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Etcher, illustrator and painter, specialising in architectural studies of London and elsewhere.

Lithographers to Queen Victoria (appointed 1838). Following the death of William Day in 1845 they became known as 'Day & Son'.

Lithographer

BA, PhD, ScD; Fellow of St John’s College 1962–1965 and 1972–2021; Emeritus Professor of Observational Astronomy at the University of Cambridge.

BA 1934; PhD 1938; Fellow 1950-2010; FRS 1956. Professor of Computing Technology 1965-80. Director of the University of Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory, subsequently the Computer Laboratory. Designer of the EDSAC programmable computer, which successfully ran its first significant program on 6 May 1949. Honoured as a pioneer of computing in the UK, Maurice Wilkes was knighted in 2000. He was the first recipient of the Kyoto Prize, computer science's most prestigious award.

Engraver

Historian, BA University of London; PhD, Christ's College, Cambridge. Spent the war years at Bletchley Park. Lecturer at Cambridge University from 1946, with a personal Chair from 1966. Master of Christ's College 1974-82. Knighted in 1982.