This grave was not located by the CFHS survey.
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Monument
This large stone cross fallen within kerb stones, is located by the west wall, in the parish area of St Paul. The cross now rests on the small rough cut block that once supported it. Row 1 grave 21
Inscription
south kerb
‘Here awaits the resurrection the body of John S. Winbolt
Who died Jan. 6 1903 aged 61.’
“The gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
north kerb
‘Christiana Isabella Winbolt his wife
Who died October 17th 1921’
“Them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.”
Christiana Isabella Winbolt (née Stevens) (6 April 1841 – 17 October 1921)
Christiana was born in Kennington, Surrey and was baptised on 26 April 1841 at St.Mark’s Church, Kennington. She was the daughter of Robert (1812-1843) and Christiana (née Briscoe) (1815-1850). Her father was a surgeon, but died of typhus in November 1843. By the time she was 7 years old both her parents had died. Christiana married John Winbolt on 10 April 1869 at St. Andrew’s Church, Singapore and the couple died not have any children.
After she was widowed she returned to London, where she lived at a Private Ladies Club in Mortimer Street. .
John Steddy Winbolt (1841-1903)
John Winbolt was born in Hadley, Middlesex on 8 March 1841, the son of Rev. Thomas Henry (1797-1881) and Mary Susanna (née Holt)(1813-1895) Winbolt and was baptised on 11 April 1841 in Chipping Barnet. His unusual middle name was the maiden name of his paternal grandmother. His father was the curate of Sandridge, Hertfordshire and he grew up at Church End Vicarage with his four siblings. John attended Kings College London before being admitted as a pensioner to Trinity College on 7 February 1860.
He matriculated in October of that year, gaining his BA as 36th Wrangler in 1864 and proceeding to MA in 1867.
From 1868 to 1871 he was Government Surveyor at Malacca, moving in 1871 to the Japanese Imperial Railways as Inspecting Engineer. He returned to England in 1873 due to bad health.
In 1874 he worked for the Great Eastern Railway (GER) Company as Assistant to the Chief engineer , Mr Alfred Langley. By 1889 he was working as the District Engineer for GER. He was obliged to resign from this post in 1895 due to his failing health. From at least 1886 to 1897 the couple lived at 1 Salisbury Villas, Station Road later moving to 13 Harvey Road (at least 1901 onwards)
John married Christiana Isabella Stevens and died at home on 6 January 1903. His widow founded the John WINBOLT Prize in Civil Engineering in 1904, and donated the University a sum of £500 with which to fund the prize. The Cambridge Daily News reported ‘the prize will be offered for competition in 1905 and thence forward annually, and shall consist of the net annual income of the fund’.
Cambridge University Department of Engineering
John Winbolt Prize: Notice
Statutes and Ordinances, 2010, p. 962
The John Winbolt Prize is offered for competition for a paper on some subject selected by the candidate and related to the profession of a civil engineer. All subjects studied for Parts IIA and IIB of the Engineering Tripos are deemed, for the purpose of this Prize, to be subjects related to the profession of civil engineering. Candidates must be graduates of the University or registered Graduate Students under the supervision of the Degree Committee for the Faculty of Engineering and must be under the age of twenty-eight years on the date by which entries are to be sent in. The following shall not be eligible: (a) a person whose name was entered on the Register of Graduate Students more than four years before the date by which entries are to be sent in; (b) a person who holds the Ph.D. Degree, or who is qualified to proceed to that degree; (c) a person to whom the Prize has already been awarded. The paper submitted shall have been accepted for publication in an established professional or learned journal. Candidates must send their entries to the Registry so as to reach him no later than 1 May 2011. The attention of candidates is drawn to the general regulations for Prizes and Medals (Statutes and Ordinances, 2010, p. 738) and in particular to Regulations 10 and 11. The prize money, about £1,500, will not be paid until the successful candidate has deposited a copy of his or her entry in the University Library.
Sources:
CFHS transcripts of parish Records,
Ancestry
FreeBMD Family search
St Paul’s Grave Register Cambridgeshire Archives, Shire Hall, Cambridge – P23a/1/32
ACAD – A Cambridge Alumni Database
Grace’s Guide to British Industrial History
Cambridge University Department of Engineering
By Sheila Plaister and Mary Naylor