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University of Cambridge, 4 Mill Ln, Cambridge CB2 1RZ

The Cambridge Conversazione Society was founded in 1820. Since its original members were twelve evangelical students, it quickly acquired the nickname Cambridge Apostles. The Society's influence went well beyond Cambridge, and many eminent Victorians, Edwardians, and Georgians belonged to it. For the glbtq cultural legacy, the Apostles are important for their frank discussions of homoeroticism, their interest in Platonic love as a counterdiscourse to Victorian ideology, and their role in establishing Bloomsbury.

• A.W. Verrall (1851–1912), father, solicitor; ed. Wellington and Trinity College, Classical Tripos, 2nd Class, BA 1873; barrister, Fellow, tutor and classical lecturer at Trinity College, the first King Edward VII professor of English literature
• Alan Hodgkin (1914-1998), recipient of the Nobel Prize for Medicine
• Albert Crompton (1843–1908), father, judge; ed. Harrow and Trinity College; admitted to the Inner Temple but received no call, manager of the Ocean Steamship Company and founder of the Positivist Church in Liverpool
• Alexander Gooden (1818–1841), ed. Trinity College, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, BA 1840; admitted to Lincoln’s Inn, died at the age of 23 in Bonn
• Alexander Morrison (1806–1865), ed. Merchant Taylors’ School and Trinity College, Mathematical Tripos, BA 1832; schoolmaster, clergyman
• Alfred Ainsworth (1879–1959), father, inspector of schools; ed. Dulwich and King’s College, Classical and Moral Sciences Triposes in which he achieved the First Class in both, BA 1900; lecturer in classics at Manchester and Edinburgh universities, a senior official in the Education Office; brother-in-law of an Apostle
• Hon. Alfred Lyttelton (1857–1913), father, 4th Baron Lyttelton; ed. Eton and Trinity College, History Tripos, BA 1879; barrister, QC, MP, Cabinet minister, PC, a great cricketer and, in fact, died after being struck by a cricket ball during an amateur match; brother of an Apostle
• Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947), father, clergyman, schoolmaster; ed. Sherborne and Trinity College, Mathematical Tripos, 4th Wrangler, BA 1884; Fellow of Trinity and lecturer in mathematics, lecturer and reader in geometry and applied mathematics at University College, London, professor of allied mathematics at the Imperial College, professor of philosophy at Harvard University
• Sir Alfred Power (1805–1888), father, physician; ed. Repton and Clare College migrated to Downing College, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, 2nd Classic, BA 1826; Fellow of Downing, barrister, factory commissioner, assistant Poor Law commissioner, chief commissioner of the Irish Poor Law, vice-president of the Irish Local Government Board; brother of an Apostle
• Alfred Taylor (1802–1823), ed. Louth Grammar School and Trinity College; admitted to Lincoln’s Inn, 1822; died in London at the age of 21
• Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892), father, clergy; ed. Louth Grammar School and Trinity College; poet, created Baron Tennyson 1884
• Alfred Veasey (1800–1834), ed. Rugby and Peterhouse, Mathematical Tripos, BA 1821; Fellow of Peterhouse
• Alister Watson (1908-1982)
• Amartya Sen (born 1933)
• Andrew Cohen (1909-1968), colonial governor
• Anthony Blunt (1907-1983),
• Anthony Kelly (1929-2014), academic
• Arnold Kettle (1916-1986), Shakespeare expert
• Arthur Balfour (1848-1930), Prime Minister
• Arthur Beresford Cane (b. 1864), father, Arthur Cane of Clonmoyle, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath; ed. Charterhouse and Trinity College, History Tripos, First Class, BA 1886; barrister
• Sir Arthur Buller (1808–1869), father, East India Company; ed. Trinity College, BA 1830; barrister, judge, MP; brother of an Apostle
• Arthur Hallam (1811–1833), father, historian; ed. Eton and Trinity College, BA 1832; admitted to the Inner Temple, died in Vienna of a cerebral haemorrhage; brother of an Apostle
• Arthur Halmilton Smith (1860–1941), father, barrister; ed. Winchester and Trinity Colllege, First Class in the Classical Tripos, BA 1884; assistant keeper and then keeper of the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum; brother of two Apostles
• Sir Arthur Helps (1815–1875), father, businessman; ed. Eton and Trinity College, Mathematical Tripos, 31st Wrangler, BA 1835; author, clerk of the Privy Council
• Arthur Hugh Clough (1859–1943), father, poet; ed. Eton and Trinity College, Classical and Moral Sciences Triposes, achieved First Class in both, BA 1884; an examiner in the Education Office, in middle age he bought a house in the New Forest and devoted himself to country pursuits
• Sir Arthur Lawrence Hobhouse (1886–1965), father, barrister, MP; ed. Eton, St Andrews University and Trinity College, Natural Sciences Tripos, BA 1907; solicitor, MP, farmer, knighted in 1942
• Arthur John Butler (1844–1910), father, clergy, Dean of Lincoln; ed. Eton and Trinity College, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, 8th Classic, BA 1867, Fellow; examiner at the Board of Education, publisher, professor of Italian language and literature at University College, London, editor of the Alpine Journal
• Arthur Malkin (1803-1888)
• Arthur Martineau (1807–1872), ed. Harrow and Trinity College, BA 1829; Fellow of Trinity, clergyman
• Arthur Sidgwick (1840–1920), father, clergyman, schoolmaster; ed. Rugby and Trinity College, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, 2nd Classic, BA 1863; Fellow, schoolmaster, Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, reader in Greek, Oxford University; brother of one Apostle and brother-in-law of two others
• Sir Arthur Strachey (1858–1901), father, Indian civil service; ed. Charterhouse and Trinity Hall, Law Tripos, BA and LLB 1881; barrister, judge of the High Court of Bombay, chief justice of the High Court of the North West Provinces, chief justice at Allahabad, after he died his body was cremated in the Hindu fashion; cousin of two Apostles
• Arthur Thomas Myers (1851–1894), father, clergy; ed. Cheltenham and Trinity College, Classical and Natural Sciences Triposes, 12th Classic, BA 1873; physician
• Austin Edward Arthur Watt Smyth (1877–1949), father, judge of the Punjab Supreme Court; ed. Winchester and Trinity College, Classical Tripos, First Class, BA 1899; Fellow, clerk and librarian of the House of Commons
• Benjamin Guest (d. 1869), ed. Bridgnorth Grammar School, Queens’ College migrated to Trinity College, BA 1822; clergyman, proprietor of a private school
• Benjamin Hall Kennedy (1804–1889), father, clergyman and schoolmaster; ed. King Edward’s School, Birmingham, Shrewsbury, and St John’s College, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, Senior Classic, BA 1827; Fellow of St John’s, clergyman, schoolmaster, headmaster of Shrewsbury, Regius professor of Greek
• Bernard Henry Holland (1856–1926), father, clergyman; ed. Eton and Trinity College, First Class in the History Tripos, BA 1879; barrister, private secretary to the Duke of Devonshire and to successive colonial secretaries including Alfred Lyttelton; son of an Apostle
• Hon. Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (1872–1971), father, son of a peer; ed. Southgate School, Middlesex and Trinity College, Mathematical Tripos in which he was 7th Wrangler and the Moral Sciences Tripos in which he achieved First Class, BA 1893, Fellow; philosopher, succeeded his brother as third Earl Russell in 1930, Nobel Prize for Literature, OM
• Brooke Foss Westcott (1825-1901)
• Cecil Francis Taylor (1886–1955), ed. Charterhouse and Emmanuel College, Classical Tripos, First Class, BA 1908; schoolmaster
• Cecil James Monro (1833–1882), father, registrar of the Court of Chancery; ed. Harrow and Trinity College, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, 38th Wrangler and 8th Classic, BA 1855, Fellow; barrister, lived abroad, because of illness, correcting the proof-sheets of his friends
• Sir Charles Brodie Locock, Baronet (1827–1890), father, physician to the Queen, baronet; ed. Trinity College, Mathematical Tripos, BA 1850; barrister
