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99 unusual facts about Cambridge


2010 KQ

It was given the asteroid designation 2010 KQ by the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who identified its orbit as being very similar to that of the Earth.

A. G. Steel

After his schooldays at Marlborough College, where he played cricket superbly, he proceeded to Trinity Hall, Cambridge.

A.J. Timothy Jull

He graduated from the University of Bristol in 1976 with a PhD in Geochemistry, doing postdoctoral work at Cambridge and the Max Planck Institute.

Adam Kwasman

Kwasman also worked in the United Kingdom for the RAND Corporation, assisting in their research of Islamic terrorism while studying at the Institute for Economics and Politics in Cambridge.

Adolf Muschg

Adolf Muschg studied German studies, English studies and philosophy at the universities of Zürich and Cambridge and earned his doctoral degree with a work about Ernst Barlach.

Al Worood Academy

Al Worood offers the following qualifications to high-school students: Cambridge IGCSE and Edexcel A-Levels; and is a center for the SAT and TOEFL tests.

Alexander Watt

In 1929, he became lecturer of forestry at this university and, when this undergraduate subject was given up, lecturer of forest botany – “a title which scarcely reflected his wide interest in and influence on plant ecology”.

Alfred Theodore MacConkey

MacConkey, the son of a West Derby minister, studied medicine at Cambridge and Guy's Hospital.

Amira Bennison

Dr Amira K. Bennison, a.k.a. Kate Bennison, is a historian of the Middle East, currently senior lecturer in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies in the University of Cambridge and fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge.

Angels We Have Heard on High

The carol quickly became popular in the West Country, where it was described as 'Cornish' by R.R. Chope, and featured in Pickard-Cambridge's Collection of Dorset Carols.

Artur Ekert

From 2002 until early 2007 he was the Leigh-Trapnell Professor of Quantum Physics at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University and a Professorial Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.

Beneficio di Cristo

The work was believed completely lost until a copy was rediscovered in England in the 19th century in St John's College, Cambridge.

Cambridge International School

Cambridge International School, Cambridge, an international school in Cambridgeshire, England

Cambridge Main Street Bridge

The Cambridge Main Street Bridge is a concrete bowstring arch bridge located in Cambridge, Ontario.

Cambridge Model European Council

The Cambridge Model European Council is an annual student-run conference based in the English city of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club

Although many are performed at the 228-seater ADC Theatre, where the Club is the resident performing company, recent venues have also included the Corpus Christi Playroom, The Octagon at St Chad’s, King's College Lawn and the Round Church.

Cambridge University Real Tennis Club

The Cambridge University Real Tennis Club is located on Grange Road, Cambridge, England.

Cambridge, Illinois

The Henry County Court House, designed by Thomas J. Tolan & Son, Architects, of Fort Wayne, Indiana (1875–1878), is the key architectural landmark of the village.

Cambridge, Ohio

Both Cambridge, Maryland and Cambridge, Massachusetts have been speculated by historians as having inspired the naming of the town.

Carlo von Erlanger

On his return to Europe he continued his studies at Cambridge and Berlin.

Chapbook

Many of the surviving chapbooks come from the collections of Samuel Pepys between 1661 and 1688 which are now held at Magdalene College, Cambridge.

Charles Feinstein

A fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, Feinstein was also associated with the universities of York, Harvard, Oxford and Cape Town in the course of a distinguished academic career.

Christ's College

Christ's College, Cambridge, one of the constituent Colleges of the University of Cambridge, England

Closure: A Short History of Everything

Radical theologian, Don Cuppitt, Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, described Closure as 'perhaps the first non-realist metaphysics'.

Colleges of the University of Cambridge

There are also several theological colleges in Cambridge (for example Ridley Hall, Wesley House, Westcott House and Westminster College) that are affiliated with the university through the Cambridge Theological Federation.

Congregational Board of Education

With liberalisation, the Congregationalists adapted their focus, and the Board reorganised the former Homerton Academy as New College, London and what became Homerton College, Cambridge.

Constance McKee

From 1990 to 1994, she was CEO of Cambridge Quantum Fund I, a seed venture fund at University of Cambridge.

