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The Cambridge Apostles, also known as Conversazione Society, is an intellectual secret society at the University of Cambridge.[1] It was founded in 1820.[1] Following is a list of its notable members.

Member Election Date College Notability References
Noel Annan, Baron Annan King's House of Lords; provost of King's College, Cambridge; British military intelligence officer; provost of University College London; and vice-chancellor of the University of London [2]
Ferenc Békássy 27 January 1911 King's Poet [1]
Julian Bell 17 November 1928 King's Poet [1]
Hugh Blackburn Trinity Professor of mathematics at the University of Glasgow
George Holmes Blakesley 28 February 1868 King's Author [1]
Joseph Blakesley Trinity Canon of Canterbury Cathedral and Dean of Lincoln
Anthony Blunt Trinity Art historian and Soviet spy who was a member of the Cambridge Five [3]
R. B. Braithwaite 26 February 1921 King's Philosopher and ethicist [1]
Rupert Brooke 25 January 1908 King's Poet [1][4]
Oscar Browning 11 December 1858 King's Educationalist and historian [1]
Charles Buller Trinity Member of Parliament and Judge Advocate General of the Armed Forces
Guy Burgess Trinity Radio producer, British intelligence and Foreign Office officer, and Soviet spy who was a member of the Cambridge Five [3][5]
John Cairncross Trinity British intelligence officer and Soviet spy [3]
William Dougal Christie Trinity British diplomat, politician, and man of letters
William Cookesley 8 November 1928 Trinity Classical scholar, cleric, and master of Eton College [1]
William Johnson Cory 10 March 1844 King's Educator and poet [1]
Gerald Croasdell Pembroke Trade unionist and general secretary of the International Federation of Actors
Erasmus Alvey Darwin Christ's Brother of Charles Darwin
Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson 14 February 1885 King's Historian, political philosopher, and activist [1]
James Hamilton Doggart King's Ophthalmologist, cricketer, and a member of the Bloomsbury Group
Frederic Farrar Trinity Dean of Canterbury, school teacher, and author
E. M. Forster 9 February 1901 King's Novelist, writer, and a member of Bloomsbury Group [1][4][6]
Roger Fry 28 May 1887 King's Painter and critic [1][6]
Robin Gandy King's Mathematician and logician [7]
Walford Davis Green 6 March 1905 King's House of Commons of the United Kingdom [1]
Arthur Hallam Trinity Poet [8]
Thomas Oliver Harding 1872 Trinity Senior Wrangler at Cambridge University [9]
G. H. Hardy Trinity Mathematician
Francis Haskell King's Art historian
Ralph George Hawtrey Trinity Economist and a member of Bloomsbury Group [6]
Douglas Heath Trinity Barrister, judge, literary editor, classical scholar, and writer [10]
Arthur Helps Trinity Writer and dean of the Privy Council
Eric Hobsbawm 193x King's Academic historian and Marxist historiographer
Alan Hodgkin 1935 Trinity Biophysicist and co-winner of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology
F. J. A. Hort Trinity Anglican theologian
George Howard 1864 Trinity Painter and the 9th Earl of Carlisle
Henry Jackson 1863 Trinity Vice-master of Trinity College and Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge
Lal Jayawardena King's Sri Lankan Ambassador to the European Economic Community, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands; economist; and first director of the World Institute for Development Economics Research [11]
Richard Claverhouse Jebb 1859 Trinity Classical scholar and MP for Cambridge
John Mitchell Kemble Trinity Scholar and historian who made one of the first translations of Beowulf
Benjamin Hall Kennedy St John's Scholar and schoolmaster
John Maynard Keynes 28 February 1903 King's Economist [1][4][6]
Henry Lintott 30 November 1929 King's British High Commissioner to Canada [1]
Richard Llewelyn-Davies, Baron Llewelyn-Davies Trinity Architect [12]
D. W. Lucas 7 November 1925 King's Classical scholar, a fellow of King's College, and cryptanalyst at Bletchley Park during World War II [1]
Gordon Luce Emmanuel Orientalist and colonial scholar in Burma
