Sir Adolphus William Ward, FBA was an English historian and man of letters.
The Knightbridge Professorship of Philosophy is the senior professorship in philosophy at the University of Cambridge. There have been 22 Knightbridge professors, the incumbent being Rae Langton.
Nicholas of Ely was Lord Chancellor of England, Bishop of Worcester, Bishop of Winchester, and Lord High Treasurer in the 13th century.
The New York Court of Chancery was the highest court in the State of New York from 1701 to 1847.
Lynn Faith Gladden, is the Shell Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Cambridge. She served as Pro-vice-chancellor for research from 2010 to 2016. Since October 2018 she has been executive chair at the EPSRC.
Roger Goad (1538–1610) was an English academic theologian, Provost of King's College, Cambridge, and three times Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.
Richard Longworth was an English churchman and academic, Master of St John's College, Cambridge and Dean of Chester.
Peter William Mathieson is an English nephrologist and current vice-chancellor and principal of the University of Edinburgh. Previously, he served as the vice-chancellor and president of the University of Hong Kong (HKU). He was the dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry of the University of Bristol before he assumed office at the HKU in April 2014, and was previously director of studies at Christ's College, Cambridge.
Ernest Stewart Roberts was born in Swineshead, Lincolnshire; a classicist and academic administrator. He served as Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1906-1908). He was admitted to Caius in 1865, elected Fellow in 1870 then Senior Tutor. He was elected President in 1904 and Master in 1903. He was involved in the foundation of the College magazine, The Caian and the College Mission at Battersea and in the organisation of the College rifle corps and boat club.
Joseph Proctor was an academic of the University of Cambridge in the 18th and 19th centuries.
John Chevallier, FRS was an eighteenth century academic, most notably Master of St John's College, Cambridge from 1775 until his death and Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge from 1776 until 1777.
The Very Revd John Frankland was an 18th-century academic and Dean in the Church of England.
Henry Smyth, D.D. was a 17th century priest and academic.
Robert Lambert, D.D. was a priest and academic in the second half of the 18th and the first decades of the 19th centuries..
Edward Hubbard, D.D. was a priest and academic in the second half of the 18th-century.
William Elliston, D.D. was an academic in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
John Adams, D.D. was an academic in the eighteenth century.
Joseph Craven was an 18th-century academic.
Bardsey Fisher was an 18th-century academic.
