Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge - Selected Graves and Memorials, With Articles

Selected Graves and Memorials, With Articles

Note: links to Find-A-Grave (if available), can be found under External Links for their articles, or on: Ascension Parish Burial Ground at Find-A-Grave. The people listed do have articles, all of them are also on Find-A-Grave:

• John Couch Adams FRS Astronomer, discoverer of Neptune, Professor, Fellow of Pembroke College (1) and wife Eliza Adams
• Hugh Kerr Anderson (Sir) FRS, Physiologist, Master Gonville and Caius College : 1912 to 1928 (2)
• Elizabeth Anscombe FBA Philosopher, Professor of Philosophy
• Arthur John Arberry FBA Orientalist, Professor of Arabic, Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge and wife Serina Arberry
• Robert Stawell Ball (Sir) FRS, Astronomer, Professor of Astronomy, and wife Lady Francis Elizabeth Ball (4)
• Arthur Christopher Benson Master Magdalene College : 1915 to 1925 (5)
• James Bethune-Baker FBA, Theologian, Professor of Divinity, Fellow of Pembroke College (6)
• Frederick Blackman, FRS Plant Physiologist, Fellow of St John's and wife Elsie Blackman
• David William Bragg son of Sir William Lawrence Bragg FRS, Physicist and X-ray crystallographer, and Lady Alice Bragg
• Denis William Brogan (Sir) FBA, Historian, Political Scientist, Fellow of Peterhouse College, Professor of Political Science; note: Lady Olwen Brogan, later Hackett, is also interred in the Burial Ground. (8)
• Zachary Nugent Brooke FBA, Historian, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, Professor of Medieval History, and wife Rosa Brooke (9)
• James Cable (Sir), Diplomat, Naval Strategist, and wife Lady Viveca Cable
• Neville Chittick, Scholar, Archaeologist
• Richard Chorley, Quantitative Geographer, Vice-Master, Sidney Sussex College
• Derman Christopherson FRS, Engineering Scientist, (Sir), Master Magdelene College : 1978 to 1985
• Sarah Clackson Coptologist; wife of James Clackson of the Friends of Ascension Parish Burial Ground
• William Henry Clark (Sir), Civil Servant and wife Lady Annie Clark (11)
• John Cockcroft OM, (Sir) FRS, Physicist, Nobel Prize winner, Master Churchill College : 1959 to 1968 and wife Lady Elizabeth Cockcroft, (12)
• Timothy Cockcroft known as 'John', son of Sir John Cockcroft and Lady Elizabeth Cockcroft
• Francis Cornford FBA, Classical Scholar,: cremated, interred in grave of Sir Francis Darwin with wife Frances Cornford, Sir Francis Darwin's daughter.
• Frances Cornford Poet, interred in grave of father Sir Francis Darwin (13) with her husband's Francis Cornford ashes
• Francis Darwin (Sir) FRS, Botanist, biographer, buried with his daughter the poet Frances Cornford (14)
• Florence Henrietta Darwin (Lady), third wife of Sir Francis Darwin, widow of Frederic William Maitland
• Horace Darwin (Sir) FRS, Scientific instrument maker and wife Lady Ida Darwin (15) (16)
• Arthur Eddington OM (Sir) FRS, Astrophysicist, : cremated interred in the grave of his mother Sarah Eddington, with sister Winifred Eddington (17)
• James Alfred Ewing (Sir) FRS, Professor of Mechanics, Professorial Fellowship at King's and wife Lady Ellen Ewing
• James George Frazer OM, (Sir) FRS, FBA, Anthropologist, and wife Lady Lilly Frazer (18)
• Roberto Gerhard Composer, Musical Scholar and wife Poldi Gerhard
• Henry Melvill Gwatkin (Rev.) Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Historian, theologian, conchologist, (19)
• Reginald Hackforth FBA, Professor of Ancient Philosophy, Classical Scholar and wife Lily Hackforth
• Ernest William Hobson FRS, Mathematician, Professor, Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge and wife Seline Hobson, and William Hobson, son
• Frederick Gowland Hopkins OM, FRS, (Sir) Nobel Prize winner, Biochemist, and wife Lady Jessie Ann Hopkins (20)
• Bertram Hopkinson (Colonel), FRS, Patent Lawyer,Engineer, and wife Mariana Hopkinson (21)
• Henry Jackson OM, FBA, Regius Professor of Greek (Cambridge), Classicist, Vice-Master Trinity College, Cambridge 1914 - 1919 (23)
• Sir Richard Jebb OM, MP, FBA, Regius Professor of Greek (Cambridge), Classicist, and his wife Lady Caroline Lane Jebb (24)
