Cambridge University

Frances's father, Francis Darwin , later Sir Francis, was a Cambridge botanist. He had earlier worked as an assistant and secretary to his father, Charles Darwin . His niece Gwen thought him the most...

DM 's father, Ralph Cudworth , was a Professor of Hebrew, Master of two successive Cambridge colleges, leader of the Cambridge Platonist group of philosophers, and author of The True Intellectual System of the Universe...

Patrick Brontë was an Irish protestant from a large respectable farming family of limited means. He took to books from an early age, opened a school for the gentry at the age of sixteen, became...

Patrick Brontë was an Irish protestant from a large respectable farming family of limited means. He took to books from an early age, opened a school in his teens, became a gentleman's tutor, and finally...

Another aunt, Pernel Strachey , was Principal of Newnham College (one of Cambridge 's two colleges for women) from 1923 to 1941.

WE is said to have fallen in love while at Cambridge with members of both sexes. Someone informed on him for possessing condoms (which was then unacceptable to the authorities), and according to his biographer...

Virginia Stephen flirted mildly with and received proposals from a number of men, all Cambridge contemporaries of her brother Thoby .

RS 's sister, Karin , was one of the first Freudian psychoanalysts. She became the first woman at Cambridge to receive a Star, or Distinction, in Philosophy. She married Adrian Stephen , Virginia Woolf 's younger brother.

Leonard Woolf was a close Cambridge friend of Virginia's brother Thoby Stephen and a member of the Apostles . A Jew, with family roots in London and Amsterdam, he grew up in London, first...

After attending Cambridge University , David Alfred Thomas , Margaret's father, became a Liberal Member of Parliament, representing Merthyr Tydfil from 1888 to 1910.

Millicent Garrett , aged nineteen, married the blind radical MP Henry Fawcett , aged thirty-four, who was also Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge .

Her son Numa Edward Hartog (born on 29 May 1846) successfully challenged the University Tests Act and became an undergraduate at Cambridge . He was Senior Wrangler of his year, meaning that he had the...

Philippa attended Newnham College (the women's college founded by the efforts of her parents) and was marked higher than any other final-year student in mathematics at Cambridge in 1890, embarrassing the university since the title...

He was educated at private schools and at Cambridge University . In the twenty-first century he gave his mother's biographer Lidija Haas free access to her papers.

Elizabeth was brought up in the house of her maternal grandfather, William Chaderton , Bishop of Lincoln, until his death in April 1608. He was a learned man, having held various positions at Cambridge University