- Mill Road Cemetery, Cambridge
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Mill Road Cemetery is a cemetery off Mill Road in the Petersfield area of Cambridge, England. The cemetery is listed by English Heritage as a Grade II site, and several of the tombs are also listed as of special architectural and historical interest.[1]
The cemetery was established in 1848. A chapel built by George Gilbert Scott is no longer standing.
Mill Road Cemetery in winter.
Burials
Those interred in the cemetery include:
- John Barnard (1794-1878), amateur cricketer.[2]
- Arthur Cayley (1821-1895), mathematician. The headstone is no longer standing.[3] A wreath was placed at Cayley's grave, with a graveside address by Samuel Dickstein, at the 1912 International Congress of Mathematicians.[4]
- James Challis (1803-1882), astronomer.[3]
- John Willis Clark (1833-1910), university administrator and antiquary.[3]
- Charles Henry Cooper (1808-1866), biographer and antiquary.[3]
- Percival Frost (1817-1898), mathematician.[3]
- George Garrett (1834-1897), organist and composer.[5]
- Fenton Hort (1828-1892), theologian and bible scholar.[3]
- George Murray Humphry (1820-1896), surgeon.[3]
- Benjamin Hall Kennedy (1804-1889), classicist.[6]
- Daniel MacMillan (1813-1857), publisher.[3]
- Eiríkr Magnússon (1833-1913), Icelandic scholar.[2]
- James Rattee (1820-1855), woodcarver and mason.
- Charles Smart Roy (1854-1897), pathologist.[7]
- Hamblin Smith (1827-1901), mathematician.[3]
- Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (1819-1903), physicist.[3] His gravestone "has now vanished from view".[8]
- Isaac Todhunter (1820-1884), mathematician.[9]
References
- ^ Welcome to Mill Road Cemetery
- ^ a b Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ Guillermo P. Curbera, Mathematicians of the world, unite!: the International Congress of Mathematicians, A K Peters Ltd, 2009, p. 50
- ^ 'George Mursell Garrett', The Musical Times, Vol. 38, No. 651 (May 1, 1897), pp. 310-311
- ^ The Classical Review, 1889, p.227
- ^ Nature, Vol. 56 (1897), p. 395
- ^ Alastair Wood, 'Fifty-Eight Years of Friendship: Kelvin and Stokes', in Raymond Flood, Mark McCartney, Andrew Whitaker, eds., Kelvin: life, labours and legacy, p. 85
- ^ Jonathan Smith, Christopher Stray, eds., Teaching and learning in nineteenth-century Cambridge, p.186
External links
Coordinates: 52°12′02″N 0°08′12″E / 52.200520°N 0.136552°E
Categories:- 1848 establishments in England
- Cemeteries in Cambridge
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