David Lary

He then held post-doctoral research assistant and associate positions at the University of Cambridge until receiving a Royal Society research fellowship in 1996 (also at Cambridge).

David Looker

After his education at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, he went on to enjoy a playboy lifestyle during the 1930s.

Dr Charles James Fox

The late Dr. Fox not only gave his professional services gratuitously to every priest, but in former years, was in the habit of receiving into his house those clerics who did not reside in the metropolis and more especially the students of St. Edmund's College.

Edward Partridge

His forebears also include a number of notable Anglo-American religious leaders including the Rev. John Cotton, Dean of Emmanuel College, Cambridge who was the spiritual leader of the New England colonies; Rev. Solomon Stoddard, one of the most influential colonial ministers and the grandfather of the famous Rev. Jonathan Edwards and ancestor of United States Vice President Aaron Burr.

Electoral division of Rumney

The division covers an area of 1,516 km² and includes a number of outer Hobart localities including; Lauderdale, Rokeby, Cambridge, Sorell, Richmond.

Erich von Hornbostel

He moved first to Switzerland, then the United States, and finally to Cambridge in England, where he worked on an archive of non-European folk music recordings.

Fitzwilliam Sonatas

The term was applied by later editors to the original two sonatas as Handel wrote them, and was also expanded to encompass several other sonatas for various instruments included in the Handel autograph manuscripts held by the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.

Fylfot

In Cambridge it is found in the baptismal window of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, together with other allied Christian symbols, originating in the 19th century.

Gar Alperovitz

He is a former Fellow of King's College, Cambridge; a founding Fellow of Harvard’s Institute of Politics; a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies; and a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution.

Geoffrey Thorndike Martin

Geoffrey Thorndike Martin (born 28 May 1934) is an egyptologist, Edwards Professor of Egyptian Archaeology and Philology Emeritus, University College, London, Joint Field Director of the Amarna Royal Tombs Project and fellow commoner of Christ's College, Cambridge.

Green Line Coaches

The Transport Act 1980 deregulated coach services, and Green Line was able to expand services beyond its traditional area, to Cambridge (route 797), Oxford (routes 290 and 790, in conjunction with the Oxford Bus Company), Northampton and Brighton.

Hard Spell

Notable spellers apart from Gayathri included Nisha Abraham-Thomas from Wolverhampton, Mark Jackson from Cambridge, Dominic Harvey from Bath, Sarah Williams from Penzance, Jack Jarvis from Chesterfield and Anthony Collins from Barnes and Pierre Deschamps, who remarkably made the regional heat despite being from France and speaking English as a second language.

Harrie Massey

In 1929, with the benefit of another scholarship, Massey went to Trinity College, Cambridge to perform research at the Cavendish Laboratory led by Ernest Rutherford.

Harry A. Ironside

He suffered from failing vision, and after surgery to restore it, he set out on November 2, 1950, for a preaching tour of New Zealand, once more among Brethren assemblies, but died in Cambridge, New Zealand, on Jan 15, 1951 and was buried there.

Hydronym

An unusual example is the River Cam - it was originally called the Granta, but when the town of Grantebrycge became Cambridge, the river's name changed to match the toponym.

International Extension College

More commonly referred to as the IEC, the International Extension College is a defunct non-profit organization that was based in Cambridge in the UK.

James E. Ferrell

With Elizabeth J. Ferrell he has created an important archive of medieval manuscripts including the Vogüé codex of Guillaume de Machaut, currently on loan to Parker Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University.

James Martin Bell

He was admitted to the bar in 1817 and commenced practice in Cambridge, Ohio.

James Walston

He is educated at Eton and Jesus College, Cambridge (BA 1975, and PhD 1986) and the University of Rome, La Sapienza (Diploma di Perfezionamento, 1981).

John Bowlby

Bowlby studied psychology and pre-clinical sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge,

John Culver

Culver was the Lionel de Jersey Harvard Scholar at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, for a year following his tenure at Harvard College.

