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Master of Magdalene, 1626-1642

Henry Smyth was a sizar at Trinity College, Cambridge.
BA in 1594 and DD in 1612.
He was chaplain to the Earl of Suffolk [Visitor] and parish priest in Hildersham.

He was Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge from 1626 until his death in 1642.
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge from 1626 until 1627.
Prebendary of Lincoln from 1611 until 1629.

“Competent and diligent, if a little proud and abrasive, he was otherwise undistinguished and played virtually no part in the intrigues and arguments that dominated university politics on the eve of Civil War”. [History of Magdalene College, 1428-1988, By Cunich et al]

An old friend of George Mallory's, whom he had known since the climbing days at Pen y Pass in Wales.

Born in Cleveleys, Lancashire, but was taken to his mother's "bomb-damaged house in London" the following week.
His father Roy, was a property developer. His parents separated when he was seven years old and he chose to remain with his father while his mother cared for his two half sisters. He was educated at Dulwich College Preparatory School and St Paul's School.

Admitted to Magdalene College where he read English and was editor of Granta magazine.

After Magdalene he started as a trainee sub-editor at BBC radio news. and became a BBC reporter in 1970. Early in his career, the then prime minister Harold Wilson, angered by being asked whether he was about to call an election, punched Simpson in the stomach.

1980-81 - BBC's political editor
1981-82 - he presented the Nine o'clock News
1982 - became diplomatic editor
1988 - became BBC world affairs editor

Simpson's reporting career includes the following:

Nov 1969 - he interviewed the exiled King of Buganda, Mutesa II, hours before the latter's death in his London flat from alcohol poisoning. The official cause was suicide but some suspected assassination. Simpson told the police the following day that the king, a fellow-graduate of Magdalene College, Cambridge, had been sober and in good spirits, but this line of enquiry was not pursued.

1 Feb 1979 - he travelled back from Paris to Tehran with the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini, a return that heralded the Iranian Revolution, as millions lined the streets of the capital.

1989 - he avoided bullets at the Beijing Tiananmen Square massacre.

1989 - he reported the fall of the Ceauşescu regime in Bucharest.

Early part of the 1991 - Gulf War in Baghdad, before being expelled by the authorities.

1999 - reported from Belgrade during the Kosovo War, where he was one of a handful of journalists to remain in the Yugoslav capital after the authorities, at the start of the conflict, expelled those from NATO countries.

2001 - he was one of the first reporters to enter Afghanistan disguising himself by wearing a burqa, and subsequently Kabul in the US-led invasion of Afghanistan.

He was hunted by Robert Mugabe's forces in Zimbabwe.

2002 - he had an interview with the Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn just four days before his assassination. Fortuyn was not happy with Simpson and his questions and so sent him away just five minutes after the start of the interview.

He was the first BBC journalist to answer questions in a war zone from internet users via BBC News Online.

While reporting on a non-embedded basis from Northern Iraq in the 2003 Iraq war, Simpson was injured in a friendly fire incident when a U.S. warplane bombed the convoy of American and Kurdish forces he was with. The attack was caught on film: a member of Simpson's crew was killed and he himself was left deaf in one ear.

During the 2011 Libyan civil war Simpson travelled with the rebels during their westward offensive, reporting on the war from the front lines and coming under fire on several occasions.

2016 - he presented a Panorama special, "John Simpson: 50 Years on the Frontline", revisiting the people and places that have impacted on him most, revealing his thoughts on the challenges for the future.

2018 - he described how a previous head of BBC News had recently tried to force him out of the BBC. "I wasn't the only one: he did the same to several eminent broadcasters, on the grounds that the news department was clogged at the top by the aged. I was unsighted by being assured regularly how wonderful my contribution to the BBC was. 'I'd be distraught if you left', he said."

Since 2022 he regularly presents Unspun World with John Simpson for the BBC, dissecting political opinions from around the world as their world affairs editor.

Awards
CBE in the Gulf War honours list in 1991
International Emmy for his report for the BBC Ten o'clock News on the fall of Kabul
Golden Nymph at the Cannes Film Festival
Peabody award in the US
Three BAFTAs
2000 - made an Honorary Fellow of Magdalene
2005 - became the first Chancellor of Roehampton University

Various universities have awarded him honorary doctorates:
De Montfort, Suffolk College at the University of East Anglia, Nottingham, Dundee, Southampton, Sussex, St Andrews, Exeter and Leeds.
He has received the Ischia International Journalism Award and the Bayeux-Calvados Award for war correspondents.
In June 2011 he was made a Freeman of the City of London.
He was honoured by the City of Westminster at a Marylebone tree planting ceremony in May 2012.

