Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge

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The chapel of the Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge

The Ascension Parish Burial Ground, formerly St Giles's Parish, is a cemetery located on Huntingdon Road in the north-west of Cambridge, England. It is home to the graves of many Cambridge academics and non-conformists from the 19th and early 20th century. A small chapel is also situated on the grounds, and is currently in use as the workshop of local lettering artist Eric Marland.

Selected graves

The gravestone of Ludwig Wittgenstein has started to attract small tributes in recent years.

cemetery is a place in which dead bodies and cremated remains are buried. The term cemetery (from Greek κοιμητήριον: sleeping place) implies that the land is specifically designated as a burying ground.
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Cambridge is an old English university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire. It lies approximately 50 miles (80 km) north-northeast of London and is surrounded by a number of smaller towns and villages.
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Motto
Dieu et mon droit (French)
"God and my right"
Anthem
No official anthem specific to England — the anthem of the United Kingdom is "God Save the Queen".
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John Couch Adams (June 5 1819 – January 21, 1892), was a British mathematician and astronomer. Adams was born in Laneast, Cornwall and died in Cambridge. The Cornish name Couch is pronounced "cooch".
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Arthur Christopher Benson (24 April, 1862 – 17 June, 1925), British essayist, poet and author, was one of six children of Edward White Benson, a late nineteenth-century Archbishop of Canterbury. An uncle of the family was philosopher Henry Sidgwick.
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For the politician of the same name, see .

Sir John Douglas Cockcroft (May 27, 1897 – September 18, 1967) was a British physicist. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics for splitting the atomic nucleus, and was instrumental in the
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Frances Crofts Cornford (née Darwin; 1886-1960) was an English poet.

She was the daughter of the botanist Francis Darwin and Ellen Crofts, born into the Darwin — Wedgwood family. She was a grand-daughter of the British naturalist Charles Darwin.
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Francis "Frank" Darwin, F.R.S. (August 16 1848 - 19 September 1925), a son of the British naturalist Charles Darwin, followed his father into botany.

Biography

Francis Darwin was born in Down House, Downe, Kent in 1848.
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Sir Horace Darwin, KBE, FRS (13 May 1851 - 29 September 1928), a son of the English naturalist Charles Darwin, was a civil engineer.

Darwin was born in Down House in 1851, the fifth son and ninth child of the British naturalist Charles Darwin and his wife Emma, the youngest
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Arthur Eddington

Arthur Stanley Eddington
Born November 28 1882
Kendal, England
Died November 22 1944 (aged 63)
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James George Frazer (January 1, 1854, Glasgow, Scotland – May 7, 1941), was a Scottish social anthropologist influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion.
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Roberto Gerhard (born Robert Juan Rene Gerhard, September 25, 1896 in Valls, Spain; died January 5, 1970 in Cambridge, England), was a Spanish Catalan composer and musical scholar and writer whose works are among the most important produced by any composer from Spain in the
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Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb, OM (August 27, 1841 – December 9, 1905) was a British classical scholar and politician.

He was born in Dundee, Scotland. His father was a well-known barrister, and his grandfather a judge.
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Sir Horace Lamb FRS (29 November 1849 – 4 December 1934) was a British applied mathematician and author of several influential texts on classical physics, among them Hydrodynamics (1879) and Dynamical Theory of Sound (1910).
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Sir Desmond MacCarthy (1878-1952) was an English critic, a member of the "Bloomsbury Group".

MacCarthy was born in Plymouth, England, and educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge.
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Alfred Marshall (July 26 1842–July 13 1924), born in Bermondsey, London, England, became one of the most influential economists of his time. His book, Principles of Economics
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George Edward Moore, usually known as G. E. Moore, (November 4 1873 – October 24 1958) was a distinguished and influential English philosopher who was educated at Dulwich College^[1] and went on to study, and later teach, at the University of Cambridge.
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Walter William Rouse Ball

W.W. Rouse Ball
Born July 14 1850
Hampstead, London, England
Died March 4 1925 (aged 76)
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Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (IPA: ['luːtvɪç 'joːzɛf 'joːhan 'vɪtgənʃtaɪn]
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