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Vere Cotton was born on 5 May 1888, son of Charles Calveley Cotton and Kate de la Rue. He was educated at Repton School and Magdalene College (matric. 1907).
He fought in the First World War, where he was mentioned in despatches three times. He was awarded the Croca de Guerra and the Croix de Guerre and gained the rank of Honrary Colonel in the 470 Heavy AA Regiment, Royal Artillery (Territorial Army).
In 1922 he married Elfreda Helen Moore.
He was appointed CBE in 1937.
Between 1942 and 1954 he was Pro-Chancellor of Liverpol University and was Lord Mayor of Liverpool between 1951 and 1952. In 1956 he was the High Sheriff of Lancashire.
He died on 19 November 1970.

Stephen King, born on 11 September 1923 in London. Son of Ernest William King and Janet Paterson Stathers. Educated at St Paul's School. Was admitted pensioner January 1946.
Terms kept: Lent 1946, Easter 1946, Michaelmas 1946, Lent 1947 and Easter 1947. Read Law and was awarded BA in June 1947.
A collection of his rowing photographs was donated to the College by his widow in 2022.

Born in Liverpool and was the son of the Robert Alexander Bickersteth and Ellen Constance Wilson, of Borwick Lodge, Outgate, Ambleside. Educated at Eton. Admitted as a pensioner at Magdalene College on 7 October 1924. His tutor was A. S. Ramsey. MA 1931.

After leaving Magdalene he trained at Wells Theological College.
1928 deacon
1929 priest

1928-1932 his first curacy was at Christ Church, Waterloo, Liverpool.

22 Nov 1931 he was made curate of Christ Church, Whitehaven with his primary responsibility being St Peters, Kells.

In 1933 he was defrocked for "immoral conduct".

He visited New York with his brother. He is shown, on the electoral register, as living in Paddington in London in the late 1930s.

He died in 1945.

Made an Honorary Fellow of Magdalene College in 1932.
He visited the College for his admission but continued ill health prevented him from returning. He only returned once and that was as a convalescent during the Long Vacation.

See also:
Archives, F/RK and D/1/7

College Magazine vol. 74 (1936) pp. 208-209
College Magzine vol. 37 (1992-93) pp. 19-24 (J. D. Lewins)
College Magazine vol. 41 (1996-97) p. 53 (J. D. Lewins, ‘Two unpublished letters about his Honorary Fellowship’)

Occasional Paper No.9, 1995 (Lewins, esp pp 25-26 on Strang’s portraits)
Occasional Paper No. 19, 1998 (T. Pinney)
Occasional Paper No. 25
Occasional Paper No. 26 2001 (Lewins)

Ruth Rix was born in Leamington Spa in 1942 and went to school in Gloucestershire, Berkshire and London. Her mother Helga escaped on one of the last Kindertransporte from Vienna in 1939, and her father fled Vienna in 1938. Her early years were spent in emigré circles including many people from the arts.

Ruth studied Art and Theatre Design at Chelsea School of Art and The Central School of Art and Design 1960–63, and Fine Art at Leeds College of Art 1969– 71. From 1972–74 she studied for 2 years at Akademie der Bildenden Kunste in Vienna under Fritz Wotruba, before returning to live in England, in York, East Sussex and finally in Brighton.

Kolář was a Czech born artist who worked across artistic media from the start of his career, with poetry and collage at the heart of his practice. His collages were first exhibited in 1937 in a Prague theatre vestibule, while his first poetry collection was published in 1941. Early in his career he was a founding member of the influential Group 42, an artist collective who sought to remove academicism from modern art and instead reflected modern urban life in their work.

Ferrar was the magistrate of the counties of Antrim and Down, and Belfast's first magistrate of police.

Master of Magdalene College, 1690-1713

Son of Gabriel Quadring of Frisby, Lincolnshire
Probably attended Alford school
Admitted pensioner at Magdalene College aged 17 on 22 May 1657
B.A. 1660/1
M.A. 1664
D.D. 1691 (Lit. Reg.)

Fellow and President
Taxor, 1666
Senior Proctor, 1670-71
Master, 1690-1713
Vice-Chancellor, 1691-92, 1711-2

His Mastership was dominated by fund raising for the new building [now known as the Pepys Building] and he made little or no impact in the university at large
Incorporated at Oxford in 1669.

Ordained priest (Peterborough) on 20 September 1668
Rector of Dry Drayton, Cambridgeshire, 1691

Died in 1713

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.