Cambridge students made a large contribution to the life and research of the BSA in the period up to the outbreak of the First World War. Many of the students became donors of the Fitzwilliam Museum, including:
- Robert Carr Bosanquet
- Richard MacG. Dawkins
- John P. Droop
- Wilfrid Jerome Farrell
- Ernest A. Gardner
- Francis Henry Hill Guillemard
- F.W. Hasluck
- M.R. James
- W. Loring
- John Hubert Marshall
- Eustace M.W. Tillyard
- Alan J.B. Wace
- V.W. Yorke