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Alumni of the Victoria University of Manchester

  • J. J. ThomsonJoseph John Thomson entered the world on the 18th of December 1856 in Cheetham Hill, Manchester. His mother Emma Swindells came from a local textile family…
  • James ChadwickJames Chadwick was born on the 20th of October 1891 in Cheshire, England. His father John Joseph Chadwick worked as a cotton spinner while his mother Anne…
  • Benedict CumberbatchBenedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch entered the world on the 19th of July 1976 at Queen Charlotte's Hospital in Hammersmith, London.
  • Arthur EddingtonOn the 28th of December 1882, Arthur Stanley Eddington was born in Kendal, Westmorland. His parents were Quakers who valued education and quiet reflection.