Queer Places:
University of Cambridge, 4 Mill Ln, Cambridge CB2 1RZ

The University of Cambridge (informally Cambridge University or simply Cambridge,) is a collegiate public research university in Cambridge. Founded in 1209 and given royal charter status by King Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world's fourth-oldest surviving university. The university grew out of an association of scholars who left the University of Oxford after a dispute with the townspeople. The two ancient universities share many common features and are often referred to jointly as Oxbridge.

Notable queer alumni and faculty:

A.C. Benson (1862-1925), A.E. "Tony" Dyson (1928–2002), A.E. Housman (1859-1936), Adelaide Anderson (1863–1936), Adrian Stephen (1883–1948), Agnes de Selincourt (1872–1917), Alan Hodgkin (1914–1998), Alan Turing (1912-1954), Albert Clinton Landsberg (1889-1965), Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), Alexis Mdivani (1908-1935), Alfred Pretor (1840-1908), Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892), Alister Watson (1908–1982), Alix Sargant-Florence Strachey (1892–1973), Amy Levy (1861-1889), Andrew Cohen (1909–1968), Anna McClean Bidder (1903–2001), Anne Clough (1820–1892), Anne Wakefield Richardson (1859-1942), Annie Abram (1869–1930), Anthony Bacon (1558–1601), Anthony Blunt (1907-1983), Anthony Watson-Gandy (1919-1952), Antony Grey (1927-2010), Arnold Kettle (1916-1986), Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877–1959), Arthur Elton, 10th Baronet (1906-1973), Arthur Hallam (1811–1833), Arthur Helps (1813–1875), Arthur Hobhouse (1886-1965), Arthur Jeffress (1905-1961), Arthur Marshall (1910–1989), Arthur Munby (1828–1910), Arthur Sidgwick (1840-1920), Arthur Waley (1889–1966), Arthur William Buller (1808–1869), Augustus Theodore "Theo" Bartholomew (1882–1933), Barbara Wootton, Baroness Wootton of Abinger (1897–1988), Basil Mackenzie, 2nd Baron Amulree (1900–1983), Benjamin Hall Kennedy (1804–1889), Bernard Mayes (1929–2014), Bertha Phillpotts (1877–1932), Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (1872–1970), Blanche Athena Clough (1861-1960), Brian Paddick, Baron Paddick (born 1958), Brooke Foss Westcott (1825–1901), Bryan Earle "Rufus" King (1906-1987), Carrie Morrison (1888–1950), Cecil Beaton (1904-1980), Cecil Belfield Clarke (1894–1970), Cecil Day-Lewis (1904–1972), Charles Buller (1806–1848), Charles Edward Foister (1903-1989), Charles Fletcher-Cooke (1914–2001), Charles Holmes (1868–1936), Charles Merivale (1808–1893), Charles Robert Ashbee (1863–1942), Charles Skinner Matthews (1785-1811), Charles Vaughan (1816–1897), Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986), Christopher Lloyd (1921–2006), Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), Christopher Strachey (1916–1975), Christopher Wood (1900-1976), Clara Ruth Rouse (1872-1956), Clive Carey (1883-1968), Clotilde Kate Brewster (1874–1937), Constance Garnett (1861-1946), Constance Maynard (1849–1935), Cyril Flower, 1st Baron Battersea (1843–1907), D.G. Champernowne (1912–2000), D.W. Lucas (1905–1985), George "Dadie" Rylands (1902–1999), Daphne Olivier (1889–1950), David Horner (1900-1983), David Kalstone (1933–1986), Dennis Robertson (1890–1963), Denzil Freeth (1924–2010), Derek Jackson (1906–1982), Derek Prince (1915–2003), Desmond MacCarthy (1877–1952), Donald Maclean (1913-1983), Dora Russell (1894–1986), Dorothea Jewson (1884–1964), Dorothy Buxton (1881–1963), Dorothy Garrod (1892–1968), Dorothy Spiers (1897−1977), Douglas Cooper (1911-1984), Douglas Heath (1811–1897), Dunbar Isidore Heath (1816–1888), E. Herbert Norman (1909–1957), E.E. Evans-Pritchard (1902–1973), E.F. Benson (1867-1940), Edward Joseph "E.J." Dent (1876–1957), E.M. Forster (1879–1970), Edmund Gosse (1849–1928), Edmund Law Lushington (1811–1893), Edvard Grieg (1843–1907), Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803–1873), Edward Carpenter (1844-1929), Edward Heath (1916–2005), Edward Le Bas (1904–1966), Edward Marsh (1872-1953), Edward Romilly (1804–1870), Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby (1826–1893), Eileen Power (1889–1940), Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick (1845–1936), Elisabeth Rotten (1882-1964), Eliza Marian Butler (1885–1959), Elizabeth Knight (1869–1933), Elizabeth Lane (1905–1988), Emily Shirreff (1814–1897), Enid Russell-Smith (1903–1989), Erasmus Alvey Darwin (1804–1881), Eric Hall McCormick (1906–1995), Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012), Ethel Williams (1863–1948), Eugénie Sellers Strong (1860–1943), Eva Hubback (1886–1949), Evelyn Sharp, Baroness Sharp (1903–1985), F.J.A. Hort (1828–1892), F.L. Lucas (1894–1967), Flora Macdonald "F.M." Mayor (1872–1932), Fanny Metcalfe (1829–1897), Ferenc Békássy (1893–1915), Flora Murray (1869–1923), Forrest Reid (1875-1947), Frances Hardcastle (1866–1941), Frances Marshall (1900–2004), Frances Ralph Gray (1861-1935), Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Francis Birrell (1889-1935), Francis Haskell (1928–2000), Francis James Holland (1828–1907), Francis Skinner (1912–1941), Frank Ramsey (1903–1930), Frank Sidgwick (1879-1939), Franklin Lushington (1823-1901), Frederic Farrar (1831–1903), Frederic W.H. Myers (1843–1901), Frederick Baldwin Adams, Jr. (1910–2001), Frederick Denison Maurice (1805-1872), Frederick of Prussia (1911–1966), Frederick Pethick-Lawrence, 1st Baron Pethick-Lawrence (1871–1961), Frederick Stibbert (1838–1906), Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke (1554-1628), G.E. Moore (1873-1958), G.F. Green (1911–1977), G.H. Hardy (1877–1947), G.M. Trevelyan (1876–1962), G.T. Lapsley (1871–1949), Gabriel Atkin (1897–1937), Garry Runciman, 3rd Viscount Runciman of Doxford (1934-2020), Geoffrey Bawa (1919-2003), Geoffrey Gorer (1905–1985), Geoffrey Keynes (1887–1982), George Cecil Ives (1867-1950), George Duncan (1930–1972), George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788–1824), George Herbert Duckworth (1868–1934), George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd (1879-1941), George Mallory (1886-1924), George Mosse (1918–1999), George Santayana (1863-1952), George Stovin Venables (1810–1888), George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham (1592–1628), Gerald Heard (1889-1971), Gerald Shove (1887–1947), Geraldine Aves (1898-1986), Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), Gilbert Cannan (1884–1955), Gilbert Harding (1907–1960), Giles Hibbert (1923-2013), Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (1862–1932), Gordon Luce (1889-1979), Graham Chapman (1941-1989), Guy Burgess (1911-1963), Gwyneth Wansbrough-Jones (1903-1979), H.O. Meredith aka Hugh Owen Meredith (1878-1964), Hamish Henderson (1919–2002), Harold Monro (1879–1932), Harry Gordon Johnson (1923–1977), Harry Williams (1919-2006), Helen Benson (1886–1964), Helen Bosanquet (1860–1925), Helen Chambers (1879–1935), Helen Magill White (1853–1944), Helena Swanwick (1864–1939), Henry Fawcett (1833–1884), Henry Festing Jones (1851-1928), Henry Graham Dakyns (1838–1911), Henry James Sumner Maine (1822–1888), Henry John Roby (1830–1915), Henry Longhurst (1909–1978), Henry Lushington (1812–1855), Henry Montagu Butler (1833–1918), Henry Tertius James "Harry" Norton (1886-1937), Henry William Watson (1827–1903), Herbert Charles Pollitt (1871-1942), Hertha Ayrton (1854–1923), Hope Mirrlees (1887–1978), Horace Mann, 1st Baronet (1706–1786), Horace Walpole (1717-1797), Howard Elphinstone, 3rd Baronet (1830 or 1831–1917), Howard Sturgis (1855-1920), Hugh Blackburn (1823–1909), Hugh Fortescue, 3rd Earl Fortescue (1818–1905), Hugh Sykes Davies (1909–1984), Hugh Walpole (1884–1941), Humphry Berkeley (1926–1994), Ian McKellen (born 1939), Iris Murdoch (1919–1999), Isaac Newton (1642–1727), Isaline Blew Horner (1896–1981), James B. Nelson (1930-2015), James Carter (1805–1878), James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879), James Elroy Flecker (1884–1915), James Fitzjames Stephen, 1st Baronet (1829–1894), James Hamilton Doggart (1900–1989), James Headlam-Morley (1863–1929), James Kenneth Stephen (1859–1892), James Spedding (1808–1881), James Strachey (1887–1967), Jane Elizabeth "Lucy" Norton (1893-1962), Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928), Janet Ruth Bacon (1891–1965), Jasper Fitzhardinge Kingscote (1917-1940), Jennie Lee, Baroness Lee of Asheridge (1904–1988), Jeremy Dacre Fox (1927-1999), Jimmy Edwards (1920–1988), John Cairncross (1913–1995), John Collins (1905–1982), John Edleston (1790-1811), John Ellingham Brooks (1863–1929), John Finch (1626–1682), John Fletcher (1579–1625), John Gordon-Woodhouse (1871-1951), John Gorham Maitland (1818–1863), John Gostlin (c. 1566–1626), John Hales (1870-1952), John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey (1696–1743), John Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton (1786–1869), John Lehmann (1907-1987), John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), John Mitchell Kemble (1807–1857), John Pratt (1809–1871), John Saltmarsh (1908–1974), John Seely, 2nd Baron Mottistone (1899-1963), John Seton (1498-1567), John Stanley Richardson (1911-1941), John Stanning (1877–1929), John Sterling (1806–1844), John Tresidder Sheppard (1881–1968), Jonathan Miller (1934–2019), Joseph Blakesley (1808–1885), Joseph Hardcastle (1815–1899), Julian Bell (1908–1937), Julian Fane (1827–1870), Justin Brooke (1886-1963), Karin Stephen (1889–1953), Karl Miller (1931–2014), Katharine Glasier (1867–1950), Katharine Harris Bradley (1846–1914), Katherine Laird Cox (1887-1938), Kathryn Hamill Cohen (1905-1960), Keith Runcorn (1922–1995), Keith Wedmore (born 1932), Kenneth Macaulay (1815–1867), Kim Philby (1912-1988), Leonard Greenwood (1880–1965), Leonard Woolf (1880-1969), Leslie Buswell (1890-1964), Leslie Runciman, 2nd Viscount Runciman of Doxford (1900–1989), Lillian Penson (1896–1963), Lionel Penrose (1898–1972), Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900-1979), Louisa Jebb (1873-1929), Louisa Lumsden (1840–1935), Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), Luis Cernuda (1902–1963), Lytton Strachey (1880-1932), Madeleine Hope Dodds (1885–1972), Marc Brandel (born Marcus Beresford) (1919-1994), Margaret Dorothea Rowbotham (1883–1978), Margaret Tuke (1862-1947), Margery Corbett Ashby (1882–1981), Marius Bewley (1916-1973), Marjory Stephenson (1885–1948), Mark Frankland (1934-2012), Mary Clara Dawes (born 1862), Mary Hamilton (1882–1966), Mary Sheepshanks (1872–1960), Maurice Browne (1881–1955), Mervyn Stockwood (1913-1995), Michael Redgrave (1908-1985), Michael Schofield (1919-2014), Michael Whitney Straight (1916–2004), Mike Calvert (1913–1998), Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847–1929), Mulk Raj Anand (1905–2004), Myles Thoroton Hildyard (1914–2005), Myra Curtis (1886–1971), Nicholas Tomalin (1931–1973), Noel Annan, Baron Annan (1916–2000), Noel Currer-Briggs (1919-2004), Norman Hartnell (1901-1979), Norman St John-Stevas (1929-2012), Oscar Browning (1837-1923), Pat Arrowsmith (born 1930), Patrick Trevor-Roper (1916–2004), Patrick White (1912-1990), Paul Edward Paget (1901–1985), Paul Mellon (1907-1999), Pedro Salinas (1891–1951), Percy Lubbock (1879–1965), Pernel Strachey (1876-1951), Peter Landin (1930–2009), Peter Shaffer (1926–2016), Peter Shore, Baron Shore of Stepney (1924–2001), Philip Bainbridge (1891-1918), Philip Brett (1937-2002), Philip Dennis Proctor (1905-1983), Philippa Fawcett (1868–1948), Quentin Bell (1910–1996), R.B. Braithwaite (1900–1990), Rachel Mary Parsons (1885–1956), Ralph Chubb (1892-1960), Ralph Strauss (1882–1950), Ray Strachey (1887–1940), Raymond McGrath (1903–1977), Reginald Brett, 2nd Viscount Esher (1852-1930), Richard Chenevix Trench (1807–1886), Richard Llewellyn-Davies, Baron Llewelyn-Davies (1912–1981), Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton (1809–1885), Robbie Ross (1869–1918), Robert Allason Furness (1883–1954), Robert Friend (1913–1998), Robert Hawthorn Kitson (1873-1947), Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914), Robert Monteith (1812–1884), Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh (1769-1822), Robin Gandy (1919–1995), Robin Maugham, 2nd Viscount Maugham (1916–1981), Robin Wood (1931–2009), Roden Noel (1834–1894), Roger Fry (1866-1934), Roger Lockyer (1927–2017), Roland Gwynne (1882–1971), Ronald Firbank (1886-1926), Ronald Gower (1845-1916), Ronald Millar (1919–1998), Ronald Storrs (1881–1955), Rosamond Lehmann (1901–1990), Roy Harrod (1900–1978), Rupert Barneby (1911–2000), Rupert Brooke (1887-1915), Rupert Gwynne (1873–1924), Samuel Butler (1835-1902), Saxon Sydney-Turner (1880-1962), Sergey Nabokov (1900–1945), Shane Leslie (1885-1971), Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967), Simon Raven (1927–2001), Spencer Horatio Walpole (1806–1898), Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887–1920), Stephen Fry (born 1957), Stephen Spring Rice (1814–1865), Stephen Toulmin (1922–2009), Steven Runciman (1903–2000), Stewart Perowne (1901–1989), Susan Lawrence (1871–1947), Sybil Campbell (1889–1977), Sydney Gedge (1829–1923), T.C. Worsley (1907-1977), Thoby Stephen (1880–1906), Thom Gunn (1929-2004), Thomas Ashton (1716–1775), Thomas Baines (1622–1680), Thomas Baty (1869–1954), Thomas Bendyshe (1827–1886), Thomas Gray (1716-1771), Thomas Legge (1535–1607), Thomas Robinson (1818-1895), Thomas Shepard (1605–1649), Tyrell Davis (1902-1970), Valentine Lawford (1911-1991), Vernon Lushington (1832–1912), Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild (1910-1990), Victor Stiebel (1907-1976), Vincent Yorke (1869-1957), W. Norman Pittenger (1905-1997), Walter John Herbert "W.J.H." Sprott (1897–1971), Walter Burton Harris (1866-1933), William Bodham Donne (1807–1882), William Dougal Christie (1816–1874), William Ernest Mather (1877–1899), William Grey Walter (1910–1977), William Harcourt (1827–1904), William Hepworth Thompson (1810–1886), William John Bankes (1786–1855), William Johnson Cory (1823-1892), William Reginald Shute, 10th Viscount Barrington (1873–1960), Winifred Cullis (1875–1956), Winifred Dakyns (1875-1960), Winnie Seebohm (1863–1886), Wynyard Browne (1911–1964).


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