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Educated at Isleworth Grammar School and St John's College (Matriculated in 1956); PhD 1963, LittD 1993; College Lecturer in History, 1960–2000.
Fellow, 1962 (Emeritus 2003); College Librarian, 1963–1993; Admissions Tutor, 1980–1982; President, 1996–1998 (Acting 1992–1993, Michaelmas 1994); Archivist, 2000.
University Lecturer in History, 1965–1996; Reader in British Imperial History, 1996 (Emeritus 1999); Smuts Distinguished Lecturer, 2000. Research Editor, British Documents on the End of Empire Project, 1987–2000 and member of the Project Committee, 1991–2005.

The Favell family seem to have a long history as painters and glaziers in Cambridge.

In the Magdalene Archives there are receipts from John Favell, painter (c. 1781-1812).

According to the Jesus College Archives:
Elizabeth Favell (d. 1840) was a widow who ran a decorating firm under the name Elizabeth Favell and Son. She lived in Petty Cury, Cambridge, and had at least four children: Edward, James, Samuel, Thomas and Mary. She was already a widow when, in 1809, the Norfolk Chronicle reported that she and James Favell 'painters' had filed for bankruptcy. In 1813, the Prince Regent granted her a pension of £40p/a following the death of her son, Captain Samuel Favell, at the Battle of Salamanca in 1812. She also lost another son, Lieutenant Thomas Favell, during the Siege of Cadiz. By the 1830s, she was running the business with her son Edward and his signature features on many of the receipts. (Norfolk Chronicle, Saturday 21 October 1809, p. 2; Will of Elizabeth Favell, 1840, National Archives, PROB/11/1936/73; Norfolk Chronicle, Saturday 29 August 1812, p. 4; Bury and Norwich Post, Wednesday 3 February 1813, p. 2; Sussex Advertiser, Monday 8 February 1813, p. 4).

In April 1854 Edward Favell went into partnership with Robert Ellis to found the company Favell & Ellis.

Robert's son Augustus Ellis (1836-1912) worked in the business and it was later known as Favell, Ellis & Sons and then Favell, Ellis & Kirkman.
They had offices at 5 St Andrews Street.

MCAC/2/2/8 is an account book with Favell, Ellis & Sons between 1906 and 1912

In the 1914 trade directory the company is listed as Favell, Ellis & Kirkman

Ironmonger, son was named R. Paul

Eldest son of Robert Bertie, 3rd Earl of Lindsey and, his second wife, the Hon. Elizabeth Wharton

Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire

Entered Parliament as MP for Boston in 1685
Commissioned captain of an independent troop of horse raised to suppress the Monmouth Rebellion on 20 June 1685
1688 - took part in the northern rising led by his kinsman, the Earl of Danby, in favour of William of Orange. He was rewarded with the chancellorship of the Duchy of Lancaster in 1689, a post which enabled him to secure a seat at Preston at the general election of 1690
He moved to the House of Lords after receiving a writ of acceleration as Baron Willoughby de Eresby
He inherited the earldom of Lindsey on his father's death in 1701, and was invested a Privy Counsellor one month later. Along with the Earldom of Lindsey, he also inherited the offices of Lord Great Chamberlain and Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire, both of which he would hold until his death.

1706 - created Marquess of Lindsey
1715 - created Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven

In 1715, he employed Sir John Vanbrugh to design a baroque front to his house at Grimsthorpe to celebrate his ennoblement as first Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven

Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1679-1690

He was the son of Robert Peachell of Fillingham, Lincolnshire
School - Gainsborough

1 August 1645 - admitted to Magdalene College as a sizar
B.A. 1649, M.A. 1653
Elected Fellow on Smith's foundation in 1649, on Spendluffe's in 1651, and a foundation Fellow in 1656

In 1661 Samuel Pepys spent an evening with him at the Rose tavern in Cambridge; but he says objected to be seen walking with Peachell on account of his drinker’s nose

