Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
(male)
10/21/1772 - 07/24/1834
English
Christ's Hospital, London; Jesus College, Cambridge
Romantic poet and Christian philosopher; collaborated with Wordsworth on Lyrical Ballads; wrote Ryme of the Ancient Marriner, Christabel, Kubla Khan. See ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Halliwell-Phillipps, James Orchard
(male)
06/21/1820 - 01/03/1889
English
Trinity College, Cambridge; Jesus College, Cambridge
Shakespearean critic; projected Cambridge Antiquarian Society; wrote Life of William Shakespeare (1848) and other works. See Boase I: 1295.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Metcalfe, Frederick
(male)
1815 - 08/24/1885
English
St. John's College, Cambridge; Jesus College, Cambridge
Divine, Scandinavian scholar; wrote The Oxonian in Norway (1856), History of German Literature (1858), The Oxonian in Iceland (1861) and other works. See Boase II: 856-7.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Otter, William
(male)
10/23/1768 - 08/20/1840
English
Jesus College, Cambridge
Bishop of Chichester; friend of and writer on Thomas Malthus; first principle of King's College, London. See ODNB.
Rowe, Samuel
(male)
11/11/1793 - 09/15/1853
English
Jesus College, Cambridge
Bookseller, antiquarian, and cleric; Vicar of Crediton, Devon; co-publisher of the Plymouth Literary Magazine; write Perambulation of Dartmoor (1848). See Boase III: 327, ODNB.
Shipley, Orby
(male)
07/01/1832 - 07/05/1916
English
Jesus College, Cambridge
Cleric and liturgical scholar; curate of St. Alban the Martyr, Holborn, London; wrote extensively on religious topics; became a Roman Catholic in 1878. See ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Venables, Georg Stovin
(male)
06/18/1810 - 10/06/1888
English
Jesus College, Cambridge
Barrister; wrote extensively for The Saturday Review; wrote for the Times; wrote poems; said to be the original of George Warrington in Thackeray's Pendennis. See Boase III: 1085, ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Woodham, Henry Annesley
(male)
1813 - 03/16/1875
English
Jesus College, Cambridge
Journalist and leader writer for the Times; wrote An Application of Heraldry to the Illustration of Various University and College Antiquities (1846); contributed to Edinburgh Review. See Boase III: 1484-5, ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)