Apostles

RF graduated with a first-class degree from King's College, Cambridge , where he read Natural Science and was a member of the Apostles , a secret society.

AT was initially educated by his father, and then at Trinity College, Cambridge , which he entered in November 1827 (by which time he had already co-published his first volume of poetry, Poems, by Two...

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...

Lucas, at first a classicist, became both a scholar and critic of English and a creative writer. He was a member of the Apostles society; his fellow-members were, according to Virginia Woolf , amazed at...

Piecing together its intellectual family tree, scholars and critics have looked both forward and back from Bloomsbury. It has been seen as descending from the late eighteenth-century Clapham Sect (to which VW 's great-grandfather James Stephen