The Ascension Parish Burial Ground , formerly known as the burial ground for the parish of St Giles and St Peter's , is a cemetery off Huntingdon Road in Cambridge , England . Many notable University of Cambridge academics are buried there, including three Nobel Prize winners.
The former chapel of rest at the Ascension Parish Burial Ground Although a Church of England site, the cemetery includes the graves of many non-conformists , reflecting the demographics of the parish in the 19th and 20th centuries, which covered much of West Cambridge.[1]
It was established in 1857 while the city of Cambridge was undergoing rapid expansion, although the first burial was not until 1869.[1] [1] [2] [1]
In 2020 it was formally closed to new burials by an Order in Council ,[3] Cambridge City Council .[4]
The former chapel of rest is now used as the workshop of letter-carver Eric Marland.[5] [6]
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Grave of astronomer John Couch Adams and wife Eliza Adams John Couch Adams , astronomer, discoverer of Neptune , Lowndean Professor .[7] [8] Westminster Abbey Hugh Kerr Anderson , physiologist, Master Gonville and Caius College .[7] Elizabeth Anscombe , Fellow of Newnham College , Philosopher, Professor of Philosophy.[9] Peter Geach is buried with her.[9] Richard Appleton , Master Selwyn College , Vicar of St. George's, Camberwell, Vicar of Ware.[7] [8] Arthur John Arberry [ citation needed ] Pembroke College, Cambridge .B
Grave of Sir Robert Stawell Ball and wife Lady Frances Elizabeth Ball. Sir Robert Stawell Ball , astronomer, Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry , founded the screw theory .[7] [8] Arthur Beer ,[ citation needed ] Caius College .Cecil Bendall Professor of Sanskrit, University of Cambridge; Honorary Fellow of Gonville and Caius College .[10] Edwin Keppel Bennett , noms de plume: Francis Bennett, Francis Keppel, Fellow and President of Gonville and Caius College .Jack A. W. Bennett ,[ citation needed ] Inklings , Fellow of Magdalen College .Arthur Christopher Benson , 28th Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge noted for writing the words of the song "Land of Hope and Glory ".[7] [8] William Henry Besant FRS, [11] St John's , mathematicianJames Bethune-Baker , theologian, Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity and Dean of Pembroke College.[7] [8] Frederick Blackman FRS,[12] St John's .Joan Boulind CBE, fellow and tutor at Hughes Hall, Cambridge .[ citation needed ] John Buckley Bradbury , Downing Professor of Medicine .[8] Charles Oscar Brink , classicist, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (cremated remains).[7] Denis William Brogan , historian, Political Scientist.[7] [8] Zachary Nugent Brooke , historian, Professor of Medieval History.[7] William Warwick Buckland , Professor of Law, President of Gonville and Caius College , Regius Professor of Civil Law .[ citation needed ] Robert Burn ,[13] Trinity College, Cambridge , and wife Augusta Sophia, née Prescott (a descendant of Oliver Cromwell )John Burnaby ,[ citation needed ] Trinity College, Cambridge , Regius Professor of Divinity , and wife Dorothy Burnaby, née Lock; also her brother Robert Heath Lock is buried in the same graveGeoffrey Bushnell , archaeologist and ethnologist, Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge .[7] C
Memorial to Sarah Clackson James Cable ,[ citation needed ] Viveca Hollmerus [ citation needed ] John Walton Capstick [14] Trinity College, Cambridge physicist, musicianNeville Chittick ,[ citation needed ] Richard Chorley ,[ citation needed ] Sidney Sussex College Sir Derman Christopherson FRS,[ citation needed ] Magdalene College (1978–1985) and his wife Frances, Lady Christopherson[ citation needed ] Sarah Clackson [15] James Clackson , Secretary of Friends of Ascension Parish Burial Ground.Sir William Henry Clark , civil servant.[7] John Cockcroft , physicist, Nobel Prize winner, instrumental in the development of nuclear power, first Master of Churchill College .[7] [8] Agnes Bell Collier , Vice Principal of Newnham College , passed Maths Tripos in 1883.[8] Frances Cornford , poet, interred in grave of her father Sir Francis Darwin ; and his wife.[7] G
