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Ascension Burial Ground / St Giles and St Peter cemetery
History of Ascension Burial Ground
This was formerly the burial ground for the parish of St Giles and St Peter. It holds the graves and memorials of many University of Cambridge academics and non-conformists.
There is a detailed Wikipedia entry.
The Mortuary Chapel is a Building of Local Interest
1871 Cemetery Lodge
Alfred Nunn, 41, police pensioner now curator, b Fowlmere
1881 Cemetery House
Frederick Plum, 58, curator, b Balsham
Ann, 52, b Wilts
1891
1901 Cemetery House
William Hills, 62, caretaker and gardener, b Cambs
Elizabeth, 64,
Elizabeth, 24, dressmaker
1911 Cemetery Lodge
William Hills, 45, curator of cemetery, b Suffolk
Emma, 40, b Surrey
William Thomas, 17, college servant, b Duxford
Albert James, 13, errand boy, b Duxford
Walter George, 12, b Duxford
Among those buried at the Ascension are the following:
John Couch Adams, astronomer discoverer of Neptune
Hugh Kerr Anderson, physiologist
Robert Stawall Ball, astronomer
Arthur Benson housemaster at Eton who wrote the words of Land of Hope and Glory
Arthur Benson grave
James Bethune-Baker, theologian
Charles Brink, classicist
Denis William Brogan, historian
Zachary Brooke, historian
Geoffrey Bushnell, archeologist
William Henry Clark, civil servant
John Cockcroft, Nobel prize winner
Frances Cornford, poet
Francis Darwin, botanist
Horace Darwin, Scientific instrument maker
Ida Darwin, mental health pioneer
Arthur Eddington, astrophysicist
James George Frazer, anthropologist
Henry Melvill Gwatkin, historian
Frederick Gowland Hopkins, Nobel biochemist
Bertram Hopkinson, engineer
Arthur Hutchinson, mineralogist
Henry Jackson, classicist
Richard Claverhouse Jebb, classicist
Courtney Stanhope Kenny, legal scholar
Horace Lamb, mathematician
Hugh Roger Lubbock, biologist
Desmond McCarthy, literary critic
Norman McLean, orientalist
Alfred Marshall, economist
John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, antiquarian
George Edward Moore, philosopher
Hugh Newall, astrophysicist
Alfred Newton, ornithologist
Frank Plumpton Ramsey, philosopher and mathematician
David Wyn Roberts, architect
Walter William Rouse Ball, mathematician
John Edwin Sandys, classicist
Charlotte Angas Scott, pioneer student
Walter William Skeat, philologist
Bridget Margaret Spufford
Peter Maria Stern, German scholor
Henry Taylor, mathematician
Arthur Woollgar Verrall, classicist
John Wisdom, philosopher
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein, philosopher
Charles Wood, composer
William Aldis Wright, Shakespearean scholar
Further Information
- Cambridge Ladies’ Dining Society: The Ascension Parish burial ground
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