ACAD - A Cambridge Alumni Database: Search Form

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Fill in any (or all) of the search windows below. Remember that being too specific may exclude entries that you would expect to find.
To see hints for searching for women's names, click here:
At present the system is experimental. Data and the searching mechanism may change or disappear without notice.
We can accept no responsibility for your use of the system or the data contained here.
Please note: results for pre-1752 men are treated slightly differently; see the headings of the results.
Life-span ranges for pre-1752 men are shown as 100 years before and after their earliest date.
The coding for some of the data is not very good, so if you can't find what you want with a specific name or place search,
try using just the Text search (which searches for phrases, not individual words).
The searching system is rather primitive, and the output is not in its final form.
Beware! Search results which refer to "previous" or "next" or "above" or "below" refer to earlier or later entries
in the original complete source, not the previous or next found entry. Results are not in strict alphabetical or date order.
See suggestions and notes at the bottom of this page.

Person's Name

Surname	whole	begins	contains

Forename	whole	begins	contains

Placename

City / Town / Village	whole	begins	contains

County

Text
anywhere, including name, placename, and college

Restrict search to date range [very approximate]

Start Year End Year

College

Max number of results to display:

Wild signs

. a single uncertain letter

? zero or one of the preceding letter or .

* zero or more of the preceding letter or .

+ one or more of the preceding letter or .

Counties: Not all places have known counties.
These groupings of counties are made automatically:
   London / Middlesex;      Sussex / E. Sussex, W. Sussex
   Yorks. / E. Riding, W. Riding, N. Riding
   Lothian / E. Lothian, W. Lothian, Mid-Lothian
   Glamorgan / W. Glamorgan, S. Glamorgan, Mid-Glamorgan
Countries: No provision is made for searching for countries.
Date Range: Searching is done within the lifespan of a person (not for a particular event). Because many birth and death dates are approximate, an extra 5 years is allowed at each end of a person's life (for pre-1752 men, 100 years before and after their admission date is used).
Hyphenated and multiple-word surnames: Search for an entry that contains the less common part of the name.
Accented letters: Don't put accented letters in your searches; accented letters in the data are automatically matched to unaccented letters in your search. So, searching for surname Muller will find Müller as well.
Non-letters in searches: Only use letters, digits, hyphen, apostrophe, and the 'wild signs' in searches; other characters may cause errors or unexpected results.

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