• Charles Buller (1806–1848), father, East India Company; ed. Harrow and Trinity College, BA 1828; barrister, MP, president of the Poor Law Commission; brother of an Apostle
• Charles Colbeck (1847–1903), ed. Leamington School and Trinity College, Classical Tripos, 5th Classic, BA 1869, Fellow; schoolmaster
• Charles Evans (1824–1904), ed. King Edward’s School, Birmingham and Trinity College, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, Senior Classic, BA 1847, Fellow; clergyman, schoolmaster
• Charles Fletcher-Cooke (1914-2001)
• Charles Gilbert Heathcote (1841–1913), father, landed gentleman; ed. Eton and Trinity College, Classical Tripos, 9th Classic, BA 1863; Fellow and tutor at Emmanuel College, barrister, alpinist, one of the founders of the All-England Tennis Club and frequently a judge at Wimbledon
• Charles Henry Tawney (1838–1922), father, clergyman; ed. Rugby and Trinity College, Classical Tripos, Senior Classic, BA 1860, Fellow; Bengal Education Department, principal, Presidency College, Calcutta, Sanskrit scholar, India Office Librarian
• Charles Lyttelton, 5th Baron Lyttelton (1842–1922), father, 4th Baron Lyttelton; ed. Eton and Trinity College, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, First Class in the Law Tripos, BA 1864; MP, succeeded his father in 1876, one of the best shots in England; brother of an Apostle
• Charles Merivale (1808–1893), father, barrister; ed. Harrow, Haileybury and St John’s College, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, 4th Classic, BA 1830, played in the first Eton and Harrow cricket match (1824) and rowed in the first University boat race (1829); Fellow and tutor of St John’s College, clergyman, Dean of Ely
• Charles Percy Sanger (1871–1930), ed. Winchester and Trinity College, Mathematical Tripos in which he was 2nd Wrangler and the Moral Sciences Tripos in which he achieved First Class, BA 1893, Fellow; barrister
• Charles Puller (1834–1892), father, chief justice of Bengal; ed. Eton and Trinity College, Mathematical Tripos, 15th Wrangler, BA 1857, Fellow; clergyman, in 1874 accepted the provisions of the Clerical Disabilities Relief Act of 1870
• Charles Shapland Whitmore (1805–1877), father, military; ed. Rugby, Trinity College, BA 1927; barrister, QC, judge
• Charles Stokes (1818-1880/1899), father, solicitor; ed. St Paul’s and Trinity College; convert to Roman Catholicism
• Charles Wiseman (1800–1823) (founding member), ed. St John’s College, BA 1821; died of consumption in Geneva
• Crompton Llewelyn Davies (1868–1935), father, clergyman; ed. Marlborough and Trinity College, Classical Tripos, First Class, BA 1891, Fellow; solicitor, civil servant in the Post Office, dismissed because of his Sinn Féin sympathies; brother of an Apostle and father of another
• D.G. Champernowne (1912–2000)
• D.W. Lucas, classicist (1905–1985)
• Dadie Rylands (1902–1999)
• Dennis Robertson (1890–1963), economist
• Derek Prince (1915–2003)
• Sir Desmond MacCarthy (1878–1952), father, Bank of England sub-agent; ed. Eton and Trinity College, History Tripos, BA 1897; editor, literary critic for whom artistic judgement always rested on wide reading and general knowledge; son-in-law of an Apostle
• Sir Donald MacAlister, Baronet (1854–1934), father, publisher’s agent; ed. Liverpool Institute and St John’s College, Mathematical Tripos, Senior Wrangler, BA 1877, MD 1884; schoolmaster, Fellow and tutor at St John’s College, principal, vice-chancellor, and chancellor at Glasgow University, created baronet in 1924
• Douglas Denon Heath (1811–1897), father, Serjeant-at-law; ed. Greenwich School and Trinity College, Senior Wrangler and 1st Class Classical Tripos, BA 1832, Fellow; barrister, judge; brother of two Apostles
• Dunbar Isidore Heath (1816–1888), father, Serjeant-at-law; ed. Greenwich School and Westminster, Trinity College, Mathematical Tripos, 5th Wrangler, BA 1838; clergyman; brother of two Apostles
• Duncan Crookes Tovey (1842–1912), father, wine merchant; ed. King’s College, London and Trinity College, Classical Tripos, BA 1865; clergyman, schoolmaster
• Edmund Gurney (1847–1888)
• Edmund Henry Fisher (1834–1879), father, clergyman; ed. Rugby and Trinity College, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, 20th Wrangler, BA 1858, Fellow; schoolmaster, clergyman
• Edmund Law (1818–1867), ed. Westminster and Trinity College, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, BA 1840; barrister
• Edmund Law Lushington (1811–1893), father, barrister and judge, Master of the Crown Office; ed. Charterhouse and Trinity College, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, Senior Classic, BA 1832, Fellow; barrister, professor of Greek, Glasgow; brother of two Apostles
• Edmund Oldfield (1816–1902), ed. Trinity College migrated to Worcester College, Oxford, BA 1839; Fellow of Worcester College, barrister, assistant in the Department of Antiquities of the British Museum
• Edward Baines (1800–1882), father, clergyman; ed. Shrewsbury and Christ’s College, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, 4th Classic, BA 1824; clergyman, schoolmaster, Fellow of Christ’s, classical lecturer, Senior Proctor
• Edward Conuitt Judge (1802–1875), ed. St Paul’s and Gonville and Caius College migrated to Trinity College, BA 1824; clergyman, went to the Cape of Good Hope in 1826 where he was chaplain of the forces and Canon of Cape Town
• Edward Cowell Brice (1795–1881) (founding member), father, Bristol merchant; ed. St John’s College, BA 1821; clergyman; brother of an Apostle
• Edward Ernest Bowen (1836–1901), father, clergyman; ed. Blackheath Proprietary School and Trinity College, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, 4th Classic, BA 1858, Fellow; schoolmaster
• Edward Horsman (1807-1876), ed. Rugby and Trinity College; Scottish Advocate, MP, chief secretary for Ireland
• Edward John Chalmers Morton (1856–1902), father, agriculturalist and littérateur; ed. Harrow and St John’s College, Mathematical Tripos, BA 1880; barrister, journalist, MP, secretary to the Home Rule Union
• Edward Mallet Young (1839–1900), father, baronet; ed. Eton and Trinity College, Classical Tripos, 7th Classic, BA 1863, Fellow; clergyman, schoolmaster, headmaster at Sherborne
• Sir Edward Marsh (1872–1953), father, surgeon and Master of Downing College; ed. Westminster and Trinity College, Classical Tripos, First Class, BA 1895; civil servant, assistant private secretary to Joseph Chamberlain and Alfred Lyttelton, private secretary to Winston Churchill and others, patron of the arts; his appearance was almost dandyish and he set high standards for food and drink but his domestic life was plain and spartan
• Edward Morgan Forster (1879–1970), father, architect; ed. Tonbridge School and King’s College, Classical and History Triposes, BA 1900; novelist and Fellow of King’s College; friendship meant more to him than honours and he refused a knighthood
• Edward O'Brien (1808–1840), father, baronet; ed. Trinity College, BA 1829; barrister; brother of an Apostle
• Edward Romilly (1804–1870), father, Sir Samuel Romilly; ed. Bury St Edmunds School and Christ’s College migrated to Trinity Hall, Civil Law Classes, LLB 1828; MP, chairman of the Commission for Auditing Public Accounts; brother of an Apostle
• Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby (1826–1893), father, Earl of Derby; ed. Rugby and Eton and Trinity College, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, 10th Classic, BA 1848; MP, Cabinet minister, succeeded to the earldom in 1869
• Edward Thomas Vaughan (1813–1900), father, clergyman; ed. Christ’s College, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, 29th Wrangler and 7th Classic, BA 1834, Fellow of Christ’s College, clergyman
• Effingham Lawrence (1816–1888), father, East India Company; ed. Tonbridge School and Trinity College, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, 29th Wrangler, BA 1839, Fellow; barrister
• Erasmus Alvey Darwin (1804–1881), father, physician; ed. Shrewsbury, Christ’s College, MB 1828; lived as a recluse in London, ‘distinguished by a great charm of manner and a strong sense of humour’
• Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012), historian
• Fenton John Anthony Hort (1828–1892), father, son of a baronet, called to the bar; ed. Rugby and Trinity College, First Class in the Classical, Moral Sciences, and Natural Sciences Triposes, BA 1850, Fellow; clergyman, Fellow of Emmanuel College, Lady Margaret professor of divinity
• Ferenc Istvan Denes Gyula Békássy (1893–1915), father, a Hungarian aristocrat; ed. Bedales School and King’s College, History Tripos, BA 1914; a man of poetic aspirations who preferred action to contemplation, killed in the Great War fighting for the central powers. King’s put up a separate memorial to him
• Francis Bacon (1801–1840), father, barrister; ed. Hammersmith School and Trinity College, BA 1826; barrister, theatre critic, House of Commons gallery reporter, and assistant editor of the Time
• Francis Birrell (1889-1935)
• Francis Garden (1811–1884), father, merchant; ed. University of Glasgow and Trinity College, BA 1833; clergyman
• Francis Haskell (1928–2000)
• Francis Holland (1828–1907), father, physician to the Queen, baronet; ed. Eton, Trinity College, Mathematical Tripos, BA 1850; clergyman, chaplain in ordinary to the Queen; father of an Apostle
• Francis Kennard Bliss ([?]-1916), father, an American businessman; ed. Rugby and King’s College, Classical Tripos, First Class, BA 1914; killed in action during the Great War
• Francis Maitland Balfour (1851–1882), father, landed gentry; ed. Harrow and Trinity College, First Class in the Natural Sciences Tripos, BA 1874; Fellow of Trinity, professor of animal morphology, died while climbing Mt. Blanc; his brother and brothers-in-law were Apostles
• Francis Vaughan Hawkins (1833–1908), father, physician to the Queen; ed. Harrow and Trinity College, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, 41st Wrangler, Senior Classic, BA 1854, Fellow; barrister
• Francis Warre-Cornish (1839–1916), father, clergyman; ed. Eton and King’s College, Classical Tripos, 3rd Classic, BA 1861; Fellow, schoolmaster, vice-provost at Eton
• Frank Eustace Anderson (1844–1880), father, businessman; ed. Harvard College and Trinity College, Classical Tripos, BA 1869; tutor and assistant professor of Greek at Harvard
• Frank Laurence Lucas (1894–1967), father, schoolmaster; ed. Rugby and Trinity College, Classical Tripos, First Class, BA 1920; wounded and gassed in the Great War, Fellow of King’s College, author, charming but single-minded and formidable
• Frank P. Ramsey (1903–1930), Philosopher and mathematician, Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge
• Sir Franklin Lushington (1823–1901), father, barrister and judge; ed. Rugby and Trinity College, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, Senior Classic, BA 1846, Fellow; barrister, member of the Supreme Council of Justice for the Ionian Islands, Metropolitan Police Magistrate; brother of two Apostles
• Frederic William Farrar (1831–1903), father, clergyman; ed. King William’s College, Isle of Man and Trinity College, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, 4th Classic, BA 1854, Fellow; schoolmaster, clergyman, Dean of Canterbury
• Frederic William Maitland (1850–1906), father, don, barrister, civil service examiner; ed. Eton and Trinity College, First Class in the Moral Sciences Tripos, BA 1872; barrister, Reader and Downing professor of laws of England; son and father-in-law of Apostles
• Frederick Gibbs (1821–1898), father, businessman; ed. King’s College School, London and Trinity College, BA 1843; barrister, QC
• Frederick Malkin (1800–1830), father, schoolmaster, professor of ancient and modern history at the University of London; ed. Bury St Edmunds School and Trinity College, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, Senior Classic, BA 1824, Fellow of Trinity; author
• Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet (1845–1937), father, barrister, Queen’s remembrancer, baronet; ed. Eton and Trinity College, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, 2nd Classic, BA 1867, Fellow; barrister, KC, Corpus professor of jurisprudence at Oxford, collaborator with F. W. Maitland; son of an Apostle
• Garry Runciman, 3rd Viscount Runciman of Doxford (1934-2020)
• George Charles Ruddock Festing (d. 1857), ed. Andover Grammar School and St John’s College, BA 1822; clergyman
• George Derwent Thomson (1903–1987)
• George Duckworth (1868–1934),
• George Edward Moore (1873–1958), father, physician; ed. Dulwich and Trinity College, Classical and Moral Sciences Triposes in which he achieved First Class in both, BA 1896; Fellow of Trinity, university lecturer in moral sciences, professor of philosophy, Fellow of the British Academy, OM
• George Farish (1809–1836), father, clergyman and professor of chemistry at Cambridge; ed. Queens’ College migrated to Trinity College, BA 1832; admitted to the Inner Temple; brother of an Apostle
• George Holmes Blakesley (1846–1922), father, clergyman, don, Dean of Lincoln; ed. Eton and King’s College, Classical Tripos, First Class, BA 1868, Fellow; barrister; son of an Apostle
• George Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle (1843–1911), father, 5th son of the 6th Earl of Carlisle; ed. Eton and Trinity College, BA 1865; MP, succeeded his uncle in 1889, a gifted watercolourist
• George Lockhart Rives (1849–1917), grandfather, senator from Virginia and ambassador to France; ed. Columbia University and Trinity College, Mathematical Tripos, 5th Wrangler, BA 1872; lawyer, assistant secretary of state, a major mover in the building of the New York subway
• George Macaulay Trevelyan (1876–1962), father, MP, Cabinet minister, baronet; ed. Harrow and Trinity College, History Tripos, First Class, BA 1896; Fellow of Trinity, college lecturer in History, Regius professor of history, Master of Trinity, OM; the son of one Apostle and the brother of another
• Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet (1838–1928), father, civil servant, baronet; ed. Harrow and Trinity College, Classical Tripos, 2nd Classic, BA 1861; MP, Cabinet minister, OM; father of two Apostles
• George Patton, Lord Glenalmond (1803–1869), father, sheriff of Perthshire; ed. Glasgow School, Glasgow University and Trinity College, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, BA 1826; admitted advocate, 1828, MP, solicitor general for Scotland; under suspicion of election corruption, committed suicide
• George Shaw (1800–1888) (founding member), father, surgeon; ed. Heath Grammar School, Halifax, Gonville and Caius College, MB 1824; physician
• George Simpson (1799–1866), father, Bank of England; ed. Clapham Common School and St John’s College, Mathematical Tripos, 17th Wrangler, BA 1822; barrister
• George Stovin Venables (1810–1888), father, clergyman; ed. Eton and Charterhouse, Jesus College, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, 5th Classic, BA 1832; Fellow, barrister, QC, journalist
• George Tomlinson (1794–1863) (founding member), ed. St John’s College, BA 1823; clergyman, tutor to Sir Robert Peel’s family, Bishop of Gibraltar; Pio Nono is supposed to have said to him once that he lived in Tomlinson’s diocese
• George Valentine Yool (d. 1907), ed. Trinity College, Mathematical and Natural Sciences Triposes, 3rd Wrangler, BA 1851; Fellow and assistant tutor at Trinity, barrister
• George Walter Wrangham (1804–1855), father, clergyman; ed. Ripon School, Magdalene College, BA 1828; clergyman
• Gerald Bright Croasdell (1916–1998)
• Gerald Shove (1887–1947), father, West Indian coffee planter; ed. Uppingham and King’s College, Classical and Economics Triposes, in the last of which he achieved the First Class, BA 1910; Fellow of King’s College, lecturer in economics, pacifist; son-in-law of an Apostle
• Gerald William Balfour, 2nd Earl of Balfour (1853–1945), father, landed gentry; ed. Eton and Trinity College, Classical Tripos, 5th Classic, BA 1875; Fellow and lecturer in classics at Trinity, MP, Cabinet minister, PC, succeeded his brother as 2nd Earl Balfour in 1930 under a special remainder; devoted himself to psychical research; his brother and brothers-in-law were Apostles.
