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The Reverend Canon Edwin Hill was born in 1843 at the Collegiate School in Leicester, where his father, the Reverend Abraham Hill, was Headmaster. He matriculated at St John’s in 1862 and graduated BA 5th Wrangler in 1866. He was elected to the Fellowship of St John’s in 1867 serving until 1890. During this time he was a Steward 1874-5 and Tutor 1875-1889, before moving to Cockfield, Suffolk to take up the post of Rector. He held that position for 40 years, including a period 1901-19 as Rural Dean of Lavenham. He was made Honorary Canon of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich in 1914 until his death in 1933.

Hill died in June 1933 at home in Bury St Edmunds. He had never married and left a substantial proportion of his estate St John’s College.
Obituary in The Eagle: Vol 48, Mich 1933, p. 67

The Reverend John Hymers was born in Omersby, Cleveland in July 1803, where his father occupied a farm on an estate. He was elected to Sizar and matriculated at St John’s in 1822; graduated Second Wrangler in 1826, before being elected Fellow a year later. He was appointed Moderator in the University in 1833 and 1834, and Lady Margaret’s Preacher in 1841. Alongside this, at St John’s he became Assistant Tutor in 1829, Tutor in 1832, and President in 1848.
He was well known for being a strong teacher and getting the best out of his pupils academically. He authored several works on mathematics throughout his lifetime.
Hymers was elected to the Rectory of Brandsburton in Holderness in 1852, where he remained until his death in 1887.
On his death he bequeathed a large sum of money for the foundation of a Grammar School in Hull, to enable academically gifted pupils from any background to receive an education. This led to the foundation of Hymers College in 1893, and is still in existence today.

Obituary in The Eagle: Vol 14, 1887, p398

Academic and historian, who specialized in modern British and Irish history. Jeffery obtained his BA, MA and doctorate from St. John's College, before going on to later hold positions at Ulster University and Queen's University, Belfast. He became Professor of British History at Queen's University in 2005.
For a detailed obituary, see The Eagle (2016), p.123.

Matric. at St. John's College, Michaelmas 1895: B.A. 1899, M.A. 1905. Served as College Missioner and Vicar of the Lady Margaret Church, Walworth, 1905-1912.

Author, naturalist, and ornithologist. A founding member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

Edward Ernest Sikes was born on the 26th April, 1867, in Kent, and educated at Aldenham School. At the end of 1885, he was awarded a scholarship at St John’s College, where he would also go on to win a Brown Medal and achieve first place in the First Class in Part I of the Classical Tripos of 1889. He later went out to study at the British School at Athens, before being elected to a Fellowship in 1891.
Sikes’ career at St John’s continued when the next year he was awarded the title of Assistant Lecturer; and, then, Lecturer, a position which he held from 1894 to 1938. He became a Tutor in 1900, a task which he undertook for the next twenty-five years.
When not teaching, Sikes was also a prolific author, publishing works such as Roman Poetry, The Greek View of Poetry, and a translation of Hero and Leander. He was also known to enjoy football, cricket, and music; Sikes was a Chairman of the Smoking Concerts, and President of the musical society.
Sikes remained at St John’s for almost all of the rest of his life, with the exclusion of a brief tenure as a Visiting Professor at Harvard University. He died at Bournemouth, on the 5th February 1940.

Obituary in the Eagle: Vol. 52, Mich 1941, p. 43.
Accessible online at: https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Eagle/Eagle%20Volumes/1940s/1942/Eagle_1941_Michaelmas.pdf

Matric. at St. John's College, Michaelmas 1900: B.A. 1903, M.A. 1907. Hebrew Lecturer at St. John's College, 1906-1920, and Precentor and Hebrew Lecturer at Trinity College, 1907-1920. Showed sustained interest in missionary work, serving first as Assistant Missioner of Wellington College Mission, Walworth, 1905-1906, then as Treasurer of the St. John's College Mission, c.1908-1909. How later became Diocesan Missioner of Manchester, 1924-1926.

Born on 26 November 1918 in Walsall, to Thomas Henry and Emma Hinsley. He was educated at the local elementary school, and then at Queen Mary's Grammar School, Walsall, before winning a scholarship to St John's College to read history. He obtained a First in Part I of the Historical Tripos (1939), but never went on to complete a first or any subsequent degree. After the breakout of the Second World War, Hinsley was recruited into the naval section at the Government Code and Cipher School at Bletchley Park. Here, he became the leading expert on decryption and analysis of German wireless traffic and, after the capture of the German Enigma Code machines and materials, played a vital role in supplying the Admiralty with crucial intelligence analysis derived from Admiral Doenitz's signals, which helped to win the battle against U-boats in the Atlantic. In later life he wrote both official and more personal accounts of the work that had been undertaken at Bletchley Park.

At the conclusion of the war Hinsley returned to St John's College, where he had been elected a research fellow in 1944. On 6 April 1946, Hinsley married Hilary Brett Brett-Smith (Goldsmith's reader in English at Oxford 1939-47), with whom he went on to have three children (2 sons, 1 daughter). He became a university lecturer in history (1949-65), tutor (1956-63) reader in the history of international relations (1965-69), and professor of the history of international relations (1969-83). He also served as President (1975-9) and then Master (1979-89) of St John's College, and in the office of University Vice-Chancellor (1981-3). One of his greatest achievements during his time at Cambridge was the establishment of the research school in the history of international relations in the 1960s and 70s. His research and publications, as well as the research and publications of his PhD students changed the way in which both international relations and their history were studied, and the result was an alteration in the intellectual basis of discussion.

Hinsley was made OBE for his work at Bletchley Park in 1946, was awarded an FBA in 1981, and was also knighted in 1985. He was an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College Dublin (1981), and Darwin College, Cambridge (1987), and was awarded an Honorary DLitt from Witwatersrand (1985) and DMilSci from Royal Roads Military College, Canada (1987). He died of lung cancer at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, on 16 February 1998.

Former Cambridge Blue, rowing coach and historian of the Lady Margaret Boat Club.