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The Apostles of Cambridge

originally the "Saturday Club"

Title	First	Second	Surname	Number	Year	Notes
Mr	Thomas		Ainger		1820
Mr	Alfred		Ainsworth	234	1820	elected 1899?
Mr	Henry		Alford		1830	1810 - 1871. Born in London, Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge (1834), Dean of Canterbury (1857). First Editor of the Contempory Review (1866 - 1870). Wrote about the Classics, published poems and hymns, worte 'Come ye thankful people, come'
Mr	Frank		Anderson		1867
	Juliet	Louise	Annan		197?	Female
Baron	Noel	Gilroy	Annan		1948
Mr	Neal		Ascherson		194?
	Francis		Bacon		1824
Sir	Edward		Baines		1825	1800 - 1890. Wrote a history of the cotton industry in 1835. MP for Leeds, Liberal.
Earl	Arthur	J	Balfour		186?	1848 - 1930. 1st Earl. Educated Eton and Trinity College Cambridge. Politician and Philosopher.
Mr	Francis	Maitland	Balfour		1875	1851 - 1882. Educated Harrow and Trinity College Cambridge where he was Professor of Animal Morphology in 1882. Died in a climbing accident on Mont Blanc.
Earl	Gerald	William	Balfour		1872	1853 - 1945. 2nd Earl. Educated at Eton and Trinity College Cambridge, became a fellow in 1878. Statesman, President of Board of Trade.
Mr	Peter	W	Barker		1838
Mr	R?	N	Barnes		1828
Mr	Richard		Battersby		1820
Mr	Theodore		Beck		1881
Mr	Ferenc	Istvean	Bekassy		1912
Mr	Julian	H	Bell		1928
Mr	Frankie		Birrell
Mr	Hugh		Blackburn		1844
Mr	G?		Blakesley		1868
Mr	Joseph		Blakesley		1827
	Francis		Bliss		1912
Mr	Anthony	Frederick	Blunt		1927	1907 - 1983. British Art Historian, Soviet Spy. Educated at Marlborough and Trinity College Cambridge, became a fellow in 1932
Mr	Richard	Guy	Bosanquet		1937
Mr	Edward		Bowen		1857
Mr	Richard	D	Boylan		1824
Mr	Richard	Bevan	Braithwaite		1921
Mr	Henry		Brandeth		1856
Mr	Edward	Cowell	Brice		1820
Mr	Henry	Crane	Brice		1821
Mr	Rupert	Chawner	Brooke		1908	1887 - 1915. Educated at Rugby and King's College Cambridge. Poet. Founded in the 1820s, membership was for life.
Mr	Thomas	W W	Browne		1820
Mr	Oscar		Browning	142	1858	1837 - 1923. Educated Eton and King's College Cambridge, became a fellow in 1859. Donated a wooden chest refered to as 'the ark', in which papers read at the meeting where deposited
Mr	Ronald		Bryden		196?
Sir	Arthur		Buller		1828
Mr	Charles		Buller		1826
Mr	W?		Burdon		1822
Mr	Guy	Francis de Moncy	Burgess		192?	1910 - 1963. Educated Eton, Royal Naval College Dartmouth and Trinity College Cambridge. Worked for BBC, MI5 and the Foreign Office. Defected to the Soviet Union after being uncovered as spy.
Lord	John		Butcher		1873	Lord Danesfort
Mr	Samuel	Henry	Butcher		1871	1850 - 1910. Born in Dublin. Educated at Marlborough and Trinity College Cambridge. Professor of Greek at Edinburgh. MP for Cambridge University from 1906.
Mr	Arthur	John	Butler		1865
Mr	Henry	Montagu	Butler	130	1853	1833-1918 He was a master of Trinity.
Mr	Arthur	B	Cane		1886
Sir	James		Carter		1824
Mr	David	Gawen	Champernowne
Mr	William	Dougal	Christie		1836
Mr	William	K	Clifford		1866
Mr	Arthur		Clough		1883
Sir	Andrew	Benjamin	Cohen		192?
Mr	Charles		Colbeck		1868
Mr	J	W E	Conybeare		1865
Mr	William	Johnson	Cory		1844	1823 - 1892. Born in Torrington in Devon. Educated Eton and King's College Cambridge. Assistant master at Eton 1845 - 1872. Poet. Published.
