This is a list of people whose papers are in Trinity College Library, arranged by the main subjects treated therein. It generally excludes reference to smaller collections of papers, with a few exceptions of small collections of particular significance.
The arrangement has been based on that of the schools of study at the University of Cambridge, though not all the people listed are academics. The main categories are as follows:
- Arts and Humanities
- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Biological Sciences
- Physical Sciences
- Technology
- Business
These main categories are divided into subsections, under which the people named are arranged in chronological order of birth.
Arts and Humanities
Art
Eveleen Myers (1856-1937), née Tennant, photographer
Clive Bell (1881-1964), art critic and writer
Sir Walter Lamb (1882-1961), classicist, Secretary to the Royal Society of Arts
Julian Trevelyan (1910-1988), painter and printmaker
Bibliography and museum curatorship
Sir Francis Palgrave (1788-1861), archivist and historian
Arthur Hamilton Smith (1860-1941), museum curator
Ronald McKerrow (1872-1940), bibliographer and literary scholar
Sir Walter Greg (1875-1959), literary scholar and bibliographer
Philip Gaskell (1926-2001), bibliographer and librarian
Classics
James Henry Monk (1784–1856), Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol and classical scholar
William Hepworth Thompson (1810-1886), college head
Robert Leslie Ellis (1817-1859), mathematician and classical scholar
Alexander Chisholm Gooden (1818-1841), classical scholar
Hugh A. J. Munro (1819-1885), classical scholar
William George Clark (1821-1878), literary and classical scholar
Joseph Bickersteth Mayor (1828-1916), philosopher and classical scholar
Robert Burn (1829-1904), classical scholar and archaeologist
Henry Jackson (1839-1921), classical scholar
Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1841-1905), Greek scholar
John Maxwell Image (1842-1919), classicist
Sir James Frazer (1854-1941), social anthropologist and classical scholar
James Duff Duff (1860-1940), classicist
Francis Macdonald Cornford (1874-1943), classical scholar
Sir Walter Lamb (1882-1961), classicist, Secretary to the Royal Society of Arts
Charles Erskine Stuart (1882-1917), classicist
Andrew Sydenham Farrar Gow (1886-1978), classical scholar
Sir Denys Lionel Page (1908-1978), classical scholar
Enoch Powell (1912-1988), politician
Divinity
John Henley (1692–1756), dissenting minister and eccentric, known as Orator Henley
Thomas Yeates (1768-1839), orientalist and biblical scholar
James Henry Monk (1784–1856), Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol and classical scholar
Charlotte Mayor (1792-1870), née Bickersteth, missionary
William Whewell (1794-1866), college head and writer on the history and philosophy of science
Julius Charles Hare (1795–1855), author and Church of England clergyman
Frederick Field (1801-1885), patristics scholar
Joseph Williams Blakesley (1808-1885), Dean of Lincoln
Edward White Benson (1829-1896), Archbishop of Canterbury
Christian David Ginsburg (1831-1914), biblical scholar and missionary
Languages
Robert Calverley Trevelyan (1872-1951), poet, dramatist, and translator
Dennis Green (1922-2008), philologist
Vivien Law (1954-2002), linguist
Literature and drama
Thomas Gray (1716-1771), poet and literary scholar
Mary Berry (1763–1852), author
Julius Charles Hare (1795–1855), author and Church of England clergyman
Lord Houghton (1809-1885), author and politician
William George Clark (1821-1878), literary and classical scholar
Henry Arthur Bright (1830-1894), author and merchant
Frederic W. H. Myers (1843-1901), psychical researcher and essayist
Edward Bensly (1863-1939), literary scholar
R. Erskine Childers (1870-1922), author and politician
Ronald McKerrow (1872-1940), bibliographer and literary scholar
Robert Calverley Trevelyan (1872-1951), poet, dramatist, and translator
Sir Walter Greg (1875-1959), literary scholar and bibliographer
Edward Morgan Forster (1879-1970), novelist and essayist
Clive Bell (1881-1964), art critic and writer
Dame Rose Macaulay (1881-1958), author
Leopold Hamilton Myers (1881-1944), novelist
A. A. Milne (1882-1956), writer
James Smith (1904-1972), literary critic
Constance Babington Smith (1912-2000), writer and photographic intelligence interpreter
Theodore Redpath (1913-1997), literary scholar
John Cornford (1915-1936), poet and political activist
Sir Peter Shaffer (1926-2016), playwright
Music
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924), composer
Alan Gray (1855-1935), composer and organist
Elizabeth Trevelyan (1875-1957), musician
Philosophy
William Whewell (1794-1866), college head and writer on the history and philosophy of science
Joseph Bickersteth Mayor (1828-1916), philosopher and classical scholar
Henry Sidgwick (1838-1900), philosopher
William Kingdon Clifford (1845-1879), mathematician and philosopher of science
Charlie Dunbar Broad (1887-1971), philosopher
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), philosopher
John Wisdom (1904-1993), philosopher
Rush Rhees (1905-1989), philosopher
