29 Portugal Place

29 (20) Portugal Place, Cambridge

History of 29 Portugal Place

1861

This house may have been numbered 21 and the house of Leach

Edward Leach, 37, cellarman, b Cambridge

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1871

Cotton

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1881 (20)

Henry Charles, 58, college servant, b Cambridge

Elizabeth, 57, formerly college servant, b Over

Alice, 23, b Cambridge

Walter F R Weldon, boarder, 21, university student, b London

In 1891 their son was living at 3 Bridge Street. Henry Charles was a groom at St John’s College. This was a post held by his father. Both their wives were ‘bedders’ at the college. In 1871 Henry Charles lived at 4 Drummer Street.

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1891 (29)

Henry Charles, 67, college servant, b  Cambridge

Elizabeth, 67, b Over

Alice Augusta, 33, housekeeper, b Cambridge

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1901

John P Bates, 49, manager billiard saloon, b Godmanchester

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1913

Frank Jerram, college servant

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1920s

Paul Edward Paget, student

He went into business with John Seely and restored historic buildings all over the country.

AW sent this note in 2026:

My recent find is that they designed the pulpit in St Paul’s Cathedral where Dr Martin Luther King preached to 4,000 on his way to receive the Nobel Prize. I studied History at Lucy Cavendish 1986. Paul died while I was studying. He always said his mother campaigned for women’s education so I persuaded my mother to donate to the college and they created the Paul Paget Combination Room there.

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1962

Rd Bagley

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1981

Glen Cavaliero, writer and critic