Mr	William	Gifford	Cooksley		1828
Mr	John	Jermyn	Cowell		1859
Mr	Arthur		Crane	213
Mr	Francis	J A	Crusoe		1929
Mr	William		Currey		1861
Mr	Henry	J C	Cust		1883
Mr	Erasmus		Darwin		1823
Mr	Crompton		Davies	218	1889	Elected1889
Mr	Goldsworthy	Lowes	Dickinson	209	1885	1862 - 1932. Lectured at Cambridge 1896 - 1920. Essayist, Published.
Mr	Walter		Dodgson		1890
Mr	James	Hamilton	Doggart		1919
Mr	William	Bodham	Donne		1827
Mr	James	Duff	Duff		1884
Sir	Howard		Elphinstone		1851
Mr	Charles		Evans		1845
Mr	William		Everett		1862
the Hon	Julian		Fane		1848
Mr	George		Farish		1830
Mr	James		Farish		1825
Rev	Frederick	William	Farrar		1852	1831 - 1903. Born in Bombay, ordained 1854, taught Harrow, Headmaster of Marlborough, Hon. Chaplin to Queen Victoria, Archdeacon of Westminster, Dean of Canterbury.
Mr	Samuel		Fennell		1821
Mr	George	C R	Festing		1821
Mr	Edmund	Henry	Fisher		1856
Mr	Edward		FitzGerald			1809 - 1883. Best known as the translator of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, great friend of Tennyson, Thackeray and Carlisle. He was also a published poet.
Mr	Edward	Morgan	Forster	236	1901	1879 - 1970. Born in London. Educated Tonbridge School, King's College Cambridge. Founded the Independent Review with Lowes Dickinson. Novalist: A Room With A View.
the Hon	Hugh		Fortescue		1837	3rd Earl Fortescue
Mr	Roger	Eliot	Fry		1887	1866 - 1934. Born in London. Artist, Art Critic. Founder of the Omega Workshops 1913 - 1921. Published.
Mr	John	M	Furness		1891
Mr	James		Furnival		1820
Mr	Robin		Gandy		1947
Mr	Francis		Garden		1830
Mr	Sydney		Gedge		1824
Mr	Frederick		Gibbs		1842
	Heather		Glen		197?	Femail
Mr	Alexander	Chisholm	Gooden		1840
Mr	Henry	Chester	Goodhart		1880
Mr	Walford	Davies	Green		1892
Mr	Leonard	H	Greenwood		1902
Mr	John		Gross		196?
Mr	Benjamin		Guest		1820
Mr	Richard		Hall		1826
Mr	Arthur		Hallam	68	1829	Only a member from May 1829-May 1831. Close friend of Alfred Lord Tennyson,he married his sister Emily. He died suddenly in Venice in Sept 1833. Tennyson wrote the poem In Memoriam in 1850 about his death.
Sir	William	Vernon	Harcourt		1847	1827 - 1904. Born in York. Educated Trinity College Cambridge. Bar 1854, QC 1866. Liberal MP for Oxford 1868. Home Secretary 1880. Chancellor of Exchequer 1886 again in 1892.
Mr	Joseph		Hardcastle		1835
Mr	Thomas	O	Harding		1872
Mr	Godfrey	Harold	Hardy		1898	1877 - 1947. Educated Winchester and Cambridge University, Fellow of Trinity 1900. English Mathematician. Published.
Mr	Henry		Harford		1820
Sir	Frederick	Evelyn	Harmer		1925
Mr	Thomas	Wynne	Harrison		1824
Mr	Francis	Vaughan	Hawkins		1851
Sir	Ralph		Hawtrey	235	1900
Mr	Douglas	Denon	Heath		1831
	Dunbar	Isidore	Heath		1835
Mr	John	Moore	Heath		1834
Mr	Charles	G	Heathcote		1861
Sir	Arthur		Helps		1833
Mr	Robert		Henderson		1820
Mr	Arthur	Boyd	Hibbert		1946
Sir	Arthur		Hobhouse	244	1905	Elected in 1905 helped by John Maynard Keynes. Not very active member of society.
Mr	Eric		Hobsbawm		193?
Sir	Alan	Lloyd	Hodgkin		1936	1914 - . Fellow Trinity College Cambridge. English physiologist. Lecturer Cambridge 1945 - 1952. Royal Society Research Professor 1952 - 1969. Worked on Radar during WW II.
Mr	Barnard	Henry	Holland		1878
Mr	Francis	James	Holland		1846
Mr	Wentworth	S	Holsworthy		1836
Mr	John		Hopkinson		1870
Mr	Fenton	John Anthony	Hort		1851
Earl	George	James	Howard	158	1864	George James Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle. Artist.
