(Sir) William Ridgeway was appointed Disney Professor at Cambridge in 1892 (in succession to Percy Gardner). He was to be a major influence on Cambridge students especially in the field of prehistory.
Among the students who are likely to have been influenced by him up to the First World War are, in order of study:
- Robert Carr Bosanquet: Trinity College, Part 2 1894.
- Frank Russell Earp: King's College, Part 2 1894.
- Frederick Arthur Charles Morrison: Jesus College, Part 2 1896.
- John Cuthbert Lawson: Pembroke College, Part 2 1897.
- Charles Douglas Edmonds: Emmanuel College, Part 2 1898.
- Clement Gutch: King's College, Part 2 1898.
- Solomon Charles Kaines Smith: Magdalene College, Part 2 1898.
- John Hubert Marshall: King's College, Part 2 1900.
- Frederick William Hasluck: King's College, Part 2 1901.
- Richard McGillivray Dawkins: Emmanuel College, Part 2 1902.
- John Laurence Stokes: Pembroke College, BA 1902.
- Alan John Bayard Wace: Pembroke College, Part 2 1902.
- John Percival Droop: Trinity College, Part 2 1904.
- Henry Julius Wetenhall Tillyard: Gonville & Caius College, Part 2 1904.
- Wilfred Jerome Farrell: Jesus College, Part 2 1905.
- Arnold Wycombe Gomme: Trinity College, Part 2 1908.
- Lawrence Berkley Tillard: St John's College, BA 1909.
- Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall Tillyard: Jesus College, Part 2 1911.
- Max Ludwig Wolfram Laistner: Jesus College, Part 2 1912.
- Cecil Allison Scutt: Clare College, Part 2 1912.