Coutts Trotter

Abstract

A GREAT calamity has fallen on the University of Cambridge and on Trinity College, and many men differing widely in their interests and callings are bearing together the burden of a common sorrow in the knowledge that the Rev. Coutts Trotter, the Vice-Master of Trinity College, was no more. Mr. Trotter suffered from a severe and prolonged illness during last winter and early spring, and though in the summer he seemed to have almost regained his health, he began as the year advanced once more to lose ground. When he returned from abroad in October his condition gave rise to great anxiety among his friends; as the term went on he grew worse rather than better; and an attack of inflammation of the lungs rapidly brought about the end, which took place in his rooms in College, in the early morning of Sunday, December 4.