William Jackson Pope

7 West Road (New Road), Holm Leigh / Homeleigh

History of 7 West Road

1871

Edwin Fuller, 20, gardener’s assistant, b Cambridge

George Dean, 21, gardener’s apprentice, b Fulbourn

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1881

Edmund Carver

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1891

Carver

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1901 Holm Leigh

Hawkes

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1911

Joseph Thomson [Nobel Prize for Physics 1906], 54, professor of experimental physics, b Manchester

Rose Elizabeth, 52, b Cambridge

George Paget, 18, b Cambridge

Joan Paget, 8, b Cambridge

Gertrude Mary Gibson, governess, 18, b Lancs

Ellen Victoria Adams, 23, servant, b Cambridge

Annie Louisa Thrower, 26, servant, b Ely

Kathleen Wallage, 21, servant, b Wood Ditton

In 1881 J J Thomson was a Fellow living at Trinity College. At the time of the 1891 census he was a visitor at Ventnor, Isle of Wight. For the 1901 census he was staying in Caernarvonshire.

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1913

Sir Joseph John Thomson, Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics

In the 1939 register he is Master of Trinity College, living there with his wife Rose.

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1939

William Jackson Pope, b 1870, university professor of chemistry

Violet C Herbert, b 1879, private means

Lily Utteridge, b 1914, cook

Ethel G Pearce, b 1906, parlourmaid

Edith Whiye, b 1893, sick nurse

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1962

Department of Applied Economics

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The Holm oak outside the Faculty of English.