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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.

Louis Emanuel Jean Guy de Savoie-Carignan de Soissons (1890–1962), architect, was professionally known as Louis de Soissons.

The first major commission of the practice he set up (Louis de Soissons Partnership) was the master plan for Welwyn Garden City (1920). Louis de Soissons was appointed architect for the town in 1920 and the practice was significantly involved in its development over the next 60 years.

After the Second World War the firm expanded to Plymouth and Exeter to carry out a wide variety of architectural work.
Nearly 50 war cemeteries were designed for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in Greece and Italy.
Later the practice's buildings included a number of important buildings, such as the Wellcome Foundation, The Leathersellers Company (a reconstruction in 1948 after wartime bombing), the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in Regent's Park and the International Wool Secretariat in Carlton Terrace, London. He also designed the Hobbs' Gates at The Oval cricket ground, in memory of Sir Jack Hobbs, and a statue of George VI.

The Crown Estates Commissioners retained the firm to restore Cumberland and Chester Terraces, by John Nash.
Work was carried out on seating for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).
Work for academic institutions included Eton College, and Exeter and Cambridge Universities.

The firm changed tack in the 1960s, and commercial work such as the Brighton Marina shows a greater deference to modernism. The firm's headquarters are now in Luton, Bedfordshire.

A fashionable and prolific English portrait painter who exhibited some 138 works at the Royal Academy between 1802 and 1838, and was one of the founders of the Society of British Artists. His work was influenced and overshadowed by his more successful contemporary Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830). Lonsdale was a pupil of George Romney (1734–1802).
Lonsdale, who started off as a pattern designer at Margerison and Glover's print-works in Catterall, was encouraged as an artist by the Lancaster architect Richard Threlfall, of whom he exhibited a portrait in 1809. Lord Archibald, impressed by the quality of his painting and drawing, invited him to Ashton Hall. Here he met two of Lord Archibald's daughters, Lady Anne Hamilton and Lady Susan, the Countess of Dunmore. Feeling that his future would hold more promise in the city, he moved to London, becoming a favourite pupil of Romney's, accompanying him abroad on several occasions. He enrolled in the Royal Academy Schools on 23 October 1801. Lonsdale married a Lancastrian, Miss Thornton, and set up a residence in Southgate.

Dr Tom Longstaff was a member of the 1922 British Mount Everest Expedition, serving as medical officer.

Tom Longstaff was the first person to climb a summit of over 7,000 metres in elevation, Trisul, in the India/Pakistan Himalayas in 1907. He also made important explorations and climbs in Tibet, Nepal, the Karakoram, Spitsbergen, Greenland, and Baffin Island. He was president of the (British) Alpine Club from 1947 to 1949 and a founding member of The Alpine Ski Club in 1908. He was the chief medical officer and naturalist on the 1922 British Mount Everest expedition.

Annie Victoria, known as Avie was the younger sister of George Mallory [there were four siblings - Avie, Mary, George and Trafford]. Avie married Harry Longridge in 1910 and they had five children.

American draughtsman and engraver. Active in Philadelphia.

Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph (1851–1940), physicist

Educated at Trinity College. Fellow of Magdalene, 1818; President and senior Fellow, 1829-1836; Tutor, 1821-1826, 1831-1832; Senior Proctor, 1833-1834. University Librarian, 1822; elected sole Principal Librarian – Protobibliothecarius – in succession to Thomas Kerrich in 1828, a post he held until 1845.
In 1836 there was a dispute with the College about his continued combination of the Presidency with the University Librarianship (which his predecessor Kerrich had not done), and he vacated his Fellowship to take up the College living of Anderby. ‘Lodge had shown more energy, more understanding and more willingness to work at the Librarianship than almost any of his predecessors for nearly two centuries’ (McKitterick, pp. 506-507).

Arms in Hall glass, W2.

Son of Edward Thornton Littlewood and Sylvia Maud (née Ackland)
In 1892, his father accepted the headmastership of a school in Wynberg, Cape Town, in South Africa, taking his family there.

Educated at St Paul's School in London
1903 - admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge
Senior Wrangler bracketed with James Mercer
1908 - elected a Fellow of Trinity College
October 1907 to June 1910 - worked as a Richardson Lecturer in the School of Mathematics at the University of Manchester. He was elected to the membership of Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society on 14 January 1908

He returned to Cambridge in October 1910, where he remained for the rest of his career.
He was appointed Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics in 1928, retiring in 1950.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1916, awarded the Royal Medal in 1929, the Sylvester Medal in 1943, and the Copley Medal in 1958.
He was president of the London Mathematical Society from 1941 to 1943 and was awarded the De Morgan Medal in 1938 and the Senior Berwick Prize in 1960.

Littlewood died on 6 September 1977.

Linnell had a long and very successful career as an artist, but modern assessments of his importance centre on his early work, and on his relationships with his fellow artists William Blake and Samuel Palmer, who became his son-in-law in 1837.

Of Milanese Jewish descent, Limentani left fascist Italy in July 1939. He joined the Italian Dept of the University in 1945, and became the Professor of Italian, 1964-1982; he was particularly well-known for his work on Dante. He was a professorial Fellow of the College from 1964, and an Honorary Fellow in 1988. He was awarded the gold medal of the Italian Government for services to scholarship (1982). He gave a wonderful rendition of the Crowland grace before dinner.

Obituary: College Magazine, No. 34 (1989-90)

Belgian Statesman.

A British writer, painter and critic. He was a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art and edited BLAST, the literary magazine of the Vorticists.

Lewis was educated in England at Rugby School and then Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. He spent most of the 1900s travelling around Europe and studying art in Paris. While in Paris, he attended lectures by Henri Bergson on process philosophy.

His novels include Tarr (1918) and The Human Age trilogy, composed The Childermass (1928), Monstre Gai (1955) and Malign Fiesta (1955). A fourth volume, titled The Trial of Man, was unfinished at the time of his death. He also wrote two autobiographical volumes: Blasting and Bombardiering (1937) and Rude Assignment: A Narrative of my Career Up-to-Date (1950).

An English etcher, aquatint and stipple engraver, landscape and portrait painter and the brother of Charles Lewis (1786–1836).

Lewis was a famous engraver, one of a family dynasty of artists, 'one of the most prolific, skilled and versatile print-makers of his time' (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography).

Son of a Belfast solicitor, educated at Malvern School and University College Oxford
Achieved Firsts in Mods & Greats and English
Fellow and Tutor of Magdalen College, Oxford, 1925-1954
Appointed the first Professor of Medieval & Renaissance English at Cambridge, and was a Professorial Fellow of Magdalene College, 1954-1963
Made an Honorary Fellow in 1963.

College Magazine
Obituary - College Magazine, vol. 8 (1963-64) pp.13-14

Book review of The Discarded Image, College Magazine, vol. 8 (1963-64) pp.17-21

Article - 'C.S. Lewis: from Magdalen to Magdalene (1954)', by John Constable, College Magazine, vol. 32 (1987-88) pp. 42-46

Article - 'Celebrating C. S. Lewis', by Simon Barrington-Ward, College Magazine, vol. 43 (1998-99) pp. 31-33

Memorial slate in Chapel