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Alma mater. University of Cambridge. Notable awards. OBE. Spouse. Scott Button. Sarah Florence Wood (born 1973) [1] [2] is a British businesswoman. She is the co-founder of video advertising platform Unruly [3] and received an OBE for services to innovation and technology.
Emma Darwin ( née Wedgwood) The most prominent member of the family, Charles Darwin, proposed the first coherent theory of evolution by means of natural and sexual selection . Charles Robert Darwin (1809–1882) was a son of Robert Waring Darwin and Susannah Wedgwood. He married Emma Wedgwood (1808–1896), a daughter of Josiah Wedgwood II and ...
Ralph Hanna is Professor Emeritus of Paleography at Keble College, Oxford and Professor Emeritus of English at University of California, Riverside. After undergraduate study at Amherst College, he earned his M.A. and Ph.D. at Yale University. [1] He is the author of Pursuing History: Middle English Manuscripts and Their Texts (1996), [2] London ...
The Soham murders were a double child murder committed in Soham, Cambridgeshire, England on 4 August 2002.The victims were two 10-year-old girls, Holly Marie Wells and Jessica Amiee Chapman, who were lured into the home of a local resident and school caretaker, Ian Kevin Huntley, who subsequently murdered the children — likely via asphyxiation — before disposing of their bodies in an ...
The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209, the University of Cambridge is the world's third-oldest university in continuous operation. The university's founding followed the arrival of scholars who left the University of Oxford for Cambridge after a dispute with local townspeople.
Sarah Woodhead. Sarah Woodhead (1851–1912) was the first woman to take and pass a Tripos examination. In particular, she was the first woman to take, and to pass, the Mathematical Tripos exam, which she did in 1873. [1]
The Mander Portman Woodward college in Cambridge is situated on Brookside, just off Trumpington Road, a few minutes' walk from the centre of Cambridge. Established in 1987, it is a co-educational GCSE and A level college. Its most recent Ofsted inspection report has the college scoring Ofsted's maximum rating of Outstanding in all assessment areas.
Kasia Boddy. Kasia Boddy is a Professor of American Literature at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Fitzwilliam College. [1] She was born in Aberdeen in 1966 and grew up in Glasgow, where she attended Hyndland Secondary School. She did an MA in English and Philosophy at Edinburgh and a PhD on American short fiction at Cambridge.