The Cambridge Apostles, 1820-1914: Liberalism, Imagination, and Friendship in British Intellectual and Professional Life 1st Edition
by W.C. Lubenow
Queer Places:
Charterhouse School, Hurtmore Rd, Godalming GU7 2DX, United Kingdom
University of Cambridge, 4 Mill Ln, Cambridge CB2 1RZ
66 Elm Park Gardens, London SW10 9PD, United Kingdom
Ashmansworth House, Church Lane, Ashmansworth, Newbury, Berkshire, RG20 9SG
Reading Cemetery and Crematorium, All Hallows Rd, Caversham, Reading RG4 5LP, United Kingdom
Arthur Beresford Cane, CBE (December 2, 1864 - December 21, 1939), was born on December 2, 1864, at Grand Canal Street in Dublin, Ireland, the second son of Arthur Beresford Cane of Clonmoyle, Mullingar, County Westmeath, and Eliza Stevenson Butler. His educational journey began at Charterhouse before he was admitted as a pensioner to Trinity College, Cambridge, on June 16, 1883. At Cambridge, he distinguished himself academically by achieving a First Class in the History Tripos in 1886 and becoming a Scholar in 1887, alongside his membership in the prestigious and intellectually elite Cambridge Apostles. Pursuing a legal career, he was admitted to the Inner Temple on May 28, 1885, and was subsequently called to the Bar in 1890, practicing on the Midland Circuit.
On January 24, 1894, he married Lucy Mary O'Brien in Ardagh, County Limerick, Ireland. She was the daughter of Edward William O'Brien and Mary Spring Rice. The couple had issue, including a daughter named Mary Olivia, though records and census returns also note another child. By the 1911 census, Arthur, his wife Lucy Mary, their daughter, and his widowed mother Eliza were residing together at 66 Elm Park Gardens in Chelsea, London.
Professionally, Arthur built a prominent career in public administration and transport management. He served as the Secretary of the Railway Companies Association from 1910 to 1929. During the First World War, he took on vital governmental duties, acting as Secretary to the Central Control Board (Liquor Traffic) from 1915 to 1919. In recognition of his dedicated wartime and public service, he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1920.
In his later years, he lived at Ashmansworth House near Newbury, Berkshire. Following the passing of his wife Lucy Mary in 1926, Arthur lived out his final years until his death on December 21, 1939, at the age of 75 at Ashmansworth House. In accordance with his personal wishes, his funeral service was private, followed by cremation on December 22, 1939, with his final resting place at Reading Cemetery and Crematorium in Caversham, Berkshire.
Arthur Beresford Cane's primary connection lies in his esteemed membership in the Cambridge Apostles. Founded in 1820 as the Cambridge Conversazione Society, the secret intellectual society became a crucial node in British social, literary, and academic networks, particularly through the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Apostles fostered an environment of profound intellectual intimacy and progressive thought that frequently intersected with the development of early queer consciousness and homosocial kinship among elite British intellectuals, statesmen, and writers.
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