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172 Hills Road, Penwith
History of 172 Hills Road
1891
Richard H Solly, 39, demonstrator in Mineralogy Univ. of Cambridge, born London
Annette J, 49, born London
Annie Day, 25, cook, born Cambridge
Ruth Bendall, 24, parlourmaid, born Horningsea
Eleanor M Brett, 16, housemaid, born Cambridge
Richard Harrison Solly (1851-1925) was son of Samuel Solly, chief surgeon and lecturer at St Thomas’s Hospital. Richard went to Cambridge in 1880 and in 1883 was appointed Demonstrator. he published ‘An elementary introduction to mineralogy’ in 1894, but having been published without the consent of his professor, Solly was forced to resign. For some years he lived abroad in Italy and Switzerland collecting minerals. He became the expert on the Binnenthal area of Switzerland; much of the best of his mineral collection is preserved at the British Museum.
1901
Harford Green, 41, Provisions Merchant, born Stansted
Hannah M, 46, born Stansted
Henry L, 10, born Ashford Kent
Ursula M, 8, born Stansted
Hannah H, 5, born Stansted
Edith M Batterby, servant, 21, housemaid
1911
Cephas Luther Edwards 50, commercial traveller cocoa and chocolate, born Wilts
Automella 53, born Dover
Frederick Wallace, 22, 2nd class assistant, British Museum Natural History, born Fletton
Wilfred Norman, 20, student, born Fletton
Donald Luther, 17, stduent, born Fletton
Dorothy Ruth, 9, born Gt Shelford
Charlotte Stevens, visitor, 38, assistant teacher elementary school Cambs County Council, born Oxon
Florence Mary Williams, visitor, 26, born Cambridge
1915 -1920 (Spalding’s):
Charles Ray
1922-23 (Spalding’s):
Percy Charles Gray (1908-1996) lived here with his parents. He went on to become a leading auctioneer and valuer in Cambridge after WWII, contributing to the success of the family firm of estate agents, Gray, Son and Cook. He was an expert on antique silver and catalogued the collections of several Cambridge Colleges.
Percy’s parents were Percy W. Gray (1871-1937) and Claudine S Strange (1870-c.1964). Percy W. was a celebrated cricketer, at one time reputed to have been the only person to have hit a six out of the grounds at Lords. The Strange family produced several generations of boat builders in Linton; family tradition says that they built several of the early ‘eights’ for the Varsity boat race.
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