List of members of Peterhouse, Cambridge
This ia a list of notable members of Peterhouse, a college of the University of Cambridge, England. It includes alumni, fellows and Masters of the college.
Alumni
Public servants
- Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, Baroness Butler-Sloss - First female Lord Justice of Appeal, 1988–1999, President of the Family Division, High Court of Justice, 1999–2005
- The Duke of Grafton, Prime Minister of Great Britain, 1768-1770
- Michael Howard, Leader of the Conservative Party, 2003-2005
- Christopher Meyer, British Ambassador to the United States, 1997-2003
- Michael Portillo, Cabinet Minister, 1992-1997
- Nicholas Stern, author of the Stern Review on climate change
- John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1583-1604
- David Wilson, Governor of Hong Kong, 1987-1992
Academics, artists, writers
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Niall Ferguson
Historian -
Thomas Gray
Poet -
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- Kingsley Amis, writer
- Denis Brogan, historian
- Herbert Butterfield, historian, Master of Peterhouse, 1955–1968, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, 1959–1961, and Regius Professor of Modern History, 1963-1968
- Thomas Campion, 16th century composer
- John Ashton Cannon, historian
- Alistair Cooke, Baron Lexden, official historian of the Conservative Party
- Patrick Cosgrave, journalist, author and advisor to Margaret Thatcher
- Maurice Cowling, historian
- Mike Dash, historian
- Marius De Vries, composer and producer, best known as music director of La La Land
- Roger Deakin, naturalist writer
- Robert Dudley Edwards, historian
- Ronan Fanning, historian
- John Finnemore, writer and actor
- Thomas Gray, poet
- Colin Greenwood, Radiohead bassist
- Luke Hughes, furniture designer
- Harold James, historian
- David Knowles, Regius Professor of Modern History, 1954–1963
- Denis Mack Smith, historian
- F.X. Martin, historian and first Catholic priest admitted to Cambridge since the Reformation
- James Mason, actor
- Sam Mendes, Academy Award-winning film director (for American Beauty) and four-time Laurence Olivier Award winner
- David Mitchell, actor, comedian and writer
- A. L. Morton, Marxist historian
- Michael Postan, historian
- William Ridgeway, classical scholar and Disney Professor of Archaeology, Cambridge University
- Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., American political historian
- Harold Temperley, historian
- Hugh Trevor-Roper, historian
- Adolphus William Ward, President, Royal Historical Society, 1899–1901
- Eudora Welty, Pulitzer Prize-winning American author
- Desmond Williams, historian
According to college tradition, Thomas Gray left Peterhouse for Pembroke College after being the victim of a practical joke played by undergraduates. Gray is supposed to have been afraid of fire, and had attached a bar outside his window to which a rope could be tied. After being woken by undergraduates with a fire made of shavings, Gray climbed down the rope but landed in a tub of water which had been placed below his window.[1]
Scientists and inventors
![Charles Babbage Inventor of the difference engine, "father of the computer"[2]](/wiki/File:CharlesBabbage.jpg)
- Nick Barton, evolutionary biologist
- Christopher Cockerell, inventor of the hovercraft
- Peter Guthrie Tait, mathematician
- William Hopkins, mathematician
- Edward John Routh, mathematician
- Klaus Roth, mathematician and winner of the Fields Medal
| Name | Birth | Death | Career |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tom Askwith | 1911 | 2001 | Permanent Secretary, Blue and Olympic oarsman |
| Richard Baker | 1925 | Newsreader | |
| Charles Babbage | 1791 | 1871 | Inventor; his analytical engine anticipated the modern computer |
| Augustus Theodore Bartholomew | 1882 | 1933 | Cambridge librarian |
| William Brewster | 1566 | 1644 | Colonial leader and preacher |