Georg Kreisel (1923-2015), mathematical logician and philosopher of mathematics
Humanities and Social Sciences
Archaeology
Robert Burn (1829-1904), classical scholar and archaeologist
Civil Service
Arthur Munby (1828-1910), diarist and civil servant
Sir Henry Babington Smith (1863-1923)
Education
George Peacock (1791-1858), mathematician and university reformer
George Butler (1804-1910), schoolmaster
Robert Burn (1829-1904), classical scholar and archaeologist
Henry Montagu Butler (1833-1918), college head
Sir James Butler (1889-1975), historian
Economics
Henri de Saint-Simon (1760-1825), political and economic theorist
Richard Jones (1790-1855), political economist
Lord Layton (1884-1966), economist and newspaper proprietor
Sir Dennis Robertson (1890-1963), economist
Piero Sraffa (1898-1983), economist
Maurice Dobb (1900-1983), economist
History
Hudson Gurney (1775-1864), antiquary and banker
Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist, and antiquary
Henry Hallam (1777-1859), historian
Sir Francis Palgrave (1788-1861), archivist and historian
Gaillard Lapsley (1871-1949), American constitutional historian
Denys Winstanley (1877-1947), historian
Frederick Arthur Simpson (1883-1974), historian
Sir James Butler (1889-1975), historian
Walter Ullmann (1910-1983), historian
Robert Robson (1929-1995), historian
History of Science
William Whewell (1794-1866), college head and writer on the history and philosophy of science
Journalism
Lord Layton (1884-1966), economist and newspaper proprietor
Law
Lord Lyndhurst (1772-1863), politician and lord chancellor
Lassa Oppenheim (1858-1919), jurist
Politics
Henri de Saint-Simon (1760-1825), political and economic theorist
William Cobbett (1763-1835), political writer and farmer
Lord Lyndhurst (1772-1863), politician and lord chancellor
Robert Pemberton Milnes (1784-1858), landowner and politician
Lord Houghton (1809-1885), author and politician
Charles James Monk (1824-1900), politician
Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence (1867-1954), suffragette
R. Erskine Childers (1870-1922), author and politician
Lord Pethick-Lawrence (1871-1961), politician
Edwin Samuel Montagu (1879-1924), politician
Lord Butler (1902-1982), politician
John Cornford (1915-1936), poet and political activist
Social Anthropology
Sir James Frazer (1854-1941), social anthropologist and classical scholar
Biological Sciences
Biochemistry
Huia Onslow (1890-1922), biochemist
Richard Synge (1914-1994), biochemist
Botany
Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist, and antiquary
Pathology
Sir Anthony Epstein (1921-2024), pathologist
Physiology
Lord Adrian (1889-1977), physiologist
Sir Alan Hodgkin (1914-1998), physiologist
Sir Andrew Huxley (1917-2002), physiologist
Psychical research
Frederic W. H. Myers (1843-1901), psychical researcher and essayist
Margaret de Gaudrion Verrall (1857-1916), classicist and parapsychologist
William Henry Salter (1880-1969), lawyer and psychical researcher
Helen Salter (1883-1959), psychical researcher and psychologist
Charlie Dunbar Broad (1887-1971), philosopher
Physical Sciences
Astronomy
John Bentley (c 1756-1823), astronomer
Sir James Jeans (1877-1946), mathematician and astronomer
Edward Hubert Linfoot (1905-1982), astronomer
Astrophysics
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882-1944), theoretical physicist and astrophysicist
Fluid dynamics
George Keith Batchelor (1920-2000), fluid dynamicist
Gemology
Charles William King (1818-1888), writer on gemstones
Mathematics
George Peacock (1791-1858), mathematician and university reformer
Robert Leslie Ellis (1817-1859), mathematician and classical scholar
William Kingdon Clifford (1845-1879), mathematician and philosopher of science
Sir Horace Lamb (1849-1934), mathematician
Robert Alfred Herman (1861-1927), mathematician
Sir James Jeans (1877-1946), mathematician and astronomer
Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920), mathematician
E. H. Neville (1889-1961), mathematician and educationist
Albert Edward Ingham (1900-1967), mathematician
Lancelot Stephen Bosanquet (1903-1984), mathematician
Harold Davenport (1907-1969), mathematician
Sidney George Francis Guy Skinner (1912-1941), mathematician
Georg Kreisel (1923-2015), mathematical logician and philosopher of mathematics
Frank Adams (1930-1989), mathematician
Alan Baker (1939-2018), mathematician
Natural philosophy
Michael Faraday (1791-1867), natural philosopher
Physics
James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879), physicist
Sir Joseph John Thomson (1876-1970), physicist
Francis Aston (1877-1945), physicist
Lise Meitner (1878-1968), physicist
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882-1942), theoretical physicist and astrophysicist
Sir Geoffrey Taylor (1886-1975), physicist and engineer
Sir George Paget Thomson (1892-1975), physicist and Nobel laureate
Otto Frisch (1904-1979), physicist
Technology
Engineering
Sir Geoffrey Taylor (1886-1975), physicist and engineer
Business
Hudson Gurney (1775-1864), antiquary and banker
Henry Arthur Bright (1830-1894), author and merchant
Sir Henry Babington Smith (1863-1923), civil servant and financier