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100 unusual facts about Cambridge


A. G. Steel

After his schooldays at Marlborough College, where he played cricket superbly, he proceeded to Trinity Hall, Cambridge.

A.J. Timothy Jull

He graduated from the University of Bristol in 1976 with a PhD in Geochemistry, doing postdoctoral work at Cambridge and the Max Planck Institute.

Adam Kwasman

Kwasman also worked in the United Kingdom for the RAND Corporation, assisting in their research of Islamic terrorism while studying at the Institute for Economics and Politics in Cambridge.

Alexander Watt

He then went to University of Cambridge to work on beech forest under Arthur Tansley and obtained a M.S. in 1919 (after interruption by military service 1916-1918).

Alfred Theodore MacConkey

MacConkey, the son of a West Derby minister, studied medicine at Cambridge and Guy's Hospital.

Andrew Justin Stewart Coats

Coats was educated at Melbourne Grammar School, where he was proxime accessit Head of School and a School Officer; St Catherine's College, Oxford, where he earned a B.A. in Physiological Sciences with First-Class Honours and won the Rose Prize; and Clare College, Cambridge, where he read medicine, earning a M.B. B.Chir.

Artur Ekert

From 2002 until early 2007 he was the Leigh-Trapnell Professor of Quantum Physics at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University and a Professorial Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.

Bellerive, Tasmania

Following the first settlers, the area expanded rapidly, with roads to the farming districts of Clarence Plains (Rokeby), Coal River (Richmond) and Hollow Tree (Cambridge) soon developing.

Cambridge Model European Council

The Cambridge Model European Council is an annual student-run conference based in the English city of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Real Tennis Club

The Cambridge University Real Tennis Club is located on Grange Road, Cambridge, England.

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 178

The first part formerly contained a number of homilies and other texts by Ælfric, including the Interrogationes Sigewulfi, his adaptation of Alcuin's Quaestiones in Genesim, which contains almost three hundred questions and answers on the Book of Genesis.

Cambridge, Illinois

The Henry County Court House, designed by Thomas J. Tolan & Son, Architects, of Fort Wayne, Indiana (1875–1878), is the key architectural landmark of the village.

Carolyn Abbate

She has also held faculty appointments at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Freie Universität in Berlin, and has been a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, King's College, Cambridge, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Chapbook

Many of the surviving chapbooks come from the collections of Samuel Pepys between 1661 and 1688 which are now held at Magdalene College, Cambridge.

Choir of Leeds Parish Church

Former choristers have achieved success in University Choral Scholarships, including Esther Chadwick and Sophie Wellings at Clare College, Cambridge.

Christ's College

Christ's College, Cambridge, one of the constituent Colleges of the University of Cambridge, England

Christopher Layne

Diploma in Historical Studies, Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge

Congregational Board of Education

With liberalisation, the Congregationalists adapted their focus, and the Board reorganised the former Homerton Academy as New College, London and what became Homerton College, Cambridge.

Coton, Cambridgeshire

From the 16th century until the early years of the 20th century, most of the land in Coton belonged to Cambridge colleges, including St John's, Queens', King's and St Catharine's, which let it for farming.

David Looker

After his education at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, he went on to enjoy a playboy lifestyle during the 1930s.

Dr Charles James Fox

The late Dr. Fox not only gave his professional services gratuitously to every priest, but in former years, was in the habit of receiving into his house those clerics who did not reside in the metropolis and more especially the students of St. Edmund's College.

Eino Friberg

Eino Friberg (10 May 1901, Merikarvia - 27 May 1995, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was a Finnish-born, American author most widely noted for his 1989 translation of the Finnish national epic, The Kalevala.

Electoral division of Rumney

The division covers an area of 1,516 km² and includes a number of outer Hobart localities including; Lauderdale, Rokeby, Cambridge, Sorell, Richmond.

Erich von Hornbostel

He moved first to Switzerland, then the United States, and finally to Cambridge in England, where he worked on an archive of non-European folk music recordings.

Fleming Glacier

This hitherto unnamed feature was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1947 for Reverend W.L.S. Fleming, Dean of Trinity Hall, Cambridge University; also, chaplain, chief scientist, and geologist of the BGLE.

