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Brocket, William

  • GB-1859-SJAC-PN46
  • Person

Clerk to Christ's Hospital, 1711-1745.

Broomhall Priory

  • GB-1859-SJCA-CI228
  • Corporate body
  • c1200-1522

Broomhall priory, a house of Benedictine nuns, was suppressed in 1522 and granted to St John's College, along with its estates.

Browne, Arthur

  • GB-1859-SJCA-PN118
  • Person
  • c.1757-1840

Arthur Browne was an architect and designer based in Norwich. Browne was a founding member of the Norwich Society of Artists in 1805 and was its president in 1807. In the same year, he was commissioned by Joseph Salusbury Muskett to rebuild Intwood Hall in Norfolk. In 1823 he designed and built the cast iron Magdalene Bridge, also known as the Great Bridge, in Cambridge. In 1825 he was invited to submit plans for New Court at St John’s College, Cambridge, but his designs were not implemented. He died in 1840.

Browne, Thomas

  • GB-1859-SJAC-PN42
  • Person
  • 1654-1741

Adm. sizar to St. John's College (matric. 1672); B.A. 1675-1676; M.A. 1679; Fellow 1678-1708.

Brumell, Edward

  • GB-1859-SJCA-PN28
  • Person
  • 1815-1901

Brumell was born at Morpeth, and admitted a sizar to Christ’s College, Cambridge in 1832. He did not reside, but matriculated at St John’s College the following year. He was the Smith’s Prizeman, BA 1837 (3rd Wrangler) and Bachelor of Divinity 1848.

He was a fellow and tutor at St John’s College, and during 1846 served as Senior Proctor of the University. Ordained a deacon in 1844 and a priest in Ely a year later, Brumell became rector of Holt in Norfolk in 1853, and remained there until his death in 1901. He served as Rural Dean 1858-1900.

Brumell died without issue in 1901.

Obituary in The Eagle: Vol 23, Michaelmas Term 1901, p. 78
Accessible online at: https://documents.joh.cam.ac.uk/public/Eagle/Eagle%20Volumes/1900s/1902/Eagle_1901_Michaelmas.pdf

Buck, William Elgar

  • GB-1859-SJCA-PN325
  • Person
  • d. 1887

B.A. 1871. Physician and surgeon

Budden, Kenneth George, Dr

  • GB-1859-SJCA-PN147
  • Person
  • 1915-2005

Kenneth Budden was born on 23rd June 1915 in Portsmouth, the son of George Easthope Budden, Engineer and Civil Servant, Admiralty, and Hannah Gertrude Homer Rea. He was admitted to St John’s in 1933 to study Natural Sciences where he chose to specialise in Physics. He graduated BA in 1936 and subsequently joined a research group in the Cavendish Laboratory working on the propagation of very-long-wavelength radio waves, being awarded his PhD in 1940.

Between 1939 and 1941 Budden was employed by the Telecommunications Research Establishment, before moving to the British Air Commission, Washington, DC 1941-1944. In 1945 he was engaged with Air Command, South-East Asia before working at Delanium Limited as Director of Research until 1947.

In 1947 he returned to the University of Cambridge and St John’s, initially as a University Demonstrator in Physics until 1953 when he became Lecturer in Physics, a position he held until 1965. Between 1965 and 1982 Budden achieved the position of Reader in Physics (Emeritus 1982). Parallel to this, at St John’s he was a Supervisor in Physics from 1947 to 1956, as well as Lecturer between 1956 and 1982, and Director of Studies for Physics 1961-77. He was also a Fellow of the College from 1947 until his death in 2005.

Budden wrote numerous books and papers on the propagation of radio waves, and in 1999 was awarded the Gold Medal of The Royal Astronomical Society in recognition of his contribution to Geophysics.

Obituary in The Eagle: Vol 88, 2006, p. 80

Bullock, George

  • GB-1859-SJCA-PN140
  • Person
  • c. 1520/1-1572

George Bullock was an English Roman Catholic theologian. He studied at Cambridge and had become a College fellow by 1538. He was one of the appellants who challenged the governance of John Taylor. Although many of his fellow appellants left the College, Bullock remained. Uncomfortable with the protestant leanings of Edward VI, Bullock fled to the Netherlands. Bulllock returned to England after Mary's accession to the throne. He returned to Cambridge and took a degree of BTh in 1554 and on 12 May was elected Master of St John's.

He became Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity in 1556 and graduated Doctor of Divinity in 1557. He was appointed vicar of St Sepulchre-without-Newgate in 1556, and later the same year rector of Great Munden. On the accession of Elizabeth I he was deprived of all his positions, when he refused to take the Oath of Supremacy.

Bullock once again left for the continent and travelled to Paris where he was invited to take refuge in the monastery at Ninove in the Netherlands. He remained at Ninove for eight years before moving to Antwerp where he printed Oeconomia methodica concordantiarum scripturae sacrae.