In 1663 he was presented by Sir John Cutts to the rectory of Childerley, Cambridgeshire, which he resigned on obtaining the rectory of Dry Drayton in 1681
He was also presented to the vicarage of Stanwix in Cumberland

1679 became Master of Magdalene College
1686 vice-chancellor of the university

He was buried in Magdalene College chapel on 5 February 1690

Son of Timothy Douthwaite. Born in Bishop Auckland, Co. Durham
School - Bishop Auckland

Admitted sizar (age 19) at Magdalene on 17 June 1729

Matriculated 1729
B.A. 1732/3
M.A. 1736
Fellow, 1735
Tutor

Ordained priest (Ely) June 1734
Rector of Stoke St Mary, Ipswich
Vicar of Rushmere, Suffolk

Son of Samuel Purkis of Wisbech
School - Wisbech

Admitted sizar (age 17) at Magdalene on 3 July 1752
Matriculated Michaelmas 1753
B.A. (5th Wrangler) 1756; M.A. 1760; D.D. 1786
Fellow
Senior Proctor, 1772-73

Rector of Anderby with Cumberworth, Lincs., 1765-91
F.S.A. 'Bishop Watson complains in 1762 that the dinner-hour [in Cambridge] had changed from 12 to 3, and foolish dons, like William Purkis, of Magdalene, talked of combining the scholar and the gentleman.
Purkis got in consequence the name 'Mr Union'.

Author of Sermons, preached before the University, 1786 and 1789

Died 25 February 1791

Master of Magdalene College, 1760-74

Son of the Rev. Josiah Sandby, Prebend of Worcester

Matriculated from Merton College, Oxford, 5 April 1734, age 17
B.A. (Oxford) 1737; M.A. (Oxford) 1740

M.A. 1760, incorported from Oxford; D.D. 1760

Vice-Chancellor, 1760-61

Rector of Denton, Norfolk, 1750-1807
Rector of Skeyton
Chancellor of the Diocese of Norwich, 1768

Died 24 March 1807, aged 90, at Denton

Son of Charles, ironmonger and born Louth in Lincolnshire
School - Louth

2 Oct 1713 - Admitted as a pensioner (age 17) at Magdalene College
B.A. 1718
M.A. 1721
Fellow 1719
Senior Proctor 1741-2
Ordained deacon (Lincoln) on 12 June 1720
Priest Sept. 23 1722
Rector of Ingoldmells, Lincs., 1722
Rector of Westley Waterless, Cambs., 1735-66
Died 1766

Son of William Thompson (clerk). Born at Well, Lincolnshire
School - Alford

Admitted sizar (age 18) at Magdalene on 3 Jan 1724
B.A. 1728
M.A. 1731
Fellow, 1728

Ordained deacon (Lincoln) 22 Feb 1730; priest, 19 Sept 1731
Curate of Chapel Allerton (West Riding of Yorkshire)

Died May 1734

Born in Barnsley, Yorkshire

Admitted to Magdalene College

1931
sailed for China to serve with the China Inland Mission and spent the next few years primarily in Szechwan, West China, working in various hospitals and in outlaying towns and villages

1940
married Irene Walker (another CIM missionary) at Yingshan, Szechwan

1944
their first child (they had four in total) was born in China and soon after Irene and her son were forced to leave China for India because of the national unrest. Max later joined them and they all returned to the UK. In 1946 Frank and Irene returned to China to carry on their work.

1948
Missionary work in China became increasingly difficult due the rise of Communism and in 1951 the CIM recalled all missionaries from China.
This journey was extremely difficult and fraught with danger - at one point Max was arrested at gun point and taken away. He returned some time later and was then held under room imprisonment until they could continue the journey to Hong Kong and then back to England.

