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# University of Cambridge/Trinity College

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Some famous alumni from Trinity College, University of Cambridge:

     George Gascoigne 1525-1577 Poet, dramatist - Jocasta, The Glasse of Government
     John Dee 1527-1608 Alchemist, geographer, mathematician
     Edward Coke 1552-1634 Lawyer, politician; Chief Justice of the King's Bench
     [Francis Bacon]? 1561-1626 Lawyer, philosopher; Lord Chancellor
     Henry Spelman 1562-1641 Antiquary - `Reliquiae Spelmannianae'
     Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex 1566-1601 Soldier, courtier to Elizabeth I; executed for rebellion
     Giles Fletcher 1588-1623 Poet - Christ's Victory and Triumph
     George Herbert 1593-1633 Poet - The Temple; MP (Montgomery)
     Thomas Randolph 1605-1635 Poet, dramatist
     John Suckling 1609-1642 Poet, dramatist
     Abraham Cowley 1618-1667 Poet, dramatist - The Mistress
     Andrew Marvell 1621-1678 Poet -`Horatian Ode', The Rehearsal Transpros'd; MP (Hull)
     George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham 1627-1687 Wit, dramatist - The Rehearsal; member of the `Cabal'
     John Ray 1627-1705 Naturalist; created the principles of plant classification
     John Dryden 1631-1700 Poet Laureate -Absalom and Achitophel; Translator of Virgil
     Francis Willughby 1635-1672 Naturalist
     Isaac Newton 1642-1727 Mathematician, physicist; MP (Cambridge University)
     George Jeffreys 1645-1689 Judge - `Bloody Assizes'; Lord Chancellor
     Nathaniel Lee 1649-1692 Dramatist - The Rival Queens
     [Charles Montagu]?, 1st Earl of Halifax 1661-1715 Founded Bank of England, 1694; Chancellor of Exchequer
     [John Montagu]?, 4th Earl of Sandwich 1718-1792 First Lord of the Admiralty; invented the 'sandwich'
     Richard Cumberland 1732-1811 Playwright - The Brothers, The West Indian
     [Thomas Nelson]? 1738-1789 Signatory of the American Declaration of Independence
     Thomas, Lord Erskine 1750-1823 Lord Chancellor, jurist
     George Crabbe 1754-1832 Poet; did not matriculate
     Richard Porson 1759-1808 Classical scholar
     Spencer Perceval 1762-1812 Prime Minister 1809-1812 (Tory); assassinated
     Charles, Earl Grey 1764-1845 Prime Minister 1830-1834 (Whig); Great Reform Act (1832)
     John Lyndhurst 1772-1863 Lawyer; Lord Chancellor
     Viscount Melbourne 1779-1848 Prime Minister 1834, 1835-1841 (Whig)
     John, 3rd Earl Spencer 1782-1845 Known as Lord Althorp; Chancellor of the Exchequer
     Adam Sedgwick 1785-1873 Geologist
     George Gordon, Lord Byron 1788-1824 Poet - `She Walks in Beauty', Don Juan
     Charles Babbage 1791-1871 Mathematician; Built the forerunner of modern computers
     Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay 1800-1859 Historian, essayist
     William Henry Fox Talbot 1800-1877 Inventor of photography
     George Airy 1801-1895 Astronomer, geophysicist
     William Smith O'Brien 1803-1864 Irish Nationalist
     Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1803-1873 Novelist - The Last Days of Pompeii; politician
     James Challis 1803-1882 Astronomer; twice observed Neptune without noting it, before its discovery
     Frederick D Maurice 1805-1872 Theologian, writer, Christian Socialist
     Augustus de Morgan 1806-1871 Mathematician; symbolic logic
     Richard Chevenix Trench 1807-1888 Poet, Archbishop of Dublin; Theorist of English Language
     James Spedding 1808-1881 Scholar; editor of Bacon's Works
     Monckton Milnes 1809-1885 Politician, man of letters
     [Alfred Tennyson]? 1809-1892 Poet - Maud, In Memoriam
     Edward Fitzgerald 1809-1883 Poet - `The Rubá iyá t of Omar Khayyá m'
     [William M. Thackeray]? 1811-1863 Novelist - Vanity Fair, Henry Esmond
     Tom Taylor 1817-1880 Scottish dramatist; editor of Punch
     Thomas Wade 1818-1895 Diplomat; invented Wade-Giles Chinese transliteration
     Arthur Cayley 1821-1895 Mathematician; non-Euclidean geometry, invented matrices
     Francis Galton 1822-1911 Scientist; meteorology, heredity
     Brooke Westcott 1825-1901 Canon of Westminster, Bishop of Durham
     William Waddington 1826-1894 French Prime Minister 1879; archaeologist
     [William Harcourt]? 1827-1904 Liberal statesman; home secretary, Chancellor of the Exchequer
     Hugh Childers 1827-1896 Australian statesman, then British Chancellor of the Exchequer
