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Arthur Guy Lee known informally as Guy Lee, was a British Classical scholar and poet. He was particularly notable as a Latinist for his work on the Roman poets Ovid, Propertius, and Catullus; he also translated Virgil's Eclogues, Tibullus, and Persius.

He was an undergraduate at St John's College, Cambridge. He taught at the University of Cambridge for most of his career, where he was admitted as a Fellow of St John's in 1946.

In the Second World War, he joined the British military, and was posted in Iceland, where he learned Icelandic and earned a military award for his work on ciphers. He was later posted to French North Africa, Belgium, Italy, Norway, and Germany.

He returned to Cambridge after the war and served as a librarian, tutor, praelector, and lecturer of classics at various times.

He died in Cambridge in 2005, and is buried at Ascension Parish Burial Ground.

Belgian congressman.

French politician.

Statesmen of the Belgian Revolution.

Painter and draughtsman, chiefly of portraits.

Marcellus Laroon the elder was a Dutch-born painter and engraver. He came to England when he was young and spent several years in Yorkshire. By 1674 he had settled in London where he was a member of the Painter-Stainers Company. He was frequently employed to paint draperies for Sir Godfrey Kneller, and was well known as a copyist.

He provided the drawings for the popular series of prints "The Cries of London".

He married the daughter of Jeremiah Keene, a builder, of Little Sutton, near Chiswick, by whom he had a large family, including three sons, who were brought up in his profession.

He died of consumption at Richmond, Surrey on 11 March 1702.

Educated at Queens’ College Cambridge (double starred first in History). University Reader in History, Royal Holloway College, London (1942-1968), Professor of History, University of Toronto (1968-1969), Research Fellow of Magdalene College (1970-1972), Official Fellow and Pepys Librarian (1972-1982), Honorary Fellow (1984).
Editor of the definitive edition of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, 11 vols (1970-1983).

College Magazine
Obituary by R. Luckett, College Magazine, No. 39 (1994-95) pp. 3-6

Anglo-Hungarian painter known particularly for his portraits of royal and aristocratic personages. In 1900, he married Lucy Guinness of Stillorgan, County Dublin, and he became a British subject in 1914

A noted portrait painter, including royalty. Born John Helier Lander, he added the St. to acknowledge his birthplace of Saint Helier in the Channel Islands. He was given his first paint box by Lillie Langtry, the famous beauty, actress and mistress of the Prince of Wales, later to become Edward VII. He studied at Calderon's School.

Took over the firms of Eden Lilley and Lafayette Photographers.

https://www.lafayettephotography.com/about

Richard Ladborough was a Fellow of French at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and Pepys Librarian. He specialised in the Enlightenment era of French literature, and donated a wealth of such books to the College which are now held by the Old Library. Friend and correspondent of C.S. Lewis.

Obituary: Magdalene College Magazine and Record, New Series No. 16: 1971-72, p. 3

Kolář was a Czech born artist who worked across artistic media from the start of his career, with poetry and collage at the heart of his practice. His collages were first exhibited in 1937 in a Prague theatre vestibule, while his first poetry collection was published in 1941. Early in his career he was a founding member of the influential Group 42, an artist collective who sought to remove academicism from modern art and instead reflected modern urban life in their work.

The leading portrait painter in England during the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and was court painter to English and British monarchs from Charles II to George I.

Made an Honorary Fellow of Magdalene College in 1932.
He visited the College for his admission but continued ill health prevented him from returning. He only returned once and that was as a convalescent during the Long Vacation.

See also:
Archives, F/RK and D/1/7

College Magazine vol. 74 (1936) pp. 208-209
College Magzine vol. 37 (1992-93) pp. 19-24 (J. D. Lewins)
College Magazine vol. 41 (1996-97) p. 53 (J. D. Lewins, ‘Two unpublished letters about his Honorary Fellowship’)

Occasional Paper No.9, 1995 (Lewins, esp pp 25-26 on Strang’s portraits)
Occasional Paper No. 19, 1998 (T. Pinney)
Occasional Paper No. 25
Occasional Paper No. 26 2001 (Lewins)

In July 1835 Magdalene established a closed scholarship for men from the newly founded King's College, London. Charles Kingsley studied at King's between 1836-1838 but found living at home increasingly restrictive. He left King's and at first entered Trinity College but migrated to Magdalene after winning the scholarship from where he matriculated at Easter 1838. He studied mathematics before getting a First in the Classics Tripos in 1842. He looked back on his years at Magdalene as spent largely 'in drink, horses, gambling, cards, and prize-fighting'. He was a keen oars-man but always remained in the second boat.

Believed to have been resident in C 8 First Court (where Benson placed a small commemorative plaque). Rector of Eversley from 1844, but best known as a novelist (Yeast, The Water babies, etc). Regius Professor of Modern History (whose lectures were moralistic rather than scholarly), 1860-1869. He was not a Fellow, and, when resident, lodged outside the College until 1863; thereafter, his visits to Cambridge appear to have been occasional – he dined perhaps twice a term.

Arms in Hall glass, E2. Memorial brass in Chapel.

Article: 'One of our portraits is missing! Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) by G.W. Atkins, College Magazine No. 57 (2012-13)