Find A Grave - Trinity College

Mansel, William Lort b. April 18, 1753 d. July 6, 1820
Bishop of Bristol, and Master of Trinity College Cambridge 1798-1820. (Bio by: David Conway)
Trinity College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Plot: Chapel
Martin, Francis [memorial] b. 1803 d. 1868
Senior Fellow and Vice-Master of Trinity College/ (Bio by: David Conway)
Trinity College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Plot: Chapel
McTaggart, John McTaggart Ellis [memorial] b. September 3, 1866 d. January 18, 1925
Philosopher and Fellow of Trinity College. Denied the existence of time. The latter part of his inscription, of interest to vistors to Find-A-Grave, translates: 'The free man thinks about nothing less often than death, and his wisdom is the preparation not for death, but for life' (Bio by: David Conway)
Trinity College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Plot: Chapel
Moore, George Edward [memorial] b. November 4, 1873 d. October 24, 1958
Philosopher, author of 'Principia Ethica'. An opponent of the view of McTaggart (q.v.) that 'time is unreal'. His inscription, translated in part, reads: 'In his youth thouroughly trained in the classics, he then devoted himself to philosophy to such effect that with his keen intellect he virtually set up the discipline anew. He was remarkable for his modesty, pleasantness and wit'. (Bio by: David Conway)
Trinity College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Plot: Chapel
Newton, Sir. Isaac [memorial] b. December 25, 1642 d. March 20, 1727
Scientist. An English scientist, astronomer, and mathematician, he is considered one of the greatest names in the history of human thought. Buried in Westminster Abbey, his memorial statue in the chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge, England, of which he was a distinguished member, is inscribed "Qui genus humanum ingenio superavit" (He surpassed the race of man in understanding). Born in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, he attended Grantham grammar school. As a boy, he was more interested...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Trinity College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Plot: Chapel
Porson, Richard b. December 25, 1759 d. September 25, 1808
The greatest Classical scholar of his age. Unfortunately also a heavy drinker, which precipitated his early death. (Bio by: David Conway)
Cause of death: Heart attack
Trinity College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Plot: Chapel
Prior, Joseph [memorial] b. 1834 d. October 16, 1918
Senior Fellow of Trinity College. (Bio by: David Conway)
Trinity College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Plot: Chapel
Ramanujan, Srinavasa [memorial] b. December 22, 1887 d. April 26, 1920
Scientist. Astonishing mathematical genius, virtually self-taught, who came to the attention of the British mathematician G. H. Hardy, who arranged a scholarship for him to Trinity College in 1914. In 1916 he was awarded a Ph. D. and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. This was mainly for his work on number theory, including work on Bernoulli numbers and the Reimannn series. He was already fatally ill, and returned to India in 1919, where he died. He was featured on an Indian postage...[Read More] (Bio by: David Conway)
Trinity College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Plot: Chapel
Rattenbury, Robert Mantle [memorial] b. 1902 d. 1970
Tutor at Trinity and University Registrar. (Bio by: David Conway)
Trinity College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Robinson, John Arthur Thomas 'Bishop of Woolwich' [memorial] b. June 15, 1919 d. December 5, 1983
Controversial churchman whose public image was initiated in 1960 whe he was a witness for the defence in the famous trial over the publication of D. H. Lawrence's 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'. Subsequently aired his liberal theological vies in his book 'Honest ot God' (1963). (Bio by: David Conway)
Cause of death: Cancer
Trinity College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Plot: Chapel
Rushton, William Albert Hugh [memorial] b. December 12, 1901 d. June 21, 1980
The incription explains that he 'was known throughout the world as a most perceptive researcher into the human senses, who investigated the nervous system and the eye with a full command of the science of physiology. He was also an expert in music...' (Bio by: David Conway)
Trinity College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Plot: Chapel
Russell, Bertrand Arthur William [memorial] b. May 18, 1872 d. February 2, 1970
Philosopher, mathematician and political activist. His inscription translates in part: '(He) was famous as a writer and expositor of the philosophy in particularof mathematics. Having long been vexed with the folly of his fellow men, as an old man he threw himself with youthful ardour wholeheartedly into the cause of maintianing peace among the nations; at length, loaded with many honours and renowned throughout the world, he rested from his efforts at the age of ninety-seven.' (Bio by: David Conway)
Trinity College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Plot: Chapel
Ryle, Sir Martin [memorial] b. September 27, 1918 d. October 14, 1984
Fellow of Trinity College, Nobel Prize winner (for his discovery of pulsars), and Astronomer Royal. The Latin inscription elegantly describes his Nobel work : 'He was the first to perceive with the mind's eye the true nature of stars so distant that their light is not strong enough to be seen; this he did by arranging large dishes in rows and lines so skilfully that the shortest wave sent from the sky could not escape'. (Bio by: David Conway)
Trinity College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Plot: Chapel
Sedgwick, Adam b. September 28, 1854 d. February 27, 1913
Zoologist and Fellow of Trinity College, Professor of Zoology at Cambridge and London Universities, and Fellow of the Royal Society. (Bio by: David Conway)
Cause of death: Lung disease
Trinity College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Plot: Chapel
Sheepshanks, Richard b. July 30, 1794 d. July 29, 1855
Fellow of Trinity College. Noted astronomer, who helped establish the fiorst Cambridge observatory and established for the first time the longitudes of Brussels, Antwerp and Liverpool. Also determined imperial measures for the royal Commissions of 1838 and 1843. (Bio by: David Conway)
Cause of death: 'struck with paralysis'
Trinity College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Plot: Chapel
Sraffa, Piero [memorial] b. August 5, 1908 d. September 3, 1983
Italian economist, resident in Cambridge, friend of Keynes, Gramsci and Wittgenstein, his discussions with whom helped change the latter's philosophical theories. (Bio by: David Conway)
Trinity College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Tennyson, Alfred (Lord Tennyson) [memorial] b. August 6, 1809 d. October 6, 1892
Poet Laureate, author of 'Maud' and 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' as well as the quintessential Victorian poem, 'In Memoriam'. Fellow of Trinity College. Buried in Westminster Abbey. (Bio by: David Conway)
Trinity College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Plot: Chapel
Vaughan Williams, Ralph [memorial] b. October 12, 1872 d. August 26, 1958
Composer, Conductor. He is considered the most important and influential British musician of his generation. Vaughan Williams' music displays a distinctly English character derived from his country's folk and Renaissance tradition, which he absorbed into a very personal style. His nine symphonies constitute one of the outstanding achievements of the 20th Century repertory. Ralph (pronounced "Rafe") Vaughan Williams was born at Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, the son of a clergyman. On his mother'...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Trinity College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Plot: Chapel
Walmisley, Thomas Attwood [memorial] b. January 21, 1814 d. January 17, 1856
Composer, mainly of church music - also wrote a symphony (which Mendelssohn disparaged). Professor of Music at Cambridge University 1836-1856. (Bio by: David Conway)
Trinity College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Plot: Chapel
Whewell, William b. May 24, 1794 d. March 6, 1866
Remarkable polymath, Master of Trinity College for 24 years, active as a linguist, philsopher and scientist: he in fact invented the latter word, together with 'physicist','ion', 'anode', 'cathode', pliocene' and many other technical terms. Also an expert on tides. (Bio by: David Conway)
Trinity College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Plot: Chapel

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