Bullock died in 1572 a few months after the publication of his book.

Caldecott, Alfred

  • GB-1859-SJCA-PN266
  • Person
  • 1850 - 1936

Professor Revd. Alfred Caldecott was born in Chester on 9 November 1850. His father, John Caldecott was a hatter and founder of the Institute of Accountants. Caldecott was his sixth child by his first wife Mary Dinah (née Brookes). His older brother Randolph was an English artist and illustrator. In 1860 the family moved to Boughton, Cheshire and he spent the last five years of his schooling at The King Henry VIII School in Chester. He then attended St. John’s College, Cambridge, matriculating in 1876. He read the Moral Sciences Tripos and he took First Class honours in 1880. He was then elected to a Fellowship at St John's. He was one of the founders of the Cambridge University Moral Sciences Club and the first meeting took place on 19 October 1878 in his rooms at St John's.
Caldecott joined King's College London in 1891 as Professor of Logic, Mental and Moral Philosophy. He developed a syllabus with a renewed emphasis on theological issues. He was a lecturer of Logic, Ethics and Psychology to the King’s College London Ladies Department. He became the Boyle Lecturer in 1913 and was Dean of King's College from 1913–17.
In his religious life Caldecott took Holy Orders and became the curate of Stafford from 1880-82, then he was Vicar of Horningsea, Cambridgeshire from 1883-84. He was the Select Preacher at Cambridge University for many individual years between 1884 and 1916. He was the Rector of North and South Topham in Norfolk from 1895-1898 and then the Rector of Frating with Thorington in Essex from 1898-1906. He became Prebendary of St Paul's from 1915 to 1935 and the Rector of Great Oakley in Essex from 1917-1925.
Caldecott was a regular contributor to 'Cambridge Theological Essays' and to the 'University of London Theological Essays'. He wrote several books on philosophical, historical and religious subjects including: 'English Colonialism and the Empire' (1891), ‘The Church in the West Indies’ (1898) and 'The Philosophy of Religion in England and America' (1901). He contributed a paper in 1908 to the Pan-Anglican Congress on Christian Philosophy in contrast with Pantheism, Christian Science, and Agnosticism. He also collaborated with his brother Randolph on the book 'Aesop's Fables' (1883) which contained his translation of Aesop from the original Greek.
In 1910 he made up a deputation with Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Louisa Garrett Anderson who were allowed to put forward the case, for women to have the vote, to the Prime Minister.
He died on 8 February 1936, aged 85, in Upton-upon-Severn in Worcestershire. A portrait of Alfred painted by his brother Randolph Caldecott hangs in the Liverpool Academy of Arts.

Carey, Valentine, Bishop of Exeter

  • GB-1859-SJCA-PN321
  • Person
  • d 1626

Born in Berwick upon Tweed, reputedly the illegitimate son of Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon, Governor of Berwick from 1568. Matriculated as sizar from Christ's College, Cambridge, 1585; graduated BA 1589; made fellow of St John's 1591; proceeded MA 1592. Transferred to Christ's, 1597; proceeded BD 1599; resigned his fellowship 1600. Married Dorothy Coke, sister of John Coke (secretary of state from 1625) and George Coke, a contemporary of Carey's at St John's and later Bishop of Hereford. He was made a prebendary of St Paul's Cathedral in 1601 and acquired a number of ecclesiastical offices over the next few years, including archdeacon of Shropshire from 1606 (resigned 1613) and prebendary of Lincoln from 1607. In 1610 he was appointed to the rectory of Toft, Cambridgeshire, at the instigation of Owen Gwyn, Bursar (later Master) of St John's. In 1610 he was also made Master of Christ's College, appointed by King James I. In 1612 he was appointed Vice-Chancellor of the University. In 1614 he was made Dean of St Paul's. He was nominated as Bishop of Exeter by Owen Gwyn's cousin, John Williams, lord keeper and Bishop of Lincoln, and appointed to the post in 1621.

Carter Studio

  • GB-1859-SJCA-CI134
  • Corporate body
  • 1984-2000

Photography studio opened by Hazel Carter in 1984 at Cobble Yard, Napier St., Cambridge. By 1990 the studio had moved to 37 Highfields Ave., Cambridge. Hazel Carter's father, John Carter, was also a photographer who worked between 1950 and 1983.

Catherine (Katherine) of York

  • GB-1859-SJCA-PN86
  • Person
  • 1479-1527

Born at Eltham Palace, Greenwich in 1479, Katherine of York was the daughter of King Edward IV of England and Elizabeth Woodville, and later sister-in-law to Henry VII. In October 1495, she married William Courtenay (1475-1511) and the couple had three children – Henry, Edward and Margaret. After her husband’s death, Katherine took a vow of celibacy and never remarried. She died at Tiverton Castle in 1527.

