Ascension Parish Burial Ground

The Ascension Parish Burial Ground, formerly St Giles and St Peter's Parish, is a cemetery in Cambridge, England. It includes the graves and memorials of many University of Cambridge academics and non-conformists of the 19th and early 20th century. The cemetery encapsulates a century-and-a-half of the University's modern history. The one and a half acres of the burial ground were established in 1857 when extra burial space was needed as the city of Cambridge expanded in Victorian times. The first burial there was in 1869. Today some 2,500 people are buried in 1,500 plots. Many city and university dignitaries, scientists and scholars are buried there including two Vice-Chancellors and three Nobel prize winners. Ten members of the Cambridge Apostles are interred in this burial ground. Over one hundred Fellows, including 38 former Professors, of the University of Cambridge are buried in this cemetery.

History

The cemetery is located just off Huntingdon Road near the junction with Storey's Way in the northwest of Cambridge. The burial ground is a designated City Wildlife Site and is part of the Storey's Way Conservation area.^[1] In 2005 the plant species present were catalogued and the site is now managed so as to encourage wildlife and habitat diversity, as well as to care for the graves themselves.

The Friends of the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground aim to protect and enhance the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground for the public benefit as a place of remembrance, spirituality, history and nature.

Graves and memorials of notable individuals

A

• John Couch Adams^[2][3] FRS Astronomer, discoverer of Neptune, Lowndean Professor, Fellow of Pembroke College and wife Eliza Adams^[4] [2D5]
• Sir Hugh Kerr Anderson^[2][5] FRS, physiologist, Master Gonville and Caius College : 1912 to 1928 and his wife Lady Jessie Anderson^[6] [4I1]
• Elizabeth Anscombe^[7] FBA, Fellow of Newnham College, Philosopher, Professor of Philosophy, wife of Peter Geach
• Rev. Richard Appleton^[2][8] Master Selwyn College 1907–1909, Vicar of St. George's, Camberwell, Vicar of Ware [2D14]
• Arthur John Arberry^[9] FBA Orientalist, Professor of Arabic, Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge and wife Serina Arberry^[10]

B

• Sir Robert Stawell Ball^[2][11] FRS, Astronomer, Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge and his wife Lady Frances Elizabeth Ball^[12] [4I36]
• Arthur Beer^[13] Astronomer, member of Caius College and wife Charlotte Vera Beer^[14]
• Cecil Bendall Professor of Sanskrit, University of Cambridge; Honorary Fellow of Gonville and Caius College
• Edwin Keppel Bennett, noms de plume: Francis Bennett, Francis Keppel, Fellow and President of Gonville and Caius College
• J.A.W. Bennett,^[15] New Zealand born literary scholar and his wife Gwyneth Bennett ^[16] a member of the informal Oxford literary group, the Inklings, Fellow of Magdalene College
• Arthur Christopher Benson^[2][17] Master Magdalene College : 1915 to 1925 [2C55], son of Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1883 to 1896.
• William Henry Besant^[18] FRS, Fellow of St John's, mathematician [4I21]
• James Bethune-Baker^[2][19] FBA, Theologian, Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity, Fellow of Pembroke College and his wife Edith Bethune-Baker [4I30].
• Frederick Blackman,^[20] FRS Plant Physiologist, Fellow of St John's and wife Elsie Blackman^[21]
• Joan Boulind CBE, fellow and tutor at Hughes Hall, Cambridge, and husband Henry Boulind and children Gillian and Richard Boulind
• John Buckley Bradbury,^[22] Downing Professor of Medicine, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College and Downing College, Cambridge and wife Jane Bradbury^[23] [2B14]
• Charles Oscar Brink^[2][24] FBA, Classicist, fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, (cremated remains) and his wife Daphne Hope Brink (cremated remains)
• Sir Denis William Brogan^[2][25] FBA, Historian, Political Scientist, Fellow of Peterhouse, Professor of Political Science; note: Lady Olwen Brogan, later Hackett, is also interred in the Burial Ground. [6C44]
• Zachary Nugent Brooke^[2][26] FBA, Historian, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, Professor of Medieval History, and wife Rosa Brooke [1H6]
• William Warwick Buckland, Professor of Law, President of Gonville and Caius College, Regius Professor of Civil Law
• Robert Burn,^[27] Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
• John Burnaby,^[28] Dean of Trinity College, Cambridge, Regius Professor of Divinity, and wife Dorothy Burnaby, née Lock; also her brother [Robert Heath Lock] is buried in the same grave, as is his first wife.
• Geoffrey Bushnell^[2][29] FBA, Archaeologist and Ethnologist, Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and wife Patricia Bushnell

