Dr Abdelmoneim was born and raised in the UK to Sudanese Iranian parents. He graduated in medicine from University College London in 2003 and undertook postgraduate training in emergency medicine. After gaining MRCP (Membership of the Royal College of Physicians, London) and obtaining a diploma in tropical medicine, he joined Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in 2009 […]
Surgeon Commander Anton Fries was an active member of the Combined Cadet Force before leaving The Perse. After taking a gap year with the Army, he studied medicine at the University of Cambridge. Cdr Fries then returned to the armed forces, joining the navy as a surgeon. He served in the Philippines, Taiwan (Chinese Taipei), […]
Sir Mark Potter is an English judge who was President of the Family Division and Head of Family Justice for England and Wales from 2005 – 2010. Sir Mark left The Perse to read law at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He was called to the commercial Bar in 1961, and took silk in 1980. From […]
After attending The Perse, Anthony studied Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. He then began a career in journalism, writing as an economics and business correspondent for the BBC. He later worked for The Observer and then The Times newspapers as environment editor. He became chief political correspondent at the latter, covering the Iraq war. Following this, Anthony worked […]
Dr Huppert grew up in the city of Cambridge, and became a prefect at The Perse before going on to read Natural Sciences at Cambridge University, staying on to do a PhD in Biological Chemistry on unusual structures of DNA. He was elected a Junior Research Fellow of Trinity in 2004, and became a fellow […]
Dr Baker, whose father was a butler, attended a number of small schools in Cambridge before gaining a scholarship to The Perse, where he excelled in Mathematics and Classical Greek. He was elected a Fellow of St John’s College in 1889 and in the same year won the Smith’s prize. Dr Baker would remain at […]
Frank Raymond Leavis was one of the most potent single influences on English studies in the earlier and middle part of the twentieth century. He championed seriousness and moral depth in literature and criticised what he considered the amateur belletrism of his time. He went from The Perse to Emmanuel College Cambridge, but did not […]
After leaving The Perse, Shackle started work as a bank clerk as his parents could not afford to put him through university. He studied in his own time for a University of London BA degree which he took in 1931. He started work on a PhD under the supervision of Friedrich Hayek at the LSE […]
The Rev Dr John Polkinghorne KBE FRS (1948) was a theoretical physicist, theologian, writer, and Anglican priest. Pre-eminent in examining the relationship between science and religion, he was professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Cambridge from 1968 to 1979. After leaving The Perse, Polkinghorne completed National Service in the Royal Army Education Corps […]
George Pattison is a leading British systematic theologian and Anglican priest. He went from The Perse to obtain a Bachelor of Divinity and MA from the University of Edinburgh, and a PhD from the University of Durham. He currently holds 1640 Chair of Divinity at the University of Glasgow. Prior to his appointment at the […]
