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    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.)

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