Girton, Cambridgeshire

It lies about two miles to the northwest of Cambridge, and is the home of Cambridge University's Girton College, a pioneer in women's education, which was moved there from a previous site in Hertfordshire in 1872.

Green Line Coaches

The Transport Act 1980 deregulated coach services, and Green Line was able to expand services beyond its traditional area, to Cambridge (route 797), Oxford (routes 290 and 790, in conjunction with the Oxford Bus Company), Northampton and Brighton.

Hard Spell

Notable spellers apart from Gayathri included Nisha Abraham-Thomas from Wolverhampton, Mark Jackson from Cambridge, Dominic Harvey from Bath, Sarah Williams from Penzance, Jack Jarvis from Chesterfield and Anthony Collins from Barnes and Pierre Deschamps, who remarkably made the regional heat despite being from France and speaking English as a second language.

Henry Denifle

He was on his way to Cambridge, where he was to be made Honorary Doctor of that university, when he was struck down by the hand of death.

Honey for Tea

So Nancy, who was born in Cambridge as the child of a GI bride, and Jake decide to go and live in Cambridge.

Much of his money is invested in St Maud's College at Cambridge University, a university he loved.

Humphrey Haggett

He was admitted to Merchant Taylors School in 1613 and matriculated at St John's College, Cambridge on 12 November 1619, aged 17.

Ian James

Ian James (linguist), Cambridge University lecturer in French and fellow of Downing College, Cambridge

Ian Sansom

He studied at both Oxford and Cambridge where he was a fellow of Emmanuel College.

International Extension College

More commonly referred to as the IEC, the International Extension College is a defunct non-profit organization that was based in Cambridge in the UK.

Janet Coleman

She has held teaching appointments in politics at Exeter University and on the History Faculty of the University of Cambridge.

Joan Simon

She met her future husband Brian Simon while he was studying at Trinity College, Cambridge.

John Bois

Bois was born in Nettlestead, Suffolk, England, His father was William Bois, a graduate of Michaelhouse, Cambridge and a Protestant converted by Martin Bucer, who was vicar of Elmsett and West Stow; his mother was Mirable Poolye.

John Gally Knight

He was the eldest son of Rev. Henry Gally, rector of St. Giles-in-the Fields, Holborn, Middlesex and educated at Eton College (1753–57) and Trinity Hall, Cambridge (1757), where he was awarded LLB in 1764 and elected fellow in 1764.

John Norman Pearson

Son of the surgeon John Pearson (1758–1826), born 7 December 1787, he was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge.

John Wallop, Viscount Lymington

Rev. Barton Wallop (3 January 1744 – 1 September 1781), married Camilla Powlett Smith in 1771 and had issue, Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge

Jonael Schickler

He graduated with a First and, after a year as a cellist with a Berlin orchestra, Schickler returned to Cambridge (Queens' College, Cambridge) to read for a Doctorate in the Faculty of Divinity, under the supervision of George Pattison.

Joseph Barret

His parents wished him to be apprenticed in London, but he preferred remaining at Nottingham, where he married Millicent, daughter of John Reyner, sometime fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Joseph Deiss

He continued to complete a doctorate at the same university after which he spent some time doing research at King's College at the University of Cambridge.

Katherine Low Settlement

The mission there foundered after the First World War, when ill-health forced the retirement of its principal, Nesta Lloyd, but in 1921 she passed the baton to a Christ's College, Cambridge initiative, Christ’s College Boys’ Club, and followed this up in 1923 by introducing the all-female Katherine Low Settlement to the club as its tenant at the Cedars.

King's Hall

King's Hall, Cambridge - former college in the University of Cambridge, England

Lanckoroński Foundation

Lanckoroński Foundation is Zygmunt Jan Ansgary Tyszkiewicz (CMG) of Cambridge, England.

Laura Spence Affair

On Saturday 25 October 2008, Spence graduated from Wolfson College, Cambridge, with a degree in Medicine.

Life on Mars

In 1854, William Whewell, a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, who popularized the word scientist, theorized that Mars had seas, land and possibly life forms.

