Evelyn Ferrar was the daughter of Hartley Travers Ferrar, geologist on the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-04, and Gladys Helen (née Anderson). In 1942 she married Lachlan Maxwell Forbes.
Forbes lived in several countries throughout her life, including Egypt and New Zealand. In New Zealand she studied natural sciences with a focus on geology and botany at the University at Victoria College. After graduating she carried our geological fieldwork in South Africa and Zimbabwe.
French lithographic printer, based in Paris.
Born 5 May 1796 the third son of Hugh, Earl Fortescue, of Castle Hill, near South Molton, Devon.
School - Eton
Admitted Fellow-Commoner at Magdalene on 14 January 1814
Matriculated Lent, 1814; M.A. 1816
Fellow
Rector of Anderby with Cumberworth, Lincs., 1821-35
Canon Residentiary of Worcester, 1834-69
Rector of Poltimore with Huxham, Devon, 1835-69
Master of St Oswald's Hospital, Worcester, 1847-69
13 April 1842 married Sophia, daughter of Henry Nevile, Rector of Cottesmore, Rutland
Died on 3 January 1869
Tony Foster was born in Lincolnshire in April 1946 and now lives in Tywardreath in Cornwall. He is an artist-explorer and environmentalist who travels around the world to paint from nature documenting environments, many of which have either been lost to us or are in danger.
Whig politician.
Cyril Fox was born in Chippenham, Wiltshire, on 16 December 1882, the first son of Charles Frederick Fox, a bank official, and his wife, Henrietta Maria Paul. His family moved to the Isle of Wight when he was a boy and he was educated at Christ's Hospital and then in London (1895–8). Illness led to him leaving school at sixteen to take up market gardening in Worthing, Sussex. In Sussex he met a Cambridge bacteriologist, Louis Cobbett, who obtained for him a position as a clerk at the bovine tuberculosis research station in Stansted, Essex. This institution moved to Cambridge in 1912. After the war he returned to the research station as superintendent of its field laboratories, but post-war reorganisation made his future there uncertain, and at thirty-six he changed to archaeology as a career.
Fox gained entry to Magdalene College, Cambridge, in 1919, as a part-time student of archaeology, at first reading for the English tripos, and was much encouraged by Professor H. M. Chadwick, who had him transferred to work for a PhD. In 1923 his thesis was published as The Archaeology of the Cambridge Region. This was a landmark in archaeological thinking, and gave Fox an immediate standing among scholars. He was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in the same year, and was appointed to an assistantship in the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology in Cambridge. He was elected to the Kingsley Bye Fellowship at Magdalene in 1924.
In 1924 he was nominated keeper of the National Museum of Ireland, but the electors' choice was not confirmed at a higher level and instead a German archaeologist, Walter Bremer, was appointed. Fox then applied for the keepership of archaeology at the National Museum of Wales. In 1926, he became director, and guided the affairs of the National Museum of Wales until his retirement in 1948. Fox's time as director saw great developments and he succeeded in unifying the regional and local museums of the principality by affiliation to the National Museum.
Fox served with distinction on public bodies such as the royal commissions on ancient and historical monuments in Wales and in England, and on the Ancient Monuments Board of the Ministry of Works. He also continued his field studies and publishing works.
1934 - president of the Museums Association.
1935 - knighted for his services to museums.
1940 - elected fellow of the British Academy.
1944-1949 - served as president of the Society of Antiquaries of London was awarded the society's gold medal in 1952.
1947 - an honorary DLitt of Wales.
1952 - an honorary fellow of Magdalene.
On 6 May 1916 Fox married Olive, daughter of Arthur Congreve-Pridgeon, vicar of Steyning in Sussex. She was drowned off the Gower peninsula in 1932. They had two daughters, Helen Felicity, an art critic, and Penelope Eames, the author of a work on medieval furniture (1977).
On 6 July 1933 he married his second wife, Aileen Mary Henderson, an active archaeologist, daughter of Walter Scott Henderson, solicitor, of Surrey. They worked together in the field. He retired to Exeter, where she held a position of university lecturer in archaeology. They had three sons.
Fox died at the Cranford Nursing Home, Cranford Avenue, Exmouth, Devon, on 15 January 1967.
The first monthly issue of Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country appeared in February 1830.
King of Prussia (1840–61). Son and successor of Frederick William III. He granted a constitution in response to the Revolutions of 1848, but later amended it to eliminate popular influence. He refused the crown of Germany (1849) because it was offered by the Frankfurt Parliament, a democratic assembly. From 1858, the future Emperor William I ruled as regent.
