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NORMAN MACLEOD FERRERS. 18291903. 



The Rev. Norman Macleod Ferrers was born at Prinknash Park r 

 Gloucestershire, on August 11, 1829; his father being Thomas Brom- 

 field Ferrers. He was educated at Eton and entered Gonville and 

 Caius College in 1847. He was Senior Wrangler in the Mathematical 

 Tripos, 1851, and became first Smith's Prizeman immediately after. 

 After a short period, during which he studied law, in London, and was 

 called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn, he returned to Cambridge and took 

 orders. He was ordained Deacon in 1859 and Priest in 1860, by 

 Bishop Turton, of Ely. He then began to hold in succession many 

 offices in College. He was Dean for five years and became a Senior 

 Fellow in 1861. In 1865, the Rev. C. Clayton resigned the Tutorship- 

 of the College on being presented to a living by the Bishop of Ripon.. 

 The Master of Caius College then divided the office between Ferrers 

 and the Rev. B. H. Drury. 



When the British Association met in Cambridge, in 1862, Ferrers 

 was one of the local Secretaries. 



His chief recreations at this period were his walking trips in Switzer- 

 land and at home. The present writer has several times accompanied 

 him on these tours. As was then the custom we walked over the hills 

 with our knapsacks on our backs, indifferent to all conveyances and 

 sometimes without having settled where we should stay for the night. 

 That he thoroughly enjoyed them was evident, and no doubt the loss 

 of his walking power later on must have been a great deprivation. 

 He used often to count how many times he had ascended Helvellyn ; 

 more than twenty times, he told the writer, and on one occasion he did 

 this twice on the same day. Though so fond of mountains he did 

 not attempt any of the more dangerous ascents in Switzerland, but 

 contented himself with such difficulties as were presented at that time 

 by the Titlis. He also regarded a Christmas trip to Rome as one of 

 the events of his life, a mine of pleasing recollections, as he called it. 

 In returning he travelled over Mont Cenis ; this was done on sledges 

 on which the diligence was placed after being separated from its 

 wheels. 



On April 3, 1866, he married Miss Lamb, daughter of Dr. Lamb r 

 Dean of Bristol and Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. 

 During the following years, and until his election to the Mastership of 

 his College, he resided first in Hills Road, and then for twelve years in 

 Brookside, where all his children were born. Here also he seems to 