Mr	Henry		Jackson		1863
Mr	Henry	Alfred	James		1849
Sir	Richard	Claverhouse	Jebb		1859	1841 - 1905. Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge. Professor of Greek at Glasgow 1875, and in Cambridge in 1889. MP for Cambridge in 1891. Published.
Mr	Harry	G	Johnson		194?
Mr	Henry	Robert	Johnson		1821
Mr	Edward	C	Judge		1821
Mr	John	Mitchell	Kemble		1826	1807 - 1857. Educated Trinity College Cambridge and Gottingen under Jakob Grimm. Anglo Saxon Scholar. Published: History of The Saxons in England
Mr	Benjamin	H	Kennedy		1824
Mr	Arnold		Kettle		194?
Sir	John	Maynard	Keynes	243	1903	1883 - 1946. 1st Baron Keynes. Economist. They met each week late in the evening for 'tea' which in the early days included anchovies on toast, later on it seems to of changed to sardines.
Mr	Edmund		Law		1836
Mr	E	J	Lawrence		1835
Mr	Walter		Leaf		1874
Mr	Henry		Lee-Warner		1862
Sir	Henry	John Bevin	Lintott		1929
Mr	Thomas	Shepherd	Little		1872
Mr	Crompton		Llewellyn Davies		1889
Baron	Richard		Llewellyn-Davies		193?
Mr	Theodore		Llewellyn Davies		1889
Mr	Geoffrey	E R	Lloyd		195?
Sir	Charles		Locock		1849
Mr	Leo		Long		193?
Mr	Donald	William	Lucas		1925
Mr	Frank	Lawrence	Lucas		1914	1894 - 1967. Born Hipperholme in Yorkshire. Fellow King's College Cambridge. English Critic and Poet. Published.
Mr	Gordon	Hannington	Luce		1912
Mr	John	Marlowe	Luce		1939
Mr	Edmund		Lushington		1834
Sir	Franklyn		Lushington		1842
Mr	Henry		Lushington		1833
Mr	Vernon		Lushington		1854
the Hon	Alfred		Lyttelton		1878
the Hon	Charles		Lyttelton		1863	8th Viscount Cobham
Sir	Desmond		MacCarthy	231	1896	1878 - 1952. Born in Plymouth. Educated Eton and Trinity College Cambridge. English Critic And Writer. Published.
Mr	Kenneth		Macaulay		1831
Mr	W	H	Macaulay		1876
the Hon	Malcolm		Macnaghten		1891
Sir	Henry	James Sumner	Maine		1843	1822 - 1888. Educated Christ's Hospital and Pembroke College Cambridge. Master at Trinity College Cambridge 1877. Whewell Professor of International Law in 1887. English Jurist and Historian. Published.
Mr	Frederick	William	Maitland		1873	1850 - 1906. Educated Eton and Trinity College Cambridge. English Legal Historian. Published.
Mr	J	G	Maitland		1839
Mr	Frederick		Malkin		1826
Mr	Horatio		Mansfield		1841
Sir	William		Marriott		1823
Sir	Edward	Howard	Marsh		1894	Joined in the 1890's, went on to become an 'Angel', an Apostle who although no longer at Cambridge continued to attend meetings.
Mr	Maurice	Oswald	Marshall		1914
Mr	Arthur		Martineau		1827
Mr	John	Frederick Denison	Maurice		1823	1805- 1872. Born Normanston in East Anglia. Educated Trinity College Cambridge. Editor of Athenaeum. Chaplain to Guy's Hospital 1837. Professor of Literature King's College Cambridge 1840. English Theologian and writer. Published.
Mr	James	Clerk	Maxwell		1852	1831 - 1879. Born in Edinburgh. Educated Edinburgh Academy, Edinburgh University and Cambridge University. In 1871 he became the first Cavendish Professor at Cambridge, where he organized the Cavandish Laboratory. Scottish Physicist. Published.
Mr	Robin	John Grote	Mayor		1889
Sir	Donald		M'Calister		1876
Mr	Norman		McLean		1888
Mr	John	McTaggart Ellis	McTaggart		1886	1866 - 1925. Educated Clifton College and Trinity College Cambridge. English Philosopher. Published.
Mr	Hugh	Owen	Meredith	236	1900
Mr	Charles		Merivale		1832
Mr	Jonathan		Miller		195?	1934 - . Educated Cambridge University. Worked for the BBC. Became Research Fellow in Neuropsychology at Sussex University in 1985. English Stage Director and Author. Published.
Mr	Karl		Miller		195?
Lord	Richard	Monckton	Milnes		1829	1809 - 1885. Born in London.1st Baron Houghton. Educated Cambridge University. MP for Pontefract 1837. Entered House of Lords 1863. Essayist, poet and man of letters. Published.
