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Professor Helen Vendler was an American academic, writer and literary critic. She was a professor of English language and history at Boston University, Cornell, Harvard, and other universities. Her academic focus was critical analysis of poetry and she studied poets from Shakespeare and George Herbert to modern poets such as Wallace Stevens and Seamus Heaney. Her technique was close reading, which she described as "reading from the point of view of a writer".

She was the Parnell Fellow at Magdalene College from 1994-1995 and was elected as an Honorary Fellow in 1997.

Her portrait, by Mrs Mary Minifie, is the first of a female Fellow to hang in Hall (2024).

Guy Walter Otter was born on 1 November 1905 at Slinfold, Horsham, Sussex. He matriculated on 22 October 1924 having been admitted to Magdalene College. He studied Geology, Botany and Zoology and Comparative Anatomy for Part I of the Natural Sciences Tripos, as the honours BA is known, and was awarded a third class pass in the examinations in Easter term 1927. He graduated BA on 21 June 1927 and MA on 18 November 1932. He was admitted as a Research Student in Michaelmas term 1934 and approved for the MSc degree on 25 February 1939 for a thesis entitled 'A study of the morphology of four species of Cecidomyid larvae - Diptera'. He graduated MSc on 25 February 1939 (source: UA Graduati 12, Exam.L.41).

In 1936 he married Peggy Leslie Dawson Waugh (1908-2004) in Westminster, London. Their daughter was Caroline Margaret Otter (1941-1993).

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 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.

Son of Louis XVI, proclaimed King of France by royalists in 1793. Placed in the care of a shoemaker by the Republican government after the execution of his father, he probably died of neglect.