Secretary of the Athenaeum Club
Alexander Macmillan was born in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland, and was cofounder of Macmillan Publishers in 1843, with his brother Daniel.
Alexander was the partner who developed the literary reputation of the company while Daniel took charge of the business and commercial side. Originally called Macmillan & Co., the firm started as a successful bookshop in Cambridge. The brothers soon started publishing books as well as selling them. After Daniel's death in 1857, Alexander continued to run the firm.
Born on 15 October 1882 the son of Rev. Charles MacMichael of Walpole Rectory, Wisbech
Educated at Bedford Grammar School
Admitted pensioner 28 July 1901
There is a photograph of him in the Football team (1904-1905 - see MCCP/AVP/2 and a carte de visite size portrait in MCPP/AVP4)
He was a member of the Boat Club and rowed in the Lent and May Boats in 1902, 1903, 1904 and 1905. He was Secretary in 1903 and Captain in 1904
After leaving Magdalene he passed his civil service exam and entered the Sudan Political Service in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. He then served in the Blue Nile Province until 1915, when he became a senior inspector of Khartoum Province. He rose to the position of civil secretary in 1926. In 1933, he became governor of Tanganyika until 1937.
In 1938 he became High Commissioner of the British Mandate of Palestine.
In 1942 he was blamed for sending at least 768 Jewish refugees aboard MV Struma to their deaths.
During his tenure, he was the target of seven unsuccessful assassination attempts.
MacMichael also served as High Commissioner of Malta.
Irish-born painter, specializing in historical subject paintings.
Scottish political writer and politician.
Educated at the Perse School, Cambridge and Durham University before serving in the First World War. He was stationed at Magdalene as Officer attached to a Short Course and dined frequently with the Master and Fellows. Due to the respect and affection he inspired he was formally admitted to the College at the end of the war at the age of 27 with the unusual status of Fellow-Commoner which gave him dining rights at High Table. He proceeded to his BA in 1923 by means of the examination allowances made to ex-servicemen. He retained his Fellow Commonorship until 1970 when he was made an Honorary Fellow.
He taught Music and Religious Knowledge at the Perse School and became a Governor on his retirement. He was a Scout Master and lived at Toft Manor.
Shortly before the outbreak of war in 1939, while he was still an undergraduate at Magdalene, Emanuel Barnett Lyons joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve as a trainee pilot. He was promptly called up in September 1939 and, after a year's training, he was posted to RAF Turnhouse (now Edinburgh Airport). His log books recorded a series of "dog-fights" against German intruders, encounters which accorded "Butcher" Lyons the status of a Battle of Britain pilot. (The nickname is unexplained.) In July 1941, he moved to Manston, the front-line fighter station in Kent, where he took part in missions providing cover for Bomber Command raids on targets in northern France. From there, he was transferred to North Africa, where he noted of one mission that three fellow pilots "did not return". In February 1945, he took charge of a squadron based in Holland: since he was still technically a member of the RAFVR, he held the nominal rank of Acting Squadron Leader. Their Hawker Tempest single-engine fighters were effective in low-level attacks, particularly the "rat scramble", the ambushing of the Luftwaffe's new Messerschmitt 262 fighter jet as it was coming in to land and unable to escape by accelerating. In response, the Germans protected their airfields by creating "flak lanes" of intensive ground fire that inflicted heavy casualties on the Tempests. On 11 April, within four weeks of the end of the war, Lyons led an attack on an airfield at Fassberg, ninety kilometres south of Hamburg and deep inside Germany. Flak shattered the canopy of his cockpit, and the debris caused a head wound. Despite his injury, he was able to fly his damaged plane two hundred miles back to base, an achievement for which he received the Distinguished Flying Cross: the award was actually gazetted on VE Day. There were Dutch pilots attached to his squadron and he was later also awarded the Netherlands Flying Cross in recognition of his skill in leading them back to safety. In 1947-8, he served as Treasurer of the Jewish Ex-Servicemen's Association.
Also see: https://www.bbm.org.uk/airmen/Lyons.htm
Born 1 July 1945. Educated St John’s School, Leatherhead and St Catharine’s College Cambridge (Exhibitioner 1964).
Lecturer, Dept of Modern Subjects, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, 1967–69.
Fellow of St Catharine’s (Research Fellow 1970, Official Fellow 1972),
University Assistant Lecturer, 1972
University Lecturer in English,1978
Fellow of Magdalene College (Official Fellow 1978, Emeritus Fellow 2012)
Pepys Librarian and Keeper
Obituary: College Magazine, No. 65 2021-2021
Percy Lubbock was born on 4 June 1879 in London, the fourth child of Frederic Lubbock, merchant banker, and his wife, Catherine. He was educated at Eton College, then at King's College, Cambridge, where he was placed in the first class for the classical tripos in 1901.
After university Lubbock worked for the Board of Education in a post he found 'uncongenial'. In 1906 he was elected Pepys Librarian at Magdalene College. In that year his first book, Elizabeth Barrett Browning in her Letters, was published. In 1908 he gave up his post in order to devote himself to writing, and in 1909 he published Samuel Pepys.
Lubbock contributed regularly to the Times Literary Supplement between 1908 and 1914 and during the First World War worked on behalf of the Red Cross. Henry James was his idol and friend and after James's death in 1916 Lubbock orchestrated the publication of the unfinished works (The Ivory Tower, The Sense of the Past, and The Middle Years), a two-volume collection of letters, and a memoir.
In 1925 he published an edition of A. C. Benson's Diary, commemorating the Eton schoolmaster whose recommendation had secured Lubbock the post of Pepys Librarian.
In 1926 Lubbock married Lady Sybil Marjorie Scott (1879–1943). They lived at Villa Medici in Fiesole, Italy, for the next fourteen years. In the late 1940s Lubbock moved to Lerici on the Gulf of La Spezia and into his much prized Gli Scafari. He was appointed CBE in 1952. He died at Gli Scafari on 2 August 1965 and was buried at Lerici.
Educated at Southwell School, Nottinghamshire and Trinity College, Cambridge (admitted pensioner, 3 October 1793).
MA from Magdalene in 1802
He was a Fellow of Magdalene College from 1802-1814, and President from 1805-1810.
In 1802 he was appointed Steward, Librarian, and Registrar (he took on the duties of Bursar when Rev Thomas Paley was ill in 1805). He referred to himself as the Pepys Librarian.
Curate of Long Sutton, Hants
Curate of St Peter's, Duxford, 1806
Curate of St John's, Duxford, 1807
Rector of Darlaston, Staffordshire, 1814-1834
Married Marianne, daughter of Benjamin Maddock of Nottingham
A New Zealand political cartoonist and caricaturist who lived and worked in the United Kingdom for many years. Low was a self-taught cartoonist. Born in New Zealand, he worked in his native country before migrating to Sydney in 1911, and ultimately to London (1919), where he made his career and earned fame for his Colonel Blimp depictions and his satirising of the personalities and policies of German dictator Adolf Hitler, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, and other leaders of his times.
Son of Louis XVI, proclaimed King of France by royalists in 1793. Placed in the care of a shoemaker by the Republican government after the execution of his father, he probably died of neglect.
The last king of France (1774–92) before the French Revolution.
King of France (1643–1715). Known for maintaining a system of absolute rule: the king ruled unhampered by challenges from representative institutions but with the aid of ministers and councils subject to his will.
King of France (1610–43). Son of son of Henry IV.