Mr	John	Murdoch	Mitchison		1949
Mr	Cecil	James	Monro		1854
Mr	R	J I	Monteith		1830
Mr	George	Edward	Moore	229	1894	1873 - 1958. Born in London. Educated Dulwich College and Trinity College Cambridge. Professor of Mental Philosophy Cambridge 1925 - 1939. English Philosopher. Published.
Mr	Alexander	J W	Morrison		1829
Mr	Edward	J C	Morton		1878
Mr	Savile		Morton		1832
Lord	John	Fletcher	Moulton		1867	Lord Moulton of Bank
Mr	Arthur	Thomas	Myers		1872
the Hon	Roden		Noel		1857
Mr	Harry	J T	Norton	246	1906	Stage Mangager for the Edward Garnett play performed at the Haymarket.
Mr	Cuthbert	Wilfired Francis	Noyce		1934
Mr	Edward		O'Brian		1828
Mr	William	Smith	O'Brian		1824	1803 - 1964. Born County Clare in Ireland. Educated Harrow and Cambridge University. Irish Nationalist. Transported to Tasmania, released after 5 years in 1854.
Mr	Edmund		Oldfield		1836
Mr	Thomas	P	Outram		1822
Lord	George		Patton		1823	Lord Glenalmond
Mr	John	Burwell	Payne		1863
Mr	Alexander	P D	Penrose		1919
Mr	Lionel	Sharples	Penrose		192?
Mr	Percival		Pickering		1829
Sir	Frederick		Pollock	160	1865	1845 - 1937. Born in London. Educated Eton and Trinity College Cambridge - Fellow in 1868. Bar 1871. English Jurist. Published.
Sir	William	Frederick	Pollock		1834	1815 - 1888. Educated St Paul's and Trinity college Cambridge. Bar 1838. English Jurist. Published.
Mr	Robert	H	Pomeroy		1854
Sir	Alfred		Power		1825
Mr	Joseph		Power		1821
Mr	John	Henry	Pratt		1871
Mr	Peter	Derek Vaughan	Prince		1938
Sir	Philip	Dennis	Proctor		1927
Mr	M	Robert	Pryor		1869
Mr	Charles		Puller		1855
Mr	John		Punnett		1820
Sir	Walter	Alexander	Raleigh		1882	1861 - 1922. Born in London. Professor of English Literature: Liverpool 1899, Glasgow 1900, Oxford 1904. English Essayist, Critic and Scholar. Published.
Mr	Frank	Plumpton	Ramsey		1921	1903 - 1930. Born in Cambridge. Educated Trinity College Cambridge. Fellow of King's College Cambridge. English Philosopher and Mathematician. Died young following an operation.
Mr	William		Richardson		1825
Mr	George	L	Rives		1871
Mr	John		Roberts		1821
Sir	Dennis	H	Robertson		192?
Mr	Thomas		Robinson		1838
Mr	Henry	John	Roby		1855
Mr	Lancelot	Charles	Rolleston		1919
Mr	Edward		Romilly		1824
Mr	Henry		Romilly		1826
Lord	Nathaniel	Mayer Victor	Rothschild		193?	1910 - 1990. Born in London. Military Intelegence 1939 - 1945. Assistant Director Department of Zoology at Cambridge 1950 - 1970. English Administrator.
Mr	Richard	C	Rowe		1877
the Hon	Walter	G	Runciman		195?
the Hon	Bertrand	Arthur William	Russell		1892	1872 - 1970. Born in Trelleck, Gwent. Educated Trinity College Cambridge - Fellow in 1895.3rd Earl Russell. Welsh Philosopher and Mathematician.
Mr	George		Rylands		1922
Mr	Charles	Percy	Sanger	223	1892
Mr	George	H	Shaw		1820
Sir	John	Tressider	Sheppard	238	1902	A Don at Kings during the time of Rupert Brooke.
Mr	Peter	David	Shore		1947	1924 - . Educated Cambridge. Labour MP in 1964. English Politician.
Mr	Gerald		Shove		1909
Mr	Arthur		Sidgwick		1861
Mr	Henry		Sidgwick		1856	1838 - 1900. Born Skipton in Yorkshire. Educated Rugby and Cambridge, Fellow of Trinity in 1859. Knightsbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy in 1883. English Philosopher. Published.
Mr	George		Simpson		1822
Mr	John		Simpson		1820
Mr	Quentin		Skinner		196?
