Cambridge University

ASB 's father, barrister John Frederick Drabble , was also a Cambridge graduate. He began writing novels in his retirement. He died in 1982. ASB grew up in an intellectual environment; her parents valued art...

MP 's father, the Rev. Roger Griffith, had attended both Oxford and Cambridge universities. He was rector of the Buckingham parish of Padbury, and probably Master of the Royal Latin (Free) School in Buckingham...

During play he was hit by a ball which may have been partly responsible for his sudden illness. On the day of his funeral, play was suspended for a few minutes in his honour during...

When the couple's son James was admitted to Cambridge University , his late father was named as gentleman of Combe Sydenham.

During his early life John Hartley remained at home (as opposed to the usual middle-class practice of sending sons to boarding school), and the Hartleys at first employed a nursery governess to educate him.

RM 's father was appointed to a Lectureship in English at Cambridge University , and the family moved to Great Shelford, four miles from Cambridge.

JEH began a close academic and personal relationship with Cambridge classical scholar R. A. Neil . Her later companion Hope Mirrlees suggested that at the time of Neil's death in 1901 these two were engaged.

AS met her longtime partner Sarah Wood at Cambridge University in the 1980s. Wood, now a documentary filmmaker with a focus on the found object, collaborated with Smith on theatrical projects, mounting original...

When she returned to London from Crete after an intensive spell of literary work, RP married Myles Burnyeat , a Cambridge professor of ancient philosophy.

Classics lecturer JEH met her student and later close companion, Hope Mirrlees , at Newnham College , Cambridge .

Derwent lost his faith in orthodox Anglicanism for some years following his time at Cambridge but regained it after meeting his wife, and became an advocate of a broad theological approach. As an Anglican clergyman...

Patrick Brontë was an Irish protestant from a large, respectable farming family of limited means. He took to books from an early age, opened a school for the gentry at the age of sixteen, became...

Frances's father, Francis Darwin , later Sir Francis, was a Cambridge botanist. He had earlier worked as an assistant and secretary to his father, Charles Darwin . His niece Gwen thought him the most...

Patrick Brontë was an Irish protestant from a large respectable farming family of limited means. He took to books from an early age, opened a school for the gentry at the age of sixteen, became...

He had attended Cambridge , where he rowed for the University. The first years of their union seem to have been happy.