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Master of Trinity College, Cambridge

Beaumont, Robert, d. 1567

  • GB-2014-WSA-02933
  • Person
  • d. 1567

BEAUMONT, ROBERT, of Leicestershire; b.; at school under Adams (DNB); Peterhouse, Cambridge; BA 1543/4; MA 1550; BD 1560; DD 1564; Fellow of Peterhouse 1550; adm. Gray’s Inn 1541; resided at Zurich during reign of Queen Mary; Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity, Cambridge, 1559-61; ordained priest (Ely) 7 Jul 1560; Archdeacon of Huntingdon from 11 Oct 1560; Master of Trinity Coll. Cambridge from 25 Aug 1561; Vice-Chancellor, Cambridge Univ., 1564-5, 1566-7; collated to a Canonry of Ely 15 Nov 1564; a prominent figure in the Calvinistic movement at Cambridge against Parker’s ordinances; d. 6 Jun 1567. DNB.

Hinchliffe, John, ca. 1732-1794

  • GB-2014-WSA-09284
  • Person
  • ca. 1732-1794

HINCHLIFFE, JOHN, son of Joseph Hinchliffe, Swallow Street, Westminster, livery stable keeper, and Elizabeth Mantle; b.; adm. (aged 9) Jul 1741; KS 1746; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1750, adm. pens. 14 Jun 1750, scholar 26 Apr 1751, matr. 1750/1; BA 1754; MA 1757; DD 1764; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1755, Major Fellow 6 Jul 1757; ordained deacon 28 Dec 1756, priest 19 May 1757 (both Ely); Usher at the School by 1755, apparently holding appointment for seven years; travelling tutor to his future brother-in-law John Crewe, 1st Baron Crewe (qv), on Grand Tour in Germany, Italy and Switzerland 1761-3; Head Master, Westminster School 8 Mar – Jun 1764, resigning on grounds of health; tutor to William, 5th Duke of Devonshire 1764-6; he had made the friendship of Augustus, 3rd Duke of Grafton, the future Prime Minister, when in Italy in 1762, and he owed his principal subsequent preferments to him; Vicar of Greenwich, Kent 1766-9; Master of Trinity Coll. Cambridge 16 Feb 1768-89; Vice-Chancellor, Cambridge Univ. 1768-9; Chaplain in Ordinary to George III 1768-9; consecrated Bishop of Peterborough 17 Dec 1769; offended the Government by his liberal speeches in the House of Lords, and while retaining his bishopric, was required to resign the Mastership of Trinity, in exchange for being appointed Dean of Durham; Dean of Durham from 16 Oct 1788; m. 16 May 1767 Elizabeth, sister of John Crewe, 1st Baron Crewe (qv); d. 11 Jan 1794. DNB.

Huxley, Andrew Fielding, 1917-2012

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  • Person
  • 1917-2012

Huxley, Sir Andrew Fielding, brother of David Bruce Huxley (qv); b. 22 Nov. 1917; adm. Sert. 1930 (A), non-res. KS Sept. 1931; left July 1935; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1935 (open schol.), BA 1938 (1st class hons Nat. Sci. Trip. Pts 1 & 2), MA 1945; Fellow of Trinity 1941; operational res. for AA Command 1940-2, Admiralty 1942-5, Lieut. RNVR May 1944; Camb. Univ. dem­onstrator in Physiology 1949, asst dir. of research 1951, Reader in Experimental Biophysics 1959; Jodrell Prof. of Physiology Univ. Coll. Lond. 1960-9, Roy. Society res. Prof. 1969-83; FRS 1955; Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine 1963; Copley Medal, Royal Society, 1973; Kt 1974; President Royal Society 1980-5; hon. degrees at numerous universities; Fellow Imperial Coll. Lond. 1980, hon. Fellow Darwin Coll. Camb. 1981; OM 1983; Master of Trinity 1984-90; a Governor of the school (ex officio) 1984-90; a Busby Trustee 1986-; m. 5 July 1947 Jocelyn Richenda Gammell, d. of Michael Pease of Girton, Cambridge; d. 30 May 2012.

Montagu, John, ca. 1654-1728

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  • Person
  • ca. 1654-1728

MONTAGU, HON. JOHN, twin brother of Hon. Oliver Montagu (qv); b.; at school under Busby (F. R. Harris, The Life of Edward Mountagu KG, First Earl of Sandwich, 1912, ii, 183); Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 12 Apr 1672; MA 1673; DD 1682; Fellow of Trinity Coll. 1674 – c. 1681; ordained priest (London) 21 Dec 1679; Master of Sherburn Hospital, Durham 1680; Master of Trinity Coll. Cambridge 12 May 1683 – Jan 1699/1700; Vice-Chancellor, Cambridge Univ., 1687-8; Prebendary of Durham 18 Oct 1683- Jan 1699/1700; Dean of Durham from 10 Jan 1699/1700; Clerk of the Closet to William III 25 Nov 1695 – 8 Mar 1702; d. unm. 23 Feb 1727/8, aged 73. DNB.

Adrian, Edgar Douglas, 1889-1977

  • GB-2014-WSA-01960
  • Person
  • 1889-1977

Adrian, Edgar Douglas, 1st Baron Adrian; brother of Harold Douglas Adrian (q.v.); b. Nov. 30, 1889; adm. Sept. 24, 1903; K.S. (non-resident) Sept. 22, 1904 (G); elected head to Trin. Coll. Camb. (with Samwaies) July 1908, scholar 1908, fellow Oct. 9, 1913; St class Nat. Science Trip., part 1, 1910, part 2 (Physiology), 1911; B.A. 1911; M.A. 1915; M.B. and B.C. 1915; M. D. 1919; represented Camb. in the Inter-University Foils Competition 1912; joint Coutts Trotter student 1912; Walsingham Gold Medal for Physiology 1912; Gedge Prize 1914; Rolleston Memorial Prize 1916; Horton-Smith Prize 1919; Lecturer at Trin. Coll. 1919; University Lecturer in Advanced Physiology 1920; was a student at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, M.R.C.P. (London), 1916; F.R.S. 1923; F.R.C.P. 1924; a Governor of the School March 1926; Foulerton Research Professor of the Royal Society 1929-37; Nobel Prize 1932; Hon. D.Sc. Oxon. 1936; various degrees later from British and foreign universities; Professor of Physiology, Cambridge, 1937-51; Master of Trinity Coll. Camb. since 1951; Vice-Chancellor 1957-59; first Chancellor of Univ. of Leicester 1958; Copley Medal of the Royal Soc. 1946; Foreign Secretary of the Royal Soc. 1946-50, and President 1950-55; President of the British Association 1954; President, Royal Society of Medicine, 1960-62; O.M. June 11, 1942; created Baron Adrian 1955; a Busby Trustee 1949; elected a Trustee of the Rockefeller Institute 1962; temp. Lieut. R.A.M.C. Jan. 1, 1916, Capt. Jan. 1, 1917-19; m. June 14, 1923, Hester Agnes, daughter of Hume Chancellor Pinsent, of Boar's Hill, Oxford; d. 4 Aug. 1977.