Arthur Quiller-Couch were published as the book "On the Art of Writing". His rooms were on staircase C, First Court, and known as the 'Q-bicle'. He supervised the beginnings of the English Faculty there — an academic diplomat in a fractious community. He is sometimes regarded as the epitome of the school of English literary criticism later modified by his pupil F. R. Leavis. Alistair Cooke was a notable student of Quiller-Couch and Nick Clarke's semi-official biography of Cooke features Quiller-Couch prominently, noting that he was regarded by the Cambridge establishment as "rather eccentric" even by the university's standards. Quiller-Couch was a
Bertram Fletcher Robinson notable 'Old Newtonians' include the writer Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch and the explorer Lieutenant Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett. Robinson won three Rugby Football Blues between 1891 and 1893 and, according to his obituary in the "Daily Express" (22 January 1907), he would have played for England but for an "accident". He also rowed for Jesus College and was a member of the team that won the Thames Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta on 7 July 1892. On 12 February 1894, "The Times" reported that Robinson was tried for the position of fourth oar with the Cambridge 'Trial Eight' ahead