• Giles Lytton Strachey (1880–1932), father, Indian administrator; ed. Leamington School, Liverpool University and Trinity College, History Tripos, BA 1903; author; nephew, cousin, and brother of Apostles
• Godfrey Harold Hardy (1887–1947), father, schoolmaster; ed. Winchester and Trinity College, Mathematical Tripos, 4th Wrangler, BA 1899; Fellow of Trinity, Savilian professor of geometry at Oxford, Sadleirian professor of pure mathematics at Cambridge
• Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (1862–1932), father, artist; ed. Charterhouse and King’s College, Classical Tripos, First Class, BA 1884; Fellow at King’s College, pacifist, one of the first to contemplate the notion of a League of Nations
• Gordon Hannington Luce (1889–1979), father, clergyman; ed. Cheltenham and Emmanuel College, Classical and Modern Languages Triposes, achieved First Class in the former, BA 1911; had poetic aspirations but since he had no means he went East and became professor of English at the University of Rangoon
• Guy Burgess (1911-1963)
• Harry Gordon Johnson (1923–1977), economist
• Henry Alford (1810–1871), father, clergyman; ed. Ilminster Grammar School and Trinity College, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, 34th Wrangler and 8th Classic, BA 1832, Fellow; editor, clergyman, Dean of Canterbury
• Henry Alfred James (1827–1898), ed. Cheltenham and Trinity College migrated to Queens’ College, Classical Tripos, BA 1851; schoolmaster
• Sir Henry Babington Smith (1863–1923), father, barrister; ed. Eton and Trinity College, Classical Tripos, First Class, BA 1886; Fellow, schoolmaster, an official in the Education Office, prominent in the Treasury; brother of two Apostles
• Henry Brandreth (1833–1904), father, barrister; ed. Eton and Trinity College, Mathematical Tripos, 11th Wrangler, BA 1857; Fellow and tutor of Trinity, schoolmaster, clergyman
• Henry Charles Harford (1798–1879) (founding member), father, barrister; ed. Gonville and Caius College, migrated to Emmanuel College, BA 1824; landed gentleman
• Henry Chester Goodhart (1859–1895), father, schoolmaster; ed. Eton and Trinity College, Classical Tripos, 2nd Classic, BA 1881; Fellow and lecturer in classics at Trinity, professor of humanity at Edinburgh
• Henry Crane Brice (1797–1867), father, Bristol merchant; ed. Bristol Grammar School and Christ’s College, BA 1825; clergyman; brother of an Apostle
• Henry Fitzmaurice Hallam (1824–1850), father, historian; ed. Eton and Trinity College, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, BA 1846; barrister, died in Siena of feebleness of circulation at the age of 26; brother of an Apostle.
• Sir Henry Francis Wilson (1859–1937), father, ed. Rugby and Trinity College, Classical Tripos, 6th Classic, BA 1882; Fellow, barrister, private secretary to Joseph Chamberlain in the Colonial Office, advisor to the high commissioner of South Africa, colonial secretary of the Orange River Colony, chairman of the North Charterland Exploration Company
• Henry Jackson (1839–1921), father, surgeon; ed. Cheltenham and Trinity College, Classical Tripos, 3rd Classic, BA 1862; Fellow of Trinity, vice-master, Regius professor of Greek, Order of Merit
• Sir Henry Maine (1822–1888), father, physician; ed. Christ’s Hospital and Pembroke College migrated to Trinity Hall, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, Senior Classic, BA 1844; Fellow and tutor of Trinity Hall, Regius professor of civil law, barrister, reader in jurisprudence at the Middle Temple, legal member of the Indian governor general’s Council, Master of Trinity Hall, Whewell professor of international law
• Henry John Cockayne Cust (1861–1917), father, nephew of a peer; ed. Eton and Trinity College, Classical Tripos, BA 1884; called to the bar in Paris, MP, editor of the Pall Mall Gazette
• Henry John Roby (1830–1915), father, solicitor; ed. Bridgnorth Grammar School and St John’s College, Classical Tripos, Senior Classic, BA 1853, Fellow; schoolmaster, civil servant, don, businessman, MP
• Henry Lee Warner (1842–1925), father, clergyman; ed. Rugby and St John’s College, 1st Class in the Classical Tripos, BA 1864; Fellow of St John’s College, schoolmaster at Rugby, said to be the ‘young master’ in Tom Brown’s School Days, member of the Norfolk County Council, appointed chief of the Intelligence Branch of the India Office in 1891
• Henry Lintott (1908–1995)
• Henry Lushington (1812–1855), father, barrister and judge, Master of the Crown Office; ed. Charterhouse and Trinity College, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, 6th Classic, BA 1834; barrister, chief secretary to the government of Malta; brother of two Apostles
• Henry Martyn Taylor (1842-1927), mathematician
• Henry Montagu Butler (1833–1918), father, clergyman and headmaster of Harrow; ed. Harrow and Trinity College, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, Senior Classic, BA 1855, Fellow; clergyman, headmaster of Harrow, Dean of Gloucester, Master of Trinity
• Henry Robert Vaughan Johnson (1820–1900), father, clergyman; ed. Sherborne and Trinity College, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, BA 1843; barrister
• Henry Romilly (1805–1884), father, Sir Samuel Romilly; ed. Bury St Edmunds School and Christ’s College, BA 1828; merchant; brother of an Apostle
• Henry Sidgwick (1838–1900), father, clergyman, schoolmaster; ed. Rugby and Trinity College, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, 33rd Wrangler and Senior Classic; Fellow and assistant tutor at Trinity, Knightbridge professor of moral philosophy; brother of one Apostle and brother-in-law of two others
• Henry Tertius James Norton (1887–1937), father, solicitor; ed. Eton and Trinity College, Mathematical and Moral Sciences Triposes, 6th Wrangler and in the First Class of the Moral Sciences Tripos, BA 1908; Fellow of Trinity, inventor of Cantorian theory, pacifist, gave up mathematics after a nervous breakdown
• Henry Thompson (1797–1878) (founding member), ed. St John’s College, Mathematical Tripos, BA 1822; clergyman
• Henry William Watson (1827–1903), father, Royal Navy; ed. King’s College School, London and Trinity College, Mathematical Tripos, 2nd Wrangler, BA 1850; Fellow and assistant tutor at Trinity, schoolmaster
• Henry Yates Thompson (1838–1928), father, banker; ed. Harrow and Trinity College, Classical Tripos, 16th Classic, BA 1862; schoolmaster, barrister, owner of the Pall Mall Gazette, book collector
• Herbert Francis William Tatham (1861–1909), father, barrister; ed. Eton and Trinity College, Classical Tripos, First Class, BA 1885; schoolmaster, died of a fall in the Alps
• Herbert Hall Turner (1861–1930), father, an artist; ed. Clifton and Trinity College, Mathematical Tripos, 2nd Wrangler, BA 1883, Fellow; chief assistant at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, Fellow of New College, Savilian professor of astronomy and director of the University Observatory at Oxford
