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Painter notable for perceptive portraits and subtle landscapes, stage designer, exhibition organiser and writer, brother of the artist John Hill. He was born Arthur Derek Hill in Bassett, Hampshire. Was educated at Marlborough College, then studied stage design in Munich, Paris and Vienna, 1933–5, and began life drawing. Although he designed sets and costumes for the ballet The Lord of Burleigh at Sadler’s Wells in 1937, in Paris a year later he chose to paint rather than pursue designing. During World War II he worked on a farm in England, painting spare-time. Contributed articles to Penguin New Writing, New Statesman and other magazines. The 1940s and 1950s were busy years for Hill, for he had a first solo show at Nicholson Gallery, 1943; designed for Il Trovatore at Covent Garden, 1947; painted in Ireland and Italy, where he was encouraged by the critic Bernard Berenson; organised the Degas exhibition at Edinburgh Festival, 1952; had a series of shows at Leicester Galleries; and was art director of the British School in Rome, 1953–4, and 1957–8.

Merchant, musician, and close friend of Samuel Pepys. Spent most of his working life in Italy and Lisbon, but had at one time a minor British government post at the Prize Commission.

Major Richard William George Hingston was an Irish physician, explorer and naturalist, and was the medical officer on the 1924 Mount Everest Expedition.

He was the son of Reverend Richard Edward Hull Kingston of Aglish, County Waterford, and Frances Sandiford. Most of his early life was spent in the family home at Horsehead in Passage West, County Cork. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and at University College Cork. He graduated from the National University of Ireland with first-class honours in 1910, and almost immediately obtained a position in the Indian Medical Service. In 1913, he was seconded from military duty as naturalist to the Indo-Russian Pamir triangulation expedition. In 1914 he went on war service and saw action in East Africa, France, Mesopotamia, and the N.W. Frontier, gaining two mentions in dispatches and the Military Cross for gallantry in action. He wrote several books based on his travels and natural history observations.

A member of the Royal Geographical Society and Alpine Club.

Portrait engraver in London. Brother of William Holl the younger (1807-1871). Later emigrated to USA.

Does not appear to be the more famous Henry Holzer who retired in 1968 from blindness.

Dutch anti-classicist and extravagant artist working at a time when classicism dominated Dutch art, he was the most ardent propagandist of the era of William and Mary, producing dozens of illustrated broadsheets on the main events of their reign. Besides these, De Hooghe illustrated some hundred books, including literary texts and historical and topographical works.

An English portrait painter, much influenced by Reynolds, who achieved fame as a brilliant colourist.

Stipple engraver. Son of the engraver, James Hopwood (1752?–1819).

Painter and draughtsman, born in Brighton, Sussex. Studied at Brighton School of Art, 1918–20, where he had a scholarship. Horton was a man of strong radical convictions, and because he was an absolute conscientious objector he had to endure two years’ hard labour in Carlton Prison, Edinburgh, 1916–18, during World War I. From 1916–18 was at Central School of Arts and Crafts under A S Hartrick and Ernest Jackson, then with a Royal Exhibition attended Royal College of Art, under Randolph Schwabe and Allan Gwynne-Jones, 1922–5. Horton went on to teach at the Royal College, 1930–49, where he was a highly respected figure, becoming Ruskin Master of Drawing at Oxford University, 1949. Taught voluntarily at the Working Men’s College, London, for a time.

Jacobus Houbraken was a Dutch engraver and the son of the artist and biographer Arnold Houbraken (1660–1719), whom he assisted in producing a published record of the lives of artists from the Dutch Golden Age.

According to Venn, John and Venn, John Archibald, Alumni Cantabrigienses; a biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900 he was 'Said to have been at Magdalene’.

Served as MP for Beeralston Bere Alston in Devon, 1728-33.
Succeeded his father as 10th Earl of Suffolk in 1733 and so also became the Visitor.
Married Sarah Hucks, daughter of William Huscks of London, brewer and had no children.

As Visitor he appointed Edward Abbott to the Mastership in 1740.

He died at Audley End from gout, aged 39. As there were no children the visitorship passed to the Countess of Portsmouth [see MCWA/A/103].

Visitor of Magdalene College, 1572-1626

Grandson of Lord Audley. Member of St John's College.
Visitor, 1572–1626. Six masters were appointed during his visitorship, but the earlier appointments were made by Lord Burghley while Howard was a minor; however Barnaby Goche, 1640, was his own choice.
Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire, 1598–1626.
High Steward and then Chancellor of the University, 1615.
Served as Lord Chamberlain to James I, 1602–1613
Created 1st Earl of Suffolk 1603.

Lord Thomas Audley’s son-in-law and successor, in virtue of his second marriage in 1558 to Margaret Audley, Thomas Audley’s daughter. A courtier and diplomat, who became probably the richest man in England, and who (fatally) planned to marry (as his fourth wife) Mary Queen of Scots. He was a benefactor to the College, though not to the extent promised (1564) in terms of funds and endowment, owing to imprisonment in 1568 and subsequent execution for treason. He made no appointment to the Mastership.

Lt. Col. Charles K. Howard-Bury, Leader of the 1921 British Mount Everest Expedition.

Born at Charleville Castle, King's County, Ireland, the only son of Captain Kenneth Howard-Bury (1846–1885) and Lady Emily Alfreda Julia, daughter of Charles Bury, 3rd Earl of Charleville. He was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

He was interested in climbing in his youth and climbed the larger routes in the Austrian Alps. In 1904 he joined the King's Royal Rifle Corps and was posted to India, where he went travelling and big game-hunting. At the beginning of World War I he rejoined his regiment and served with distinction as a frontline officer on the Somme and throughout the conflict. He was captured during the German Spring Offensive of 1918, and then made a dramatic escape from his prisoner-of-war camp, before being recaptured ten days later.

In 1921 he became the leader of the first Mount Everest Reconnaissance Expedition which was organised and financed by the Mount Everest Committee (a joint body of the Alpine Club and the Royal Geographical Society). In 1922 he wrote a full account of the expedition, published as Mount Everest The Reconnaissance, 1921. In 1922 he was awarded the Founder's Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society for his leadership of the expedition.