Max and Irene later spent time working in Malaya returning when Max needed surgery. They then settled in England whilst he recovered by starting two part time roles in GP practices. He supplied Bible reading notes and Christian books and newspapers to patients. Irene became heavily involved in the Reading Chinese Christian Fellowship.

c. 1980
Max retired from active medical service but continued his mission work through letter writing

1991
Max died in Reading

1999
Irene died

George Nuttall was born in San Francisco, California, and was the second son of Robert Kennedy Nuttall MD, from Tittour, co. Wicklow, and his wife, Magdalena. In 1865 the family returned to Europe, and the children were educated in England, France, Germany, and Switzerland and as a result Nuttall could speak several languages. He returned to America in 1878 and entered the University of California, where he proceeded MD in 1884. Between 1886 and 1891 he studied botany and zoology in Germany. He spent further time studying in America and Germany before giving a course of lectures on bacteriology in Cambridge in 1899.

In 1901 was appointed University Lecturer in bacteriology and preventive medicine and in the same year founded the Journal of Hygiene which he edited up to the time of his death. In 1908 he founded Parasitology, which he edited until 1933.

In 1906 he was elected the first Quick Professor of Biology at Cambridge (1906 - 1931). In 1907 he became a professorial Fellow at Magdalene in succession to Alfred Newton.

He was the founder of the Molteno Institute for Research in Parasitology (later known as the Molteno Institute of Biology and Parasitology), which was formally opened in 1921.

Nuttall resigned the Quick Professorship in 1931 and became Emeritus Professor of Biology.

In 1895 he had married Paula and they had two sons and a daughter. His hobby was heraldry. He died suddenly on 16 December 1937.

Arms in Hall glass, W2

Further Reading: College Magazine, Vol. X, No. 9, December 1938 'George Henry Falkiner Nuttall' by A. S. Ramsey and David Keilin

Arms in Hall glass, W2.

Worked for Jeffs and Dawson.

Admitted as a pensioner at Magdalene on 15 May 1806
Matriculated Michaelmas 1806
B.A. 1810; M.A. 1813
Fellow

Ordained deacon (Norwich) 8 July 1810; priest, 21 June 1812
Rector of Long Stanton St Michael's, Cambs., 1819-23

Died 1823.

In the Audit receipts and Account Books he signs as Steward in 1811, 1814-1818 and as Bursar in 1813 - not comprehensive as we are still cataloguing (Nov 2025)

Baptised in January 1740
School - Shrewsbury

Admitted as a pensioner at Magdalene college on 31 Dec 1758
Matriculated Michaelmas 1759
B.A. 1763; M.A. 1766

Made a Fellow in 1763
Ordained a deacon (Norwich) 18 Dec 1763

Master of Magdalene College 1948-1966

Educated at Trinity College.
MP (National Conservative) for Croydon North, 1940-1948
Minister of Health, 1943-1945
Vice-Chancellor, 1953-1955
Created Baronet 1957, ‘for public services’ – he chaired four Royal commissions or commissions of inquiry between 1951 and 1962
Made an Honorary Fellow on his retirement from the Mastership in 1966

Arms in Hall glass, E3.

College Magazine
Article by F.H.H. Clark, College Magazine, No. 70 (1948) pp. 9-11
Article College Magazine No. 17 (1972-73) pp. 3-13
Article 'Past Master. Sir Henry Willink, 1948-1966' (F. McD C. Turner), College Magazine, No. 44 (1999-2000)
Obituary by R. Hyam College Magazine 1966

Educated at Queens’ College Cambridge (double starred first in History). University Reader in History, Royal Holloway College, London (1942-1968), Professor of History, University of Toronto (1968-1969), Research Fellow of Magdalene College (1970-1972), Official Fellow and Pepys Librarian (1972-1982), Honorary Fellow (1984).
Editor of the definitive edition of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, 11 vols (1970-1983).

College Magazine
Obituary by R. Luckett, College Magazine, No. 39 (1994-95) pp. 3-6

Born 1752, son of John James, merchant-tailor, Shrewsbury
School - Shrewsbury School, Shrewsbury

Admitted as a pensioner to Magdalene College on 25 May 1770
Matriculated October 1770
BA 1774
MA 1779
Fellow

Ordained deacon at Ely 12 March 1775
Vicar of Belford, Northumberland, 1804-43

Died in Belford on 23 January 1843.