     Joseph Lightfoot 1828-1889 Bishop of Durham; theologian
     Edward White Benson 1829-1896 Archbishop of Canterbury, 1883-1896
     James Maxwell 1831-1879 Physicist; electromagnetism
     John, Lord Acton 1834-1902 Historian
     Henry Campbell-Bannerman 1836-1908 Prime Minister 1905-1908 (Liberal)
     Michael Foster 1836-1907 Physiologist; MP (London University)
     Henry Sidgwick 1838-1900 Philosopher, major proponent of women's colleges
     George Otto Trevelyan 1838-1928 Historian; MP; Father of G. M. Trevelyan
     Richard Jebb 1841-1905 Greek scholar
     [Edward VII]? 1841-1910 Reigned 1901-1910
     Frederick Pollock 1845-1937 Jurist
     Edmund Gosse 1845-1928 Poet, critic - On Viol and Flute
     Arthur Balfour 1848-1930 Prime Minister 1902-1905 (Conservative)
     F. W. Maitland 1850-1906 Legal historian
     Charles Stanford 1852-1924 Composer, organist
     James Frazer 1854-1941 Anthropologist; writer - The Golden Bough
     A. E. Housman 1859-1936 Poet - A Shropshire Lad; Classical scholar
     A. N. Whitehead 1861-1947 Philosopher, mathematician
     George, Lord Carnarvon 1866-1923 Egyptologist; funded the discovery of Tut'ankhamun's tomb
     Freeman Freeman-Thomas, Marquis of Willingdon 1866-1941 Administrator; Viceroy of India
     Stanley Baldwin 1867-1947 Prime Minister 1923-24, 1924-29, 1935-37 (Conservative)
     Erskine Childers 1870-1922 Writer, Irish Nationalist - The Riddle of The Sands
     Ralph Vaughan Williams 1872-1958 Composer - Sea Symphony, Pilgrim's Progress
     Prince Ranjitsinhji 1872-1933 Cricketer; Indian Prince
     G. E. Moore 1873-1958 Philosopher
     Aleister Crowley 1875-1947  Writer and 'Magician'; 'the wickedest man alive'
     Mohammed Iqbal 1875-1938 Islamic poet and philosopher
     Charles Rolls 1877-1910 Co-founder of Rolls-Royce; aviator
     James Jeans 1877-1946 Astronomer, mathematician; stellar evolution
     Godfrey Harold Hardy 1877-1947 Mathematician; A Mathematician's Apology
     Lytton Strachey 1880-1932 Biographer - Eminent Victorians; Bloomsbury Group
     Leonard Woolf 1880-1969 Writer; husband of Virginia; Bloomsbury Group
     Clive Bell 1881-1964 Art and literary critic; husband of Vanessa
     Alfred Radcliffe-Brown 1881-1955 Social anthropologist
     A. A. Milne 1882-1956 Novelist - Winnie the Pooh
     [Arthur Eddington]? 1882-1944 Astronomer
     John Littlewood 1885-1977 Mathematician; Fourier Series, Zeta Function
     Harry Philby 1885-1960 Explorer of Arabia; father of Kim
     G. I. Taylor 1886-1975 Physicist, mathematician; Fluid dynamics, crystals
     C. D. Broad 1887-1971 Philosopher
     Srinivasa Ramanujan 1887-1920 Mathematician; analytic number theory, elliptic integrals
     Sydney Chapman 1888-1970 Mathematician, geophysicist; kinetic theory, geomagnetism
     Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889-1951 Philosopher
     Jawaharlal Nehru 1889-1964 First Prime Minister of India, 1949-1964
     [George VI]? 1895-1952 Reigned 1936-1952
     Vladimir Nabokov 1899-1977 Russian and English novelist - Lolita
     Christopher, Lord Hinton 1901-1983 Nuclear engineer; constructed Calder Hall, the first large scale reactor
     George 'Gubby' Allen 1902-1989 Cricketer - captained England; played in Bodyline series
     Frank Plumpton Ramsey 1903-1930 Philosopher, mathematician, economist
     Otto Frisch 1904-1979 Nuclear physicist; first used the term 'nuclear fission'
     Erskine Childers 1905-1974 President of the Irish Republic, 1973-74
     John Lehmann 1907-1987 Poet, man of letters; inaugurated The London Magazine
     Anthony Blunt 1907-1983 Soviet spy; art historian
     Peter Scott 1909-1989 Artist, ornithologist; Olympic sailor (1936)
     Nicholas Monsarrat 1910-1979 Novelist - The Cruel Sea
     [Guy Burgess]? 1910-1963 Soviet spy and traitor
     [Kim Philby]? 1911-1988 Double agent; communist
     Enoch Powell 1912-1998 Statesman; Minister of Health, 1960-3
     Willie Whitelaw 1918-1999 Statesman; Home Secretary, 1979-83
     John Robinson 1919-1983 Theologian; Bishop of Woolwich, Dean of Trinity
     Raymond Williams 1921-1988 Marxist critic, novelist - The Country and the City
     [Rajiv Gandhi]? 1944-1989 Prime Minister of India, 1984-1989

For more biographies, try the Cambridge Biographical Dictionary

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