• Horatio Mansfield (1821–1887), ed. Eton and Trinity College, BA 1842, Fellow; barrister, journalist
• Sir Howard Elphinstone, 3rd Baronet (1830–1917), father, barrister, MP, baronet; ed. Eton and Trinity College, Mathematical Tripos, 17th Wrangler, BA 1854; barrister
• Hugh Blackburn (1823–1909), ed. Edinburgh Academy, Eton and Trinity College, Mathematical Tripos, 5th Wrangler, BA 1845, Fellow; professor of mathematics, Glasgow University
• Hugh Fortescue, 3rd Earl Fortescue (1818–1905), father, MP, peer, viceroy of Ireland; ed. Harrow and Trinity College; MP, succeeded to the earldom in 1861
• Hugh Owen Meredith (1878–1964), father, shorthand writer; ed. Shrewsbury and King’s College, Classical and History Triposes in which he achieved the First Class in both, BA 1901; Fellow of King’s, lecturer in economic history and commerce at Manchester University, professor of economics at Queen’s University, Belfast
• Hugh Sykes Davies (1909–1984)
• J.J. Thomson (1856–1940), physicist
• James Beaumont Strachey (1887–1967), father, Indian administrator; ed. St Paul’s and Trinity College, Moral Sciences and Law Tripos, took an ordinary degree in the former and finished in the second class of the latter, BA 1909; psychoanalyst, translated Freud’s complete works into English, music critic; nephew, cousin, and brother of Apostles
• Sir James Carter (1805–1878), ed. Walthamstow School and Trinity College; barrister, Puisne judge of the Supreme Court of New Brunswick
• James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879), father, Scottish advocate; ed. Edinburgh Academy and Peterhouse migrated to Trinity College, Mathematical Tripos, 2nd Wrangler, BA 1854; Fellow and assistant tutor at Trinity, professor of natural philosophy at Aberdeen and at University College, London, Cavendish professor of experimental physics
• James Duff Duff (1860-1940), father, army officer; ed. Fettes School and Trinity College, Classical Tripos, First Class, BA 1882; Fellow, tutor and classical scholar at Trinity, an eager golfer who took to tennis, though not of the lawn variety, translator of Russian novels
• James Edward Cowell Welldon (1854–1937), father, clergyman and schoolmaster; ed. Eton and King’s College, Classical Tripos, Senior Classic, BA 1877; Fellow of King’s, clergyman, headmaster of Harrow, Bishop of Calcutta, Dean of Manchester and Durham.
• James Farish (1803–1853), father, clergyman and professor of chemistry at Cambridge; ed. Southend School and Trinity College, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, BA 1825, MB 1828; surgeon; brother of an Apostle
• Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Baronet (1829–1894), father, barrister, civil service; ed. Eton and Trinity College, BA 1852; barrister, QC, judge, legal member for the Indian governor general’s council, journalist, created baronet in 1891; father of an Apostle
• James Furnival (1799/1800–1877) (founding member), father, clergyman; ed. Manchester Grammar School, Queens’ College, BA 1822; clergyman
• James Hamilton Doggart (1900–1989)
• James Kenneth Stephen (1859–1892), father, barrister, judge, baronet; ed. Eton and King’s College, First Class in the History Tripos, BA 1882; Fellow, barrister, skilled author of parodies, starved himself to death in an asylum; son of an Apostle
• James Mirrlees (1936–2018), Nobel Prize–winning economist
• James Parker Smith (1854–1929), father, barrister; ed. Winchester and Trinity College, Mathematical Tripos, 14th Wrangler, BA 1877, Fellow; barrister, MP, PC, private secretary to Joseph Chamberlain; brother of two Apostles
• James Spedding (1808–1881), ed. Bury St Edmunds School and Trinity College, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, BA 1831; Colonial Office, editor of Bacon; struck down by a cab, Spedding characteristically insisted before he died that the fault had been his carelessness, not the driver’s
• James Stuart (1843–1913), father, flax spinner and manufacturer; ed. Madras College, St Andrew’s and Trinity College, Mathematical Tripos, 3rd Wrangler, BA 1866; Fellow of Trinity and professor of mechanism and applied mechanics, MP, journalist, director of J. J. Colman, Ltd
• James Talbot, 4th Lord Talbot de Malahide (1805–1883), father, peer; ed. Trinity College, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, 10th Classic, BA 1828; MP, succeeded his father in 1850, created peer of the United Kingdom in 1856, a lord-in-waiting to Queen Victoria
• James Ward (1843–1925), father, businessman; ed. Royal Liverpool Institute, Spring Hill College and Trinity College, First Class in the Moral Sciences Tripos, BA 1875; Fellow of Trinity, professor of mental philosophy and logic, died after being struck by a motor-car
• John Cairncross (1913–1995), Civil Servant, KGB Spy
• John Daniel Williams (1829–1904), father, clergyman; ed. Christ’s Hospital and Trinity College, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, 6th Classic, BA 1851; clergyman, schoolmaster
• John Elliotson Symes (1847–1921), ed. Downing College, Mathematical Tripos, BA 1871; clergyman, schoolmaster, professor of English and principal, University College, Nottingham
• John Fletcher Moulton, Baron Moulton (1844–1921), father, Wesleyan clergyman; ed. Kingswood School, Bath, London University and St John’s College, Mathematical Tripos, Senior Wrangler with the highest total of marks gained to that time, BA 1866; Fellow of Christ’s College and mathematical lecturer, barrister, QC, MP, PC, judge, created Baron Moulton of Bank in 1912
• John Fortune (1939–2013)
• John Frederick Denison Maurice (1805–1872), father, Unitarian clergyman; ed. Frenchay School, Gloucestershire and Trinity College migrated to Trinity Hall, studied in the Civil Law Classes, Exeter College, Oxford, Classical Honours, BA 1831; clergyman, theological professor, King’s College, London, Knightbridge professor of moral philosophy
• John George Butcher, 1st Baron Danesfort (1852–1935), father, clergyman, Bishop of Meath; ed. Marlborough and Trinity College, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, 8th Wrangler and 8th Classic, BA 1874, Fellow; barrister, QC, MP, created baronet in 1918, created Baron Danesfort in 1924, anti-vivisectionist and keen sportsman; brother of an Apostle
• John Gorham Maitland (1818–1863), father, clergyman; ed. Trinity College, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, 7th Wrangler and 3rd Classic; Fellow and assistant tutor, barrister, examiner for the Civil Service Commission; father of an Apostle
• John Gross (1935–2011), journalist
• John Henry Pratt (1849–1878), father, clergyman; ed. Haileybury and Trinity College, Classical Tripos, Senior Classic, BA 1872, Fellow; schoolmaster, drowned in Lake Como in 1878 and his body was never found