C

• Sir James Cable,^[30] Diplomat, Naval Strategist, and wife Lady Cable, Viveca Hollmerus^[31]
• John Walton Capstick^[32] Bursar and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge Physicist, Musician [2C25]
• Neville Chittick,^[33] Scholar, Archaeologist
• Richard Chorley,^[34] Quantitative Geographer, Vice-Master, Sidney Sussex College
• Sir Derman Christopherson^[35] FRS, Engineering Scientist, Master Magdelene College : 1978 to 1985 and his wife Lady Frances Christopherson^[36]
• Sarah Clackson^[37] Coptologist; (cremated remains) wife of James Clackson of Friends of Ascension Parish Burial Ground; she held the Eugénie Strong Fellowship in Arts at Girton College (1996–98) and the Lady Wallis Budge Fellowship in Egyptology at Christ's College (from 1998).
• Sir William Henry Clark^[2][38] Civil Servant and wife Lady Anne Clark ^[39][2G3]
• Sir John Cockroft^[2][40] OM FRS, Physicist, Nobel Prize winner, Master Churchill College 1959 to 1968, Fellow of St John's and wife Lady Elizabeth Cockcroft,^[41] and son John, known as Timothy.[1E1]
• Agnes Bell Collier Vice Principal of Newnham College, passed Maths. Tripos in 1883 [5A8]
• Francis Cornford^[42] FBA, Classical Scholar, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, cremated, interred in grave of Sir Francis Darwin with wife Frances Cornford, Sir Francis Darwin's daughter. [2D34]
• Frances Cornford,^[2][43] Poet, interred in grave of father Sir Francis Darwin with her husband's Francis Cornford ashes, [2D34]

D

• Sir Francis Darwin^[2][44] FRS, Botanist, biographer, Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, buried with his daughter the poet Frances Cornford ^[2][2D34]
• Lady Florence Darwin,^[45] third wife of Sir Francis Darwin, widow of Frederic William Maitland, daughter of Herbert William Fisher [4I28]
• Sir Horace Darwin^[2][46] FRS, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Scientific instrument maker and wife Lady Ida Darwin ^[2] [2C27]

E

• Sir Arthur Eddington^[2][47] OM FRS, Astrophysicist, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy, : cremated remains interred in the grave of his mother Sarah Eddington,^[48] with the cremated remains of sister Winifred Eddington^[49] [4139]
• Sir James Ewing^[50] FRS, Professor of Mechanism and Applied Mechanics, Professorial Fellowship at King's, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and wife Lady Ellen Ewing^[51] [4CI]

F

• Michael James Farrell, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Economist
• Thomas Cecil Fitzpatrick, Vice-Chancellor and Master of Queens' College, Cambridge
• Sir James Frazer^[2][52] OM FRS FBA, Anthropologist, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge and wife Lady Lily Frazer^[53] [1G14]

G

• Roberto Gerhard^[54] Composer, Musical Scholar and wife Poldi Gerhard^[55]
• Henry Melvill Gwatkin^[2][56] (Rev.) Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Historian, theologian, conchologist, Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge and Emmanuel College, Cambridge and his wife Lucy De Lisle Gwatkin^[57] [4A19]

H

• Reginald Hackforth^[58] FBA, Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy, Classical Scholar, Fellow of Sidney Sussex College and wife Lily Hackforth^[59]
• Basil Hammond Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge and historian, and wife Margaret Hammond [4I14]
• William Emerton Heitland^[60] Classicist, Fellow of Emmanuel and wife Margaret Heitland^[61] [2C23], née Bateson, daughter of William Henry Bateson, master of St John's College, Cambridge, a journalist and social activist (suffragette), sister of the geneticist William Bateson, his son was the anthropologist and cyberneticist Gregory Bateson, sister of Mary Bateson (historian)
• Robert Drew Hicks Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, classicist, blind for 30 years
• Ernest William Hobson^[62] FRS, Mathematician, Sadleirian Professor, Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge and wife Seline Hobson,^[63] and William Hobson^[64] [4E1]
• Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins^[2][65] OM, FRS, Nobel Prize winner, Biochemist, Professor, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge and wife Lady Jessie Ann Hopkins^[66] [2G2]
• Bertram Hopkinson,^[2][67][68] CMG FRS, Patent Lawyer,Engineer, Professor of Mechanism and Applied Mechanics and wife Mariana Hopkinson^[69] [2D51]
• Tristram Frederick Croft Huddleston^[70] Fellow of St John's and Censor Fitzwilliam House 1890–1907, and wife Bessie Huddleston^[71] [2D39]
• Arthur Hutchinson^[2][72] FRS and Master Pembroke College 1928 to 1937, and wife Evaline Hutchinson^[73]