Vernon Lushington Trinity Deputy Judge Advocate General and Second Secretary to the Admiralty
Donald MacAlister 1876 St. John's Chancellor of the University of Glasgow
William Herrick Macaulay 20 May 1876 King's Mathematician [1]
Desmond MacCarthy Trinity Writer and the foremost literary and dramatic critic of his day [6]
John Gorham Maitland Trinity Academic and civil servant
Arthur Malkin 1826 Trinity Cricketer, writer, and alpinist
F. D. Maurice Trinity Anglican socialist theologian
James Clerk Maxwell Trinity Physicist responsible for the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation
Robert John Grote Mayor 2 March 1888 King's Civil servant and educationist [1]
Norman McLean 1888 Christ's Semitic and Biblical scholar
J. M. E. McTaggart Trinity Metaphysician and philosopher [1]
Jonathan Miller St John's theatre and opera director, actor, author, television presenter, and humourist
Richard Monckton Milnes Trinity Poet, patron of literature, and the 1st Baron Houghton
James Mirrlees Trinity British Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences
Robert Monteith Trinity Deputy Lieutenant for the County of Lanark, Scotland
G. E. Moore Trinity Philosopher and one of the founders of analytic philosophy [1][6]
Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet Trinity Jurist
Dennis Proctor 22 October 1927 King's British civil servant; Knight Companion of the Order of the Bath [1]
Marlborough Pryor Trinity Businessman [13]
Walter Raleigh 28 October 1882 King's Scholar, poet, and author [1]
Frank Plumpton Ramsey 22 October 1921 King's Philosopher and economist [1]
Thomas Robinson Trinity Archdeacon of Madras; Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge; and Master of the Temple
Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild Trinity Banker, scientist, intelligence officer, and government advisor
Bertrand Russell Trinity Philosopher and logician; one of the founders of analytic philosophy [1][14]
Dadie Rylands 25 February 1922 King's Literary scholar and theatre director [1]
Amartya Sen Trinity Economist and philosopher [4]
John Tresidder Sheppard 8 February 1902 King's Classical scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge [1]
Peter Shore King's British Labour Party politician and Cabinet minister [15]
Gerald Shove 30 January 1909 King's Economist [1]
Henry Sidgwick Trinity Philosopher and economist; founder and first president of the Society for Psychical Research [4]
Quentin Skinner Christ's A founder of the Cambridge School of the history of political thought; winner of the Wolfson History Prize and the Balzan Prize
Arthur Smith Trinity Archaeologist and curator of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum; director of the British School at Rome [16]
Henry Babington Smith Trinity Senior British civil servant and a director of the Bank of England [16]
James Parker Smith Trinity Barrister and politician who served as Liberal Unionist Member of Parliament for Partick [16]
W. J. H. Sprott Clare Psychologist and writer
Edward Stanley Trinity Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Colonial Secretary, and 15th Earl of Derby
Vincent Henry Stanton Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University
James Kenneth Stephen 17 May 1879 King's Poet and royal tutor [1]
Leslie Stephen King's Writer and mountaineer; father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell [1][4]
John Sterling Trinity Author
Lytton Strachey Trinity Writer, critic, and a founding member of the Bloomsbury Group [1][4]
Michael Straight Trinity Magazine publisher, novelist, and Soviet spy [3]
Saxon Sydney-Turner early 1900s Trinity British civil servant and a member of Bloomsbury Group [6]
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Trinity Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom [4][8]
George Derwent Thomson 10 November 1923 King's Classical scholar, Marxist philosopher, and scholar of the Irish language [1]
George Tomlinson 1 April 1820 St John's first Bishop of Gibraltar [1][17]
Richard Chenevix Trench Trinity Archbishop of Dublin, Primate of Ireland, and poet
