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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.

Born in Willesden, north London, on 25 July 1897. Attended University College School in Hampstead in 1912.

In December 1915 he won a scholarship in history to Peterhouse, Cambridge but war service intervened and he was commissioned into the West Yorkshire regiment. He saw active service on the western front, chiefly as his battalion's signals officer. He was wounded and captured in the German offensive of March 1918 and spent the rest of the war as a prisoner.

Willey went up to Peterhouse in January 1919, and took the second part of the historical tripos in the summer of 1920, obtaining a First. He then switched to the newly established English tripos, taking a First in 1921. He won the Le Bas prize in 1922. He began to lecture (as a freelancer) for the English course in 1923.

Following the reorganisation of the University in 1926, he held one of the new probationary faculty lectureships at Cambridge for five years.
In 1934 he was appointed to a permanent lectureship, becoming a Fellow of Pembroke College in 1935.

On 20 July 1923 he married Zélie Murlis Ricks with whom he was to have two sons and two daughters. Following his marriage he and his family lived at 282 Hills Road, but in 1938 he commissioned an architectural colleague to design a much larger house on land at 18 Adams Road, where apart from two extended periods as a visiting professor in the USA, he lived until his death.

Willey's life coincided with, and was profoundly shaped by, the heyday of the Cambridge English tripos, which had been taught for the first time in 1919.

In 1946 he was elected Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch's successor as the King Edward VII Professor at Cambridge, and he held the chair until retirement in 1964.

He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1947.
Subsequent honours included Fellowship of the Royal Society of Literature, an honorary DLitt from Manchester University, and an honorary fellowship at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was for twelve years chair of the Dove Cottage Trustees, and from 1958 to 1964 he served as president (vice-master) of his college.
He gave the Hibbert lectures in 1959.

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).

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

Ivor Richards was born at Hillside, Sandbach, Cheshire , and was he son of William Armstrong Richards, a chemical engineer originally from Swansea, and his wife, Mary Anne, daughter of William Haigh, a Yorkshire wool manufacturer. On his father's death in 1902 Richards moved with his mother and brothers to Bristol, where he attended Clifton College from 1905 to 1911. In 1907 he had an attack of tuberculos which kept him away from school for over a year.

In 1911 he matriculated from Magdalene College with an exhibition to study history. Within a few months he switched to moral sciences and studied ethics, logic, and psychology.

In 1922 he became a College Lecturer in English and Moral Sciences.

In 1926, when a separate English faculty was created as part of a general restructuring of the University's teaching arrangements, he was appointed a University Lecturer. In the same year he was made a Fellow. He immediately took a year's leave and travelled to America, Japan, and China. In Honolulu, on 31 December 1926, he married Dorothy Eleanor (1894–1986). The couple had first met on a climbing holiday in Wales in 1917, and they shared a lifelong passion for mountaineering.

In 1944 he became a Professor at Harvard, but returned to Magdalene in his retirement. He became an Honorary Fellow in 1964.

In 1979 he returned to China again for a lecture tour, but was taken seriously ill there and had to be flown back to England. He died in Cambridge on 7 September 1979.

He was a founding father of the English Faculty and originator of ‘practical criticism’. He was a brilliant literary critic and linguistic philosopher, a very good poet, a distinguished mountaineer, a tireless promoter of ‘Basic’ English (on which he collaborated with C. K. Ogden, a Magdalene man slightly his senior), and something of an intellectual guru in the USA.

Commemorative tablet at Wentworth House.

Further reading:
College Magazine, No. 23 (1978-79) pp. 1-7 (Sir William Empson, W. Hamilton)
Book Review, College Magazine, No. 34 (1989-90) pp. 60-63 (R. Luckett and J. E. Stevens)

Benefactor to Magdalene College

Born in 1679 in Norwich, the son of John.

Admitted sizar at Magdalene on 14 October 1695
Matriculated in 1696
B.A. 1699/1700

Vicar of Childerditch, Essex, 1709
Chaplain to Robert, Earl of Holderness
Author
Benefactor of Magdalene College

Married Mary Moor at Gray's Inn Chapel, on 28 June 1712

Died on 31 July 1760

4th son of James Stephen, Barrister of London
School - Little Shelford, Cambridgeshire

Admitted pensioner at Magdalene on 9 October 1812
Admitted Solicitor, c. 1819.
Admitted at Gray's Inn, 11 January 1831
Called to the Bar, 1849
Practised in Liverpool
Collected evidence abroad during the trial of Queen Caroline

Originator of an organisation which played an important part in the anti-slavery agitation
Solicitor (unpaid) for the relief of pauper prisoners for debt
Knighted, in recognition of his services in the cause of negro emancipation, 14 February 1838, the first person to be knighted by Queen Victoria

Went to Melbourne, Australia in 1855
Commissioner of Insolvent Estates at Geelong

In 1821 married Henrietta, eldest daughter of W. Ravenscroft

Author of various works including Adventures of a Gentleman in search of a Horse (which had great popularity) and Adventures of an Attorney in Search of a Practice; and Anti-Slavery Recollections

Died on 20 June 1879 in Melbourne

Possibly Head Porter.

Born in Cheshire the son of John Wesley Lloyd (dental surgeon and Methodist lay preacher) and Mary Rachel Warhurst. He had three sisters.

School - Leas School and as a boy was particularly interested in military history to which he later attributed his successful military career.
In 1918 (age 13) he won a scholarship to Fettes College.

October 1923 - admitted as a scholar to Magdalene College. There he was a friend of the future Archbishop of Canterbury Michael Ramsey. He played rugby and was disappointed not to get a Blue.
He was an active Liberal and in March 1925 he entertained H.H. Asquith at Magdalene after a Liberal Party meeting at the Cambridge Guildhall. He became President of the Cambridge University Liberal Club and was an active debater in the Cambridge Union Society.
He lost his scholarship in June 1925, after obtaining a Second in Classics. He then switched to study History, in which he also obtained a Second. He finally graduated with a third-class in Part II of the Law Tripos in June 1928.

He practised as a barrister and served on Hoylake Urban District Council, by which time he had become a Conservative Party sympathiser. During the Second World War he rose to be Deputy Chief of Staff of Second Army, playing an important role in planning sea transport to the Normandy beachhead and reaching the acting rank of brigadier.

1945-1976 - he was the Member of Parliament for Wirral.
1954-64 - held various ministerial positions under Prime Ministers Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, Harold Macmillan and Alec Douglas-Home, including Foreign Secretary (1955-60) and Chancellor of the Exchequor (1960-62).
1971-76 - Speaker of the House of Commons
1976 - he retired

He was made an Honorary Fellow of Magdalene College

College Plumber, 1988-2011.

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.