Photograph Album of Cambridge Personalities

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 12 MS Add.8958
  • Dates of Creation
      1800-1899 (Circa)
  • Language of Material
      English .
  • Physical Description
      1 volume(s) 1 volume

Scope and Content

40 photographs, many of 19th century Cambridge personalities, bishops and clergymen, including John C. Adams; Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham; Sir George E. Paget; Fenton J.A. Hort; Robert Machray, Bishop of Rupertsland; George A. Selwyn, Bishop of New Zealand later Lichfield; Edward J. Routh; [William T. Kingsley]; Frederick W. Brindley; Joseph F. Fenn; James Rickards; Alfred Barry, Bishop of Sydney; Thomas W. Hardy; Charles T. Longley, Archbishop of Canterbury; William Thomson; Lord Kelvin; William Hopkins; Arthur Cayley; Robert Phelps; John F. Hardy (1826-86); Harvey Goodwin, Bishop of Carlisle; Joseph B. Lightfoot, Bishop of Durham; William M. Gunson; Matthew Arnold; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; Sir George G. Stokes; James A. Jeremie, Dean of Lincoln; William Whewell; Henry Philpott, Bishop of Worcester; and Adam Sedgwick. There are also newscuttings, obituaries, and appreciations of Robert Phelps (1890), John C. Adams (1892), and Henry Philpott (1892).

Access Information

Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Acquisition Information

Purchased 1993

Other Finding Aids

A catalogue of the collection can be found on ArchiveSearch.