Painter, who had some repute as a history painter in the reign of Charles II. In early life he went to the West Indies, and narrowly escaped death by poisoning. He returned to England, and was much employed, although 'his Genius was so impair'd by that Attempt on his Life, that his latter Works fail'd of their usual Perfection.' He was considered a rival of Isaac Fuller. He drew in the Academy that then existed, and latterly was scene painter to the play-house in Covent Garden. Some plates in R. Blome's 'History of the Old and New Testament' are probably from his designs. It is not known when he died, but he can hardly have lived till 1747, and be identical with the I. Freeman who drew the large view of 'The Trial of Lord Lovat in Westminster Hall.'
British engraver and charter member of the Artists' Benevolent Fund, involved in the creation of a mutual assurance society for artists who were not members of the Royal Academy.
British portrait painter and etcher. Freeth was born in Birmingham and attended the Birmingham College of Art and, between 1936 and 1939, studied at the British School in Rome. From 1936 onwards, Freeth exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy, the Royal Watercolour Society and elsewhere.
During World War Two, Freeth served in the Middle East as an official war artist to the Royal Air Force. The War Artists' Advisory Committee commissioned two lithographs from Freeth. During the War, he also worked on the Recording Britain project.
Freeth was one of the first artists to make the people of the Black Country the main subject of his work, as other artists placed greater emphasis on representing the industrial landscape. Freeth won the prestigious Prix de Rome in engraving in 1936 and 1937, for his series of Black Country images. After the war, the National Coal Board commissioned Freeth to produce works about mine-workers due to the success of his representation of the people of the Black Country.
Freeth was elected to the Royal Academy in 1965 and taught at St Martin's School of Art and the Central School of Art in London.
1912 - Jack French died at a dinner of the Conservative Club. He had served the College for fifty years, since the age of 17 or 18, first employed as a servant in 1862, before rising to Under-porter, Porter, Butler, Kitchen Manager, and sometime caterer.
College Magazine, No. 12 March 1913
“The other loss was a very severe one. The newly-appointed President [AC Benson] had signalised his accession to his office by a supper to the College servants, and the Butler, Jack French, presided at it with his accustomed tact and good humour. He was forced to leave it rather early, in order to keep an engagement, and walked down to the Conservative Club, where he was a very familiar figure; he spoke to a couple of friends, and in a moment rolled over from his chair, dead: the cause was afterwards found to be valvular disease of the heart. He was buried on the 27th and the first part of the service took place in the College Chapel, the Master officiating; besides the family and private friends, including the Mayor, were present.
Man and boy, Jack French had been a devoted servant and friend to the College for fifty years. His father was once Head Porter, and he too, started at the gate, but was comparatively soon transferred to the buttery, where he spent the rest of his life, rising finally to be Butler and Kitchen Manager. He had many interests outside the College, such as politics, and a share in a catering business, which very successfully supplied the Royal Show for some years, but his heart was above all things in the welfare of Magdalene, and it is certain that nobody rejoiced more at its latter-day prosperity than Jack French. A neat brass to his memory has been placed in the Ante-Chapel by the President.
See MCCA/MCPH/3/1 32a for a photograph
One of the first engravers to experiment with steel plates.
Portraitist and landscape painter with works in government and regional art collections (Ipswich and Hertfordshire).
Richard Evelyn Fuller Maitland was the son of the art collector and Liberal politician William Fuller Maitland (1884–1932), of Stansted Hall, Essex. William Maitland had inherited from his own father an important collection of early Italian paintings, nine of which he sold to the National Gallery, London, in 1878, including The Mystic Nativity by Sandro Botticelli. Educated at Harrow School, Richard Maitland went on to study at Sir Hubert Herkomer’s Art School, Bushey, Hertfordshire. He also pursued a part-time military career, gaining the rank of captain in the Scots Guards. Essentially a gentleman-artist, Maitland exhibited twice at the Royal Academy, in 1904 and in 1921, when he showed a portrait of a judge, Edwin Max Konstam. His known oeuvre is small and includes A Mediterranean Scene (Bushey Museum and Art Gallery, 2004.108.1), a portrait of Sir Frederick Liddell, First Parliamentary Counsel, dated 1913 (Government Art Collection, no. 1203) and two portraits of senior members of the Admiralty. Also in 1913, Magdalene College, Cambridge, commissioned a sketch from Maitland of Thomas Hardy, then aged seventy-two.