Louise Fryer

After attending Clare College, Cambridge, where she read anthropology, Fryer briefly worked as an actress.

Mark Saggers

As a schoolboy, he was a regular on the Newmarket Road End terrace at Cambridge United Football Club.

Marshall Library of Economics

In his honour, the expanded collection was named "The Marshall Library of Economics", and moved to larger quarters on Downing Street.

Minnesota State Highway 107

It is geographically located between the cities of Cambridge and Hinckley in east-central Minnesota and parallels Interstate 35 and State Highway 65 throughout its route.

Montagu Bacon

He was admitted a fellow-commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1704-5, but seems to have taken no degree until the year 1734, when he proceeded M.A. per literas regias, in which he is styled 'Edvardi primi comitis de Sandwich ex filiâ nepos.'

National Ringette League

From March 27 till April 2, 2011, the NRL Championship Tournament took place in Cambridge, Ontario.

P. T. Rajan

P. T. Rajan was born in 1892 in Uthamapalayam (Theni District) and educated at The Leys School, Cambridge and Jesus College, Oxford.

Paul Haston

Haston was born in London, England and graduated in 1980 with a Masters Degree in English Literature from Emmanuel College, Cambridge University.

Pentacle Club

The club retained its traditional links to the university, however, under the long presidency of Sir William Hawthorne, Master of Churchill College, Cambridge, well known for performing magic.

Petroconsultants

At its peak in the 1980s, Petroconsultants had some 200 major clients and offices in Dublin, Cambridge, London, Houston, Singapore and Sydney.

Pie a la Mode

Over five decades later, in 1936, an erroneous claim was made that Pie a la Mode was first invented at the Cambridge Hotel in Cambridge, Washington County, New York in the 1890s.

Popski's Private Army

He was privately educated in Belgium and went up to St John's College, Cambridge, becoming an ardent Anglophile, influenced by Bertrand Russell.

Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia

After the fall of monarchy in Yugoslavia he went to exile in London, where after graduating in mathematics from Clare College, Cambridge University, he became an insurance broker.

Ralph Morice

Morice, from his official position, was in possession of information, and helped John Foxe and others in their literary researches, mainly by supplying them with his Anecdotes of Cranmer. This compilation was used by Strype in his Memorials of Cranmer, and was reprinted from the manuscript at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, in Narratives of the Reformation (Camden Society).

Reginald Welby, 1st Baron Welby

He then went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, hoping for a career as a barrister following graduation, although his hopes never realised themselves.

Richard Clutterbuck

Clutterbuck was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1937 after graduating in mechanical sciences from Cambridge.

Royal Porthcawl Golf Club

In March 2010 it hosted the University Golf Match, contested between Oxford and Cambridge universities, with Oxford winning 9-6 over Cambridge.

Sachindra Chaudhuri

He educated at Rani Bhabani School in Calcutta, later he studied at Presidency College in Calcutta and later at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.

Safdar Ali Abbasi

Abbasi attended Aitchison College, Lahore, completing Cambridge and Intermediate studies before going on to pursue a medical degree at Dow Medical College, Karachi.

Scania N112

These included nine single-deck versions with Wadham Stringer Vanguard bodywork; the double-deckers were bodied by Marshall of Cambridge.

Silent Witness

Trevor decided to stay in Cambridge with his friends and family when Sam accepted the professorship position at a university in London and moved away at the end of series three.

Simon Lepper

Born in Canterbury, Lepper read music at King's College, Cambridge and studied piano accompaniment with Michael Dussek at the Royal Academy of Music.

So You Think

He was bred by M J Moran & Piper Farm Ltd and foaled at the Windsor Park Stud in Cambridge, New Zealand.

Somak Raychaudhury

He then proceeded to obtain a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, as a member of Churchill College, Cambridge, in 1990, supported by an Isaac Newton Studentship.

St Bride's Church, Glasgow

His recent work had included St Salvador’s Church in Dundee, the Chapel at Queens' College, Cambridge, and St. Mary's Church in Eccleston, Cheshire, which bears a strong resemblance to St. Bride's.

