Although publication was delayed by World War I, Venn lived to see the first two volumes of Part I published before his death in 1923.
A. Venn, fellow and (from 1932) president of Queens' College, Cambridge: Alumni Cantabrigienses was continued by J.
Beyond details of an individual's progression at the University of Cambridge, the information provided in Alumni Cantabrigienses may include: dates and place of birth and death; the names of parents, siblings and spouses; schooling, occupation, and notable accomplishments; and references to sources cited.
B. Emden,[4] but "the bulk of the work [...] has not been paralleled, let alone surpassed",[2] and Alumni Cantabrigienses has twice been reprinted in facsimile.
[5] An ongoing project at the University of Cambridge is integrating Alumni Cantabrigienses with Emden's material, registers of women's colleges (members of Girton and Newnham colleges were not given full university membership until 1947) and other sources, amounting to over 20,000 cards of addenda and corrigenda.