Cambridge University

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

Soon after HM arrived at Newnham , she and Harrison began to develop a personal relationship. Frequently corresponding by letter whether they were both present in Cambridge or not, the two formulated an exclusive, fantastic...

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

The next brother, Charles , was expelled from Cambridge University for stealing books from the library, but eventually became respected as a clergyman and a scholar.

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

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...

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...

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

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.

MD 's father, barrister John Frederick Drabble , also attended Cambridge , and served in the RAF during the second world war. In 1945, newly demobbed, he stood as Labour candidate for the Tory seat...

Rudolph Lehmann was a writer and poet, one-time editor of the Daily News, a contributor to (and at times editor of) Punch, founder of Granta (Cambridge University 's magazine), and, briefly, a...

ASB 's father, barrister John Frederick Drabble , was also a Cambridge graduate. He began writing novels in his retirement. He died in 1982. ASB grew up in an intellectual environment; her parents valued art...

Aurelia Plath attended the wedding, but otherwise it was a secret kept even from Ted's family and friends, because Sylvia worried that she would lose her Fulbright scholarship if people discovered she was married. Shortly...

MP 's father, the Rev. Roger Griffith, had attended both Oxford and Cambridge universities. He was rector of the Buckingham parish of Padbury, and probably Master of the Royal Latin (Free) School in Buckingham...

During play he was hit by a ball which may have been partly responsible for his sudden illness. On the day of his funeral, play was suspended for a few minutes in his honour during...