Mr	Arthur	H	Smith		1882
Sir	Henry	Babington	Smith		1885
Mr	James	Parker	Smith		1876
Mr	T	Townsend	Smith		1826
Mr	A	E A W	Smyth		1897
Mr	James		Spedding		1828	1808 - 1881. Fellow Trinity College Cambridge. Published: Life and Letters (1861 - 1874): the letters of Francis Bacon. English Scholar.
Mr	S	E	Spring Rice		1876
Mr	Stephen		Spring Rice		1833
Mr	T	C W	Spring Rice		1837
Mr	W	J H	Sprott		192?
the Hon	Edward		Stanley		1847	15th Earl of Derby
Mr	John		Stanning		1861
Mr	Vincent	H	Stanton		1872
Sir	James	Fitzjames	Stephen		1847	1829 - 1894. Born in Kensington. English Jurist. 1st Baronet. Uncle of Virginnia Woolf and Vanessa Bell.
Mr	James	Kenneth	Stephen		1879
Mr	John		Sterling		1825	1806 - 1844. Born Kames Castle Isle of Bute. Educated Glasgow and Trinity College Cambridge. Purchased then edited The Athenaeum. Scottish man of letters. Carlyle wrote Life of John Sterling.
Mr	John	S	Stock		1821
Mr	Charles	Samuel	Stokes		1838
Sir	Arthur		Strachey		1879
Mr	James	Beaumont	Strachey		1906	Campaigned to get Rupert Brooke elected into the group.
Mr	Giles	Lytton	Strachey		1902	1880 - 1932. Born in London. Educated Leamington College, Liverpool University and Trinity College Cambridge. English Biographer and Critic.
Mr	Michael		Straight		1936
Mr	James		Stuart		1865
Mr	Thomas		Sunderland		1826
Mr	Saxon	A	Sydney-Turner		1902
Mr	J	E	Symes		1870
the Hon	James		Talbot		1827	Lord Talbot de Malahide
Mr	Herbert	F W	Tatham	211	1885	Elected in 1885, not active member of the society. Died in 1909
Mr	Charles	Henry	Tawney		1858
Mr	Alfred		Taylor		1822
Mr	Cecil	Francis	Taylor	249	1910	Elected 1910. Lifelong friend of Jack Sheppard. Taylor became a school master at Clifton college, Bristol.
Mr	Thomas		Taylor		1840
Mr	R	J	Tennant		1828
Sir	Alfred		Tennyson		1829	1809 - 1892.1st Lord Tennyson. Member from October 1829-February 1830. Educated Trinity college as were his brothers George and Charles. English Poet. Poet Laureate.
Mr	George	Derwent	Thompson		1923
Mr	Henry		Thompson		1820
Mr	Henry	Yates	Thompson		1860
Mr	W	H	Thompson		1830
Bishop	George		Tomlinson		1820
Mr	Stephen	Edelston	Toulmin		1947
Mr	Duncan		Tovey		1865
Mr	Richard	Trevenix (Chenevix?)	Trench		1827	1807 - 1886. Born Dublin. Educated Harrow and Trinity College Cambridge. 1847 Professor of Theology in King's College London. Irish Philologist and poet.
Mr	George	Macaulay	Trevelyan		1895	1876 - 1962. Born Stratford-on-Avon. Educated Harrow and Trinity College Cambridge - Master 1940 - 1951. English Historian
Sir	George	Otto	Trevelyan		1859	1838 - 1928. Born Rothley Temple, Leicestershire. Educated Harrow and Trinity College Cambridge. Liberal MP 1865. Lord of the Admiralty 1868 - 1870. English Stateman. Published.
Mr	Robert	Calversley	Trevelyan	226	1893
Mr	Herbert	H	Turner		1880
Mr	Edward	T	Vaughan		1835
Mr	Alfred		Veasey		1821
Mr	George	Stovin	Venables		1832
Mr	Arthur	W	Verrall	174	1871
Mr	Walter		Wallich		1939
Mr	Spencer		Walpole		1826
Mr	William	Grey	Walter		1933
Mr	James		Ward		1876
Mr	Francis		Warre-Cornish		1860
Mr	Arthur	Ronald Dare	Watkins		1925
Mr	Alister	George Douglas	Watson		1848
Mr	Henry	William	Watson		1848
Mr	Nathaniel		Wedd		1888
Sir	Ralph	Lewis	Wedgwood		1893
Mr	Alfred	North	Whitehead		1884	1861 - 1947. Born in London. Educated Sherborne and Trinity College Cambridge - went on to become senior lecturer in Mathematics until 1911. English Mathematician and Philosopher. Published.
Mr	C	S	Whitmore		1823
Mr