| Preface | 7 |
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| Contents | 9 |
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| List of Illustrations | 13 |
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| Part I Educating the Elite | 16 |
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| 1. Introducing Hopkins and His Wranglers | 17 |
| 2. The Student Experience, 1820–1860 | 23 |
| Main Contemporary Sources | 23 |
| The Struggles of Solomon Atkinson | 24 |
| J.M.F. Wright’s “Alma Mater” | 29 |
| Reminiscences of John Venn, Charles Bristed and Walter Besant | 32 |
| Joseph Romilly’s Diaries | 37 |
| 3. Cambridge University in Context | 39 |
| Parliament and the People | 39 |
| Parliament, the Church and the Universities | 41 |
| Promoting Education and Science | 47 |
| The Town and University of Cambridge | 53 |
| College Life | 57 |
| Towards a Modern University | 63 |
| 4. Teaching at Cambridge | 65 |
| Fellows, Private Tutors and Professors | 65 |
| Reforms of Mathematics in the Early Nineteenth Century | 73 |
| Peacock’s “Statutes” and Whewell’s “ Liberal Education” | 80 |
| The 1850–1852 Royal Commission and After | 91 |
| Commission Evidence on Mathematics | 98 |
| The Tripos and Smith’s Prize Examinations | 104 |
| 5. William Hopkins | 113 |
| Biography | 113 |
| Hopkins as Private Tutor | 121 |
| Hopkins on Cambridge Education | 128 |
| Hopkins and Science | 132 |
| 6. Hopkins’ Top Wranglers, 1829–1854 | 145 |
| Portraits of Wranglers: Album and Artist | 145 |
| General View of the Wranglers | 147 |
| Brief Biographies | 151 |
| Part II Careers of the Wranglers | 161 |
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| 7. The Cambridge Stamp | 163 |
| The Bene.ts of Becoming a High Wrangler | 163 |
| Lawyers, Politicians and Educators | 166 |
| The Anglican Church at Home and Abroad | 171 |
| 8. Wranglers at Home: Four Biographies | 177 |
| George Green | 177 |
| John Couch Adams | 187 |
| George Gabriel Stokes | 201 |
| Harvey Goodwin | 215 |
| 9. Universities and Colleges | 227 |
| The English Universities and Colleges | 227 |
| The Scottish Universities | 244 |
| Ireland and Overseas | 250 |
| 10. Wranglers Abroad: Churchmen and Educators in the Colonies | 255 |
| Australia: C. Perry, J.W. Stephen, W.P. Wilson, A. Barry, M. B. Pell, W. Scott, J. Cockle | 255 |
| India: H. Cotterill, J.H. Pratt, C.B. Clarke, W. A. Porter, J. B. Phear | 267 |
| The African Bishops: J.W. Colenso, C. F. Mackenzie, H. Cotterill | 284 |
| 11. The Growth of a Research Community | 301 |
| Institutions and Journals | 301 |
| Scottish and Irish Contributions | 307 |
| 12. Achievements in the Mathematical Sciences | 315 |
| The Mathematical Sciences Before 1830 | 315 |
| The Mathematical Sciences, 1830–1880 | 323 |
| 13. Postscript | 357 |
| Appendix | 369 |
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| Appendix A | 369 |
| Appendix B | 370 |
| References | 373 |
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| INDICES | 397 |
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| Index of Personal Names | 399 |
| General Index | 411 |