Cambridge Daily News 14 Apr 1949: Fawcett school named

The new school at Trumpington is to be known as the “Fawcett” primary school. It is being named after Prof. Henry Fawcett, who died in 1884. He was well-known to a former generation as “the blind postmaster general”, and was one of the first holders of the Chair of Political Economy in Cambridge University. He lived in Brookside, and was buried in Trumpington churchyard. He was a man who had set an outstanding example of courage in the face of misfortune.