St. Edmund's College

St Edmund's College, Cambridge, a constituent college of the University of Cambridge

Stephen Gomersall

Sir Stephen Gomersall, KCMG was educated at Forest School, Snaresbrook and Queens' College, Cambridge.

Stuart Macintyre

From 1977 to 1978, Macintyre was a research fellow at St John's College at the University of Cambridge.

Svetozar Sasa Kovacevic

was placed among international composers of the IBC (International Biographical Centre) in Cambridge (England), IBC 2010.

Terence English

He was President of the Royal College of Surgeons 1989-92, Master of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, 1993–2000.

The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James

Montague Rhodes James (1862–1936) was a medieval scholar; Provost of King's College, Cambridge.

Thierry Bogaert

He obtained a PhD at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Medical Research Council, (Cambridge, United Kingdom).

Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden

In 1542 he endowed and re-established Buckingham College, Cambridge, under the new name of the College of St Mary Magdalene (commonly Magdalene College), and ordained in the statutes that his heirs, "the possessors of the late monastery of Walden" should be Visitors of Magdalene College in perpetuum.

Thomas Bradock

In 1579 his name appears in a protest against the action of Edward Hawford, the master, in withholding his fellowship from Hugh Broughton.

Thomas Henry Parry

He was educated at University College, Aberystwyth and Christ's College, Cambridge where he received his MA and LL.B degrees with honours.

Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford

He was admitted fellow-commoner at Clare College, Cambridge, on 7 January 1754, and resided there until 1758.

Thorrington

The striking medieval flint church is dedicated to Mary Magdalene, and the patrons of the church are St John's College, Cambridge.

Tom Copson

His first release since securing a deal with UK-based independent label Chiwawa Records was a live acoustic EP, which was recorded in his home town of Cambridge, entitled Tom Copson – Live at CB2.

Tom Hodgkinson

Hodgkinson was born in Newcastle, England, and educated at Westminster School and Jesus College, Cambridge, during which time he played the bass guitar in the Stupids-influenced thrash band Chopper.

Tony Cornell

Cornell was also an amateur antiquarian and helped ensure the preservation of a number of old, timber-framed buildings opposite the Round Church in central Cambridge.

Tony Lewis

Lewis was born in Swansea, and attended Christ's College, Cambridge, where he graduated as BA and later MA, and also played rugby football and cricket for Cambridge University.

Trinity Hall

Trinity Hall, Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge

Victor Stiebel

Born in Durban he arrived in Britain in 1924 to study architecture at Jesus College, Cambridge.

Wacław Iwaniuk

Educated in Warsaw and Cambridge, England, a poet, literary critic and essayist for various Polish émigré newspapers in Canada and abroad.

Walter Rosenhain

Rosenhain then did three years research work with Professor James Alfred Ewing at St John's College, Cambridge.

William Buller Fagg

Fagg was educated at Dulwich College before entering Magdalene College, Cambridge to study Classics, winning prizes for Latin hexameters and Latin epigrams.

William Edward Hodgson Berwick

He completed his schooling in 1906, securing a Brown Scholarship to assist him in his university studies; he was also awarded an Entrance Scholarship by Clare College, Cambridge, where he went to study for the Mathematical Tripos.

William S. Rukeyser

He also studied English literature as a graduate student at Christ's College, Cambridge University.

William Wentworth-FitzWilliam, Viscount Milton

Milton was the eldest son of William Wentworth-FitzWilliam, 6th Earl FitzWilliam, and his wife Lady Frances Harriet, daughter of George Douglas, 17th Earl of Morton, and was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.

Winchester Troper

One can be found in Oxford, in the Bodleian Library (MS Bodley 775), the other in Corpus Christi, Cambridge (MS473), but were copied out at, and originally used at Winchester Cathedral.

Zeus Technology

Zeus Technology was founded in 1995 by Damian Reeves and Adam Twiss while they were undergraduates at Churchill College, University of Cambridge.


1991–92 Cambridge United F.C. season

Fujitsu retained their sponsorship for away kits and, following the end of Cambridge's sponsorship deal with Howlett, became the home sponsors too.

1993 in archaeology

Sarah Milledge Nelson – The Archaeology of Korea (Cambridge University Press).

