Browne, Rev. Richard Lewis
(male)
1811 - 1884
English
King's College, Cambridge
Curate of Beeding; published Sussex Sermons (1854).
Browning, Oscar
(male)
01/17/1837 - 10/06/1923
English
King's College, Cambridge
Teacher, historian; taught at Eton and at King's College; known as educational reformer; wrote histories.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Churton, William Ralph
(male)
1837 - 05/24/1897
English
King's College, Cambridge
D.D. Trin. College, Hartford, Connecticut; ordained priest 1861; author of The influence of the Septuagint version of the Old Testament (1861) and other works. See Boase IV: 664-5.
Coleridge, Henry Nelson
(male)
10/25/1798 - 01/26/1843
English
King's College, Cambridge
Barrister and writer; wrote Six Months in the West Indies (1826), Table Talk [conversation of Samuel Taylor Coleridge] (1835); wrote for the Quarterly Review and the British Critic. See ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Colton, Charles Caleb
(male)
12/11/1777 - 04/28/1832
English
King's College, Cambridge
A cleric, art collector, and gambler who wrote many epigrammatic aphorisms. his best-known work, Lacon, or, Many Things in Few Words Addressed to those who Think, was published in 1820. See ODNB.
Creasy, Edward Shepherd
(male)
09/12/1812 - 01/27/1878
English
King's College, Cambridge
English historian and barrister; wrote for Bentley's Miscellany; chief justice of Ceylon; prominent whig; wrote works on English Constitution (1848 and 1853), Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World (1851). See Boase I: 757, ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Hodgson, Rev. Francis
(male)
11/16/1781 - 12/29/1852
English
King's College, Cambridge
College head, cleric, and poet; frequent contributor of reviews, verses, and translations to periodicals; friend of Byron; poetic works include Lady Jane Grey (1809) and Leaves of Laurel (1812). See Boase I: 1495, ODNB.
Lock, Benjamin Fossett
(male)
1847 - 1922
unknown
King's College, Cambridge
Barrister and judge; wrote The three Fs, or, The Irish land question, past, present, and future (1881), and other works.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Matthews, Henry
(male)
06/21/1789 - 05/20/1828
English
King's College, Cambridge
Judge and traveller; published The Diary of an Invalid (1820). See ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Pearson, Karl
(male)
03/27/1857 - 04/27/1936
English
King's College, Cambridge; University of Heidelberg
Mathematician and Statistician; accomplished historian and Germanist; taught at University College, London; wrote The Moral Basis of Socialism (1887), . A Mathematical Theory of Random Migration (1906), and many other works.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Prothero, Sir George Walter
(male)
10/14/1848 - 07/10/1922
English
King's College, Cambridge; University of Bonn
Historian and journalist; president of the Royal Historical Society; professor of Modern History at the University of Edinburgh; editor of the Quarterly Review.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Smith, Philip Vernon
(male)
01/16/1845 - 01/10/1929
English
King's College, Cambridge
Ecclesiastical lawyer and authority on church history; wrote History of the English Institutions, The Law of Churchwardens and Sidesmen in the 20th Century, and other works; Chancellor of the diocese of Manchester. See his obituary in the Cheltenham Chronicle, 12 January 1829.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Sumner, John Bird
(male)
02/25/1780 - 09/06/1862
English
King's College, Cambridge
Archbishop of Canterbury; wrote Apostolic Preaching Considered in an Examination of St Paul's Epistles (1815) and A Treatise of the Records of Creation and the Moral Attributes of the Creator (1816). See Boase III: 829-30, ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)