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German lithographer, trained in Berlin. Noted portraits include Friedrich Wilhelm IV on horseback.

Stearn and Sons took rowing photographs until 1970 when they joined with Eaden Lilley who then took over taking these photos. Jet Photographic then took up the work where Eaden Lilley left off. Please contact the proprietor is you need a copy of any photograph (https://jetphotographic.com)

English painter of portraits of Dutch or Flemish parentage. He was active in England, from at least 1618 to 1643, when he moved to Middelburg in the Netherlands to escape the English Civil War. Between 1646 and 1652 he lived in Amsterdam, before settling in Utrecht, where he died. Johnson painted many portraits of emerging new English gentry. His early portraits were panel paintings with "fictive" oval frames. His works can be found in major collections in the UK and overseas as well as in private collections in stately homes in Britain. He was an accomplished portrait painter, but lacked the flair of a master such as Van Dyck.

Son of the Rev. Francis Jourdain (Pembroke College, Oxford), of Ashbourne vicarage, Derbyshire.
School - Derby.

Admitted as a Pensioner (age 18) on 1 August 1889.
Prizeman; Scholar, 1891; B.A. 1892.
Kept a school at Clifton, near Ashbourne in Derbyshire.
Served in the Great War, 1914-19 (Capt., R. Fusiliers; Staff Capt., War Office; wounded; Brevet-Major; mentioned in Secretary of State's List for "valuable services").

Of Charlynch, near Bridgwater in Somerset.

Died on 31 July 1942, in Newquay, Cornwall.

French painter and lithographer.

Michael Keall was born in Putney and was educated as a Chorister at King's College School, 1940-1945, at Culford School, and at King's College, Cambridge (1951-1954) where he took the Historical Tripos and a Certificate in Education.
National Service (2nd Lt, Royal Artillery), 1950-1951.
Assistant Master at King's College School, 1955-1957 and at Bedford School, 1957-1962.
Headmaster at the Junior School, Portsmouth GS, 1962-1969 and at Eastbourne College Preparatory School, 1969-1977.
Headmaster of Westminster Abbey Choir School, 1977-1987.
Junior Bursar of Magdalene College, 1989-1994.
Alumni Secretary, 1999-2012.
Fellow-Commoner, 1989-2019.

Michael took a warm interest in the student body and knew many students personally. He was interested in all student activities but in particular, he took a special interest in College music and sports, compiling the list of College Blues and Half Blues for publication in the College Magazine each year. His memory for and eager interest in every individual he met, his wide range of interests, from rugby to choral music, his unobtrusive but profound kindness, his unruffled enthusiasm and good humour, all this and more made him universally loved.

Obituary: College Magazine, No. 64 (2019-2020), PP. 29-35.

Lee Keedick acted as the tour manager and press agent for George Mallory's lecture tour of North America and Canada in 1923

Born in Moscow, but grew up in Poland; educated at the Sorbonne (DSc). In 1915 he joined Professor G. H. F. Nuttall in Cambridge as an assistant. Admitted as a Research Student, 1916; Bye-Fellow, 1916; Fellow, 1931; Honorary Fellow, 1957. Professor of Cellular Biology and Director of the Molteno Institute for Parasitology, 1931-1952. His classic publication in 1925 was on the pigment cytochrome, which he discovered and named. FRS, 1928; Royal Medal, 1939; Copley Medal, 1951; Associate Foreign Member of the Académie des Sciences de l’Institut de France, 1955. He was a world-class scientist who was perhaps unlucky not to become a Nobel Laureate.

Further Reading:
Article 'Professor Keilin by G. M. Hughes, College Magazine vol. 83 (1952) pp. 7-8
Obituary by F. McD C. Turner, College Magazine vol. 7 (1962-63) pp. 13-15
Article 'Magdalene and the Molteno Institute', College Magazine*, vol. 31 (1986-87) pp. 20-22

Dr Alexander Kellas was a member of the 1921 British Mount Everest Expedition. He died en route to Mount Everest.

Kellas was born on 21 June 1868 in Aberdeen, the son of James Fowler Kellas, secretary to the local marine board, and his wife, Mary Boyd. He was educated at Aberdeen grammar school and then attended Aberdeen University, Heriot-Watt College in Edinburgh, and Heidelberg University, where he gained a PhD. He was keenly interested in chemistry and even more enthusiastic for mountaineering. The two interests combined to make him pre-eminent for a time in the field of high-altitude physiology. He was able to combine research at low pressure in the laboratory with practical studies at altitude in the Himalayas.

Kellas had a great love for wild mountain places. He was not given to technical climbing but was supremely interested in mountain geography and exploration, in the course of which he reached numerous unclimbed Himalayan summits. He began mountaineering in the Cairngorms while a student at Aberdeen University.

In his late thirties Kellas made his first visit to the Himalayas. He made six expeditions to Sikkim from 1907 to 1920. He did a phenomenal amount of climbing and yet very little is known about him because he was of a retiring nature and wrote very little of his achievements. Unusual in that he generally climbed without European companions, he was accompanied by an ever loyal group of local porters whom he trained in the basic alpine skills. He possessed phenomenal energy and tenacity.

During the First World War, Kellas channelled his energies into high-altitude research and the effect of diminished atmospheric pressure on human physiology, a subject of great importance to the Air Ministry.

In 1919 Kellas suffered a breakdown in health from overwork, resigned his lectureship in London, and returned to Aberdeen. He recovered the following year and set out again for the Himalayas to carry out more experiments at altitude on himself and his high-altitude porters. He reached a height of 23,622 ft on Kamet. After several months in the Garhwal he travelled over to Sikkim, where in November 1920 he climbed north of the Kang La to obtain photographs of the peaks north of Everest that were then unknown.

Kellas returned to the Kang La region in April 1921 and climbed a higher peak to see more of Everest's north side. He then climbed Narsingh (19,110 ft) before turning his attention to working out a way through the icefall on Kabru. He had time to reach only 21,000 ft. He returned to Darjeeling just one week before he was to join the first expedition to Mount Everest, led by Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury.

Kellas was chosen to be a member of the climbing team of four at the age of 53. He had far more experience of high-altitude climbing than any contemporary. He had alone built up a good rapport with the Sherpa Bhotias hill men and, by emphasising the importance of adequate training and of treating them with respect, had shown their value to any mountaineering enterprise.

After only a week of rest from his attempts to see more of the Everest region and his prolonged work on Kabru, Kellas had no time to recuperate properly for the rigours of the Tibetan plateau. He went down with dysentery and had to be carried on a stretcher. Just before Kampa Dzong the accumulated strain of his spring climbing, the biting cold of the plateau, and rampant dysentery overtaxed his heart. He died, on 5 June 1921, among his faithful porters, as he had insisted his countrymen went on ahead.

Kellas was buried on a hillside to the south of Kampa Dzong in sight of the peaks of Sikkim, where he had made so many first ascents.

A British painter best known for his portraits. Gerald Kelly was born in London, educated at Eton College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and later lived and studied art in Paris. James McNeill Whistler was an early influence. Kelly travelled much, visiting Spain, America, South Africa, and Burma, which inspired a series of paintings of Burmese dancers. He became a favourite painter of the Royal Family. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1930, was the Academy's Keeper from 1943–45, and served as its president from 1949–54.