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Richard Ladborough was a Fellow of French at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and Pepys Librarian. He specialised in the Enlightenment era of French literature, and donated a wealth of such books to the College which are now held by the Old Library. Friend and correspondent of C.S. Lewis.

Obituary: Magdalene College Magazine and Record, New Series No. 16: 1971-72, p. 3

Admitted to Magdalene College aged 20 on 28 July 1881. Pensioner.

2nd son of the Rev. Lord Edward Henry Julius of Wighill Park, Tadcaster, Yorks and Jane, daughter of Henry Dowker, of Laysthorpe, Yorks. Born 6 August 1860.
School - Eton
Matriculated Michaelmas 1881. Cricket 'blue,' 1882-5 (Capt., 1885).
Succeeded his father as 7th Baron Hawke, of Towton, Yorks. on 5 December 1887.
J.P. for the West Riding.
Served in the 3rd Battalion, The Green Howards, retiring in 1894 with the rank of Hon. Major.

Captain of the Yorkshire Cricket XI, 1883-1910; of the England team on two South African tours; President of the M.C.C., 1914-18.
Received the Freedom of Scarborough.
Author, Recollections and Reminiscences.

Died 10 October 1938 in Edinburgh.

At Magdalene from 1964 to 1967

The first Buttery book in which Edward Mills writes his name begins in 1789 [MCAD/14/2/1/28].

It was recorded at a meeting of the Master and Fellows on 7 March 1799 that the College had been defrauded by the late Butler Edward Mills to a very considerable amount and they resolved to use all legal means to recover the amount of that fraud [MCGB/4/2/1 pg. 181].

Appointed as cook in 1875 [MCGB/4/2/1] and was the last of the cooks to run the kitchens as an independent business. On his retirement in 1901 the College took the kitchens in-house (being the last College to do so). This decision as guided by the then Steward A.S. Ramsey. He purchased the cooking utensils and crockery owned by Swannell which was valued at £700.

1841 Census – his father, George Swannell’s occupation is listed as ’Cook’ and the family were living in King St

1851 Census - his father, George Swannell’s occupation is listed as ’Cook’ and the family were living in Fitzroy St

His father was George (aged 48), his mother was Mary Ann (aged 33)
William was 14 and listed as an errand boy
John (aged 13), Elizabeth Sarah (aged 11), Thomas (aged 7)
Rachel Hayles - servant

1861 Census – William’s occupation is listed as ‘Cook’ and he was married to Hannah and living on Histon Rd

1871 Census – same as the 1861 census but with the addition of children:
William G (aged 9), Elizabeth (aged 4)
William Hewson (nephew aged 18)
John A.W. Culpin (boarder aged 18)

1881 Census – Now living at 74 Castle St with his wife Hannah, his daughter Elizabeth and their domestic servant Emma Smith (aged 15)

1891 Census – Had moved to Huntingdon Road
Servant was now Eliza Beldam

1901 Census – Living at 6 Huntingdon Rd
Listed as ‘widow’
Occupation ‘Head College Cook’
Living on his own and two servants - Lucy Baker (aged 50) and Annie Adams (aged 23)

William died on 16 September 1902 at Carnarvonshire. He left to Elizabeth Hannah Sarah Robinson (his daughter and the wife of the Revd Henry Edwin Robinson) effects worth £14865 5s 4d

Born in 1653, the son of Anthony Millington of Shropshire

Admitted pensioner (age 15) at Magdalene on 26 June 1668
Matriculated in 1669
B.A. 1671/2
M.A. 1675
D.D. 1702

Fellow, 1674 until at least 1701
Taxor, 1691
Senior Proctor, 1700-1

Incorporated at Oxford, 1677

Ordained deacon (Ely) 18 September 1675; priest (London) 24 February 1677/8
Vicar of Fulbourn All Saints', Cambridgeshire, 1690
Vicar of Kensington, 1700-28
Prebend of St Paul's, 1703-28
Rector of Stoke Newington, Middlesex, 1705-28

In 1724 set up a trust to be presided over by Daniel Waterland and his successors, for two closed scholarships for boys from several Shrewsbury schools. He also provided for the establishment of a fellowship after the lapse of 40 years, to be funded by the proceeds from the sale of the timber from a newly planted woodland.

Millington’s brother, James was a successful draper in Shrewsbury, and he held a life interest in the properties which would generate the income of the scholarships, so the first scholars did not arrive until after his death in 1734.

Died on 25 March 1728

The greatest of the dukes of Burgundy and almost succeeded in creating a kingdom independent of France.

King of France (1610–43). Son of son of Henry IV.

The last king of France (1774–92) before the French Revolution.

Belgian politician.

Belgian congressman.

Belgian colonel and politician.

Belgium astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist. Founded and directed the Royal Observatory of Belgium in Brussels.

Belgium writer and keeper of the Royal Library of Belgium.

Trained as a lawyer, was a member of the French legislature and accompanied his brother, Napoleon I, on military campaigns. He held diplomatic posts before and after his brother’s coup in 1799, including negotiating the Treaty of Amiens with Britain in 1802. He was made king of Naples by Napoleon in 1806, where he reformed justice, landowning, finance, and education, but in 1808 was ordered by Napoleon to become king of Spain. There his reforms were resisted and he was heavily dependent on French troops and advisers.