• John Hopkinson (1849–1898), father, mechanical engineer; ed. Queenwood School, Hampshire, Owen’s College Manchester and Trinity College, Mathematical Tripos, Senior Wrangler, BA 1871, Fellow; manager and engineer in Messrs. Chance Bros., Birmingham, consulting engineer, professor of electrical engineering, King’s College, London
• John Jermyn Cowell (1838–1867), father, in the Bank of England; ed. Westminster and Trinity College, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, BA 1860; barrister, secretary of the Alpine Club
• John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart (1866–1925), father, judge; ed. Clifton and Trinity College, Moral Sciences Triposes, First Class, BA 1888; Fellow of Trinity and Lecturer in Moral Sciences, Fellow of the British Academy, though an atheist a keen supporter of the Church of England
• John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes (1883–1946), father, university official and don; ed. Eton and King’s College, Mathematical Tripos, 12th Wrangler, BA 1905; India Office and Treasury official, Fellow and bursar of King’s College, economist, created Baron Keynes of Tilton in 1942
• John Mitchell Kemble (1804–1857), father, actor, Examiner of Stage Plays; ed. Bury St Edmunds School and Trinity College, BA 1830; editor, Examiner of Stage Plays, Anglo-Saxon scholar
• John Monteith Furness (1869-1944), father, clergyman, schoolmaster; ed. Rugby where he was head of school and King’s College, Classical Tripos, First Class, BA 1891; schoolmaster, headmaster of the Khedive School, Cairo, director of the Egyptian Education Office, London
• John Moore Heath (1808–1882), father, Serjeant-at-law; ed. Westminster and Trinity College, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, 27th Wrangler, BA 1830; Fellow and tutor of Trinity, barrister, clergyman; brother of two Apostles
• John Parke (c. 1800 - c. 1898), born in Jamaica; ed. Trinity College, BA 1823; admitted at the Inner Temple, 1823
• John Payne (1838–1869), father, schoolmaster; ed. University College, London and Trinity College migrated to Downing College, Classical and Moral Sciences Triposes, First Class in Part I of the Moral Sciences Tripos, BA 1864; ordained deacon, schoolmaster, journalist
• John Punnett (1801–1863) (founding member), father, shipowner; ed. Clare College, Mathematical Tripos, 13th Wrangler, Fellow; clergyman
• John Roberts (1803–1901), ed. St John’s College migrated to Queens’ College, BA 1825
• John Shapland Stock (1804–1867), ed. Shrewsbury and Trinity College migrated to Peterhouse, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, BA 1826; barrister, QC
• John Simpson (1798–1870) (founding member), father, jeweller; ed. Derby Grammar School and St John’s College, Mathematical Tripos, BA 1821; clergyman
• John Stanning (1840–1904), father, businessman; ed. Rugby and Trinity College, Classical Tripos, BA 1864; businessman
• John Sterling (1805–1844), father, military, journalist; ed. Christ’s Hospital, London, Glasgow University and Trinity College, left Cambridge but readmitted to Trinity Hall, BA 1834; journalist and editor, West Indian planter, ordained deacon
• Sir John Tresidder Sheppard (1881–1968), father, a woolbroker’s clerk; ed. Dulwich and King’s College, Classical Tripos, First Class, BA 1904; Fellow, Vice-provost, Provost of King’s College, knighted 1950
• John William Edward Conybeare (1843–1931), father, clergyman; ed. Eton and Trinity College, Classical Tripos, BA 1866; clergyman, convert to Roman Catholicism
• John Wilson (c. 1804 – c. 1902), ed. private and Trinity College, BA 1827; barrister
• Jonathan Miller (1934–2019), surgeon and theater expert
• Joseph Power (1798–1868), father, physician; ed. Clare College, Mathematical Tripos, 10th Wrangler, BA 1821; clergyman, Fellow and tutor at Trinity Hall, Fellow and Dean of Clare College, Junior Proctor, University Librarian; brother of an Apostle
• Joseph Williams Blakesley (1808–1885), father, factor; ed. St Paul’s, Corpus Christi College migrated to Trinity College, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, 21st Wrangler and 3rd Classic, BA 1831; Fellow and tutor of Trinity, clergyman, Dean of Lincoln, the ‘Hertfordshire Incumbent’; the father of an Apostle
• Joseph Hardcastle (1815–1899), ed. Bury St Edmunds School and Trinity College, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, 11th Classic, BA 1838; barrister, MP
• Julian Bell (1908–1937), poet
• Hon. Julian Fane (1827–1870), father, Earl of Westmorland; ed. Harrow and Trinity College; poet, diplomat
• Karl Miller (1931–2014)
• Kenneth Macaulay (1815–1867), father, clergyman; ed. Plymouth School and Jesus College, BA 1835; barrister, QC, MP
• Lal Jayawardena (1935–2004), economist, diplomat
• Leonard Hugh Graham Greenwood (1880–1965), father, an offical assignee of bankruptcy in Christchurch, New Zealand; ed. Christ’s College, New Zealand and King’s College, Classical Tripos, First Class, BA 1902; Fellow, assistant lecturer in classics at Leeds University, Fellow and tutor of Emmanuel College, university lecturer in classics; many young men without social or athletic gifts gained confidence through Greenwood’s encouragement
• Leonard Woolf (1880–1969), father, barrister, QC; ed. St Paul’s and Trinity College, Classical Tripos, First Class, BA 1901; Ceylon civil servant, editor, publisher, husband of Virginia Stephen; refused a CH
• Leslie Stephen (1832–1904)
• Lionel Penrose (1898–1972)
• Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), father, industrialist; ed. at home until he was fourteen, then at Linz, studied engineering at the Technische Hochschule in Berlin-Charlottenburg and the University of Manchester, came to Cambridge to read philosophy with Russell; architect, schoolmaster, professor of philosophy
• Sir Malcolm Martin Macnaghten (1869–1955), father, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary; ed. Eton and Trinity College, History Tripos, First Class, BA 1891; barrister, KC, MP, judge of the High Court, King’s Bench Division
• Marlborough Robert Pryor (1848–1920), father, barrister; ed. Eton and Trinity College, Mathematical Tripos, BA 1870, Fellow; South African merchant and chairman of the Sun Insurance Company
• Maurice Oswald Marshall (1894–1971), ed. Rugby and King’s College, Classical Tripos, BA 1916, Mus. B. examination First Class 1917; a pacifist who evaded the authorities during the Great War, concert pianist, solicitor, schoolmaster
• Michael Whitney Straight (1916–2004)
• Nathaniel Wedd (1864–1940), father, corn-merchant; ed. City of London School and King’s College, First Class, BA 1887; Fellow of King’s College, assistant tutor, university lecturer in ancient history
• Nicholas Tomalin (1931–1973)
• Noel Annan (1916–2000), intelligence officer and literary critic