Peter Geach , Philosopher, buried with his late wife Elizabeth Anscombe .[9] Roberto Gerhard [18] Jean Grove , Glaciologist, Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge . Older sister of the historian Margaret Spufford . Buried beside her mother Mary Clark, her niece Bridget Spufford, and her son Richard Grove .Richard Grove , Environmental historian. Buried beside his mother Jean Grove , and together with his grandmother Mary Clark and cousin Bridget SpuffordHenry Melvill Gwatkin , Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History , Historian, theologian, conchologist.[7] H
Reginald Hackforth [ citation needed ] Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy , Classical Scholar, Fellow of Sidney Sussex College .Basil Hammond , Historian.[8] William Emerton Heitland Classicist, Fellow of Emmanuel .[8] Margaret Heitland journalist and suffragette.[8] Robert Drew Hicks Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge , classicist, blind for 30 years.[ citation needed ] Paul Hirsch assembled one of the largest private music libraries in Europe, now in the British LibraryErnest William Hobson [19] Sadleirian Professor , Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge .Frederick Gowland Hopkins , Biochemist, Nobel Prize winner for discovery of vitamins.[8] Bertram Hopkinson , Patent Lawyer, Engineer, Professor of Mechanism and Applied Mechanics .[7] [20] Tristram Frederick Croft Huddleston , Classicist and Censor of Fitzwilliam House 1890–1907.[8] Arthur Hutchinson , Mineralogist and Master Pembroke College .[7] L
Horace Lamb , Mathematician and physicist.[7] [8] Guy Lee , Cambridge professor, classicist, translator of Ovid, Horace and Catullus, Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge .[ citation needed ] Edward Hubert Linfoot [ citation needed ] Wolfson College George Downing Liveing [22] St John's College, Cambridge and his wife CatharineJohn Bascombe Lock , Bursar of Gonville and Caius College , author of books on trigonometry, Chair of Addenbrooke's Hospital .[8] Robert Heath Lock , botanist and geneticist, wrote the first English textbook on genetics.[8] Henry Richards Luard [23] Trinity College, Cambridge , mathematician and clergymanM
Gravestone of philosopher G. E. Moore OM and wife Dorothy Moore Alexander Macalister , Professor of Anatomy, Cambridge University , Egyptologist, Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge .[8] R. A. Stewart Macalister , archaeologist, son of Alexander Macalister .[8] Sir Donald MacAlister , Physician, Vice-Chancellor Glasgow, Member of the Cambridge Apostles .[7] [8] Sir Desmond MacCarthy , Literary and drama critic, Member of the Cambridge Apostles .[7] Norman McLean , Orientalist and Member of the Cambridge Apostles , Master Christ's College, Cambridge .[7] Alfred Marshall , Professor of Political Economy one of the founders of Neoclassical economics ,[8] Mary Paley , co-founder of Newnham College .Sir Charles James Martin [ citation needed ] King's College, London .Brigadier Arthur Gordon Matthew [24]
Jeremy Maule , English scholar and teacher; Fellow and Lecturer in English, Trinity College.[ citation needed ] Edwin Arthur Maxwell , Mathematician; Director of Studies in Mathematics, University of Cambridge, Honorary Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge .[25] John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor , Professor of Latin, Antiquarian, early vegetarian and President of St John's College, Cambridge .[7] [8] Robert Williams Michell Surgeon.[26] Sir Geoffrey Fitzhervey de Montmorency [ citation needed ] William Loudon Mollison ,[27] G. E. Moore , philosopher, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge , Member of the Cambridge Apostles , the intellectual secret society.[7] [8] Andrew Munro , bursar and mathematician of Queens' College, Cambridge .[28] R
