Percy Goom, 1865 - 1931

1932 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-64
Keyword(s):  
Trinity College ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
American Students ◽  
The University

Professor Percy Groom was bom in 1865, and was educated at Mason College, Birmingham, and later at the University of Cambridge, where he was an Exhibitioner at Trinity College. He took Botany as his chief subject in the Tripos (part ii) and subsequently was elected to a Frank Smart Studentship at Caius College. He spent some time in Germany, attaching himself to the University of Bonn at the time when the School of Botany there was under the direction of the eminent Professor Strasburger, who was attracting many English and American students to wrork under him. Here he enjoyed the friendship of the keen band of assistants whom Strasburger had gathered round him, and notably that of A. F. W. Schimper who greatly influenced him in his outlook on botanical science.

“The Cambridge Way”: Conversations with Emeritus Professor John Anthony “Tony” Jolowicz for the Squire Law Library Eminent Scholars Archive

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 251-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lesley Dingle
Keyword(s):  
Trinity College ◽  
Emeritus Professor ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
The University ◽  
Law Library

AbstractLesley Dingle, founder of the Eminent Scholars Archive, provides a further contribution based on interviews with Emeritus Professor John Anthony “Tony” Jolowicz, one of the great legal scholars at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College since 1952.

David Oates 1927–2004

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Curtis
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Trinity College ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
British School ◽  
The University

David Oates (1927–2004), a Fellow of the British Academy, was a distinguished Mesopotamian archaeologist whose name is closely associated with three of the best-known sites in the Middle East: Nimrud, Tell al-Rimah, and Tell Brak. He was a fellow of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge and Lecturer in Archaeology from 1957 to 1965, as well as Director of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq from 1965 to 1969 and Professor of Western Asiatic Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University of London, from 1969 to 1982. In some ways, Oates was a product of the same tradition that had spawned eminent predecessors such as Sir Leonard Woolley and Sir Max Mallowan, but he brought to his task a keen appreciation of ancient languages and cultures, a sharp eye for the interpretation of ancient architecture, and a good understanding of political, social, and economic history and their relevance to archaeological enquiry. At Cambridge he had a brilliant career, reading classics and then archaeology, and graduating in 1948 with first-class honours.

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