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John Couch Adams

1819–1892 (age 73)

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John Couch Adams ( KOOTCH; 5 June 1819 – 21 January 1892) was a British mathematician and astronomer.

Henry Richards Luard

1825–1891 (age 66)

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Henry Richards Luard (25 August 1825 – 1 May 1891) was a British medieval historian and antiquary.

Richard Claverhouse Jebb

1841–1905 (age 64)

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Harry Marshall Ward

1854–1906 (age 52)

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Harry Marshall Ward was a botanist who helped pioneer the study of plant diseases.

Alfred Newton

1829–1907 (age 78)

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Charles Taylor

1840–1908 (age 68)

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Cecil Bendall

1856–1906 (age 50)

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Cecil Bendall was a photographer who observed his subjects with thoughtful care.

Robert Burn

1829–1904 (age 75)

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John E. B. Mayor

1825–1910 (age 85)

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John E. B. Mayor was a classicist and Esperantist who championed education and international friendship.

Walter William Skeat

1835–1912 (age 77)

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Robert Stawell Ball

1840–1913 (age 73)

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Robert Stawell Ball brought the wonders of astronomy to countless readers and students.

W. H. Besant

1828–1917 (age 89)

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William Aldis Wright

1831–1914 (age 83)

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William Aldis Wright was a renowned literary scholar and editor who enriched the study of great texts.

Henry Melvill Gwatkin

1844–1916 (age 72)

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Basil Edward Hammond

1842–1916 (age 74)

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Basil Edward Hammond devoted his career to the thoughtful study of history and political ideas.

Robert Williams Michell

1863–1916 (age 53)

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William Loudon Mollison

1851–1929 (age 78)

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William Loudon Mollison was a 19th and early 20th-century mathematician whose intellectual work contributed to the advan...

John Bascombe Lock

1849–1921 (age 72)

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John Bascombe Lock helped generations of learners through careful textbook writing.

Charles Wood

1866–1926 (age 60)

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Charles Wood was an accomplished English composer who made significant contributions to British classical music.

John Edwin Sandys

1844–1922 (age 78)

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John Edwin Sandys enriched the study of the classics and guided many younger scholars with unwavering dedication.

W. W. Rouse Ball

1850–1925 (age 75)

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W. W. Rouse Ball was a distinguished mathematician and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, known for his contributions...

William Halse Rivers Rivers

1864–1922 (age 58)

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William Halse Rivers Rivers was a pioneering psychiatrist and anthropologist whose thoughtful care brought comfort to ma...

A. C. Benson

1862–1925 (age 63)

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A. C. Benson was a prolific English writer and Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, known for his essays and literary...

Horace Darwin

1851–1928 (age 77)

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Horace Darwin's inventive spirit propelled precision engineering forward and supported Cambridge's scientific community.

George Downing Liveing

1827–1924 (age 97)

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George Downing Liveing was a distinguished chemist and Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, who advanced chemical sc...

Florence Henrietta Darwin

1864–1920 (age 56)

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Florence Henrietta Darwin chronicled the lives around her with insight and compassion, leaving lasting impressions on re...

Henry Jackson

1839–1921 (age 82)

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Henry Jackson was a renowned classical scholar and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, who shaped the study of ancient...

Henry Martyn Taylor

1842–1927 (age 85)

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Henry Martyn Taylor sustained Cambridge's mathematical tradition through both his scholarship and his abiding kindness.

Arthur Hutchinson

1866–1937 (age 71)

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Joseph Robson Tanner

1860–1931 (age 71)

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Historian who preserved academic lives with meticulous care.

John Buckley Bradbury

1841–1930 (age 89)

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Margaret Heitland

1860–1938 (age 78)

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Champion of women's suffrage whose courage inspired continued reform.

Ethel Skeat

1865–1939 (age 74)

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John Reynolds Wardale

1859–1931 (age 72)

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Patient teacher who inspired students through kindness and high standards.

Frank P. Ramsey

1903–1930 (age 27)

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Ernest William Hobson

1856–1933 (age 77)

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Charlotte Scott

1858–1931 (age 73)

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Alfred Ewing

1855–1935 (age 80)

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Horace Lamb

1849–1934 (age 85)

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Donald MacAlister

1854–1934 (age 80)

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William Emerton Heitland

1847–1935 (age 88)

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James George Frazer

1854–1941 (age 87)

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James George Frazer was a pioneering anthropologist whose comparative studies transformed the study of myths and religio...

Arthur Eddington

1882–1944 (age 62)

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Frederick Hopkins

1861–1947 (age 86)

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Frederick Hopkins was a physician and Nobel laureate who pioneered the understanding of vitamins and nutrition.

Frederick Blackman

1866–1947 (age 81)

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Fredegond Shove

1889–1949 (age 60)

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Fredegond Shove was a British writer whose quiet poems explored faith and feeling.

Gerald Shove

1887–1947 (age 60)

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Hugh Newall

1857–1944 (age 87)

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Norman McLean

1865–1947 (age 82)

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Norman McLean was a biblical scholar respected for his rigorous study and teaching.

Sir Alfred Tebbitt

1870–1941 (age 71)

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