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Scroope House, Coe Fen Lane
History of Scroope House
Royal Commission Survey of Cambridge 1959: the site was let on a building lease for forty years in 1837 and the house completed the same year, the the father of John Willis Clark, the antiquary, moved in from Wanstead House in Hills Road.
Scroope House was demolished in 1962 and the site is now occupied by the Department of Engineering.
1851 Cow [sic] Fen Lane
William Clark, 62, MD of College of Royal Physicians, b Northumberland [Professor of Anatomy 1817-1866]
Mary, 60, b London
Elizabeth Sims, 27, servant, b Wales
Ann Sims, 19, servant, b Haddenham
Mary Good, 23, servant, b Norfolk
Harry Ravey, 21, servant, b Cambridge
Charles Falkner, 20, servant, b Cambridge
Clark was professor of anatomy at Cambridge from 1817; he took holy orders in 181 and successively held the livings of Arrington and Wymeswold, before moving in 1828 to Guisley near Leeds. However he rarely spent more than three months of the year away from Cambridge; he gave an annual course of lectures on human and comparative anatomy and was keen to improve the collection of his anatomical museum. (See M Weatherall, Gentlemen, Scientists and Doctors: Medicine in Cambridge 1800-1940, pub. 2000. pp42ff)
Until 1832 the supply of bodies for dissection was severely limited in England; many British medical students went to study in Paris where cadavres were much more available. Cambridge was one of the petitioners to a change in the law and this led to the 1832 Anatomy Act which allowed parish officers to give up for anatomical examination any unclaimed bodies of people dying within their jurisdiction.
The magazine Punch in Cambridge, 10 xii 1833 included this epigram about William Clark:
The Clarks are parsons now a-days:
The thing (tho’ true) still very odd is, –
At Guisley one has the cure of souls,
At Cambridge he dissects the bodies.
1861 Trumpington Street
William Clark, Fellow of Royal College of Physicians Professor of Anatomy
Mary,
Susan Petit, 22, cook, b Cambs
Mary Ann Jolley, 20, upper housemaid, b Soham
Sarah Carter, 19, under housemaid, b Northants
Louis J Bates, 27, footman, b London
1871
Mary Clark, widow, 69, landowner, b London
John W Clark, 31, superintendent of museum, b Cambridge
James Willson, 28, butler, b Cambridge
William Willson, 19, footman, b Cambridge
Letitia Cullops, 25, ladies maid, b London
Sarah Chambers, 22, housemaid, b London
Sarah Woodcock, 17, kitchenmaid, b Cambridge
1881
Mary Clark, 79, independent
Esther Ettler, 28, ladies maid, b Wilts
Susannah Hagger, 44, cook, b Essex
Emily Smedley, 26, housemaid, b Wales
Ruth Wright, 16, kitchenmaid, b Ashby de la Zouche
Walter Mann, 31, butler, b Suffolk
1891
John W Clark, 57, superintendant, b Cambridge
Frances, 45, b Russia
Edward, 16, b Cambridge
William, 15, b Cambridge
Elizabeth Watkins, 56, ladies maid, b Bristol
Maria Clark, 52, cook, b Norfolk
Mary Knight, 36, parlourmaid, b Cambridge
Fanny Edwards, 26, kitchenmaid, b London
Emma Sadler, 16, housemaid, b Coton
William Carter, 19, page boy, b Bourn
Sophia Fox, visitor, 28, dressmaker, b Norfolk
1911
Edward Mellish Clark, 36, bank local director [Barclays], b Cambridge
Lilian Mary Hart, 38, b Hants [member of Cambridge Nursing Association in 1914]
Florence Valentine Mellish, 5, b Cambridge
Eleanore Mary Mellish, 2, b Cambridge
Audrey Evelyn Mellish, 1 mo, b Cambridge
Gertrude Kynaston, 54, monthly nurse, b Kent
Eliza Mary Hooper, 43, cook, b Devon
Gertrude Elizabeth Nichols, 43, parlourmaid, b Devon
Agnes Mary Hooper, 44, nurse, b Devon
Mabel Alice Jopson, 20, nursemaid, b Cambridge
Louisa Mary Frank, 24, housemaid, b Cambridge
Gertrude Harrison, 18, under housemaid, b Lincs
Alice Harry, 19, kitchenmaid, b Cambridge
Ernest Reginald Boutle, 16, house boy, b Burwell
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