A. W. Lawrence

In 1951 he resigned his post at Cambridge to become the Professor of Archaeology at the University College of the Gold Coast where he established the National Museum and was the Secretary and Conservator of the Monuments and Relics Committee.

Alan Nunn May

In January 1943 the Cambridge team including Nunn May transferred to the Montreal Laboratory which was building a reactor at Chalk River near Ottawa, Canada.

Alpha Beta Christian College

It is located in Dansoman, Accra, Ghana, and offers the Cambridge International Programmes IGCSE (International General Certificate of Secondary Education) and A-Levels.

Amanda Staveley

In 1996, at the age of 22 and without any training, Staveley borrowed £180,000 and bought the restaurant, Stocks, in Bottisham between Cambridge and Newmarket.

Argument

Douglas Walton, Informal Logic: A Handbook for Critical Argumentation, Cambridge, 1998

Arthur James Mason

His departure from Cambridge was at the urging of his friend Edward Benson, who had been appointed as Bishop of Truro and wanted Mason to act as diocesan missioner.

Arthur M. Lesk

He was a group leader in the biocomputing program at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, from 1987 to 1990; a visiting scientist at MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, United Kingdom, between 1977 and 1990; and a professor of chemistry at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey from 1971 to 1987.

Battle of Muret

Laurence Marvin, "The Occitan War: A Military and Political History of the Albigensian Crusade, 1209-1218", Berry College: Cambridge University Press, 2008, 175-195.

Bruce E. MacDonald

After receiving a Master of Laws degree from Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Mass., in 1992, he was transferred to Seoul, Korea, where he served as Chief, Operational Law Division, on the staffs of United Nations Command, Combined Forces Command, and United States Forces Korea.

Bruce Quarrie

He became a journalist with the Financial Times and then in 1972 joined Patrick Stephens Limited, a Cambridge specialist publisher, as editor of Airfix magazine, which PSL produced.

Cambridge Gulf

King named the gulf after the His Royal Highness the Viceroy of Hanover who was also the Duke of Cambridge at that time, as well as being Prince Adolphus.

Cambridge University Association Football League

This gives Cambridge University county status (separate from Cambridgeshire), with the same voice in English football's governing body as such associations as London, the Army and Women's football.

Carlo von Erlanger

On his return to Europe he continued his studies at Cambridge and Berlin.

Charles Edward Moss

Albert Charles Seward, Professor of Botany at Cambridge and a Syndic at the Press, supported Moss, but both eventually reluctantly accepted the Press's preferences.

Choral scholar

This is a common practice in the UK at schools attached to cathedrals where the choir is the Cathedral Choir, and at Oxford and Cambridge University Colleges, many of which have famous choirs.

Chorus of Westerly

The sessions have been directed over the past two decades by Richard Marlow (former organist and choirmaster of Trinity College, Cambridge), Sir David Willcocks (former choirmaster of King's College, Cambridge and The Bach Choir, London), Herbert Bock, and most recently by David Hill (of the BBC Singers, the Bach Choir) and James Litton (former director of the American Boychoir).

Confidence interval

Hacking, I. (1965) Logic of Statistical Inference. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Connection Machine

Danny Hillis and Sheryl Handler founded Thinking Machines in Waltham, Massachusetts (it was later moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts) in 1983 and assembled a team to develop the CM-1 Connection Machine.

Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge

The Magnetic Resonance Research Centre has been situated at the West Cambridge site since it was built in 1997 and houses four Bruker NMR spectrometers in addition to lower field equipment such as Earth's field NMR equipment.

Edmund Castle

Castle was appointed public orator for the University of Cambridge in 1727;, he gave up the office in 1729, on being appointed to the vicarages of Elm and Emneth.

Edward Martell

After receiving his Ph. D., he became a group leader at the Fermi Institute for Nuclear Studies at the University of Chicago and also took up a position at the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratory in Bedford, Massachusetts.

Geoffrey Darks

Not usually a productive batsman, with six single-figure scores in his eight innings (albeit three of those not out), he did however make 39 against Cambridge in the same match in late June 1950 in which he took his final wicket, that of David Sheppard.

