Arthur Quiller-Couch left unfinished at Quiller-Couch's death and was completed many years later by Daphne du Maurier. As she wrote in the "Sunday Telegraph" on April 1962, she began the job with considerable trepidation, at the request of Quiller-Couch's daughter and "in memory of happy evenings long ago when 'Q' was host at Sunday supper". He features as a main character, played by Leo McKern, in the 1992 BBC television feature "The Last Romantics". The story focuses on his relationship with his protégé, F. R. Leavis, and the students. His Cambridge inaugural lecture series, published as "On the Art of Writing", is
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