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This is not a definitive list as it only contains those with Wikipedia articles, but if you have any to add/delete or comment, please contact: friendsofparishascensionburial@yahoo.co.uk or reply here, preferably both. Thanks, Martin Packer, member FoPABG. 2.30.208.15 (talk)

John Couch Adams Hugh Kerr Anderson (Sir) Master of Gonville & Caius College : 1912 to 1928 Elizabeth Anscombe Arthur John Arberry Robert Stawell Ball (Sir) Arthur Christopher Benson Master of Magdalene College : 1915 to 1925 Denis William Brogan (Sir) Zachary Nugent Brooke James Cable (Sir) Derman Christopherson (Sir), Master of Magdelene College : 1978 to 1985 Richard Chorley Sarah Clackson John Cockcroft OM, Nobel Prize winner (Sir), Master of Churchill College : 1959 to 1968 F. M. Cornford Frances Cornford Francis Darwin (Sir) Horace Darwin (Sir) Arthur Eddington OM (Sir) James Frazer OM (Sir) Roberto Gerhard Frederick Gowland Hopkins OM, Nobel Prize winner (Sir) Reginald Hackforth Ernest William Hobson Bertram Hopkinson Henry Jackson (classicist) OM* Sir Richard Jebb OM (Sir)


'Missing' wives[edit]

The following wives are referred to in articles, but it is not known whether any of them are buried near/with their husbands in Cambridge:

His widow gave and dedicated this brass as a memorial of her love, her grief, and the work which she shared with him

2nd wife: Lady Ellen Darwin, nee Crofts (1856-1903) : location of her grave currently unknown.

He had an invalid wife: Margaret Jackson nee Thornton and five children, his wife spent time in a nursing home.

He was married to mathematician Joyce Dancer.

He married twice, first the granddaughter of Thomas Arnold, the famed headmaster of Rugby, and second, Dame Bertha Surtees Phillpotts, Scandinavian Scholar, formerly Mistress of Girton College, and the only woman member of the Royal Commission on Cambridge (1923-7).

In 1880 he had married Mary Grainger, the daughter of the vicar of St Paul’s Church, Cambridge. They had no children.

He married on October 19th, 1907, Margaret Sophia Taylor nee Dillon, daughter of the Hon. Conrad Dillon.

With the death of his wife Joan Taylor, née Sills (1903–1965), whom he had married in 1933. Taylor remarried his personal assistant Dorothy Judith Samuel (1931 - ? ), who was also co-author of the third volume of his great work.

2.30.188.1 (talk) 11:04, 29 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]


In many cases, the wives may not be notable themselves. However, they naturally merit a brief mention in a biography of the notable subject. This is a natural consequence of a male dominated society, and although this dominance is less than is once was, you're a long time dead. Having said that, they may actually be notable in themselves. Barney the barney barney (talk) 20:30, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

In a lot of cases, wives are buried with their husbands, but have been ignored unfortunately.


Repeat: In most cases, it's the husbands that are notable not the wives. The reason for this has been explained. Also, Francis Darwin's 1st wife was not Lady Darwin as he wasn't knighted until after her death. She's buried "in a small churchyard somewhere in North Wales", where she grew up, according to Gwen Raverat Period Piece (book). Barney the barney barney (talk) 20:15, 16 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Continuation[edit]

2.30.189.219 (talk) 09:48, 9 March 2013 (UTC) Horace Lamb (Sir) Donald MacAlister (Sir) Desmond MacCarthy (Sir) Alfred Marshall Harold McCarter Taylor Charles James Martin George Edward Moore OM Alfred Newton Conrad Pepler Max Perutz OM, Nobel Prize winner Sir Leon Radzinowicz (Sir) Frank P. Ramsey W. H. R. Rivers W. W. Rouse Ball John Edwin Sandys (Sir) Charlotte Scott Arthur Woollgar Verrall Walter William Skeat Ludwig Wittgenstein Charles Wood (composer)[reply]

There are more members of the Order of Merit here (8) than in St. Paul's Cathedral (only 6)!

2.27.113.204 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 17:48, 16 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This was the original list of 21 :

2.30.215.90 (talk) 19:53, 19 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Selected graves and memorials, without articles[edit]

The following people interred in the burial ground who do not have articles: in [ ] are the burial plot numbers taken from the Cambridge City Council guide/map to the burial ground.


Some of the above are also featured in [Lucy Joan Slater]]'s "A Walk round the Ascension Burial Ground, formerly known as St. Giles' Cemetery", fourth edition, December 1994, which contains 106 references to burials.

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