G. M. Trevelyan Trinity Chancellor of Durham University; Master and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge [2]
R. C. Trevelyan Trinity Poet and translator
A. W. Verrall 1877 Trinity Classics scholar
Francis Warre-Cornish c. 1860 King's Schoolmaster, scholar, and writer [1]
Ronald Watkins 24 October 1925 King's Drama teacher and director [1]
Alister Watson 29 January 1927 King's Mathematician and a key member of the Cambridge Five [1]
Nathaniel Wedd 25 February 1888 King's Historian and academic [1]
Sir Ralph Wedgwood, 1st Baronet Trinity Chief Officer of the London and North Eastern Railway and chairman of the Railway Executive Committee
James Welldon 6 February 1875 King's Clergyman and scholar [1]
Brooke Foss Westcott Trinity Bishop of Durham, scholar, and theologian
Alfred North Whitehead Trinity Mathematician and philosopher [1]
Ludwig Wittgenstein Trinity Philosopher and logician [4][14]
Leonard Woolf Trinity Author and publisher; husband of Virginia Woolf [1][4]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an "The Apostles, up to 1930". King's College Cambridge. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
  2. ^ a b Lubenow, W. C. (1998). The Cambridge Apostles, 1820-1914: Liberalism, Imagination, and Friendship in British Intellectual and Professional Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 1. ISBN 978-0-521-57213-2 Retrieved 21 July 2019.
  3. ^ a b c d "A Cambridge Secret Revealed: the Apostles". King's College Cambridge. January 2011. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Datta, Taneesha (31 March 2023). "'A hotbed of vice': the Cambridge Apostles". Varsity Online. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
  5. ^ Lownie, Andrew (2016). Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess. Hodder and Stoughton. p. 33. ISBN 978-1-473-62738-3.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g Rosner, Victoria (2014). The Cambridge Companion to the Bloomsbury Group. Cambridge University Press. p. 33. ISBN 978-1-107-01824-2. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
  7. ^ "Wolfson College salutes Robin Gandy on his centenary | Wolfson College, Oxford". 13 October 2020. Archived from the original on 13 October 2020. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
  8. ^ a b Leadbetter, Emma. "Tennyson at Cambridge: The Apostles". Cambridge Authors. Archived from the original on 27 March 2010.
  9. ^ Grattan-Guinness, I. (September 2001). "The interest of G. H. Hardy, F.R.S., in the philosophy and the history of mathematics". Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London. 55 (3). The Royal Society: 411–424. doi:10.1098/rsnr.2001.0155. S2CID 146374699.
  10. ^ Peter Allen (10 June 2010). The Cambridge Apostles: The Early Years. Cambridge University Press. p. 217. ISBN 978-0-521-14254-0
  11. ^ Warwick, Andrew (2003). Masters of Theory: Cambridge and the Rise of Mathematical Physics. University of Chicago Press. p. 198.
  12. ^ Deacon, Richard, The Cambridge Apostles: a history of Cambridge University's élite intellectual secret society (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986), pp. 124-5. ISBN 0-374-11820-5
  13. ^ Lubenow, William C. (29 October 1998). The Cambridge Apostles, 1820-1914: Liberalism, Imagination, and Friendship in British Intellectual and Professional Life. Cambridge University Press. p. 127. ISBN 978-0-521-57213-2.
  14. ^ a b McGuinness, Brian. Wittgenstein: A Life: Young Ludwig 1889-1921. University of California Press, 1988, p. 118.
  15. ^ "Lord Shore of Stepney". The Independent. 26 September 2001. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
  16. ^ a b c Lubenow, William C. (29 October 1998). The Cambridge Apostles, 1820-1914: Liberalism, Imagination, and Friendship in British Intellectual and Professional Life. Cambridge University Press. pp. 36 and 256. ISBN 978-0-521-57213-2.
  17. ^ W. C. Lubenow, The Cambridge Apostles 1820-1914, Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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