| G. B. Caird | 1917 | 1984 | Biblical scholar and churchman |
| Thomas Campion | 1567 | 1620 | Composer and poet |
| Steph Cook | 1972 | Gold medal Olympian in pentathlon | |
| Richard Crashaw | 1613 | 1649 | Poet |
| Richard Eyre | 1943 | Film and theatre director | |
| Robert Foley | 1949 | Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies at the University of Cambridge | |
| Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton | 1735 | 1811 | British Prime Minister |
| Colin Charles Greenwood | 1969 | Bass player of Radiohead | |
| Syed Mohammed Hadi | 1899 | 1971 | Olympic athlete |
| Erich Heller | 1911 | 1990 | British essayist |
| Sir Christopher Heydon | 1561 | 1623 | English soldier and writer on astrology |
| Michael Howard | 1941 | Former leader of the Conservative Party | |
| Hugh Latimer | 1485 | 1555 | Religious reformer and Protestant martyr |
| Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough | 1750 | 1818 | Lord Chief Justice |
| James Mason | 1909 | 1984 | Actor |
| James Clerk Maxwell | 1831 | 1879 | Physicist |
| Dan Mazer | 1971 | Comic writer | |
| Damian McBride | 1974 | Former Special Adviser to Gordon Brown | |
| Chris Mead | 1940 | 2003 | Ornithologist |
| Sam Mendes | 1965 | Film and stage director/producer | |
| Christopher Meyer | 1944 | Former British ambassador to the US | |
| David Mitchell | 1974 | Comedian | |
| John Penry | 1559 | 1593 | Religious writer and Protestant martyr |
| Michael Portillo | 1953 | Former Conservative MP | |
| Ed Smith | 1977 | Cricketer and author | |
| Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford | 1946 | Author, Stern Review on climate change | |
| Anthony St Leger | 1732 | 1786 | Soldier, politician, Governor of Saint Lucia, founder of the St. Leger Stakes |
| Rory Sweetman | 1991 | New Zealand historian | |
| Vincent Watts | 1940 | Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia (1997–2002) | |
| Frank Whittle | 1907 | 1996 | Developed jet propulsion |
| Peregrine Worsthorne | 1923 | Journalist |
Fellows
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Niall Ferguson, historian
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Thomas Gray, poet
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Henry Cavendish, scientist, discoverer of hydrogen -
Sir James Dewar, chemist, physicist, inventor of the Dewar flask -
| Name | Birth | Death | Career |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kingsley Amis | 1922 | 1995 | Novelist |
| Herbert Butterfield | 1900 | 1979 | Historian |
| Henry Cavendish | 1731 | 1810 | Scientist |
| Christopher Cockerell | 1910 | 1999 | Inventor of the hovercraft |
| Maurice Cowling | 1926 | 2005 | Historian |
| Richard Crashaw | 1613 | 1649 | Poet |
| James Dewar | 1842 | 1923 | Scientist |
| Niall Ferguson | 1964 | Historian | |
| Thomas Gray | 1716 | 1771 | Poet and Regius Professor of Modern History |
| Thomas Heywood | 1570? | 1641 | Playwright and actor |
| George Joye | 1495 | 1553 | Protestant Bible translator |
| Lord Kelvin | 1824 | 1907 | Physicist |
| Aaron Klug | 1926 | Nobel Prize Winner | |
| Patrick Lynch | 1917 | 2001 | Economist |
| Archer Martin | 1910 | 2002 | Nobel Prize for developing partition chromatography |
| Fynes Moryson | 1566 | 1630 | Travel author |
| Edward Norman | 1938 | Theologian | |
| Andrew Perne | 1519 | 1589 | Dean of Ely |
| Max Perutz | 1914 | 2002 | Nobel Prize for chemistry |
| Roger Scruton | 1944 | Philosopher | |
| Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton | 1914 | 2003 | Historian |
| Shallet Turner | 1762 | Regius Professor of Modern History | |
| John Whitgift | 1530 | 1604 | Archbishop |
Masters
For a list see Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge.
References
- ^ Walker, Thomas Alfred (1935). Peterhouse. Cambridge: W. Heffer and Sons Ltd.
- ^ Halacy, Daniel Stephen (1970). Charles Babbage, Father of the Computer. Crowell-Collier Press. ISBN 0-02-741370-5.
