Cambridge Apostles

The Cambridge Apostles, also known as the Cambridge Conversazione Society, is an elite intellectual secret society at Cambridge University, founded in 1820 by George Tomlinson, a Cambridge student who went on to become the Bishop of Gibraltar.

Former members

Members of the Cambridge Apostles have included (with the year they joined in brackets, where it is known):

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• George Tomlinson, Bishop of Gibraltar (1820)
• J.F.D. "Frederick" Maurice, Christian socialist writer
• John Sterling, writer and poet
• Charles Buller, barrister and MP
• Arthur Buller, judge of the Supreme Court, Calcutta
• Richard Trench, Christian writer, Archbishop of Dublin
• John Mitchell Kemble, historian
• Erasmus Alvey Darwin, brother of Charles Darwin (1823)
• Arthur Hallam, poet (1829)
• Alfred Tennyson, English poet, member of the House of Lords (1829)
• Fenton Hort (1851), theologian
• Brooke Foss Westcott, theologian, Bishop of Durham
• James Clerk Maxwell, physicist (1852)
• Henry Sidgwick, philosopher (1857)
• Edward Fitzgerald, poet and translator of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
• G. H. Hardy, mathematician.
• C. P. Snow, writer and physicist
• A.N. Whitehead, mathematician, logician and philosopher (1884)
• Roger Eliot Fry, art historian (1887)
• Bertrand Russell, philosopher, member of the House of Lords (1892)
• Leslie Stephen, philosopher
• Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, historian and philosopher
• J. M. E. McTaggart, philosopher
• G.E. Moore, philosopher (1894)
• E. M. Forster, writer (1901)
• Desmond McCarthy, newspaper critic
• Lytton Strachey, writer and critic (1902)
• Arthur Waley, Chinese and Japanese translator and historian
• Robert Trevelyan, poet and translator
• Saxon Sidney Turner, writer
• Francis Birrell, critic and journalist
• John Maynard Keynes, economist, member of the House of Lords (1903)
• Rupert Brooke, poet (1908)
• Raymond Mortimer, art critic, journalist, editor of the New Statesman
• Stephen Tomlin, sculptor
• Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher (1912)
• Aldous Huxley, writer
• Gerald Shove, economist
• Guy Burgess, MI6 officer, KGB spy
• Anthony Blunt, art adviser to the Queen, MI5 officer, KGB spy (1927)
• G.M. Trevelyan, historian
• Julian Bell, poet
• John Tressider "Jack" Sheppard, classicist, provost of King's College
• Victor Rothschild, financier, member of the House of Lords
• Michael Whitney Straight, American magazine publisher, member of the Whitney family, Presidential speechwriter, KGB spy
• Noel Annan, intelligence officer, provost of King's College, Cambridge, provost of University College, London, vice-chancellor of the University of London, member of the House of Lords
• Eric Hobsbawm, historian
• Geoffrey Lloyd, emeritus professor of classics at Cambridge; Master of Darwin College, Cambridge
• Paul Levy, food critic for The Observer