John Walton Capstick

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(31 August 1858 – 27 April 1937) was a Bursar of

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Early life

Capstick was born in

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and educated at the Friends' School, Lancaster, and

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, Manchester. He took a teaching post at the

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and entered Trinity as a sub-sizar in 1888. He was elected to

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ship in 1889 and to a scholarship in 1890. He is buried in the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge, with his wife Edith Capstick.

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