Cambridge Blip Meet

How do you choose just one picture from the 161 pictures that I took today and why this one?

Today I met up with other Blippers in Cambridge. We started at 'Hot Numbers' a café in Mill Road and walked through the Mill Road cemetery and then on towards the River Cam. We detoured from the original route and stopped at 'Clowns' for cake and coffee, then on to visit Jesus College before heading back towards the river and on to the touristy part of the town centre.

In the end I chose this one; some of the others will be posted on Flickr when I have had time to sort them out. You may think that Thomas Clarkson's statue on St John's College, in Cambridge, a strange choice from the many taken today. However, I was born in The Fens and went to school in Wisbech, so there is a link; Wisbech also has a large memorial to Clarkson in the town. Skyrider pointed him out to us, so many thanks for this and all the other interesting information you provided for us today as well as for organising an excellent walk.

The following is taken from Wikipedia

Thomas Clarkson (28 March 1760 - 26 September 1846), was an English abolitionist, and a leading campaigner against the slave trade in the British Empire. He helped found The Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade and helped achieve passage of the Slave Trade Act of 1807, which ended British trade in slaves. In his later years Clarkson campaigned for the abolition of slavery worldwide. In 1840, he was the key speaker at the Anti-Slavery Society (today known as Anti-Slavery International) conference in London, which campaigned to end slavery in other countries.

Clarkson was the son of Rev. John Clarkson (1710-1766). He attended Wisbech Grammar School where his father was headmaster; then he went on to St Paul's School in London in 1775. He did his undergraduate work at St John's College, Cambridge, beginning in 1779.[1] An excellent student, he appears to have enjoyed his time at university, although he was also a serious, devout man. He received his B.A. degree in 1783 and was set to continue at Cambridge to follow in his father's footsteps and enter the Anglican Church. He was ordained a deacon but never proceeded to priest's orders.