J

• Henry Jackson^[2][74] OM, FBA, Regius Professor of Greek (Cambridge), Classicist, Vice-Master Trinity College, Cambridge 1914–1919, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Member of the Cambridge Apostles, the intellectual secret society, [2D47]
• Sir Richard Jebb^[2][75] OM, MP, FBA, Regius Professor of Greek (Cambridge), Classicist, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Member of the Cambridge Apostles, the intellectual secret society, and his wife Lady Caroline Jebb (who died in America and her cremated remains are buried here)^[76] [4I2]

K

• Courtney Stanhope Kenny^[2][77] FBA, MP, Legal scholar, Downing professor of the laws of England, Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge and wife Emily^[78] and the cremated remains of daughters Gertrude^[79] and Agnes ^[80] [2B11]

L

• Sir Horace Lamb^[2][81] FRS, Mathematician, Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge and wife Lady Elizabeth Lamb^[82] [2B24]
• Guy Lee, Cambridge professor, classicist, translator of Ovid, Horace and Catullus, Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge
• Edward Hubert Linfoot^[83] Mathematician, Fellow of Wolfson College
• George Downing Liveing^[84] FRS, Professor of Chemistry, Fellow and President of St John's College, Cambridge and his wife Catharine, [4D6]
• Robert H. Lock Fellow of Gonville and Caius College and Assistant Director of the Peradeniya Botanical Gardens; John Burnaby, Dean of Trinity College, Cambridge, Regius Professor of Divinity, and wife Dorothy Burnaby, née Lock are buried in the same grave, [4I40];
• Bella Sidney Woolf, whose first husband was Robert H. Lock, is also buried here.
• Henry Richards Luard^[85] Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, mathematician and clergyman

M

• Alexander Macalister ^[86] Professor of Anatomy, Cambridge University, Egyptologist, Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge and his wife Elizabeth MacAlister [2B42]
• R. A. Stewart Macalister,^[87] archaeologist, Member of St John's College, Cambridge and his wife Margaret A. M. Macalister[2B42]
• Sir Donald MacAlister,^[2][88] Vice-Chancellor Glasgow, Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge and Member of the Cambridge Apostles, the intellectual secret society, [2D47] and wife Lady Edith Macalister [5I13]
• Sir Desmond MacCarthy,^[2][89] Literary and drama critic, Member of the Cambridge Apostles, the intellectual secret society,and wife Lady Mary (Molly) MacCarthy [1H2]
• Norman McLean^[2][90] FBA, Orientalist and Member of the Cambridge Apostles, Master Christ's College, Cambridge 1927 to 1936 and his wife Mary McLean, née Luce.
• Frederick Hemming McClintock, founding Fellow of Churchill College
• Alfred Marshall^[91] FBA, Economist, Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, Professor of Political Economy, who was married to Mary Paley, co-founder of Newnham College [2D2]
• Sir Charles James Martin^[92] FRS, Scientist, Fellow of King's College, London and Member of St John's College, Cambridge and wife Lady Edith Martin^[93] [4F2]
• Brigadier Arthur Gordon Matthew^[94][95]
• Jeremy Maule, English scholar and teacher; Fellow and Lecturer in English, Trinity College,
• Edwin Arthur Maxwell, Mathematician; Director of Studies in Mathematics, University of Cambridge, Honorary Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge
• John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor^[2][96] FBA, Librarian, Professor of Latin, Antiquarian, President of St John's College, Cambridge [4I18]
• Robert Williams Michell FRCS ^[97]
• Sir Geoffrey Fitzhervey de Montmorency^[98] Indian Civil Service
• George Edward Moore^[2][99] OM, FBA, Philosopher, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Professor of Philosophy, Member of the Cambridge Apostles, the intellectual secret society, and wife Dorothy Moore. [1H1]
• Andrew Munro, bursar and mathematician of Queens' College, Cambridge

N

• Hugh Frank Newall^[2][100] FRS, Professor of Astrophysics, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, whose second wife was Dame Bertha Phillpotts Mistress of Girton College 1922–1925, [4H1], who is buried in Tunbridge Wells
• George Ernest Newsom^[101] Master Selwyn College: 1934 to 1946 [2B19]
• Alfred Newton^[2][102] FRS, Professor of Comparative Anatomy, Fellow of Magdalene College, Ornithologist,

P

• Conrad Pepler^[103] Priest, Writer, Editor, Publisher
• Max Perutz^[104] OM, FRS, Molecular Biologist, Nobel Prize winner, Fellow of Peterhouse College, and wife Gisela Perutz; their cremated remains are buried together with his parents Hugo and Dely Perutz.