John Wallop, Viscount Lymington

Rev. Barton Wallop (3 January 1744 – 1 September 1781), married Camilla Powlett Smith in 1771 and had issue, Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge

Joseph Barret

His parents wished him to be apprenticed in London, but he preferred remaining at Nottingham, where he married Millicent, daughter of John Reyner, sometime fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

King's Hall

King's Hall, Cambridge - former college in the University of Cambridge, England

Lanckoroński Foundation

Lanckoroński Foundation is Zygmunt Jan Ansgary Tyszkiewicz (CMG) of Cambridge, England.

Leslie Barnett

In 1966 she was appointed Senior Tutor at the new graduate college, Clare Hall, Cambridge.

Life on Mars

In 1854, William Whewell, a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, who popularized the word scientist, theorized that Mars had seas, land and possibly life forms.

Louise Fryer

After attending Clare College, Cambridge, where she read anthropology, Fryer briefly worked as an actress.

Mark Saggers

As a schoolboy, he was a regular on the Newmarket Road End terrace at Cambridge United Football Club.

Marshall Library of Economics

In his honour, the expanded collection was named "The Marshall Library of Economics", and moved to larger quarters on Downing Street.

Maso da San Friano

His altarpiece of the Visitation was painted in 1560 for the church of San Pier Maggiore of Florence - now in Trinity Hall Chapel, Cambridge, England.

Max Rayne

In 1964 Darwin College, Cambridge was founded with support from the Rayne Foundation and a personal donation from Rayne himself, and this is acknowledged by the college in two notable ways: Firstly, on the college's coat of arms, which superimposes Rayne's coat of arms alongside that of the Darwin family's where the college gains its namesake.

Michael D. Towler

Michael D. Towler (also referred to as Mike Towler, complete name Michael David Towler) is a British theoretical physicist associated with the Cavendish Laboratory of the University of Cambridge and currently research associate at University College, London and College Lecturer at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Minnesota State Highway 107

It is geographically located between the cities of Cambridge and Hinckley in east-central Minnesota and parallels Interstate 35 and State Highway 65 throughout its route.

Montagu Bacon

He was admitted a fellow-commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1704-5, but seems to have taken no degree until the year 1734, when he proceeded M.A. per literas regias, in which he is styled 'Edvardi primi comitis de Sandwich ex filiâ nepos.'

Muzaffar Khan

Racing Towards Excellence funds the non-profit website Oxbridge Admissions Info, which provides advice to students looking to apply to Oxford and Cambridge Universities.

Oliver Crosthwaite-Eyre

Educated at Downside School and Trinity College, Cambridge, he attained the rank of Colonel in the Royal Marines in 1945, following which he embarked upon a political career.

Pampisford

The sculptor Antony Gormley lived in a cottage here whilst an undergraduate of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Patrick Parrinder

Patrick Parrinder (born 1944) is an academic, currently Professor of English at the School of English and American Literature at the University of Reading, having been educated at Leighton Park School before going on to King's College, Cambridge.

Petroconsultants

At its peak in the 1980s, Petroconsultants had some 200 major clients and offices in Dublin, Cambridge, London, Houston, Singapore and Sydney.

Popski's Private Army

He was privately educated in Belgium and went up to St John's College, Cambridge, becoming an ardent Anglophile, influenced by Bertrand Russell.

Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia

After the fall of monarchy in Yugoslavia he went to exile in London, where after graduating in mathematics from Clare College, Cambridge University, he became an insurance broker.

Richard Grove

His interdisciplinary training includes a BA in Geography from Oxford University (1979), MSc in Conservation Biology from University College London (1980) and a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge (1988).

Royal Porthcawl Golf Club

In March 2010 it hosted the University Golf Match, contested between Oxford and Cambridge universities, with Oxford winning 9-6 over Cambridge.

Scania N112

These included nine single-deck versions with Wadham Stringer Vanguard bodywork; the double-deckers were bodied by Marshall of Cambridge.

Simon Lepper

Born in Canterbury, Lepper read music at King's College, Cambridge and studied piano accompaniment with Michael Dussek at the Royal Academy of Music.

