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Maid's Causeway nos. 27 - 33, Cambridge

27 Maids’ Causeway (1 Brunswick Place)

History of 27 Maids' Causeway

1861 (1)

Richard Rowe, 62, proprietor of houses and land, b Cambridge

Sarah, 70, b Salop

Richard M, 36, architect and civil engineer, b Cambridge

Francis, sister, 68, proprietor of houses, b Salop

Elizabeth Meadows,  servant, 30, b Great Staughton

Varsity Rags and Hoaxes, F A Reeve, (1977) tells the story of four students who got a watchman in King Street drunk and then put his hut with him in it in the river. Their punishment was to be gated for the rest of term and copy out 500 lines of Ovid. Richard Rowe, a young man, offered to do this for them. Richard’s father was in prison in Cambridge castle for debt at the time. Richard sat up all night to complete the task and the students gave him enough money to release his father from prison.  One of the students was from Jesus College and he managed to get Richard the position of private secretary to the college tutor. Rowe went on to hold other posts in the university and became an alderman.

1901 (1)

George W Goody

1913

George W Goody

1918

Fanny Elizabeth Bosanquet died 3.10.1918 aged 74

1962

Adrian Bridgewater

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