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
Educated at Royal Liberty School Romford. Matric 1954 (Scholar); PhD 1962, ScD 1995; Bye-Fellow, 1958–1960; Fellow, 1960 (Emeritus 2002); Tutor, 1963–1974; joint Director of Studies in Natural Sciences (Biological), 1980–1996; President, 1991–1996 (Acting Master , Michaelmas Term 1994). University Lecturer in Botany, 1964-1992; Reader, 1992-2000; Professor of Investigative Plant Ecology, 2000 (Emeritus 2002). President of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 1990-1991; Editor, Journal of Ecology, 1972-1977; President of the British Ecological Society, 1990-1991 (first Award for outstanding service to the Society, 2003).
A Scottish landscape and portrait painter. Gunn's paintings are on show in a number of galleries and his 1953 portrait of Queen Elizabeth II is in the Royal Collection. He also painted notable portraits of King George V, Agnes Catherine Maitland (now in Somerville College's dining hall), and also of Harold Macmillan, in his role as Chancellor of Oxford University. He was elected President of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 1953, a post he held until his death.
Master of Magdalene College, 1995-2002
Educated at Christ Church Oxford. University of Cambridge, John Henry Plummer Professor of Cell Biology, 1983-2001; Fellow of Churchill College until taking up the Mastership; Honorary Fellow, 2002. Chairman of The Wellcome Trust & Cancer Research UK Institute of Cancer & Developmental Biology, 1991, which was renamed The Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute in 2003 in recognition of his inaugural directorship. Japanese Academy’s Emperor Hirohito Prize for Biology, 1987; Israel’s Wolf Prize for Medicine, 1989; Copley Medal, 2003; Hon ScD 2007; Nobel Prize for Medicine 2012.
Further Reading:
Article 'Appointment to the Mastership' by Peter Grubb, College Magazine vol. 38 (1993-94) pp. 8-9
Article, 'Hail and Farewell' by Eamon Duffy, College Magazine, vol. 46 (2001-02) pp. 9-11
Antiquary and banker.
Gyalzen Kazi was a climbing sherpa, interpreter, and sardar on the 1921, 1922, and 1924 Mount Everest Expeditions. George Mallory mentioned him by name.
Photographers
Politician and writer.
Best known for his historical scholarship.
Master of Magdalene College, 1967-1978
Educated at Trinity College, and Fellow of Trinity, 1931-1933, 1946-1950 (University Lecturer in Classics, 1947). Published an extremely successful translation of Plato’s Symposium (1951). Head Master of Westminster School (1950-1957) and of Rugby (1957-1966); chairman of the Headmasters’ Conference. Honorary Fellow , 1978.
‘Not so hearty as Willink, not so pedagogic as Ramsay, not so melancholy as Benson, and not so teetotal as Donaldson’ – Lord Ramsey, on Hamilton’s retirement (College Magazine 22 (1977-78) p 2). What most people remember is his baleful humour.
Further reading:
College Magazine vol. 22 (1977-78) pp. 2-4 (D. W. Babbage)
Obituary College Magazine vol. 32 (1987-88) pp. 11-16 (R. Hyam)
College Magazine vol. 36 (1991-92) pp. 59-61 (review by R. Luckett)
Novelist and poet, the doyen of English letters by the time of his election as an Honorary Fellow in 1913, the first in a notable succession of leading figures in literature and the arts with no previous connection with the College, and into which it was recorded that he entered ‘cordially and sympathetically’ (College Magazine, No. 15, 1914, p. 245). Benson had long been acquainted with him.
Further Reading:
College Magazine vol. III No.14 (December 1913) pp. 204-205
Obituary, College Magazine vol. VIII 57 (March 1928) pp. 146-148
Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere, founded the Daily Mail in partnership with his brother Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe in 1896.
Master of Trinity Hall, 1559-1585
Son of Robert Harvey of Stadbrooke, Suffolk
LL.B. from Trinity Hall, 1538
LL.D. 1542
Admitted advocate, 1550
Vice-Chancellor of the University, 1560
Archdeacon of Middlesex, 1551-4
Vicar-general of London and subsequently of the province of Canterbury
Precentor of St Paul's, London, 1554
Rector of Littlebury, Essex, 1554-82
Commissioner for the detection of heretical books at Cambridge, 1556
Prebend of Salisbury, 1558-72 and of Lichfield, 1559-61
Prebend of Ely, 1567-85
Master in Chancery, 1568
Died 20 February 1585
Benefactor to Trinity Hall and other colleges
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.