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BA 1882

Nathaniel Bishop Harman (1869-1945) matriculated as a non-Collegiate student in 1894 and became a member of St John's College in 1895. He graduated with a double first in Natural Sciences in 1897 and was subsequently appointed a Fellow Commoner. Following his service as a Civilian Doctor in the Boer War, described so graphically in these papers, he enjoyed a distinguished career as an ophthalmic surgeon and specialist, holding senior positions in leading London hospitals and serving on several government committees into the causes and prevention of blindness. These papers were presented to the College by his son John Bishop Harman (also of St John's, BA 1929) in 1961.

Born in Bristol, the son of a Somerset accountant, Harper was educated at Bristol Grammar School. He came up to Cambridge in 1887, initially as a Non-Collegiate student and then as a pensioner at St John's College. Graduating BA in 1890, with a Third Class in Part I of the Theological Tripos, Harper was ordained in 1892 and embarked upon a clerical career. His first post was as Curate of Holy Trinity, Oxford (1892-5) and he subsequently held positions as Curate of Portman Chapel, London (1895-6), Associate Secretary of C.P.A.S. (1897-9), Rector of West Harling, Norfolk (1899-1915), and Rector of Riddlesworth with Gasthorpe and Knettishall (1915-24). At his old Cambridge college Harper established the Harper-Wood Travelling Studentship in English Poetry and Literature. He died in New South Wales in 1947.

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BA 1905. Editor of the 'Spectator'.