Badham, Charles David
(male)
08/27/1805 - 07/14/1857
English
Emmanuel College, Cambridge; Pembroke College, Cambridge
Naturalist; wrote Insect Life (1845), other works; contributed to Blackwood's Mag. And Fraser's Mag.; date of birth corrected from Wellesley. See Boase I: 123, ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Black, Robert
(male)
05/14/1829 - 04/08/1915
English
Christ's Hospital, London; Pembroke College, Cambridge
Writer, journalist, translator; wrote about horse racing and translated Francois Guizot's Popular History of France; contributed to Cornhill, the Athenaeum, Macmillan's, and other periodicals.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Calvert, Reverend William
(male)
1818 - 02/01/1880
English
Pembroke College, Cambridge
Minor Canon of St. Paul's; wrote The Wife's Manual (1854) Pneuma, or the Wandering Soul: A Parable in Rhyme and Outline (1856). See Boase I: 521.
Earwaker, John Parsons
(male)
04/22/1847 - 01/29/1895
English
Owens College; Pembroke College, Cambridge; Merton College, Oxford
Historian and antiquarian; deputy-keeper of the Ashmolean Museum.
Elwin, Warwick
(male)
1849 - 06/03/1908
English
Pembroke College, Cambridge
English cleric; curate of Beckenham, Kent (1884-92), vicar of St. Andrew, Worthing (1892-1900), rector of Booton, Norfolk (1900-07); wrote Absolution in the Bible: a Study of Evidences (1883), The Minister of Baptism (1890).
Jeaffreson, John Cordy
(male)
01/14/1831 - 02/02/1901
English
Pembroke College, Cambridge
Lecturer in English Literature; barrister; journalist writing for the Athenaeum; wrote a series of three-decker novels.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Maine, Henry James Sumner
(male)
08/15/1822 - 02/03/1888
English
Pembroke College, Cambridge
Jurist and journalist; member of the Apostles; professor of civil law; called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn; contributed to the Morning Chronicle; founding editor of the Saturday Review; wrote Ancient Law (1861); vice-chancellor of the University of Calcutta. See Boase II: 698, ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Maltby, Edward
(male)
04/06/1770 - 07/03/1859
English
Pembroke College, Cambridge
Bishop of Durham; fellow of University of London; wrote Illustrations of the Truth of the Christian Religion (1802), other works. See Boase II: 713, ODNB.
Norris, Henry Handley
(male)
01/14/1771 - 12/04/1850
English
Pembroke College, Cambridge
Church of England cleric; pre-Tractarian tory high-churchman; wrote A Manual for the Parish Priest (1815) and A Pastor's Legacy (1851); leader of the Hackney Phalanx, a group of high-church friends; active in the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; co-owner of the British Critic. See ODNB.
Row, Rev. Charles Adolphus
(male)
07/20/1816 - 11/24/1896
English
Pembroke College, Cambridge
Cleric and schoolmaster; prebendary of St. Pauls; wrote The Nature and Extent of Divine Inspiration (1864), Christian Evidence in Relation to Modern Thought (1877) and other works. See Boase III: 320-1.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Soane, George
(male)
11/28/1789 - 07/12/1860
English
Pembroke College, Cambridge
Novelist, playwright, and poet; wrote Specimens of German Romance (1826), The Night Dancers, an Opera (1846), and other works. Delete 1790 as year of birth; ODNB identifies the dob. as 28 Nov. 1789, followed by baptism on 18 Dec. 1789. See Boase III: 663.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Venables, Edmund
(male)
07/05/1819 - 03/05/1895
English
Pembroke College, Cambridge
Cleric and antiquary; chaplain to Bishop of London; wrote histories of churches, History of the Isle of Wight (1860), other works. See Boase III: 1084-5, ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)