So You Think

He was bred by M J Moran & Piper Farm Ltd and foaled at the Windsor Park Stud in Cambridge, New Zealand.

Somak Raychaudhury

He then proceeded to obtain a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, as a member of Churchill College, Cambridge, in 1990, supported by an Isaac Newton Studentship.

Spencer Austen-Leigh

Another brother, Augustus, was a Provost of King's College, Cambridge.

St Bride's Church, Glasgow

His recent work had included St Salvador’s Church in Dundee, the Chapel at Queens' College, Cambridge, and St. Mary's Church in Eccleston, Cheshire, which bears a strong resemblance to St. Bride's.

St. Edmund's College

St Edmund's College, Cambridge, a constituent college of the University of Cambridge

Stephen Batman

Afterwards Archbishop Parker selected him as one of his domestic chaplains, and employed him in the collection of the library now deposited in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

Stephen Gomersall

Sir Stephen Gomersall, KCMG was educated at Forest School, Snaresbrook and Queens' College, Cambridge.

Stephen Kinnock

After attending Drayton Manor High School, and having achieved a degree in Modern Languages from Queens' College, University of Cambridge and an MA from the College of Europe in 1993, Stephen Kinnock worked as a research assistant at the European Parliament in Brussels before becoming a British Council Development and Training Services executive based in Brussels from 1997.

Tay Bee Aye

As she could not afford herself an art education, art took a backseat, and she joined the workforce soon after finishing her Cambridge GCE O Level Examinations, to help support her family.

Terence English

He was President of the Royal College of Surgeons 1989-92, Master of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, 1993–2000.

The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James

Montague Rhodes James (1862–1936) was a medieval scholar; Provost of King's College, Cambridge.

The Moneypenny Diaries: Guardian Angel

It was also claimed that Westbrook was a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, however, the college replied stating no such person was in employment there.

Thorrington

The striking medieval flint church is dedicated to Mary Magdalene, and the patrons of the church are St John's College, Cambridge.

Thurning, Norfolk

In 1823, the church gained the furnishings of the old chapel of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, when that was demolished.

Tom Copson

His first release since securing a deal with UK-based independent label Chiwawa Records was a live acoustic EP, which was recorded in his home town of Cambridge, entitled Tom Copson – Live at CB2.

University college

Wolfson College, Cambridge was named University College from its foundation in 1965 until its endowment by the Wolfson Foundation in 1972.

Vanessa Mock

She was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University and graduated with a joint honours degree in French and German.

Victor Stiebel

Born in Durban he arrived in Britain in 1924 to study architecture at Jesus College, Cambridge.

Wacław Iwaniuk

Educated in Warsaw and Cambridge, England, a poet, literary critic and essayist for various Polish émigré newspapers in Canada and abroad.

Walter Rosenhain

Rosenhain then did three years research work with Professor James Alfred Ewing at St John's College, Cambridge.

Wendy, Cambridgeshire

The double hammer-beam roof over the name was taken from the recently dismantled church of All Saints in the Jewry that stood opposite Trinity College in Cambridge.

Wilfrid Young

He went to Selwyn College, Cambridge University, and played in a trial match for the Cambridge cricket team, but did not make any first-team appearances.

William Flete

He was an English mystic, and lived in the latter half of the fourteenth century; educated at Cambridge, he afterwards joined the Austin Friars in England.

William S. Rukeyser

He also studied English literature as a graduate student at Christ's College, Cambridge University.

William Wentworth-FitzWilliam, Viscount Milton

Milton was the eldest son of William Wentworth-FitzWilliam, 6th Earl FitzWilliam, and his wife Lady Frances Harriet, daughter of George Douglas, 17th Earl of Morton, and was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.

Winchester Troper

One can be found in Oxford, in the Bodleian Library (MS Bodley 775), the other in Corpus Christi, Cambridge (MS473), but were copied out at, and originally used at Winchester Cathedral.


Alice Goodman

She was educated at Harvard University and Cambridge where she studied English and American literature.