R

• Sir Leon Radzinowicz^[105] FBA, Criminologist, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge and wife Lady Isolde Radzinowicz.
• Arthur Stanley Ramsey^[106] Mathematician and philosopher, President of Magdalene College, with his wife Mary,^[107] and their son Frank Plumpton Ramsey^[108] [2C48]
• Frank P. Ramsey^[2][109] Philosopher and mathematician, Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, Member of the Cambridge Apostles, the intellectual secret society, buried in same grave as his parents: Arthur Stanley Ramsey and Mary Agnes Ramsey. [2C48]
• William Halse Rivers Rivers^[110] FRS, Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, Anthropologist, Neurologist, Ethnologist, Psychologist
• Walter William Rouse Ball,^[2][111] Mathematician, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge [4I9]

S

• Sir John Edwin Sandys^[2][112] FBA, Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, Classicist and Public Orator, and Lady Mary Sandys, [2D46]
• Sir Charles Henry Sargant,^[113] Lord Justice of Appeal, Privy Counsellor [1H12]
• Charlotte Scott,^[2][114] Pioneer woman student, buried in the grave of Eliza Nevin^[115] [4C52]
• Isabel May Griffiths Seltman, wife of Charles Seltman, art historian, fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge and a University Lecturer in Classics
• Fredegond Shove, poet, step-daughter of Sir Francis Darwin; mother was Lady Darwin.
• Walter William Skeat^[2][116] FBA Philologist, Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon, Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge and wife Bertha Clara Skeat, daughter Bertha Marion Skeat) [4I19]
• Lucy Joan Slater^[117] Mathematician and Recorder of Ascension Parish Burial Ground, and her mother Lucy Dalton Slater^[118] [6C45]
• George Smee, solicitor, and wife Eliza Smee; monument sculpted by Jacob Epstein,[2D28]
• Bridget Spufford,^[2] after whom "Bridget's Hostel", Cambridge was named; daughter of Professors Peter Spufford and the late Margaret Spufford, sister of Francis Spufford. She is buried with her grandmother, Mary Clark, née Johnson.
• Vincent Henry Stanton^[119] Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge and Regius Professor of Divinity, Member of the Cambridge Apostles, the intellectual secret society,at Cambridge University, [2D50]
• Joseph Peter Stern^[2][120] FBA, Germanist, Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, (cremated remains) and wife Sheila Stern (cremated remains)
• Stanley Stubbs^[121] Headmaster of Perse School 1945–1969 and wife Margaret Stubbs^[122]

T

• Joseph Robson Tanner, Bursar of St John's, Samuel Pepys expert [4A1]
• Charles Taylor^[123] Vice-Chancellor and Master St. John's College: 1881 to 1908, Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, mathematician and Hebrew scholar, [4I5]
• Harold McCarter Taylor^[124] Mathematician, Barrister, a Fellow of Clare College, (cremated remains).
• Henry Martyn Taylor^[2][125] FRS, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Mathematician, braille expert, and mother Eliza Taylor^[126] [2C52]
• Sir Alfred St Valery Tebbitt.,^[127] managing director of Kirby, Beard & Co. and British Chamber of Commerce, Paris, and of the Hertford British Hospital, Paris, and wife Lady Gladys St. Valery Tebbit, née Pendrell Smith.

V

• Augustus Arthur Vansittart,^[128] Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, classical scholar [2D1]
• Arthur Woollgar Verrall,^[2][129] Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Classicist, Member of the Cambridge Apostles, King Edward VII professorship of literature, literary scholar, and wife Margaret Verrall, lecturer in classics at Newnham College,^[130] [2B33]

W

• Harry Marshall Ward, a close friend of Sir Francis Darwin and his wife;
• Sir Percy Henry Winfield^[131] FBA, 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 Scruby [1E5]
• Denys Winstanley^[132] Vice Master Trinity College, Cambridge: 1935–1947
• John Wisdom^[2][133] Professor of Philosophy, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, (cremated) Philosopher, and Honorary Fellow of Fitzwilliam College
• Ludwig Wittgenstein,^[2][134] Philosopher, Professor of Philosophy, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Member of the Cambridge Apostles, the intellectual secret society, [5D31]
• Charles Wood (composer)^[2][135] Professor of Music, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Composer, and his wife Charlotte Georgina Wood.^[136][4A21]
• Bella Sidney Woolf, whose first husband was Robert Heath Lock, he is also buried here.
• William Aldis Wright^[2][137] Shakespearean and biblical scholar, Vice-Master Trinity College, Cambridge, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1888–1914 [4I7]

Darwin family

Five members of the family of Charles Darwin are interred here: two sons: Sir Francis Darwin and Sir Horace Darwin, two daughters-in-law: Lady Florence Darwin (third wife of Francis) and Lady Ida Darwin (wife of Horace), and a granddaughter: Frances Cornford, the daughter of Francis Darwin by his second wife, Ellen Wordsworth Darwin.

References

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Coordinates: 52°13′03″N 0°06′00″E / 52.2176°N 0.1001°E / 52.2176; 0.1001

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