• Courtney Stanhope Kenny FBA, MP, Legal scholar, Professor of Law, Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge (25) and wife Emily Kenny and daughters Gertrude Kenny and Agnes Kenny
• Horace Lamb (Sir) FRS, Mathematician, Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge and wife Lady Elizabeth Lamb (26)
• George Downing Liveing FRS, Professor of Chemistry, Fellow and President of St John's College, Cambridge
• Henry Richards Luard Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, mathematician and clergyman
• R. A. Stewart Macalister Archaeologist, Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge
• Donald MacAlister (Sir), Vice-Chancellor Glasgow, Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge and wife Lady Edith MacAlister (28)
• Desmond MacCarthy (Sir), Literary and drama critic, and wife Mary (Molly) MacCarthy (Lady) (29)
• Alfred Marshall FBA, Economist, Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, Professor of Political Economy who was married to Mary Paley, co-founder of Newnham College (31)
• Charles James Martin (Sir) FRS, Scientist, and wife Edith Martin
• John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor FBA, Librarian, Professor of Latin, Antiquarian, (32)
• George Edward Moore OM, FBA, Philosopher, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Professor of Philosophy, and wife Dorothy Moore, nee Ely (33)
• Alfred Newton FRS, Professor of Comparative Anatomy, Ornithologist, (35)
• Geoffrey Bruce Oliphant son of Sir Mark Oliphant, FRS, Physicist, Humanitarian and Lady Rosa Oliphant
• Conrad Pepler Priest, Writer, Editor, Publisher
• Max Perutz OM, FRS, Molecular Biologist, Nobel Prize winner and wife Gisela Perutz
• Sir Leon Radzinowicz FBA, Criminologist, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge and wife Lady Isolde Radzinowicz
• Frank P. Ramsey Philosopher and mathematician, Fellow of King's, buried in same grave as his parents: Arthur Stanley Ramsey and Mary Agnes Ramsey (36)
• William Halse Rivers Rivers FRS, Fellow of St John's, Anthropologist, Neurologist, Ethnologist, Psychologist
• Walter William Rouse Ball, Mathematician, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge (38)
• John Edwin Sandys FBA, (Sir) Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, Classicist and Public Orator, (39)
• Charlotte Scott, Pioneer woman student, (40) buried in the grave of Eliza Nevin
• Walter William Skeat FBA Philologist, Anglo-Saxonist, Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge and wife Bertha Clara Skeat, daughter Bertha Marion Skeat (42)
• Lucy Joan Slater Mathematician and Recorder of Ascension Parish Burial Ground
• Joseph Peter Stern FBA, Germanist, (44)
• Charles Taylor (scholar) Master St. John's College: 1881 to 1908, Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, mathematician and hebrew scholar
• Harold McCarter Taylor Mathematician, Barrister
• Henry Martyn Taylor FRS, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Mathematician, braille expert, and mother Eliza Taylor (45)
• Arthur Woollgar Verrall, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Classicist, literary scholar and wife Margaret Verrall lecturer in classics at Newnham College (46)
• Percy Henry Winfield FBA (Sir) Professor of English Law, author of "The Law of Torts"
• John Wisdom Professor of Philosophy, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, (cremated) Philosopher (47)
• Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher, Professor of Philosophy, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge (48)

• Charles Wood (composer) Professor of Music, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Composer (49)
• William Aldis Wright Shakespearean and biblical scholar, Vice-Master Trinity College, Cambridge, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1888 - 1914 (50)

Numbers in ( ) refer to 50 articles in "A Cambridge Necropolis" by Dr. Mark Goldie, March 2000, for the Friends of The Parish of The Ascension Burial Ground ; most of the above are also featured in L.J. Slater's "A Walk round the Ascension Burial Ground, formerly known as St. Giles' Cemetery", fourth edition, December 1994, which contains 106 references to its burials.