John Walton Capstick
Bursar of Trinity College, Cambridge
About John Walton Capstick
Lived 1858 – 1937 (aged 78).
John Walton Capstick OBE (31 August 1858 – 27 April 1937) was a Bursar of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Biography Capstick was born in Lancaster, Lancashire and educated at the Friends' School, Lancaster, and Owens College, Manchester. He took a teaching post at the University of Dundee and entered Trinity as a sub-sizar in 1888. He was elected to sizarship in 1889 and to a scholarship in 1890.
He is buried in the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge, with his wife Edith Capstick.
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Bursar of Trinity College, Cambridge
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John Walton Capstick was born on 31 August 1858.
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John Walton Capstick died on 27 April 1937.
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