The Times/1923/News/Thomas George Bonney

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Professor Bonney

The first part of the funeral service for the Rev. Thomas George Bonney was held in the chapel of St. John's College, Cambridge, yesterday. The service was conducted by the Dean, the Rev. J. M. Creed, assisted by the Rev. J. T. Ward, the lesson being read by the Master, Mr. R. Forsyth Scott. The immediate mourners were Mrs. Wetherall (sister) and Mr, W. H. N. Wetherall (nephew). The body was conducted to the chapel by the choir, chanting Croft's sentences. The fellows of the College following included:—

The Master Professor G. D. Liveing, the Rev. A. J. Stevens, Mr. H. S. Foxwell, Sir Joseph Larmer, Mr. W. E. Heitland, Professor H. F. Baker, Professor E. J. Rapson, Mr. F. F. Blackman, Mr. F. L. Engledow, Professor O. H. Prior, Professor J. T. Wilson, and Messrs. F. C. Bartlett, E. A. Benlands, J. M. Wordie, B. F. Armitage, S. Lees, G. G. Coulton, M. P. Charlesworth, and W. G. Palmer.

Those attending the chapel included:—

The Master of Trinity, the President of Queens', the Master of Caius, the Master of Jesus, the Master of Sidney Sussex, the Master of Downing, and the Master of Peterhouse, the representative of University College, London, the Yates-Goldsmid Professor of Geology and Mineralogy, Mr, E. J. Garwood, Professor G. Dawes Hicks, Sir Ernest Rutherford, Professor W. T. Soilas, Canon Edwin Hill, Dr. J. R. Tanner, Dr. L. E. Shore, Professor Sir Clifford Allbutt, the Rev. Dr. V. H. Stanton, and the Rev. Dr. H. F. Stewart. Mr. Garwood also represented the Alpine Club.

The body was afterwards removed to the Leicester crematoirum, and the ashes will be interred to-day at Rugeley, Staffordshire.