Sir Leon Radzinowicz [30] Trinity College, Cambridge .Arthur Stanley Ramsey Mathematician and philosopher, President of Magdalene College .[8] Frank P. Ramsey Philosopher and mathematician, Member of the Cambridge Apostles , the intellectual secret society, buried in same grave as his parents: Arthur Stanley Ramsey and Mary Agnes Ramsey.[7] William Luard Raynes OBE, solicitor, twice Mayor of Cambridge.[8]
William Halse Rivers Rivers [31] St John's College, Cambridge , Anthropologist, Neurologist, Ethnologist, PsychologistDavid Roberts , architect and fellow of Magdalene College.[32] Walter William Rouse Ball , Mathematician, author on the History of Mathematics, endowed professorships.[7] [8] S
John Edwin Sandys , Classicist and Public Orator of Cambridge University.[7] [8] Sir Charles Henry Sargant ,[ citation needed ]
Charlotte Scott , mathematician, first unofficial wrangler , buried in the grave of cousin Eliza Nevin.[7] [8] [16] Isabel May Griffiths Seltman, wife of Charles Seltman , art historian, fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge and a University Lecturer in Classics.[ citation needed ]
Gerald Shove ,[33] Fredegond Shove , poet, step-daughter of Sir Francis Darwin ; her mother was Lady Darwin, formerly Florence Maitland;Walter William Skeat , Philologist, Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon .[7] [8] Lucy Joan Slater ,[34] [8] George Smee, solicitor, and wife Eliza Smee; monument designed by Jacob Epstein .[8]
Bridget Spufford,[7] Peter Spufford and the late Margaret Spufford , sister of Francis Spufford . She is buried with her grandmother, Mary Clark, née Johnson.
Vincent Henry Stanton , Regius Professor of Divinity , Member of the Cambridge Apostles , the intellectual society at Cambridge University .[8] Joseph Peter Stern , Germanist, Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge , (cremated remains).[7] Stanley Stubbs [ citation needed ] T
Joseph Robson Tanner , Bursar of St John's , Samuel Pepys expert.[ citation needed ] Charles Taylor [35] St John's College, Cambridge , mathematician and Hebrew scholarHarold McCarter Taylor [ citation needed ] Clare College , (cremated remains)Henry Martyn Taylor , Mathematician, braille expert.[7] [8] Sir Alfred St Valery Tebbitt ,[ citation needed ] W
Wittgenstein's gravestone in 2021 Harry Marshall Ward , colleague of Sir Francis Darwin .[ citation needed ] Sir Percy Henry Winfield [ citation needed ] Rouse Ball Professor of English Law , Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge , author of The Law of Torts and his wife Lady Helena Winfield, née ScrubyDenys Winstanley , Vice Master Trinity College, Cambridge .[37] John Wisdom (cremated),Professor of Philosophy, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge , philosopher, and Honorary Fellow of Fitzwilliam College .[7] Ludwig Wittgenstein , philosopher, Professor of Philosophy, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge , Member of the Cambridge Apostles .[38] [8] Charles Wood , Professor of Music, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College , composer.[7] William Aldis Wright , Shakespearean and Biblical scholar, Vice-Master Trinity College, Cambridge .[7] [8]
Five members of the family of Charles Darwin are interred here: two sons: Sir Francis Darwin [8] Horace Darwin ,[8] Florence Darwin (third wife of Francis) and Lady Ida Darwin [8] Frances Cornford ,[8] Ellen Wordsworth Darwin , née Crofts.
Charles Darwin himself is buried in Westminster Abbey .
"A Cambridge Necropolis" by Dr. Mark Goldie, March 2000, for the Friends of The Parish of The Ascension Burial Ground
Ascension Parish Burial Ground Formerly St.Giles' and St. Peter's Burial Ground , Cambridge City Council Planning Department, 1995
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