• Norman McLean (1865–1947), father, Presbyterian clergyman; ed. Edinburgh High School, Edinburgh University and Christ’s College, Classical and Semitic Languages Triposes, achieved First Class in both, BA 1890; Fellow, tutor, Master of Christ’s College
• Oscar Browning (1837–1923), father, brewer; ed. Eton and King’s College, Classical Tripos, 4th Classic, Fellow; schoolmaster at Eton, don, Proctor
• Percival Pickering (1810–1876), father, surgeon; ed. Eton and Trinity College migrated to St John’s College, BA 1832, Fellow; barrister, QC, judge
• Peter Shore, Baron Shore of Stepney (1924–2001), Labour politician
• Peter Williams Barker (1819–1917), ed. Trinity College migrated to Pembroke College, BA 1841
• Philip Dennis Proctor (1905-1983)
• Quentin Skinner (born 1940)
• R.B. Braithwaite (1900–1990)
• Sir Ralph Hawtrey (1879–1975), father, schoolmaster; ed. Eton and Trinity College, Mathematical Tripos, 14th Wrangler, BA 1901; Treasury official
• Sir Ralph Wedgwood, 1st Baronet (1874-1956), father, businessman; ed. Clifton and Trinity College, Moral Sciences Triposes, First Class, BA 1895; railway administrator, knighted in 1924 and created baronet in 1942
• Richard Barnes (1808–1889), father, mercer; ed. Merchant Taylors’ School and Pembroke College, BA 1830; clergyman
• Richard Battersby (1796–1866) (founding member), ed. St John’s College, BA 1822; clergyman, domestic chaplain and almoner to Lord Skelmersdale
• Richard Charles Rowe (1853–1884), ed. Bristol Grammar School, University of London and Trinity College, Mathematical Tripos, 3rd Wrangler, BA 1877, Fellow; professor of pure mathematics at University College, London
• Richard Chenevix Trench (1807–1886),father, younger son of a peer, barrister; ed. Harrow and Trinity College, BA 1829; clergyman, professor of divinity, King’s College, London, Dean of Westminster, Archbishop of Dublin
• Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1841–1905), father, barrister; ed. Charterhouse and Trinity College, Senior Classic, BA 1862; Fellow of Trinity, tutor, public orator, professor of Greek, University of Glasgow, Regius professor of Greek, MP
• Richard Dillon Boylan (1804-1902), ed. Oscott and Trinity College, admitted to the Middle Temple
• Richard Hall (1806–1857), ed. Harrow, East India College and Trinity College, BA 1828; barrister, Poor Law Commissioner
• Richard Llewellyn-Davies, Baron Llewelyn-Davies (1912–1981), architect
• Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton (1809–1885), father, landed gentry, MP, refused a peerage in 1856; ed. Trinity College; MP, created Baron Houghton in 1863
• Robert Calverley Trevelyan (1872-1951), father, MP, Cabinet minister, baronet; ed. Harrow and Trinity College, Classical and Law Triposes, BA 1894; poet; son of an Apostle and brother of another
• Robert Henderson (1798–1875) (founding member), ed. St John’s College, BA 1822; clergyman
• Robert Henry Pomeroy (1832–1857), father, younger son of a peer; ed. Cheltenham College and Trinity College, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, 39th Wrangler, BA 1855; Bengal Civil Service, died during the Indian Mutiny
• Robert John Grote Mayor (1869–1947), father, clergyman and don; ed. Eton and King’s College, Classical Tripos, Senior Classic, BA 1892, Fellow; barrister, senior offical at the Education Office; his son, son-in-law, and grandson-in-law were Apostles
• Robert Joseph Ignatius Monteith (1812–1884), father, dye and print works owner, MP; ed. Trinity College, BA 1834; calico printer
• Robert Leslie Ellis (1817-1859)
• Robert Tennant (1809–1842), ed. Christ’s Hospital and Trinity College, BA 1831; schoolmaster, clergyman
• Robin Gandy (1919–1995), mathematician
• Hon. Roden Noel (1834–1894), father, MP, Earl of Gainsborough; ed. Harrow and Trinity College; poet
• Roger Fry (1866–1934), father, judge; ed. Clifton and King’s College, Natural Sciences Tripos, First Class, BA 1888; artist and art critic
• Ronald Watkins (1904–2001)
• Rupert Brooke (1887–1915), father, schoolmaster; ed. Rugby and King’s College, Classical Tripos, BA 1909; poet, died on Skyros during the Great War
• Samuel Fennell (1799-1843), ed. Queens’ College, Mathematical Tripos, 13th Wrangler, BA 1821; Fellow and tutor of Queens’ College, clergyman, schoolmaster
• Samuel Henry Butcher (1850–1910), father, clergyman, Bishop of Meath; ed. Marlborough and Trinity College, Classical Tripos, Senior Classic, BA 1873, Fellow; schoolmaster, Fellow of University College, Oxford, professor of Greek at Edinburgh University, MP, president of the British Academy; brother of an Apostle
• Saville Morton (1811–1852), ed. Trinity College, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, 22nd Wrangler, BA 1834; journalist, murdered
• Saxon Sydney-Turner (1880–1962), father, surgeon; ed. Westminster and Trinity College, Classical Tripos, First Class, BA 1903; Treasury official; loved music, especially Wagner’s
• Spencer Horatio Walpole (1806–1898), father, diplomat; ed. Eton and Trinity College, BA 1828; barrister, QC, MP, Cabinet minister
• Stephen Edmond Spring Rice (1814–1865), father, peer, Cabinet minister; ed. Bury St Edmunds School, Trinity College; commissioner of Customs; brother and uncle of Apostles
• Stephen Edward Spring Rice (1856–1902), father, son of Lord Monteagle; ed. Eton and Trinity College, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, 18th Wrangler and 14th Classic, BA 1881; Fellow, Treasury offical, son and nephew of Apostles
• Stephen Toulmin (1922–2009)
• Sydney Gedge (1802–1883), father, newspaper proprietor; ed. Bury St Edmunds School and St Catherine’s College, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, 14th Wrangler and 7th Classic, BA 1824; Fellow of St Catherine’s, clergyman, schoolmaster
• Theodore Beck (1859–1899), father, partner in an optical firm; ed. a Quaker school, University College, London and Trinity College, Mathematical Tripos, BA 1883; principal of the Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College, Aligarh, Meerut, India
• Theodore Llewelyn Davies (1870–1905), father, clergyman; ed. Marlborough and Trinity College, Classical Tripos, First Class, BA 1892, Fellow; civil servant in the Treasury, died while bathing in the River Lune; brother of an Apostle
• Theyre Townsend Smith (1798–1852), University of Glasgow and Queens’ College, BA 1827; clergy
• Thoby Stephen (1880–1906)
• Thomas Ainger (1799–1863) (founding member), ed. Norwich Grammar School, St John’s College, BA 1821; clergyman, domestic chaplain to the Duke of Roxburghe
• Thomas Charles William Spring Rice (1819–1870), father, peer, Cabinet minister; ed. Trinity College; assistant secretary of state for foreign affairs; brother and father of Apostles
• Thomas Oliver Harding (1850–1896), father, Wesleyan clergyman; ed. University College, London and Trinity College, Mathematical Tripos, Senior Wrangler, BA 1873, Fellow; schoolmaster, barrister
