Cambridge Apostles - Former Members

Former Members

Members of the Apostles have included (with the year they joined in brackets, where known):

• George Tomlinson, Bishop of Gibraltar (1820)
• Frederick Denison Maurice, Theologian, Christian Socialist, founder of the Working Men's College. (1823)
• Erasmus Alvey Darwin, brother of Charles Darwin (1823)
• Benjamin Hall Kennedy, Latinist (1824)
• John Sterling, writer and poet (1825)
• John Mitchell Kemble, historian (1826)
• Charles Buller, barrister and MP (1826)
• Richard Chenevix Trench, Christian writer, Archbishop of Dublin (1827)
• Arthur William Buller, judge of the Supreme Court, Calcutta (1828)
• Arthur Hallam, poet (1829)
• Alfred Tennyson, English poet, member of the House of Lords (1829)
• Sir William Harcourt, Chancellor of the Exchequer (1847)
• Fenton John Anthony Hort, theologian (1851)
• James Clerk Maxwell, physicist (1852)
• Henry Sidgwick, philosopher (1857)
• Henry Jackson, classicist (1863)
• Oscar Browning, educator
• A. N. Whitehead, mathematician, logician and philosopher (1884)
• Roger Eliot Fry, art historian (1887)
• Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, social activist and logician, member of the Royal Society, Nobel prize winner, member of the House of Lords (1892)
• Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, historian and philosopher
• J. M. E. McTaggart, philosopher
• G. E. Moore, philosopher (1894)
• G. M. Trevelyan, historian (1895)
• G. H. Hardy, mathematician. (~1897)
• E. M. Forster, writer (1901)
• James Kenneth Stephen, poet, tutor to Prince Albert Victor (Eddy) and suspect for Jack the Ripper
• Desmond MacCarthy, newspaper critic
• Lytton Strachey, writer and critic (1902)
• James Strachey, translator of Freud
• Gordon Luce, scholar
• Robert Trevelyan, poet and translator (1893)
• Saxon Sydney-Turner, civil servant
• Francis Birrell, critic and journalist
• Leonard Woolf writer and publisher(~1902)
• J. T. Sheppard, classicist, provost of King's College (1902)
• John Maynard Keynes, economist, member of the House of Lords (1903)
• Rupert Brooke, poet (1908)
• Gerald Shove, economist (1909)
• Ferenc Békássy, Hungarian poet (1912)
• Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher (1912)
• F. L. Lucas, writer and critic (1914)

• Lionel Penrose (1920)
• R. B. Braithwaite, philosopher (1921)
• Frank P. Ramsey, philosopher (1921)
• Dadie Rylands (1922)
• Dennis Robertson, economist (1926)
• Dennis Proctor, classicist; later Sir Dennis Proctor; Permanent Secretary, UK Ministry of Power. (1927)
• Anthony Blunt, art adviser to the Queen, MI5 officer, KGB spy (1927)
• Julian Bell, poet (1928)
• Hugh Sykes Davies (1932)
• Guy Burgess, MI6 officer, KGB spy (1932)
• William Grey Walter (1933)
• Victor Rothschild, financier, member of the House of Lords (1933)
• D. G. Champernowne (1934)
• Alan Lloyd Hodgkin (1935)
• Michael Whitney Straight, American magazine publisher, member of the Whitney family, Presidential speechwriter (1936)
• Derek Prince (1938)
• Peter Shore, Labour politician (1947)
• Robin Gandy, mathematician (1947)
• Noel Annan, intelligence officer, provost of King's College, Cambridge, provost of University College, London, vice-chancellor of the University of London, member of the House of Lords (1948)
• Harry Gordon Johnson (1951)
• Eric Hobsbawm, historian
• Jonathan Miller, knighted; physician, comic, member of Beyond the Fringe, theatre and film director (~1957)
• Anthony Kelly, headmaster, professor of education, author (1979)
• Quentin Skinner, historian of political philosophy
• Lal Jayawardena, economist, diplomat
• Amartya Sen, prize winning economist and philosopher
• James Mirrlees, prize winning economist
• Geoffrey Lloyd, emeritus professor of classics at Cambridge; Master of Darwin College, Cambridge
• Partha Dasgupta, emeritus Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics at St John's College, Cambridge