He was a composer, organist, and conductor. In 1887 he was appointed professor of music at Cambridge University, and lived in Harvey Road from 1884 to 1893.

She was an artist, illustrator, wood engraver, and at the age of 62, started to write her classic childhood memoir 'Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood'. She was the granddaughter of the naturalist Charles Darwin, and was born and died here at Newham Grange, the Darwin family home, now part of Darwin College.

Campaigner for adult and child education. A suffragist, magistrate and penal reformer. Founder of the Cambridge Cooperative Women's Guild. A City and County Councillor.

She was the curator of the Cambridge & County Folk museum from 1947 to 1976, and a leading authority on Cambridgeshire culture, history, customs, stories and beliefs, and a pioneer of oral history. She said of the museum: 'It is the intimacy of it that I like, relating the objects to the role they played in people's lives and the customs they have played a part in'.

He was a fellow of Gonville and Caius, physician, financier, and philanthropist. His will included a bequest of land for the establishment of what was then described as a Free Grammar School which later become the Perse Schools.

New Hall, a women's college of Cambridge University, was founded in Silver Street in 1954, with two tutors and sixteen students. In 1964 the College moved to its permanent home in Huntington Road.

The house at 10 Peas Hill was once his home where he opened the first banking house in Cambridge. He was a draper, banker, MP, recorder and 13-times mayor, and was hence known as the 'Master of the town of Cambridge'. He was called corrupt by his political opponents, which led to his stance: 'That which you call corruption I call influence'.

He is known primarily as the pioneer of Communitiy Education, and in particular, the Cambridgeshire Village Colleges. As the Chief Education Officer for Cambridgeshire for over thirty years, his vision was to provide 'Education from the cradle to the grave'.

He was a University caterer, a sportsman, and an early pioneer of motoring and flying. He was the founder of Marshall of Cambridge; the Head Office was situated in Jesus Lane from 1912 to 1939, and continued as a garage until 2000.

Twin sisters and intrepid Biblical scholars, they donated land for the building of Westminster College. The twins were born in Irvine, in Scotland and lived in Cambridge from 1888 until their deaths. It was in Cambridge that they became eminent scholars of ancient Biblical manuscripts in Greek, Hebrew, Arabic and Syriac.