1940 and contributed ot the Manhattan Project. Member of UK Atomic Energy Authority 1954-1959. He was made a CBE in 1944, knighted in 1948, and was created Knight Commander of the Bath in 1953. (Bio by: David Conway)
  Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
   
• Cornford, Frances Crofts    b. March 29, 1886  d. August 19, 1960
  Poetess, daughter of Sir Francis Darwin (q.v.). Recipient of Queen's Medal for Poetry, 1959. (Bio by: David Conway)
  Cause of death: heart failure.
  Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
   
• Darwin, Sir Francis    b. August 16, 1848  d. September 19, 1925
  3rd son of Charles Darwin. Botanist specialising in vegetable physiology, and biographer of his father. Father of Frances Cornford (q.v.) (Bio by: David Conway)
  Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
   
• Darwin, Sir Horace    b. May 13, 1851  d. September 29, 1928
  5th son of Charles Darwin. Engineer and founder of Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company in 1885. Playe important role in the development of aeronautics. Knighted 1918. (Bio by: David Conway)
  Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
   
• Eddington, Sir Arthur Stanley    b. December 28, 1882  d. November 22, 1944
  Mathematician and astrophysicist. An early champion of Einstein's Theory of Relativitiy and a contributor ot the development of Quantum Theory. (Bio by: David Conway)
  Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
   
• Frazer, Sir. James George    b. January 1, 1854  d. May 7, 1941
  Scientist. Anthropologist and author of the immensely influential study of primitive thought and religion, 'The Golden Bough'. (Bio by: David Conway)
  Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
   
• Gerhard, Roberto    b. September 25, 1896  d. January 5, 1970
  Composer, born in Spain, student of Schoenberg, who settled in England after the Spanish Civil War. (Bio by: David Conway)
  Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
   
• Lamb, Sir Horace    b. November 27, 1849  d. December 4, 1934
  Mathematician. Teacher of Sir John Cockroft and Sir Arthur Eddington, among others. Specialist in hydrodynamics. Father of the artist Henry Lamb. (Bio by: David Conway)
  Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
   
• MacCarthy, Desmond    b. May 20, 1877  d. June 7, 1952
  Author. British literary and dramatic critic. Born in Plymouth, he was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took a History degree. In 1903, he began to write book reviews and dramatic criticism for The Speaker. From 1907 to 1910, he edited The New Quarterly. In 1913, on the founding of The New Statesman, he became the dramatic critic of that magazine; and, from 1920 to 1927, its literary editor, under the pseudonym "Affable Hawk" (he was said to have had noticeably aquiline...[Read More] (Bio by: Iain MacFarlaine)
  Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
   
• Marshall, Alfred    b. July 26, 1842  d. July 13, 1924
  One of the founders of modern economics ('Principles of Economics', 1890) and teacher of many leading economists including Lord Keynes, who wrote a memoir of him. (Bio by: David Conway)
  Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
   
• Moore, George Edward    b. November 4, 1873  d. October 24, 1958
  Philosopher and early colleague of Bertrand Russell. Author of 'Principia Ethica' (1903). (Bio by: David Conway)
  Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
   
• Ramsey, Frank    b. February 22, 1903  d. January 19, 1930
  Scientist and Philosopher. Mathmatician who founded the "Ramsey Theory". Translated the works of Wittgenstein, which whom he was friends. Brother of the future Archbishop of Canterbury Michael Ramsey. (Bio by: David Conway)
  Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
   
• Rouse Ball, William    b. August 14, 1850  d. April 4, 1925
  Mathematician. Writer of a well-regarded History of Mathematics and a book on Mathematical Recreations. Both have been many times reprinted and expanded. (Bio by: David Conway)
  Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
   
• Taylor, Henry   b. June 6, 1842  d. October 16, 1927
  Mathematician. Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge. Became blind and devoted himself to the development of Braille, especially for scientific texts. (Bio by: David Conway)
  Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
   
• Wisdom, John   b. 1904  d. 1993
  Philosopher who developed the ideas of G. E. Moore and Wittgenstein (qq.v., with a particular interest in the relationship between philosophy and psychology. (Bio by: David Conway)
  Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
   
• Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef Johann    b. April 26, 1889  d. April 29, 1951
  One of the most original philosophers of the last century. His most noted texts are the 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus' and the later'Philosophical Investigations', which more or less entirely refutes the earlier work. But in his own words, 'What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence'. (Final sentence of the 'Tractatus'). (Bio by: David Conway)
  Cause of death: Cancer
  Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
   

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