Francis Bacon (1561-1626) Edu. Trinity
College, Cambridge. Came up to Trinity in 1573, aged 12.
E.F. Benson (1867-1940) Edu. King's College,
Cambridge,
Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) Edu King's
College,Cambridge, 2nd year on ground floor of Gibbs' Building, farthest from chapel. Literary History of Cambridge, Graham Chaney. Moved out of College to The Orchard, Grantchester. Won fellowship at King's 1913.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) At Jesus
College,
Cambridge (1792-4), a brilliant career in classics was diverted by
French revolutionary politics, heavy drinking, and an unhappy
love-affair, which led Coleridge to enlist in desperation in the 15th
Light Dragoons under the name of Comberbache. He was bought out under
an 'insanity' clause by his brother, but did not take a degree.
Warwick Deeping (1877-1950) Trinity College,
Cambridge where he read science and medicine.
Henty (George Alfred (1832-1902) edu. London, Westminster School, Caius College, Cambridge Uni.
James Hilton (1900-1954) Edu. Christ College,
Cambridge. In 1935 went to South California.
Housman (1859-1936), Kennedy prof of Latin at
Cambridge,Trinity Coll, 1911. Elected to fellowship at Trinityh and lived in Whewell's Curt, overlooking Sidney Street. Died in Cambridge on 30 April 1936.Memorial in
Trinity College.
Christopher Marlowe (1564-93) At 17 he won a
scholarship to Cambridge University, Corpus Christi College, where he
studied Divinity for six and a half years, finally leaving in 1587
after gaining his MA. In 1953 a portrait was discovered in the Master's Lodge at Corpus Christi of a 'bravely-clad' Elizabethan, aged 21, 1585. Maybe Marlow. It now hangs in the college hall. (Graham Chainey, A literary history of Cambridge). There is a plaque in the Old Court. During his time at Cambridge he was recruited
to serve Queen Elizabeth I's government as an intelligence agent.
There is a plaque to Marlowe in the courtyard of Corpus Christi
College, Cambridge. Corpus Christi has the original of the only
portrait (putative) of Marlowe but it is almost impossible to view it
without prior permission from the college.
Anthony Powell (1905-2000)Trinity, 1941 8-week politico-military course.
John Cowper Powys (1872-1963)
Educated at Sherborne and Cambridge, Corpus Christi in 1891. His brother, Llewellyn occupied the same rooms twelve years later.
J.B. Priestley (1894-1984) Following his
demobilization in 1919, Priestley spent three years at Trinity Hall,
Cambridge, English literature, modern history and political science
took degree at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 1922 settled in London
Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967). Clare College, 1905, he studied both Law and History at Cambridge before leaving without taking a degree. Awarded MC during war.
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) 1787, October,
went to St John's College, Cambridge; graduated in January 1791.
Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)
Grantchester 1909-12,commemorated on war memorial in Grantchester,
statue and plaque to Brooke's memory, bearing the legend To eternal
poetry, Rupert Brooke 1887-1915, unveiled in a square on a hillside in
Skyros town. There is The Rupert Brooke Walk - Grantchester. Its length is 13.2 miles. For the whole outing, allow at least 12 hours. The Orchard, at Grantchester, is where Brooke stayed whilst at Cambridge. It is open all day, all year. Later moved to The Old Vicarage.Cambridgeshire
| John Clare (1793-1864) b Helpston; edu nr Helpston. works at Woodcroft Castle c 1809, m in Helpston 1820, lives in Borthborough 1832-7, in asylum in High Beech 1837-40, 1841 (July) leaves High Beech and walks 80 miles home to Northborough, surviving by "eating the grass by the roadside". 20 May 1864 died at Northampton; is brought home and buried at Helpston. 1921 Plaque marking Clare's cottage in Peterborough unveiled by Edmund Blunden. | |
George Alfred Henty(1832-1902) b.Trumpington, near Cambridge, (son of a stockbroker)
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