Cavalcanti, Giovanni

  • GB-1859-SJCA-PN76
  • Person
  • 1480-1542

Florentine merchant and guarantor for royal works completed by Pietro Torrigiano.

Cave, Sir Ambrose

  • GB-1859-SJCA-PN328
  • Person
  • c. 1503-1568

Son of Richard Cave of Stanford, Northamptonshire and his second wife Margaret, daughter of John Saxby of Northampton. Spent five years from late 1524 to 1529 in convent of the Order of St John of Jerusalem in Europe, being made a Knight of the Order in 1525. From 1529 was commander of the Order in Yeaveley and Barrow in Derbyshire. He was summoned back to Malta in 1535, but only got as far as Vienne before being sent back to England by the new Grand Master for an urgent meeting with Henry VIII. Cave's hopes of transferring to the more prestigious commandery of Shingay in Cambridgeshire were disappointed when the English Grand Prior's nephew was elected instead. The order was dissolved in 1540 and Cave committed to Protestantism. He was given a pension and the use of a house in London, became a servant to the King, focussed on his family's wool business, and when former religious were permitted to marry, married a wealthy widow, Margaret Holte, née Willington. He was MP for Leicestershire during Edward VI's reign and lived quietly under Mary I, serving as MP for Warwickshire in her last parliament and in 1553 becoming manager of one of her sister Elizabeth (later Elizabeth I)'s estates. He was immediately appointed to Elizabeth's Privy Council and made Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. He was MP for Warwickshire in 1559 and 1563, visited the north in 1561 to report on problems there, and served on numerous commissions including those to enforce the Acts of Uniformity and Supremacy.
Cave had one child, Margaret, who in 1565 married Sir Henry Knollys at a ceremony attended by the Queen. His extended family at the Savoy included his nieces, whose fathers, Cave's brothers, had died, and the children of other deceased relatives whose wardships he had acquired. His wife probably died in 1561. He died on 2 April 1568 and his funeral service was conducted at the Savoy Chapel, although he was buried at Stanford.

Cecil, Robert, 1st Earl of Salisbury

  • GB-1859-SJCA-PN191
  • Person
  • 1563-1612

Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, was born in Westminster to William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, and his wife Lady Mildred, on the 1st of June 1563. Due to a sickly childhood, Cecil was educated at home by his notably-learned mother, and also tutors; one of these tutors was almost certainly Richard Howland, who would go on to become bishop of Peterborough and Master of St John’s College. The family’s mansion was often used to entertain the royal court, so Cecil was likely acquainted with Queen Elizabeth I from his childhood.

In 1580, Cecil was admitted to Gray’s Inn. The following year he was also at Cambridge, but never obtained a degree. He was tutored at home by William Wilkinson, a fellow of St John’s, before travelling to Paris. He spent the next several years travelling and sitting in the House of Commons. He was knighted in 1591, and subsequently elevated to the privy council. In the same year, he also became the high steward of Cambridge University. At the time, his father was the acting secretary of state, and Cecil often assisted him with his work. In 1596, he was finally granted the title of secretary of state for himself, after seemingly being poised to take the role for several years.

Cecil competed with Elizabeth I’s favourite, the Earl of Essex, for various positions both before and after the death of his influential father. In May 1599 Cecil became master of the wards, a position which Essex had hoped for and which had previously been held by Burghley. The pair also clashed over their opinions on foreign policy; Essex sought escalation of warfare, while Cecil desired peace. Cecil went on to collect evidence against Essex after his 1601 revolt, and spoke at the trial which led to his execution.

After Essex’s death, Cecil was widely recognised as the most powerful privy councillor. Because of this, he was able to undertake a secret-- and technically treasonous-- correspondance with James VI of Scotland to assure him of his future ascension to the English throne. As Elizabeth’s health failed, Cecil drafted the proclamation of the new king’s ascension. His friendliness with James I ensured that Cecil held his privy council position in the court of the new king. He was also appointed lord high steward to the king’s wife. Cecil’s power increased under James I, owing in part to the king’s frequent absences from court. Cecil led the commission to investigate the Guy Fawkes plot. His position under James was cemented on the 4th of May, 1605, when Cecil was elevated to the earldom of Salisbury. In 1608, he also became the lord treasurer.

Cecil married Elizabeth Brooke, a servant of Elizabeth I, in August 1589. She was a favourite of the queen, and her influence likely contributed greatly to Cecil’s early career. They had a son, William, in 1591, and a daughter, Frances, in 1593. However, a third pregnancy sadly led to a miscarriage and Lady Cecil’s death in January of 1597. She was buried at Westminster Abbey on the insistence of the Queen, and Cecil never remarried. He died on the 24th of May, 1612.

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