George of Cambridge

Prince George, Duke of Cambridge (1819-1904), born Prince George of Cambridge, a grandson of George III through his son Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge

Gordon Dougan

Professor Gordon Dougan is Head of Pathogen Research and a member of the Board of Management at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (WTSI) in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Harold M. Westergaard

Harold Malcolm Westergaard (9 October 1888 Copenhagen, Denmark – 22 June 1950 Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA).

James Henry Carleton

General Carleton died, serving with the Fourth Cavalry Regiment in his permanent rank of Lieutenant Colonel, at age 59 in January 7, 1873, in San Antonio, Texas, and is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts; his son, Henry was later buried beside him.

James Jurin

He had studied under Roger Cotes and William Whiston at Cambridge but only came to know Newton at the Royal Society, where Jurin was Secretary towards the end of Newton's Presidency.

James Whitbourn

In 2005, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with the Choir of Clare College Cambridge, under Leonard Slatkin, premiered his largest choral work Annelies, a setting of the Diary of Anne Frank, at London's Cadogan Hall to wide critical acclaim.

John Mainwaring

He was a Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, and became rector of the parish of Church Stretton, Shropshire, and, later professor of Divinity at Cambridge.

John Stasko

John Stasko, John Domingue, Marc H. Brown, Marc and Blaine Price,(editors), Software Visualization: Programming as a Multimedia Experience, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1998.

Jonathan Steinberg

He was co-editor of The Historical Journal, Cambridge University Press, from 1990 to 2000 and his biography Bismarck: A Life was published by Oxford University Press in early April, 2011.

Kenneth Womack

In addition to his work as novelist, Womack is the author and editor of three books devoted to The Beatles, including Reading the Beatles: Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, and the Fab Four (2006; with Todd F. Davis), Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles (2007), and The Cambridge Companion to the Beatles (2009), which was named by The Independent as the 2009 Music Book of the Year.

Lord's Bridge railway station

The long and level stretch of line, the nearest suitable abandoned line to Cambridge, was ideal for the Observatory's CLFST, AMI, One-Mile and Ryle rail-mounted radio-telescopes which move along a 4.8 km length of track of approximately 20 ft gauge.

Michael Scothern

With the ball he took his solitary first-class wicket when he had Cambridge captain Rob Andrew (who was to gain much greater fame in rugby union) lbw for 2.

Multics Emacs

Multics Emacs was an implementation of the Emacs text editor written in Maclisp by Bernard Greenberg at Honeywell's Cambridge Information Systems Lab.

Oliver Everett

Everett was educated at St Aubyn's Preparatory School Woodford Green Essex having been Captain of the 1st XVFelsted, the Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, Ohio and at Christ's CollegeCambridge, and he has a masters degree in international relations from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and did post-graduate work in international relations at the London School of Economics.

Quentin Compson

A plaque on the Anderson Memorial Bridge (commonly but incorrectly called Larz Anderson Bridge) over the Charles River in Cambridge, Massachusetts, commemorates his life and death.

Ramesh Kumar Nibhoria

He was invited to the Al Gore lecture on climate change at Cambridge University.

Richard Janko

(G.S. Kirk, series editor) The Iliad. A Commentary. 4: Books 13–16 (Cambridge, 1994)

Richard Risby

12, together with Elizabeth Barton, Edward Bocking, Hugh Rich, warden of the Observant friary at Richmond, John Dering, B.D. (Oxon.), Benedictine of Christ Church, Canterbury, Henry Gold, M.A. (St.John's College, Cambridge), parson of St. Mary Aldermanbury, London, and vicar of Hayes, Middlesex and Richard Master M.A. (King's College, Oxon)rector of Aldington, Kent, who was pardoned; but by some oversight Master's name is included and Risby's omitted in the catalogue of praetermissi.

Spare Change

Spare Change News, a street newspaper founded in 1992 and published in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Vincent R. Gray

Gray has a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Cambridge University after studies on incendiary bomb fluids made from aluminium soaps.

Yorick Blumenfeld

He lives in Cambridge and is married to the sculptor Helaine Blumenfeld.