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Irish novelist and educationist.

French-born portrait artist who worked in England, Scotland and the United States in the 19th century. He specialised in silhouette portraits. Born in Dunkerque, he left France in 1814, and established himself in London, where he began his career making portraits from hair. In 1825, he began work as a silhouette portraitist, taking full-length likenesses in profile by cutting out black paper with scissors. Edouart spent fifteen years touring England and in 1829 arrived in Edinburgh. He remained there for three years, during which time he produced some 5,000 likenesses. Edouart travelled in the United States in about 1839–49, visiting New York, Boston, and other locales. He later returned to France, where he worked on smaller silhouettes. They included one of the most notable writer of this period, Victor Hugo

Painter. Born in Wales, his portrait of Seamus Heaney at the National Portrait Gallery led to a one-man show of contemporary poets at the Gallery in 1990. Awarded the BP Portrait Award in 1994 with Portrait of an Artist's Model (Marguerite Kelsey).

An Irish mezzotint engraver. Egan was born in County Roscommon. He was employed by Samuel William Reynolds, the mezzotint engraver, at first as little more than an errand-boy, but later in laying his mezzotint grounds. Egan set up a business of ground-laying for engravers, while he studied in order to become an engraver himself. Becoming consumptive, he had eight years' struggle with declining health; and died at Pentonville, 2 October 1842, aged 43. Egan, who married young, left a family, for whom a subscription was raised by his friends. His last plate was 'English Hospitality in the Olden Time,' after George Cattermole. Among his other engravings were 'Love's Reverie,' after John Rogers Herbert, 'Abbot Boniface,' after Gilbert Stuart Newton, 'The Morning after the Wreck,' after Charles Bentley, 'The Study,' after E. Stone, 'The Mourner,' after J. M. Moore, 'The Young Wife,' 'The Citation of Wycliffe,' 'The Tribunal of the Inquisition,' and other pictures after S. J. E. Jones, and a portrait of John Lodge, librarian at Cambridge, after Walmisley.

Line, stipple and mezzotint engraver who worked in London.

Educated at Merton College, Oxford, and Harvard University. Poet and critic. Director of Faber & Faber. Elected Honorary Fellow of Magdalene College in 1939. Nobel Laureate, 1948. He bequeathed to the College the manuscripts of The Dry Salvages and Little Gidding.

Headmaster at Eton College, mountaineer, and climbing friend of George Mallory.

Engraver, mainly in line.

Father of Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria.

First Master of Magdalene, 1544-1546.

Dean of Bangor Cathedral from 1534. At the time he was made Master he also held two rectories of Llaneingan and Aber in Carnarvonshire and the vicarage of Terrnington St John in Norfolk to which he had been presented by the Bishop of Ely in 1541. Had no connections with Cambridge prior to being made Master.

London line and mezzotint engraver, exhibited at the RA from 1864 to 1905.

Born in Holland, John Faber came to London in around 1687 and began engraving portraits shortly thereafter. By 1707, he had established a shop near the Savoy in the Strand where he printed and published his own work. Among his more famous mezzotints are portraits of the founders of both Oxford and Cambridge, a set of the heads of the twelve Caesars and twenty-one portraits of the Reformers. Faber's work is noteworthy because he was one of the few mezzotint engravers who often both designed and engraved his plates. His son, John Faber, also became a portrait engraver.

cartographer and painter. Brother of engraver Johann Gottlieb Facius. The Facius brothers were born in Regensburg (Germany) and received engraving training in Brussels. By 1776, their works were already well known and they moved to London at the invitation of John Boydell, with whom they worked for many years.

Member of the National Congress of Belgium.

Founder of the Royal Academy of Music, London in 1823.

Matriculated in 1774; Senior Wrangler in 1778 aged 19

Made a Fellow in 1778
Appointed Tutor in 1782
Appointed Professor of Chemistry in 1794
President of the College in 1798
1813-1837 Jacksonian Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy

In 1800 he resigned his Tutorship (but not his University Professorship) and became Vicar of St Giles's parish in Cambridge. He had no previous experience of parochial work. By 1817 he had built two schoolrooms - one for 400 boys and one for 300 girls, and had englarged the church from his private benevolence.
In 1836 he became Rector of Little Stonham in Suffolk where he died on 12 January 1837.

A skilled engineering model-maker, he foresaw the time when steam would be the main power for travel by land and sea, and he predicted that the technology would one day be found to travel through the air. He was also an influential pioneer and agitator against the slave trade and played a leading part in the related inauguration of the Protestant missionary movement. Marsden, Brown, Robert Grant and Lord Glenelg were among his protégés.

Articles in the College Magazine:
Article: 'William Farish, 1759-1837', by Charles Smyth, College Magazine, No. 76, December 1937
Article, ''William Farish, 1759-1837', by Dr K. R. Webb, College Magazine, No. 86, Michaelmas 1955

Educated at Wesley College, Perth and University of Western Australia.
He was admitted to Magdalene in 1987 as a candidate for the PhD degree which was awarded in 1992.
1992 - appointed College Organist.
1995 - elected to a Fellow-Commonership and as Precentor of Magdalene in 1995.

Obituary - College Magazine, 2001-2002, pp. 23-26

Percy Farrar was born in 1857 in Chatteris, Cambridgeshire. He was President of the Alpine Club between 1917-1919 and was an original member of the Mount Everest Committee (a joint body composed of Alpine Club and Royal Geographical Society members that was set up to co-ordinate the reconnaissance of the approaches to and possible routes up Mount Everest in 1921). He had been party to the discussions that led to this body's formation and proposing the mountain as an achievable mountaineering objective Farrar's role was, amongst other things, to raise funds for the expedition. He was the one who successfully proposed that George Mallory, to whom he had been introduced at one of Geoffrey Winthrop Young's parties at Pen-y-Pass in 1909, should go on the initial 1921 expedition.

Vincent-Désire Faure de Brousse (1843 to 1908 Montpellier Paris) was a French sculptor. He was a student of Hugo Salmson in Paris and presented from 1876 - 1883 at the Paris Salon. Faure de Brousse was an exceptionally talented artist who specialised in bronze, figurative sculptures, crafted in the Italian Renaissance style. He was well-respected as a sculptor, and was regularly selected to exhibit at the Salon in Paris in the late 19th Century.