Alpha Beta Christian College

It is located in Dansoman, Accra, Ghana, and offers the Cambridge International Programmes IGCSE (International General Certificate of Secondary Education) and A-Levels.

Archibald Hill

Hill returned to Cambridge in 1919 before taking the chair in physiology at the Victoria University of Manchester in 1920.

Battle of Muret

Laurence Marvin, "The Occitan War: A Military and Political History of the Albigensian Crusade, 1209-1218", Berry College: Cambridge University Press, 2008, 175-195.

Cambridge Greek Play

The history of the early years may be found in P. E. Easterling's The Early Years of the Cambridge Greek Play: 1883–1912.

Cambridge Gulf

King named the gulf after the His Royal Highness the Viceroy of Hanover who was also the Duke of Cambridge at that time, as well as being Prince Adolphus.

Catherine Cesarsky

She graduated with a PhD in Astronomy in 1971 from Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass., USA), and for several years worked at the California Institute of Technology.

Charles Edward Moss

Albert Charles Seward, Professor of Botany at Cambridge and a Syndic at the Press, supported Moss, but both eventually reluctantly accepted the Press's preferences.

Choral scholar

This is a common practice in the UK at schools attached to cathedrals where the choir is the Cathedral Choir, and at Oxford and Cambridge University Colleges, many of which have famous choirs.

Chorus of Westerly

The sessions have been directed over the past two decades by Richard Marlow (former organist and choirmaster of Trinity College, Cambridge), Sir David Willcocks (former choirmaster of King's College, Cambridge and The Bach Choir, London), Herbert Bock, and most recently by David Hill (of the BBC Singers, the Bach Choir) and James Litton (former director of the American Boychoir).

Christian Reus-Smit

At present, he is co-editor (with Nicholas J. Wheeler) of the Cambridge Studies in International Relations book series, and co-editor (with Duncan Snidal and Alexander Wendt) of the journal "International Theory".

Club Passim

Bonnie Raitt chose to attend Radcliffe College in Cambridge in order to be near Club 47, though the club closed temporarily after her first year as a student (1967).

Connection Machine

Danny Hillis and Sheryl Handler founded Thinking Machines in Waltham, Massachusetts (it was later moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts) in 1983 and assembled a team to develop the CM-1 Connection Machine.

Edward Martell

After receiving his Ph. D., he became a group leader at the Fermi Institute for Nuclear Studies at the University of Chicago and also took up a position at the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratory in Bedford, Massachusetts.

Emmanuel Levinas

Simon Critchley and Robert Bernasconi (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Levinas (2002).

Erich Bagge

From June to December 1945, Bagge was (together with Kurt Diebner, Walther Gerlach, Otto Hahn, Paul Harteck, Werner Heisenberg, Horst Korsching, Max von Laue, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, and Karl Wirtz) detained at Farm Hall near Cambridge, England.

Frank Lee

Frank Godbould Lee (1903–1971), British public servant and Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

Geoffrey Darks

Not usually a productive batsman, with six single-figure scores in his eight innings (albeit three of those not out), he did however make 39 against Cambridge in the same match in late June 1950 in which he took his final wicket, that of David Sheppard.

Gnomic poetry

Easterling, P.E. (series editor), Bernard M.W. Knox (editor), Cambridge History of Classical Literature, v.I, Greek Literature, 1985.

Gordon Dougan

Professor Gordon Dougan is Head of Pathogen Research and a member of the Board of Management at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (WTSI) in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Harold M. Westergaard

Harold Malcolm Westergaard (9 October 1888 Copenhagen, Denmark – 22 June 1950 Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA).

Il pesceballo

One evening George Martin Lane was trying to make his way to Cambridge, MA, from Boston.

James Henry Carleton

General Carleton died, serving with the Fourth Cavalry Regiment in his permanent rank of Lieutenant Colonel, at age 59 in January 7, 1873, in San Antonio, Texas, and is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts; his son, Henry was later buried beside him.

James Jurin

He had studied under Roger Cotes and William Whiston at Cambridge but only came to know Newton at the Royal Society, where Jurin was Secretary towards the end of Newton's Presidency.