• Thomas Powys Outram (1802–1853), father, clergyman, schoolmaster; ed. Eton, St John’s College, Mathematical Tripos, BA 1825; clergyman
• Thomas Robinson (1818–1895), father, Lord Almoner’s professor of Arabic, barrister, clergyman; ed. Rugby and Trinity College, Mathematical Tripos, BA 1841; schoolmaster, clergyman
• Thomas Shepherd Little (1845–1910), ed. Queen’s College, Liverpool and Trinity College, First Class in Part I of the Law and History Tripos, BA 1873; barrister, MP
• Thomas Sunderland (1808–1867), father, clergyman; ed. Rugby College, BA 1830; his intellect was ruined after he left Cambridge and he led a wandering life
• Thomas Wayne Harrison (d. 1871), ed. Richmond School and Christ’s College, BA 1827; clergyman
• Thomas Whitmore Wylde Browne (1800–1877), ed. Eton and St John’s College; justice of the peace and deputy lieutenant for Shropshire
• Tom Taylor (1818–1880), father, brewer; ed. Grange School, Durham, Glasgow University and Trinity College, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, 5th Classic, BA 1840; Fellow, barrister, journalist, professor of English literature, London University, secretary of the Board of Health
• Vernon Lushington (1832–1912), father, barrister, judge, baronet; ed. Trinity College, 1st class in the Civil Law Classes, LLB 1959; barrister, secretary to the Admiralty, QC, judge
• Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild (1910-1990), financier
• Vincent Henry Stanton (1846–1924), father, clergyman; ed. Kensington Grammar School and Trinity College, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, 20th Wrangler, BA 1870; clergyman, Fellow and Dean of Trinity, Ely professor of divinity, Regius professor of divinity
• W.G. Runciman (1934-2020), sociologist
• W.J.H. Sprott (1897–1971)
• Walford Davis Green (1869–1941), father, Methodist clergyman; ed. Leys School, Cambridge and King’s College, History Tripos, BA 1891; barrister, MP
• Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh (1861–1922), father, Congregational clergyman; ed. City of London School, Edinburgh Academy, University College, London and King’s College, History Tripos, BA 1885; professor of modern literature, University College, Liverpool, professor of English, Glasgow University, professor of English literature, Oxford University, historian of the air war, died of typhoid after a flying expedition to Mesopotamia; uncle of two Apostles
• Walter Dodgson (b. 1866), father, Aquila Dodgson of Limehurst, Ashton-under-Lyne; ed. Manchester Grammar School and Trinity College, Mathematical Tripos, BA 1890; solicitor
• Walter Leaf (1852–1927), father, merchant; ed. Harrow and Trinity College, Classical Tripos, Senior Classic, BA 1874, Fellow; partner and chairman of Leaf and Sons, Ltd., director and chairman of the London and Westminster Bank, Homeric scholar and alpinist
• Wentworth Samuel Holworthy (1812–1898), father, clergyman; ed. Charterhouse and Trinity College (matriculated in 1830, readmitted as a pensioner in 1834, readmitted again in 1841), BA 1844; admitted at Lincoln’s Inn
• William Bodham Donne (1807–1882), father, surgeon; ed. Bury St Edmunds School and Gonville and Caius College; author, Examiner of Stage Plays, Librarian of the London Library
• William Clarke Wilkie (born 1814), ed. Queens’ College, migrated to Trinity College
• William Dougal Christie (1816–1874), father, physician in the East India Company; ed. Trinity College, Mathematical Tripos, BA 1838; barrister, MP, diplomat
• William Edmund Currey (1840–1908), father, barrister, Irish land agent for the Duke of Devonshire; ed. Harrow and Trinity College, Classical Tripos, 5th Classic, BA 1863; Fellow and tutor at Trinity, chief inspector of schools
• William Everett (1839–1910), father, statesman and orator; ed. Harvard College and Trinity College, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, BA 1863; admitted to the bar, classical lecturer at Harvard, headmaster at the Quincy School, member of the House of Representatives
• Sir William Frederick Pollock, Baronet (1815–1888), father, barrister, MP, Lord Baron of the Exchequer, Bt., ed. St Paul’s and Trinity College, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, BA 1835; barrister, senior master of the Court of the Exchequer, Queen’s remembrancer; father of an Apostle
• William Gifford Cookesley (1802–1880), ed. Eton and King’s College; BA 1826; schoolmaster, clergyman
• William Grey Walter (1910–1977)
• Sir William Harcourt, Baronet (1827–1904), father, clergyman; ed. Trinity College, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, BA 1851; barrister, QC, MP, Cabinet minister, Whewell professor of international law
• William Hepworth Thompson (1810–1886), father, solicitor; ed. Trinity College, Mathematical and Classical Triposes, 4th Classic, BA 1832; clergyman, schoolmaster, Fellow of Trinity College, tutor, Regius professor of Greek, Master of Trinity, vice-chancellor
• William Herrick Macaulay (1853–1936), father, clergyman; ed. Winchester, Durham University and King’s College, Mathematical Tripos, 6th Wrangler, BA 1878; Fellow, tutor, and bursar at King’s College, an all-round athlete who rode to hounds until he was 60
• William Johnson Cory (1823–1892), father, businessman; ed. Eton and King’s College, BA 1846, Fellow; schoolmaster
• William Kingdon Clifford (1845–1879), father, alderman and JP for Exeter; ed. King’s College, London and Trinity College, Mathematical Tripos, 2nd Wrangler, BA 1867; Fellow of Trinity and lecturer in mathematics, professor of allied mathematics at University College, London
• Sir William Marriott Smith Marriott, Baronet (1801–1864), father, baronet; ed. Sevenoaks School and Trinity College, BA 1825; clergyman
• William Richardson (1805-1855), ed. Christ’s College, BA 1827; solicitor
• William Smith O'Brien (1803–1864), father, baronet; ed. Harrow, Trinity College, BA 1826; MP, charged with high treason for revolutionary activity in 1848, sentenced to be hanged, drawn, and quartered, transported to Tasmania, pardoned; brother of an Apostle
• William Wharton Burdon (1801-1870), father, Fellow of Emmanuel (resigned on declining to take Holy Orders), coal owner; ed. Emmanuel College, Civil Law Classes, LLB 1824; MP
• William Wyse (1860–1929), father, a landowner in Warwickshire; ed. King’s School, Canterbury and Trinity College, Mathematical Tripos, 4th Classic, BA 1882; Fellow and classical lecturer at Trinity, professor of Greek at University College, London

References:

The Cambridge Apostles, 1820-1914: Liberalism, Imagination, and Friendship in British Intellectual and Professional Life 1st Edition by W.C. Lubenow

Other references:

• Cambridge Apostles by Nikolai Endres Encyclopedia Copyright © 2015, glbtq, Inc. Entry Copyright © 2005, glbtq, inc. Reprinted from https://www.glbtq.com

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