Basil Denis Dennis-Jones
Memorial inscription
In grateful memory of
BASIL DENIS DENNIS-JONES
Precentor & Chaplain of the College from 1920 to 1957
Born 10 August 1883. Died 31 December 1967
Translation
Sacred to the memory of John Davies, B.D., elected a Fellow in 1766 and Vice-Master in 1797. Having acquired the elements of the Liberal Arts while at Westminster School, when he was older he developed his own love for botanical research, nevertheless leaving himself time for less specialised and more weighty subjects, to which he brought a keen and sure judgement. He was a man of such charming manners and such an easy and open character that he enjoyed the goodwill of all and uncommon devotion from his friends. He died at the age of seventy-three on 1st February 1817. The mortal remains of this greatly mourned man rest in the chancel of St Michael’s Church, Cambridge; the rest is owed to God.
