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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
Bode, John Ernest b. February 23, 1816 d. October 6, 1874
Hymn Writer, Religious Leader.
All Saints Churchyard, Castle Camps, Cambridgeshire, England
Bondi, Hermann b. 1920 d. September 10, 2005
Scientist. He graduated from Trinity College at Cambridge. He lectured in mathematics at Cambridge University before becoming a mathematics professor at King's College in London, England from 1954 to 1971. He was appointd Director General of the European Space Research in 1967 which tried to link the space programs in Western European countries to compete with the U.S. and Soviet Union. He was master of Churchill College at Cambridge from 1983 to 1990. He was knighted Queen Elizabeth II in 1973...[Read More] (Bio by: Genet)
Cambridge City Cemetery, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
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
Brooke, Rupert Chawner [memorial] b. August 3, 1887 d. April 23, 1915
Poet renowned for 'The Soldier' ("If I should die, think only this of me/That there's some corner of a foreign field/That is forever England"). Ironically this came true for him not by death in battle in France but from blood poisoning while serving in the Navy in the Mediterranean. His other most famous poem is the semi-satirical 'The Old Vicarage, Grantchester' ("Stands the church clock at ten past three?/And is there honey still for tea?". He lived at Grantchester Vicarage whilst a student...[Read More] (Bio by: David Conway)
Cause of death: Blood poisoning
St Andrew and St Mary Churchyard, Grantchester, Cambridgeshire, England
Brown, Lancelot Capability b. 1716 d. February 6, 1783
Famed British landscape designer. He served as head gardener at Stowe before moving to London in 1751. He then purchased a small estate at Fenstanton and Hilton in 1767, later acquiring the manor of Fenstanton in 1770. His work is still thriving today across the country at many of the most famous estates in the world. (Bio by: Kieran Smith)
St Peter and St Paul Churchyard, Fenstanton, Cambridgeshire, England
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
Caesar, Henry d. 1636
Dean of Ely Cathedral and patron of music.
Ely Cathedral, Ely, Cambridgeshire, England
Caius, John b. October 6, 1510 d. July 29, 1573
Medical Pioneer, Educator. Studied at the then Gonvile Hall, Cambridge, before continuing to study medicine at Padua. Became a celebrated, and wealthy, doctor, and enndowed his old college, which was thenceforth (and still is) known as Gonville and Caius, and to which he was appointed as Master. (Bio by: David Conway)
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Plot: Chapel
Chaderton, Laurence b. 1536 d. November 13, 1640
First Master of Emmanuel College, at the request of its founder, Sir Walter Mildmay (q.v.). Live to the ageof 103. Buried in the chapel of the college, where this memorial window also features. (Bio by: David Conway)
Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Plot: Chapel
Chicheley, Sir Thomas b. April 12, 1578 d. November 19, 1616
English Peer. He served as a burgess of Huntingdon, and was appointed to a committee on draining the fens in 1601. With his wife, Dorothy Harrington, he had at least one son who was named for him and is known to history as the designer of Wimpole Hall. He became mortally ill at age 38 and made his will in October 1616. He died a month later and was buried at Wimpole, where a monument to his memory described him as 'sometime lord of this town.' (Bio by: Iola)
St Andrew Churchyard, Wimpole, Cambridgeshire, England
Cockcroft, 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. Recipient of Queen's Medal for Poetry, 1959. (Bio by: David Conway)
Cause of death: heart failure.
Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Cromwell, Henry b. January 20, 1628 d. March 23, 1674
British Statesman. Fourth son of Oliver Cromwell. He spent most of his active political life in Ireland where he worked hard to relieve the poverty of the country. He became Lord Deputy in 1657. Carlyle referred to him as "the best of Cromwell's sons" and this is inscribed on a brass plate in the church where he is buried. (Bio by: julia&keld)
St Laurence Churchyard, Wicken, Cambridgeshire, England
Cromwell, Oliver b. April, 1599 d. September 3, 1658
Cromwell was an English general and statesman, Puritan leader during the English Civil War. When he defeated King Charles I he had Charles I executed and became Lord Protector of the Commonwealth. This was the only time in English history that the monarchy has been ousted. In 1660 the monarchy was restored by Charles II (son of Charles I). On January 30, 1661, the anniversary of the execution of Charles I, Cromwell's body was exhumed and taken by sledge to Tyburn. The procession was greeted by...[Read More] (Bio by: Kieran Smith)
Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Darwin, Sir. Charles Galton b. December 19, 1887 d. December 31, 1962
Scientist. A physicist, he was the grandson of Sir Charles Darwin. Master of Christ's College Cambridge, became director of National Physics Laboratory in 1938. During World War II he was part of British scientific contingent working in America,and was connected with the Manhattan Project. Later was a pioneer of the computer industry in the UK. (Bio by: David Conway)
St Botolph Churchyard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Darwin, Sir Francis b. August 16, 1848 d. September 19, 1925
3rd son of Charles Darwin. Botanist specializing in vegetable physiology, and biographer of his father. Father of Frances Cornford. (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
Davy, Martin b. 1763 d. May 18, 1839
Doctor and Master of Gonville and Caius College. (Bio by: David Conway)
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Plot: Antechapel
de Kilkenny, William [cenotaph] d. 1256
Bishop of Ely and Chancellor of England. The effigy shown on this page is a cenotaph (the body lies elsewhere). He died in Spain (on a mission from Henry III to negotiate a treaty). He was buried in Segovia, Spain.
Ely Cathedral, Ely, Cambridgeshire, England

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