Cambridge University

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 in his teens, became a gentleman's tutor, and finally...

AJ 's husband John Jebb resigned his Church of England preferments including his Cambridge lectureship.

WE is said to have fallen in love while at Cambridge with members of both sexes. Someone informed on him for possessing condoms (which was then unacceptable to the authorities), and according to his biographer...

Another of JEH 's associates during this period was Roman studies scholar Eugénie Sellers . Both women had been students at Cambridge (though not quite simultaneously) and both appeared in 1883 in a London production...

Millicent Garrett , aged nineteen, married the blind radical MP Henry Fawcett , aged thirty-four, who was also Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge .

DM 's father, Ralph Cudworth , was a Professor of Hebrew, Master of two successive Cambridge colleges, leader of the Cambridge Platonist group of philosophers, and author of The True Intellectual System of the Universe...

RS 's sister, Karin , was one of the first Freudian psychoanalysts. She became the first woman at Cambridge to receive a Star, or Distinction, in Philosophy. She married Adrian Stephen , Virginia Woolf 's younger brother.

Philippa attended Newnham College (the women's college founded by the efforts of her parents) and was marked higher than any other final-year student in mathematics at Cambridge in 1890, embarrassing the university since the title...

Another aunt, Pernel Strachey , was Principal of Newnham College (one of Cambridge 's two colleges for women) from 1923 to 1941.

Leslie Stephen 's daughter from his previous marriage, Laura (1868-1934), suffered from some form of mental disability and lived most of her life in institutions.Julia Stephen had three children from her first marriage...

The next brother, Charles , was expelled from Cambridge University for stealing books from the library, but eventually became respected as a clergyman and a scholar.

After attending Cambridge University , David Alfred Thomas , Margaret's father, became a Liberal Member of Parliament, representing Merthyr Tydfil from 1888 to 1910.

Soon after HM arrived at Newnham , she and Harrison began to develop a personal relationship. Frequently corresponding by letter whether they were both present in Cambridge or not, the two formulated an exclusive, fantastic...

Virginia Stephen flirted mildly with and received proposals from a number of men, all Cambridge contemporaries of her brother Thoby .

Elizabeth was brought up in the house of her maternal grandfather, William Chaderton , Bishop of Lincoln, until his death in April 1608. He was a learned man, having held various positions at Cambridge University