A.P. Baker

 

Arthur Ponsford Baker was born at Algoa Bay, Cape Colony (today South Africa) on 6 September 1873 and educated in Cheltenham, Bristol and Cambridge. From 1905 to his death in 1918/19 he lectured in History at Christ’s College Cambridge.

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A College Mystery

1-903552-44-3

A College Mystery

Philip Collier died on the 29th of May. He was a contemporary of Christopher Round and always just a step ahead in every subject: academic rivalry at its best. Not until about a decade later, when both men were lecturers at the same college, did the competition start to heat up. Academically Round occasionally surpassed Collier but socially Collier was one of the favourites of the gods.

Then three things happened. They destroyed one life, ended another and ruined the happiness of a third.

When you add an attractive lady and the possibility of a professorship for one of the two men, a triangle becomes ‘multi-cornered’.

But what really happened on the 29th of May? and seems to happen still on each 29th of May?