Three-storey cream building with a blue shopfront, a circular plaque between the first-floor windows, and two dormer windows.

19 King’s Parade, Cambridge

History of 19 King's Parade

1881

John Oakley, 62, college butler, b Berks

Hannah, 66, b Bucks

Louisa A, 28, b Bucks

Eliza, 26, b Bucks

John, 24, clerk in college buttery, b Bucks

Mary A Salmon, 15, servant, b West Wratting

Percy P G Golden, lodger, 19, undergraduate, b London

Circular stone plaque carved with the text Edward FitzGerald 1809-1883, mounted on a plain, light-coloured wall.

19 King’s Parade

Edward Fitzgerald, translator of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

1913

Hills and Saunders, photographic artist

G W Blackall, manager

1937

Hill and Saunders, photographers

1962

Edward Leigh, photographer

1981

Pencil sketch on tan paper of the Benet Gallery storefront at 19 King's Parade, featuring framed pictures in the window.

Sketch of 19 King’s Parade by Shawn Bennett (1991)

2018

Parade, gift shop

At some point in its history, 19 King’s Parade contained the Benet Gallery, evidenced by the label on an engraving sent in by MF in 2025. However other evidence for the Benet Gallery at this location is elusive.

The back of a framed item showing a Benet Gallery label with cherub illustrations and a handwritten note on a white square.

Benet Gallery, 19 King’s Parade

Framed black-and-white print showing the neoclassical architecture of Trinity College, Cambridge, from inside the Great Court.

Benet Gallery, 19 King’s Parade

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King's Parade

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