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Profile portrait of a young woman sitting on a wooden chair, wearing a high-collared dress with ruffled sleeves and fur cuffs.

Clara Rackham, 1901, courtesy of Helen Bloxsome and Lucy Tabor

21, (4) Grange Terrace, (Arncliffe) Grange Road

History of 21 Grange Road

1901 Arncliffe, Grange Road

Vacant at the time census was taken.

Harris Rackham and Clara Dorothea Tabor married and moved to 4 Grange Terrace. In 1901 this property was not listed as 4 Grange Terrace, but as Arncliffe.

Studio portrait of a seated child in a fur-trimmed coat and a standing child in a kilt holding a leather strap.

Clara Tabor and brother ‘Willie’ (Robert William) Tabor (n.d) courtesy of Helen Bloxsome and Lucy Tabor

Five people wearing hats and coats sit on a rocky mountain summit next to a large metal cross secured by thick guy wires.

Clara Rackham, summit of Gross Glockmer (12400 feet), 1907, courtesy of Helen Bloxsome and Lucy Tabor

Clara Rackham’s biographer, historian, Mary (Maroula) Joannou has written the introduction to Clara Rackham for Capturing Cambridge. Mary has also provided the account of Clara and Harris Rackham’s family life, the biographical note on Harris Rackham, and compiled the chronology.

Introduction for Capturing Cambridge

At Home with Clara and Harris Rackham

A Brief Note on Harris Rackham

Clara Chronology

Book cover with a white central panel containing title text and a green background with the Routledge logo in the bottom corner.

Maroula Joannou, The Life and Turbulent Times of Clara Dorothea Rackham, Rackham: Socialist, Suffragist, Social Reformer (Routledge, 2023)


1911 4 Grange Terrace (census)

(H Rackham absent)

Minnie Hart, 29, cook, b Comberton

Helena Hart, 26, housemaid, b Comberton

In 1911 Harris and Clara Rackham moved to 18 Hobson Street following Harris’s appointment as senior Tutor.


1913 21 Grange Road (Kellys)

Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, FRS, Fellow of Sidney Sussex [winner of the Nobel Prize for physics in 1929]

A black and white close-up portrait of a bald man with a moustache, wearing a collared shirt, tie, and suit jacket.

Charles Thomson Rees Wilson


1962 (Kellys)

Harry Richards, physician and surgeon

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