Bolswert, Schelte Adamsz (c. 1586-1659), engraver
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Bolswert, Schelte Adamsz (c. 1586-1659), engraver
Bolívar, Simón (1783–1830) Venezuelan patriot and statesman
Bolívar was active in the Latin-American independence movement from 1808 onwards. Although his military career was not without its failures, he succeeded in driving the Spanish from Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador; Upper Peru was named Bolivia in his honour.
Bol, Hans (1534-1593), painter and etcher
Boghe, Johannes (active 1585-1609), scholarly Antwerp town clerk
Bloomfield, Henry Keane (1798-1870), British army officer
Blome, Richard (1635 - c.1705) publisher, cartographer and map/bookseller
Bloemart, Abraham (1564-1651), painter and engraver
Blockland van Montfoort, Anthonie (1533/4-1583), painter and draughtsman
Bleker, Gerrit Claesz (c. 1600-1656), painter and etcher
Blaes, Elisa (1815-1878), soprano singer and singing teacher
Matriculated in 1919 after war service. Was made a Bye-Fellow in 1921.
Fellow of King’s College, 1923-1933.
Professor of Physics (Birkbeck/Manchester/Imperial College), 1933-1974.
Fellow Royal Society, 1933 (Royal Medal, 1940; Copley Medal, 1956; President, 1965-1970).
Nobel Prize for Physics, 1948.
Made an Honorary Fellow in 1948. CH, 1965; OM, 1967; Life peer, 1969.
Awarded some twenty honorary degrees.
Scientific adviser to the British Government (from 1964), and to the Government of India (1947; he was a noted internationalist and humanitarian).
‘A man who had achieved distinction in three separate fields of fundamental research, who made invaluable contributions to the war effort, and who exerted a powerful political influence’ (Bernard Lovell).
‘… that mysterious, intense and haunted visage, which later made Epstein count this Nobel Prizewinner’s bust among his greatest challenges. The tragic mask, however, was highly mobile, alive indeed with intelligence, modesty and friendliness’ (I.A. Richards).
Birnbaum, Johann Michael Franz (1792-1877), legal scholar and playwright
Bie, Jacques de (1581-1640), engraver and draughtsman
Bickersteth, Edward Ralph (1904-unknown), undergraduate at Magdalene College, Cambridge
Born in Liverpool and was the son of the late Robert Alexander Bickersteth and Ellen Constance Wilson, of Borwick Lodge, Outgate, Ambleside. Educated at Eton. Admitted as a pensioner at Magdalene College on 7 October 1924. His tutor was A. S. Ramsey.
Beyerlinck, Laurens (1578-1627), theologian and author
Berwinckel, Joan (17th century), engraver
Berthier, Louis-Alexandre (1753-1815), Prince de Wagram and Marshal of France
Berger, Nicolas (1800-1883), politician and magistrate
Bercy, P. J. de (17th century), draughtsman and engraver
Berchet, Ambrogio (1784-1864), Italian patriot
Italian patriot and military leader.
Bentham, Jeremy (1748–1832), philosopher, jurist and reformer
Benson, Edward Frederick (1867-1940), novelist and Honorary Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge
E. F. Benson Frederic was born at Wellington College. He was the third son of Edward White Benson (1829–1896), headmaster of Wellington College and subsequently archbishop of Canterbury, and his wife, Mary Sidgwick (1841–1918). He was a younger brother of A. C. Benson (Master of Magdalene College, 1915-1925), Mary Eleanor Benson (1863–1890), and Margaret Benson (1865–1916), and an elder brother of Robert Hugh Benson (1871–1914). He was educated at Temple Grove School, Sheen, at Marlborough College, and at King's College, Cambridge, where he was exhibitioner (1888) and scholar (1890), and secured first classes in both parts of the classical tripos (1890, 1891).
Worked in Athens for the British School of Archaeology (1892–5) and in Egypt for the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies (1895). His first novel, Dodo, was published in 1893. From 1895 to 1918 he lived in London and devoted himself to writing. From 1918 he lived for the greater part of each year at Lamb House, Rye, Sussex, which had been the home of Henry James.
He published at least ninety-three books, excluding collaborations. His writings fall into three groups: novels of social satire, reminiscences, and horror stories.
Benson never married and lived alone in Rye. He was mayor of Rye from 1934 to 1937 and a JP. He was elected an honorary fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, in 1938 and was appointed OBE. He died in University College Hospital, London, on 29 February 1940, and was buried in the Rye cemetery after a funeral conducted by the bishop of Chichester.
The E. F. Benson Society was founded in London in 1984.
Educated at Trinity College. He attracted the attention of Neville Grenville (Master), and as a result he became the University’s Hulsean Lecturer, 1820-1822, and a Fellow, 1820. Canon of Worcester from 1825. Master of the Temple, 1826-1845. He was a noted preacher, and a critic of Tractarianism.
Benson, Arthur Christopher (1862-1925), poet and Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge
Master of Magdalene College, 1915-1925
Arthur Christopher Benson was born on 24 April 1862 at Wellington College and was the son of Edward White Benson (1829–1896), first Headmaster of Wellington College and later Archbishop of Canterbury, and his wife, Mary, née Sidgwick (1841–1918). In 1874 he won a scholarship to Eton College and in 1881 he went to King's College, Cambridge, where he got a First in the Classical Tripos in 1884. He returned to Eton as a school master in 1885, a post he held for 18 years despite having no real interest in it.
His real ambition was for a literary career. He completed a biography of his father in 1899, and throughout his life he wrote or edited around sixty books. He wrote the words of ‘Land of Hope and Glory’ set to Elgar's music, for the coronation of King Edward VII in 1902. He was able to retire from Eton and return to Cambridge on his appointment as joint editor (with the second Viscount Esher) on the first of three volumes of The Letters of Queen Victoria, 1837-1861.
In 1904 he became a fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge and in 1912 he became it's President. In December 1915 he was made Master, a post he held until his death. At the time he joined the College it was at a very low ebb, but his benefactions and energy transformed the College. He was helped by gifts totaling over £60,000 from an American admirer living in Switzerland, Mme de Nottbeck. He encouraged ‘modern’ subjects, not only English and history, but science, archaeology, and music. He also widened the range of school connections. He was friendly and helpful towards a large proportion of the undergraduates but he could also be combative, egotistical, and despotic.
In 1907–8 and again in 1917–22 he suffered from prolonged bouts of depression and withdrew from society.
He was a prolific diarist writing 180 volumes between 1897 and 1925.
He died in the Old Lodge at Magdalene College on 17 June 1925.
Bennett, Ralph Francis (1911-2002), historian and Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge
Matriculated from Magdalene College, 1929. Bye-fellow, 1935-1936; College lecturer in history, 1936-1982; Official Fellow, 1938; Tutor, 1952 - 1980; President, 1979-1982.
During the Second World War, he served at Bletchley Park as an intelligence analyst, translating and evaluating the Ultra decrypts of the German Enigma cipher.
As a historian, he achieved eminence in two unrelated fields: medieval ecclesiastical history and modern military history.
College Magazine
Obituary by R. Hyam, College Magazine, vol. 46 (2001-02) pp 12-17
Bell, Charles Wentworth (1858-1929), undergraduate at Magdalene College, Cambridge
Admitted as a pensioner at Magdalene College in October 1876.
Was a D.L. (Deputy Lieutenant) and J.P. (Justice of the Peace).
He died at Bronsil, Eastnor, Ledbury aged 70.