Ascension Parish Burial Ground

A

Grave of astronomer John Couch Adams and wife Eliza Adams

• John Couch Adams[2] FRS Astronomer, discoverer of Neptune, Lowndean Professor, Fellow of Pembroke College. He is unique in also having a commemorative memorial in Westminster Abbey
• Sir Hugh Kerr Anderson[2] FRS, physiologist, Master Gonville and Caius College: 1912 to 1928.
• Rev. Richard Appleton[2] Master Selwyn College 1907–1909, Vicar of St. George's, Camberwell, Vicar of Ware.

B

Grave of Sir Robert Stawell Ball and wife Lady Frances Elizabeth Ball.

• Sir Robert Stawell Ball[2] FRS, Astronomer, Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.
• Arthur Christopher Benson[2] 28th Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge noted for writing the words of the song "Land of Hope and Glory".
• James Bethune-Baker[2] FBA, Theologian, Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity, Fellow of Pembroke College.
• Charles Oscar Brink[2] FBA, Classicist, fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, (cremated remains).
• Sir Denis William Brogan[2] FBA, Historian, Political Scientist, Fellow of Peterhouse, Professor of Political Science.
• Zachary Nugent Brooke[2] FBA, Historian, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, Professor of Medieval History.
• Geoffrey Bushnell[2] FBA, Archaeologist and Ethnologist, Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

C

Memorial to Sarah Clackson

• Sir William Henry Clark[2] Civil Servant.
• Sir John Cockcroft[2] OM FRS, Physicist, Nobel Prize winner, Master Churchill College 1959 to 1968, Fellow of St John's.
• Frances Cornford,[2] Poet, interred in grave of father Sir Francis Darwin.

D

Gravestone of Sir Francis Darwin, FRS

• Sir Francis Darwin[2] FRS, Botanist, biographer, Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, buried with his daughter the poet Frances Cornford [2].
• Sir Horace Darwin[2] FRS, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Scientific instrument maker and wife Lady Ida Darwin [2].

E

• Sir Arthur Eddington[2] OM FRS, Astrophysicist, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy: cremated remains interred in the grave of his mother Sarah Eddington, with the cremated remains of sister Winifred Eddington.

F

• Sir James Frazer[2] OM FRS FBA, Anthropologist, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

G

• Henry Melvill Gwatkin[2] (Rev.) Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Historian, theologian, conchologist, Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge and Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

H

• Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins[2] OM, FRS, Nobel Prize winner, Biochemist, Professor, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
• Bertram Hopkinson,[2][3] CMG FRS, Patent Lawyer, Engineer, Professor of Mechanism and Applied Mechanics.
• Arthur Hutchinson[2] FRS and Master Pembroke College 1928 to 1937.

J

• Henry Jackson[2] OM, FBA, Regius Professor of Greek (Cambridge), Classicist, Vice-Master Trinity College, Cambridge 1914–1919, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Member of the Cambridge Apostles, the intellectual secret society
• Sir Richard Jebb[2] OM, MP, FBA, Regius Professor of Greek (Cambridge), Classicist, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Member of the Cambridge Apostles, the intellectual secret society.

K

• Courtney Stanhope Kenny[2] FBA, MP, Legal scholar, Downing professor of the laws of England, Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge.

L

• Sir Horace Lamb[2] FRS, Mathematician, Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

M

Gravestone of philosopher G. E. Moore OM and wife Dorothy Moore

• Sir Donald MacAlister,[2] Vice-Chancellor Glasgow, Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge and Member of the Cambridge Apostles, the intellectual secret society.
• Sir Desmond MacCarthy,[2] Literary and drama critic, Member of the Cambridge Apostles, the intellectual secret society.
• Norman McLean[2] FBA, Orientalist and Member of the Cambridge Apostles, Master Christ's College, Cambridge 1927 to 1936.
• Brigadier Arthur Gordon Matthew.[4]
• John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor[2] FBA, Librarian, Professor of Latin, Antiquarian, President of St John's College, Cambridge.
• Robert Williams Michell FRCS.[5]
• George Edward Moore[2] OM, FBA, Philosopher, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Professor of Philosophy, Member of the Cambridge Apostles, the intellectual secret society.

N

• Hugh Frank Newall[2] FRS, Professor of Astrophysics, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
• Alfred Newton[2] FRS, Professor of Comparative Anatomy, Fellow of Magdalene College, Ornithologist.

P

R

• Frank P. Ramsey[2] Philosopher and mathematician, Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, Member of the Cambridge Apostles, the intellectual secret society, buried in same grave as his parents: Arthur Stanley Ramsey and Mary Agnes Ramsey.
• Walter William Rouse Ball,[2] Mathematician, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

S

• Sir John Edwin Sandys[2] FBA, Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, Classicist and Public Orator.
• Charlotte Scott,[2] Pioneer woman student, buried in the grave of Eliza Nevin.
• Gerald Shove,[6] economist and Member of the Cambridge Apostles, the intellectual secret society.
• Walter William Skeat[2] FBA Philologist, Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon, Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge.
• Bridget Spufford,[2] after whom "Bridget's Hostel", Cambridge was named; daughter of Professors Peter Spufford and the late Margaret Spufford, sister of Francis Spufford. She is buried with her grandmother, Mary Clark, née Johnson.
• Joseph Peter Stern[2] FBA, Germanist, Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, (cremated remains).

T

• Henry Martyn Taylor[2] FRS, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Mathematician, braille expert.

V

• Arthur Woollgar Verrall,[2] Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Classicist, Member of the Cambridge Apostles, King Edward VII professorship of literature, literary scholar.

W

Gravestone of Ludwig Wittgenstein in 2004, before its 2015 restoration

• John Wisdom (cremated) [2] Professor of Philosophy, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, philosopher, and Honorary Fellow of Fitzwilliam College.
• Ludwig Wittgenstein[7] philosopher, Professor of Philosophy, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Member of the Cambridge Apostles.
• Charles Wood[2] Professor of Music, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, composer.
• William Aldis Wright[2] Shakespearean and Biblical scholar, Vice-Master Trinity College, Cambridge, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1888–1914.