 He began his study of philosophy at Trinity College in Cambridge in 1885 (Rochelle 1991, 42).  In 1886 he joined the influential secret discussion group, the Cambridge Apostles (Rochelle 1991, 45; Levy 1981, 103).  At this time, A.N. Whitehead was already a member of the group, and G.  E. Moore and Bertrand Russell would soon join in the early 1890s.  McTaggart graduated in 1888 (Rochelle 1991, 57).  He was elected a Prize Fellow of Trinity College in 1891 on the basis of his dissertation on Hegel’s dialectic, which was later recast as his Studies in the Hegelian Dialectic. In 1897 he was made a lecturer in Moral Sciences (Philosophy) at Trinity College, and he held this post until he retired in 1923 at the age of 56 (Geach 1979, 14). He died unexpectedly two years later, in 1925.