Son of Henry Jowett of Leeds
School - Leeds

Admitted as a sizar (age 17) at Magdalene on 28 March 1774
Matriculated at Easter, 1775
B.A. 1778
M.A. 1781
Fellow

Ordained deacon (Peterborough, Litt. dim. from Ely) on 24 May 1779; priest (Peterborough) on 17 December 1780
Rector of Little Dunham, Norfolk, 1813-29

Died on 5 April 1830, aged 73, at Little Dunham Rectory, Norfolk

Educated at Christ's Hospital. Matriculated in 1940. Awarded BA (English) starred First in 1946, PhD; Bye-Fellow 1948, Fellow 1950, College Lecturer in English 1954; Tutor 1958–1974; sometime Precentor, Librarian, and President (1983–88).
University Lecturer in English 1954, Reader in English & Musical History 1974, Professor of Medieval & Renaissance English 1978–1988. Chairman of the Plainsong & Medieval Music Society 1988–1995.

Obituary: College Magazine, vol. 46 (2001-02) pp. 18-22 (S. Barrington-Ward)

Born at Mount Eden, Auckland, New Zealand, the eldest son of Ernest Bennett, a foreman for a shoe manufacturer, and Alexandra, née Corrall, both born in Leicester, England.

School - Mount Albert Grammar School in Auckland, New Zealand. He notably wrote the Mount Albert Grammar School hymn, which is sung at school assemblies to this day.

Studied at the University of Auckland before going on to Merton College, Oxford.

Part of a loose kit group of extraordinarily gifted young men from New Zealand who studied at Oxford University before the Second World War. The link between them was to endure for the rest of their lives.

During the Second World War he worked with the British Information Service in America.

He became best known as a scholar of Middle English literature. He was editor of the journal Medium Aevum from 1957 to 1981 and was a colleague of C. S. Lewis at Magdalen College, Oxford.

1964 - he succeeded Lewis as Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge University.

He was one of the Inklings, an informal literary group that included C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien.

He was made a Fellow of Magdalene College Cambridge.

Obituary - College Magazine No.25 (1980-81)
Article - College Magazine No.69 (2024-25)

Frances Wray was the daughter of the Magdalene benefactor Sir Christopher Wray.

She married her brother’s friend, Sir George St Paul (1562-1613), who had homes at Melwood Grange , Epworth, and Snarford in Lindsey.
He was an ardent puritan. His grandmother was Jane Askew, sister of the famous Protestant martyr Anne Askew.

Frances and St Paul’s only child, a daughter, had died in 1597 and much of their wealth was spent on charity. They supported ten old men and old women and young tradesmen in Market Rasen where St Paul also funded a schoolmaster and supported a hospital. He died in 1613.

Frances and her sister Isabel together are credited with financing the Cambridge education of the puritan rector of Worksop Richard Bernard and he dedicated his book, Christian Advertisement, to St Paul and Frances.

Frances then married Robert Rich, 1st Earl of Warwick, who was also a puritan. She was described in later life as ‘a person of shining conversation and eminent bounty’ and who supported her father’s patronage of Magdalene College at Cambridge with three Fellowships and six scholarships. The Countess of Warwick, as she had now become, continued to support the university education of suitable young men such as Edward Reyner, who graduated in 1621 and then became master of Sir George St Paul’s school in Market Rasen. During the Civil War he was nearly murdered by Royalists in the cathedral library, but was saved by a past pupil; later he preached to the Parliamentary army at the siege of Newark.

Charles Louis Napoleon Achille Murat (known as Achille), was the eldest son of Joachim Murat, the brother-in-law of Napoleon who was appointed King of Naples during the First French Empire. After his father was deposed and executed by his own subjects, Achille Murat went into exile in the Austrian Empire with his siblings and mother.

At the age of 21, Achille Murat emigrated to the United States and settled at St. Augustine, Florida, becoming a naturalised citizen sometime after July 1828 and dropping his European titles.