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Lunn, John Robert (1831-1899) mathematician and musician

  • GB 275 002152
  • Person
  • 1831-1899

The son of Robert Lunn, a farmer from Cleve Prior, John Robert Lunn was born in 1831. After schooling at King Edward's, Birmingham, Lunn was admitted to St John's College, Cambridge in 1849. He graduated BA in 1853, as 4th Wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos, was elected to a Foundress Fellowship in 1855, and received his BD in 1863. From 1857 to 1864 Lunn served the University as Sadleirian Lecturer in Mathematics. Lunn was ordained deacon by the Bishop of Ely in 1855, and priest the following year. He left Cambridge in 1863 to take up the Vicarage of Marton-cum-Grafton, Yorkshire, where he stayed until his death on 23 February 1899. He married, on 5 April 1864, Sophia, daughter of T.P. Fernie.

Lunn learnt music from his mother at a young age, and was organist at Edgbaston Parish Church 1846-7. He was President of the Cambridge University Musical Society and did much to make known the works of J. S. Bach. Lunn composed ecclesiastical music, including an unpublished oratorio 'S. Paulinus of York'. He was also author of the pamphlets 'Life of Caleb Parnham' and 'The sin of the age - compromise: a sermon'. A mural brass in the chancel of Marton Church bears a likeness of him.

Jopson, Norman Brooke (1890-1969) philologist

  • GB 275 002057
  • Person
  • 1890-1969

Jopson came to St John's in 1909 to study for the Modern and Medieval Languages and Oriental Languages Triposes, graduating in 1912. After war service and work in the Foreign Office, he was appointed Comparative Reader at the School of Slavonic Studies, University of London, in 1923. During the Second World War, Jopson was head of the Department of Uncommon Languages. From 1937 to 1954 he was Professor of Comparative Philology at the University of Cambridge. He was a Fellow of St John's College from 1937 until his death in 1969.

Howard, Gabrielle Louise Caroline (1876-1930), plant scientist

  • GB 275 007501
  • Person
  • 1876-1930

She was born Gabrielle Louise Caroline Matthaei, one of three daughters of a German, French and Swiss family. Gabrielle studied Natural Sciences at Newnham College 1895-99 and became a Fellow. She married Albert Howard in 1905. In 1913 she was appointed second imperial botanist to the government of India. With her husband, she established the Institute of Plant Industry at Indore in 1924. Published nearly 150 papers and monographs on agricultural and botanical subjects, mostly in collaboration with Albert Howard.

Howard, Lady Louise Ernestine (1880-1969)

  • GB 275 007502
  • Person
  • 1880-1969

She was born Louise Ernestine Matthaei, one of three daughters of a German, French and Swiss family. She studied Classics at Newnham College 1900-5 and became a Fellow. She served as chief of the agricultural section of the International Labour Organization from 1924. Following her marriage to Albert Howard in 1931 she became an advocate of organic husbandry. After his death she co-founded the Albert Howard Foundation, which in 1953 merged with the Soil Association of which she became honorary life vice-president.

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