Henry visited Vienna around 1905, and eventually returned to England. He taught at Catford School.

Educated at Downside. Matriculated in 1957.

Assistant Registrar in the Old Schools.

Fellow - 10 August 1977
Bursar, 1 October 1977–2001
Steward to 1997
Tutor, 1997–2003
Development Director, 1997–2003
Honorary Fellow, 2005

A keen golfer and an enthusiast for all things Italian.

Article, 'A personal view: from the Bursar' by D.J.H. Murphy College Magazine, No. 3, 1985-86, pp. 25-26

George Charlewood Turner was a pupil, Housemaster, and eventually Master at Marlborough College, Wiltshire. George won the top Foundation Scholarship at Marlborough College. He went from being Master at Marlborough, from 1926 - 1939, to being the Principal of Makerere College, Uganda, from 1939-1946, where he taught President Nyerere. He eventually became Headmaster of Charterhouse for five years, serving afterwards as Chairman of the Governing Body.

Older brother of Francis McDougall Charlewood Turner.

Matriculated pensioner from Magdalene College 1631
Probably the son of Robert Huddleston of St Benedict's, Lincoln
B.A. 1634/5
M.A. 1638
Fellow of Magdalene College

Ordained priest 10 March 1638/9
Rector of Wadingham, Lincolnshire
Prebend of Lincoln, 1675-85
Died 1685

Probably father of George Huddleston who was admitted to Magdalene in 1663

Harry Otto Becker (born Henry Becker) was an English painter, draughtsman and printmaker from East Anglia. Born in Colchester, Essex on 17 October 1865, he was the youngest son of Dr Charles Otto Gustavus Becker (1827- 1910), a surgeon, and his wife Henrietta Margaret Schwalb von Schuler (1835-1903). Both his parents were born in Germany and naturalised English after moving to Colchester in the mid-19th century. As Hendrick Becker he enrolled in the 3-year course at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp when he was just 14 years old and in 1884 finished his training in the Paris studio of Charles Auguste Émile Durand (1837-1917), a portrait painter. He then returned to a studio at Valley Farm, East Bergholt, Suffolk and from 1886 until 1894, Becker lived with his parents in Colchester. He then moved to Kensington in London, where he had a studio until 1913, during which time he made various trips to East Anglia, Kent and Holland and was a member of the Ipswich Fine Art Club 1890-1928. Becker’s love affair with the Dutch matured his work and inspired a series of lithographs and a cluster of successful exhibitions and appearances at the Royal Academy summer exhibition. He completed a series of lithographs depicting Dutch farming scenes in 1908 and 1909 and exhibited them that same year. At the end of the year Becker held another exhibition in his studio titled ‘Field labour in Holland’ and comprised of 33 watercolours which were greeted with acclaim by the Illustrated London News. He married Georgina Maria Waddington in 1902 and from 1913 they lived in rented accommodation in Wenhaston, Suffolk. They were in poor circumstances, relying on Georgina’s small income from her position teaching art at a local school. Around 1926 Becker and his family moved to the highly named Hinton Lodge, a remote farm cottage at Darsham, Suffolk where he remained until his death. Harry produced a series of posters for London Underground and his work was obsessive, producing thousands of drawings in pencil, charcoal, red chalk, or pen & ink. Harry Otto Becker died at Ipswich Hospital on 10 September 1928, aged 62.

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).

Entry on the College website:
Professor Peter Grub is an Emeritus Fellow at Magdalene.
Professor Peter John Grubb is a British ecologist and Emeritus Professor of Botany at the University of Cambridge. He spent much of his academic career at Magdalene College, where he was a longstanding member of the Fellowship before retiring in 2001.
Professor Grubb’s early academic development was shaped by the guidance of E. J. H. Corner and, in particular, A. S. Watt, whose influence he credited in later reflections on his path to becoming a plant ecologist. His research spanned a wide range of botanical and ecological subjects, from plant physiology to global biomes, and from chalk grassland to tropical rainforest ecosystems.
He is especially known for developing the concept of the regeneration niche, which has had a lasting impact on plant ecology. His editorial and leadership contributions include serving as co-editor of the Journal of Ecology from 1972 to 1977 and as President of the British Ecological Society in 1992. He is now an Honorary Member of the Society.