List of Cambridge Apostles members

The Cambridge Apostles, also known as Conversazione Society, is an intellectual secret society at the University of Cambridge. It was founded in 1820. Following is a list of its notable members. MemberElection DateCollegeNotabilityReferencesNoel Annan, Baron AnnanKing'sHouse of Lords; provost of King's College, Cambridge; British military intelligence officer; provost of University College London; and vice-chancellor of the University of LondonLubenow, W. C. (1998). The Cambridge Apostles, 1820-1914: Liberalism, Imagination, and Friendship in British Intellectual and Professional Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 1. Retrieved 21 July 2019.Ferenc Békássy27 January 1911King'sPoetJulian Bell17 November 1928King'sPoetHugh BlackburnTrinityProfessor of mathematics at the University of GlasgowGeorge Holmes Blakesley28 February 1868King'sAuthorJoseph BlakesleyTrinityCanon of Canterbury Cathedral and Dean of LincolnAnthony BluntTrinityArt historian and Soviet spy who was a member of the Cambridge FiveR. B. Braithwaite26 February 1921King'sPhilosopher and ethicistRupert Brooke25 January 1908King'sPoetOscar Browning11 December 1858King'sEducationalist and historian Charles BullerTrinityMember of Parliament and Judge Advocate General of the Armed ForcesGuy BurgessTrinityRadio producer, British intelligence and Foreign Office officer, and Soviet spy who was a member of the Cambridge FiveJohn CairncrossTrinityBritish intelligence officer and Soviet spyWilliam Dougal ChristieTrinity British diplomat, politician, and man of lettersWilliam Cookesley8 November 1928TrinityClassical scholar, cleric, and master of Eton CollegeWilliam Johnson Cory10 March 1844King'sEducator and poetGerald CroasdellPembrokeTrade unionist and general secretary of the International Federation of ActorsErasmus Alvey DarwinChrist'sBrother of Charles DarwinGoldsworthy Lowes Dickinson14 February 1885King'sHistorian, political philosopher, and activistJames Hamilton DoggartKing'sOphthalmologist, cricketer, and a member of the Bloomsbury GroupFrederic FarrarTrinityDean of Canterbury, school teacher, and authorE. M. Forster9 February 1901King'sNovelist, writer, and a member of Bloomsbury GroupRosner, Victoria (2014). The Cambridge Companion to the Bloomsbury Group. Cambridge University Press. p. 33. . Retrieved 3 January 2018.Roger Fry28 May 1887King'sPainter and criticRobin GandyKing'sMathematician and logicianWalford Davis Green6 March 1905King'sHouse of Commons of the United KingdomArthur HallamTrinityPoetThomas Oliver Harding1872TrinitySenior Wrangler at Cambridge UniversityGrattan-Guinness, I. (September 2001). "The interest of G. H. Hardy, F.R.S., in the philosophy and the history of mathematics". Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London. 55 (3). The Royal Society: 411–424. doi:10.1098/rsnr.2001.0155. S2CID 146374699.G. H. HardyTrinityMathematicianFrancis HaskellKing'sArt historianRalph George HawtreyTrinityEconomist and a member of Bloomsbury GroupDouglas HeathTrinityBarrister, judge, literary editor, classical scholar, and writerPeter Allen (10 June 2010). T he Cambridge Apostles: The Early Years. Cambridge University Press. p. 217. Arthur HelpsTrinityWriter and dean of the Privy CouncilEric Hobsbawm193xKing'sAcademic historian and Marxist historiographerAlan Hodgkin1935TrinityBiophysicist and co-winner of the 1963 Nobel Prize in PhysiologyF. J. A. HortTrinityAnglican theologianGeorge Howard1864Trinity Painter and the 9th Earl of CarlisleHenry Jackson1863TrinityVice-master of Trinity College and Regius Professor of Greek at the University of CambridgeLal JayawardenaKing'sSri Lankan Ambassador to the European Economic Community, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands; economist; and first director of the World Institute for Development Economics Research Warwick, Andrew (2003). Masters of Theory: Cambridge and the Rise of Mathematical Physics. University of Chicago Press. p. 198.Richard Claverhouse Jebb1859TrinityClassical scholar and MP for CambridgeJohn Mitchell KembleTrinityScholar and historian who made one of the first translations of BeowulfBenjamin Hall KennedySt John'sScholar and schoolmasterJohn Maynard Keynes28 February 1903King'sEconomistHenry Lintott30 November 1929King'sBritish High Commissioner to CanadaRichard Llewelyn-Davies, Baron Llewelyn-DaviesTrinityArchitectDeacon, Richard, The Cambridge Apostles: a history of Cambridge University's élite intellectual secret society (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986), pp. 124-5. D. W. Lucas7 November 1925King'sClassical scholar, a fellow of King's College, and cryptanalyst at Bletchley Park during World War IIGordon LuceEmmanuelOrientalist and colonial scholar in BurmaVernon LushingtonTrinityDeputy Judge Advocate General and Second Secretary to the AdmiraltyDonald MacAlister1876St. John'sChancellor of the University