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Gabled grey brick building with a red door, flanked by bay windows and marked with a red Heritage Cambridge school sign.

19 Brookside main entrance

18/19 Brookside, 18/19 Trumpington Road

History of 18/19 Brookside

A grey brick building facade with a red door, several boarded-up windows, an arched top window, and a Heritage School sign.

19 Brookside (side)

A round blue memorial plaque for Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett mounted on a textured stone wall, bearing her name and quote.

19 Brookside

A circular blue commemorative plaque for Henry Fawcett featuring his name, dates, biographical text, and a heraldic crest.

19 Brookside

1871

(18)

Edward Henry Palmer, unmarried, fellow of St Johns, b Cambridge

Winifred Lynch Ingram, servant, 33, housemaid, b Ireland

Frederick Starling, servant, 16, page, b Teversham

In 1871 Edward Palmer and Laura Davis were married. By the end of 1871 Edward had been appointed professor of Arabic at Cambridge University. Laura died in 1878 and Edward remarried. In 1882 he was sent by the government to the Middle East and while in Egypt he and his companions were ambushed and murdered.

A young woman with pinned-up hair wears a high-collared, buttoned dark dress, drop earrings, and a locket on a long chain.

Laura Palmer née Davis (photgrahphed at Ventnor, 1877)

(19)

Harriet Pretyman, 58, annuitant, b Leics

Kates Pakes, 24, ladies maid, b Wales

Lydia Pink, 23, cook, b Hauxton

Mariane Mole, 19, housemaid, b Cambridge


1874-1884

Henry Fawcett died here on 6th November and was buried in Trumpington.

His wife was Millicent Garrett Fawcett, a prominent politician.

[They were not resident here at the time of the 1881 census.]

A painting of a man and woman; he sits with closed eyes, one hand gesturing to a paper held by the woman looking over his shoulder.

Henry and Millicent Garrett Fawcett

Henry Fawcett stands for Parliament in Cambridge Borough. 1863.

Cambridge Suffragists and Votes for Women

The funeral of Prof Henry Fawcett at Trumpington, Cambridge, 1884.

 


1901

18 Brookside:

Walter H Francis, 43, solicitor, b Cambridge

Agnes P, 31, b Scotland

Janette P, 1, b Cambridge

Walter M, 1,  b Cambridge

Catherine A Ferguson, 27, parlour maid,  b Scotland

Julia Haylewood, 28, nurse, b Soham

Maria E Gooby, 16, housemaid, b Cambridge

19 Brookside:

Henry Sanders, widower, 59, farmer, b Hunts

Emily R, 25, b Cambridge

Lean M Benstead, 21, servant, b Waterbeach


1911

(18) not listed

(19) Miss A Hawkes – absent


1913

A painting of an elderly man with thinning hair wearing a white clerical collar, a black shirt, and a bright red academic robe.

Edward Gordon Selwyn

(18) Rev Edward Gordon Selwyn, Fellow of Corpus Christi College 

[In 1911 Edward Selwyn was living at 20 Bateman Street]

(19) Henry John Horstman Fenton, University Demonstrator of Chemistry


2018

Heritage Independent School

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  • Building of Local Interest
  • Cambridge University
  • school
  • women
  • Women's Suffrage

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