James Whitbourn

In 2005, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with the Choir of Clare College Cambridge, under Leonard Slatkin, premiered his largest choral work Annelies, a setting of the Diary of Anne Frank, at London's Cadogan Hall to wide critical acclaim.

Jonathan Steinberg

He was co-editor of The Historical Journal, Cambridge University Press, from 1990 to 2000 and his biography Bismarck: A Life was published by Oxford University Press in early April, 2011.

Kesh Recordings

Kesh Recordings is a UK record label, specializing in eclectic global music and sound art, curated by Cambridge based musician Simon Scott.

KLRN

San Antonio operations were based at a satellite studio at Cambridge Elementary School until 1968, when it moved to rented space at the Institute of Texan Cultures on the HemisFair grounds.

Lechmere Square

The area is now best known for the CambridgeSide Galleria, one of the few full-fledged interior shopping malls within the city limits of Boston and Cambridge, which is on the site of the original Lechmere store (and, when built, incorporated a newly built Lechmere Sales store as one of its anchor tenants).

Lord's Bridge railway station

The long and level stretch of line, the nearest suitable abandoned line to Cambridge, was ideal for the Observatory's CLFST, AMI, One-Mile and Ryle rail-mounted radio-telescopes which move along a 4.8 km length of track of approximately 20 ft gauge.

Multics Emacs

Multics Emacs was an implementation of the Emacs text editor written in Maclisp by Bernard Greenberg at Honeywell's Cambridge Information Systems Lab.

Oliver Everett

Everett was educated at St Aubyn's Preparatory School Woodford Green Essex having been Captain of the 1st XVFelsted, the Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, Ohio and at Christ's CollegeCambridge, and he has a masters degree in international relations from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and did post-graduate work in international relations at the London School of Economics.

Quentin Compson

A plaque on the Anderson Memorial Bridge (commonly but incorrectly called Larz Anderson Bridge) over the Charles River in Cambridge, Massachusetts, commemorates his life and death.

Ramesh Kumar Nibhoria

He was invited to the Al Gore lecture on climate change at Cambridge University.

Remo Ruffini

R. Giacconi e Remo Ruffini, Physics and Astrophysics of Neutron Stars and Black Holes 2nd edition, Cambridge Scientific Publishers, Cambridge (2009)

Richard Janko

(G.S. Kirk, series editor) The Iliad. A Commentary. 4: Books 13–16 (Cambridge, 1994)

Richard Risby

12, together with Elizabeth Barton, Edward Bocking, Hugh Rich, warden of the Observant friary at Richmond, John Dering, B.D. (Oxon.), Benedictine of Christ Church, Canterbury, Henry Gold, M.A. (St.John's College, Cambridge), parson of St. Mary Aldermanbury, London, and vicar of Hayes, Middlesex and Richard Master M.A. (King's College, Oxon)rector of Aldington, Kent, who was pardoned; but by some oversight Master's name is included and Risby's omitted in the catalogue of praetermissi.

Sinan Savaskan

Sinan Savaskan was the Music Director and Composer for Oedipus Rex, University of Cambridge’s triennial production performed entirely in classical Greek at Performances at Arts Theatre, Cambridge, 11–16 October 2004; featuring a distinguished production team including Director Annie Castledine and Royal National Theatre’s Designer Stephen Brimson-Lewis.

Solluba

Cambridge linguist and anthropologist Roger Blench sees the Solubba as the last survivors of Palaeolithic hunters and salt-traders who once dominated Arabia.

Step test

Sixth Term Examination Paper, an examination set by the University of Cambridge to assess potential undergraduate mathematics applicants.

Thierry Bogaert

He obtained a PhD at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Medical Research Council, (Cambridge, United Kingdom).

Tin Tut

Dulwich and Cambridge educated Tin Tut was the first Burmese to become an Indian Civil Service officer.

Vincent R. Gray

Gray has a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Cambridge University after studies on incendiary bomb fluids made from aluminium soaps.

Yorick Blumenfeld

He lives in Cambridge and is married to the sculptor Helaine Blumenfeld.