of GlasgowWilliam Herrick Macaulay20 May 1876King'sMathematicianDesmond MacCarthyTrinityWriter and the foremost literary and dramatic critic of his dayJohn Gorham MaitlandTrinity Academic and civil servantArthur Malkin1826TrinityCricketer, writer, and alpinistF. D. MauriceTrinityAnglican socialist theologianJames Clerk MaxwellTrinityPhysicist responsible for the classical theory of electromagnetic radiationRobert John Grote Mayor2 March 1888King'sCivil servant and educationistNorman McLean1888Christ'sSemitic and Biblical scholarJ. M. E. McTaggartTrinityMetaphysician and philosopherCharles MerivaleSt John'sCo-founder of the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race, Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons, and Dean of ElyJonathan MillerSt John'sTheatre and opera director, actor, author, television presenter, and humouristRichard Monckton MilnesTrinityPoet, patron of literature, and the 1st Baron HoughtonJames MirrleesTrinity British Nobel Laureate in Economic SciencesRobert MonteithTrinityDeputy Lieutenant for the County of Lanark, ScotlandG. E. MooreTrinityPhilosopher and one of the founders of analytic philosophySir Frederick Pollock, 3rd BaronetTrinityJuristDennis Proctor22 October 1927King'sBritish civil servant; Knight Commander of the Order of the BathMarlborough PryorTrinityBusinessmanWalter Raleigh28 October 1882King'sScholar, poet, and authorFrank Plumpton Ramsey22 October 1921King's Philosopher, mathematician (Senior Wrangler), and economistThomas Robinson TrinityArchdeacon of Madras; Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge; and Master of the TempleVictor Rothschild, 3rd Baron RothschildTrinityBanker, scientist, intelligence officer, and government advisorBertrand RussellTrinityPhilosopher and logician; one of the founders of analytic philosophyMcGuinness, Brian. Wittgenstein: A Life: Young Ludwig 1889-1921. University of California Press, 1988, p. 118.Dadie Rylands25 February 1922King'sLiterary scholar and theatre directorAmartya SenTrinityEconomist and philosopherJohn Tresidder Sheppard8 February 1902King'sClassical scholar and provost of King's College, CambridgePeter ShoreKing'sBritish Labour Party politician and Cabinet ministerGerald Shove30 January 1909King'sEconomistHenry SidgwickTrinityPhilosopher and economist; founder and first president of the Society for Psychical ResearchQuentin SkinnerChrist's A founder of the Cambridge School of the history of political thought; winner of the Wolfson History Prize and the Balzan PrizeArthur Smith TrinityArchaeologist and curator of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum; director of the British School at RomeHenry Babington Smith TrinitySenior British civil servant and a director of the Bank of EnglandJames Parker SmithTrinityBarrister and politician who served as Liberal Unionist Member of Parliament for PartickW. J. H. SprottClarePsychologist and writerEdward StanleyTrinitySecretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Colonial Secretary, and 15th Earl of DerbyVincent Henry StantonRegius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge UniversityJames Kenneth Stephen17 May 1879King'sPoet and royal tutorLeslie StephenKing'sWriter and mountaineer; father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa BellJohn SterlingTrinityAuthorLytton StracheyTrinityWriter, critic, and a founding member of the Bloomsbury GroupMichael StraightTrinityMagazine publisher, novelist, and Soviet spySaxon Sydney-Turnerearly 1900sTrinityBritish civil servant and a member of Bloomsbury GroupAlfred, Lord TennysonTrinityPoet Laureate of the United KingdomGeorge Derwent Thomson10 November 1923King'sClassical scholar, Marxist philosopher, and scholar of the Irish languageGeorge Tomlinson1 April 1820St John'sfirst Bishop of GibraltarW. C. Lubenow, The Cambridge Apostles 1820-1914, Cambridge University Press, 1999.Richard Chenevix TrenchTrinityArchbishop of Dublin, Primate of Ireland, and poetG. M. TrevelyanTrinity Chancellor of Durham University; Master and Fellow of Trinity College, CambridgeR. C. TrevelyanTrinityPoet and translatorA. W. Verrall1877TrinityClassics scholarFrancis Warre-CornishKing'sSchoolmaster, scholar, and writerRonald Watkins24 October 1925King'sDrama teacher and directorAlister Watson29 January 1927King'sMathematician and a key member of the Cambridge FiveNathaniel Wedd25 February 1888King'sHistorian and academicSir Ralph Wedgwood, 1st BaronetTrinityChief Officer of the London and North Eastern Railway and chairman of the Railway Executive CommitteeJames Welldon6 February 1875King'sClergyman and scholarBrooke Foss WestcottTrinity Bishop of Durham, scholar, and theologianAlfred North Whitehead17 May 1884TrinityMathematician and philosopherLudwig WittgensteinTrinityPhilosopher and logicianLeonard WoolfTrinityAuthor and publisher; husband of Virginia Woolf

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