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Member of the 1921 and 1922 British Mount Everest Expeditions.

Henry Morshead was born in 1882 and brought up near Tavistock. He was the eldest son of Reginald Morshead, a banker, and Ella Mary Morshead. He was educated at Winchester College. In 1901 (at the second attempt) he passed the exams to enter the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, to become an officer in the Royal Engineers. At the Chatham Royal School of Military Engineering he had such a distinguished record that in 1904 he was posted to the Indian Army in the Royal Engineers' Military Works Services at Agra.

In 1906 he joined the Survey of India where, apart from his service in the First World War, he remained with the Survey until his death. He became knowledgeable in the history of Himalayan exploration, particularly in Tibet and distinguished himself on several arduous winter Himalayan expeditions.

In 1920 he accompanied Alexander Kellas in an attempt to climb the 25,447 ft (7,756 m) Kamet.

On the 1921 British reconnaissance expedition, Morshead led the Survey of India team which mapped 12,000 square miles (31,000 km2) of entirely unexplored country. During this expedition he climbed Kama Changri at 21,300 ft (6,500 m) and with George Mallory was the first to establish the camp on the 22,350 ft (6,810 m) Lhakpa La.

In the 1922 expedition, Morshead was a member of the Everest climbing party itself but because he had only been allowed leave at the last minute his expedition clothing had to be bought at Darjeeling bazaar and it was inadequate. On 20 May 1922 with Mallory, Howard Somervell and Teddy Norton, Morshead was in the first assault team, which attempted reaching the summit without oxygen. As the party left the North Col to head up towards the north east ridge, Norton's rucksack fell down to the glacier and this reduced the overnight clothing for camp V at 25,000 ft (7,600 m). The camp was at a higher altitude that anyone had ever been before. The next morning another rucksack was let slip but Morshead climbed down 100 ft (30 m) to recover it. However, on resuming the climb Morshead was almost immediately unable to continue and so went down to camp V while the other three continued. The team reached 26,985 ft (8,225 m) before turning back.

They joined Morshead at camp V who by then was very cold and all four immediately went down to camp IV on the North Col. On the way Morshead slipped and dragged two other men down the couloir. Mallory managed to stop the fall and saved everyone's lives. They reached camp at 23:30 but a logistical error had meant that the stove and fuel had been taken to a lower camp so there was no liquid water and no edible food. After surviving the night on the Col they descended to the glacier the next day but by then Somervell thought that Morshead was "not far from death". Norton, the expedition leader, wrote of him, "he kept going doggedly without complaint and in spite of a bad fall on an ice slope, knowing that the safety of the whole party depended on his determination to 'stay the course'". Morshead had severe frostbite to his hands and a foot and later three finger joints had to be amputated. However, at the time he hid the pain of his injuries from his colleagues.

For the 1924 Everest expedition Morshead was not considered able to participate as a climber because of his injuries but he was offered the role of base camp and transport officer. He had to turn this down because his employers would not give permission, even for unpaid leave. However, in the 1924 Olympic Games medals were awarded for mountaineering and Morshead received a special medal awarded to the climbers on the 1922 expedition.

In February 1931 Morshead stayed in Burma while the rest of the family returned to England for reasons of schooling. It was a time of unrest. A rebellion had started in Burma, against British rule, and Thakin rebels were in the vicinity of Maymyo. A colleague of Morshead had been shot at by a disaffected Survey employee who had been convicted of attempted murder. On 17 May 1931 Morshead set off riding by himself and later that day his riderless pony was discovered back in Maymyo. After extensive searching his body was found next day in the jungle nearby. He had been shot in the chest at point blank range. Two people were arrested, an ex-Gurkha who had been out shooting at the time, and the man whose gun he had been using. There was no apparent motive and no charges were ever brought because both men seemed to have alibis.

Dr Alexander Heron was a member of the 1921 British Mount Everest Expedition.

Alexander Heron was a Scottish geologist who became Director of the Geological Survey of India. He participated in the 1921 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition following which he produced a geological map of the Everest region of Tibet.

1922 expedition - The Survey of India nominated Heron to accompany the 1922 expedition as geologist even though the Tibetan authorities had refused permission [they had accused the 1921 party of mining precious stones and disturbing Demons]. Frederick Bailey was Britain's political advisor for Tibet and he continued with his predecessor's decision not to allow geologists. So, even though Heron joined the party at Kalimpong hoping for a last-minute reprieve, the Foreign Office in London, not wanting to cause diplomatic difficulty, instructed Charles Bruce, the leader of the expedition, not to allow Heron to participate and he had to return to Darjeeling. Despite all this Heron's discoveries were to be the foundation for the unofficial later work of Noel Odell on the 1924 expedition and Lawrence Wager on the 1933 expedition.

Master of Magdalene College, 1797 - 1813

Educated at Peterhouse. Successor Dr Peter Peckard as Master. He was 'a man of no particular distinction who, as vicar of Saffron Walden, archdeacon of essex and a justice of the peace, was known at Audley End' [ie. known to the Visitor who had the power to appoint the Master. At this time the position of Visitor was held jointly by the Revd Dr and Mrs Parker].
He was not greatly interested in academic distinction and had no time for Evangelicas [who dominated Magdalene at this time]. His Mastership marked the start of a downward spiral from which it took a century to emerge.

He served as Vice-Chancellor, 1800-1801.

Most exceptionally, he was buried in the College Ante-Chapel, under a diamond-shaped slab.

An English portrait painter, printmaker and caricaturist, he was the founder of a dynasty of artists who followed in his footsteps.

Jaques of London, formerly known as John Jaques of London and Jaques and Son of London.

Founded in 1795 when Thomas Jaques, a farmer's son of French Huguenot descent, set up as a "Manufacturer of Ivory, Hardwoods, Bone, and Tunbridge Ware".
The company gained a reputation for publishing games under his grandson John Jaques the younger.

Jaques is said to have been instrumental in the invention and popularisation of Croquet.

The family tradition is that John Jaques II was a friend of Lewis Carroll who was one of the founding members of the croquet club at Oxford University.

According to Joe Jaques (a descendent of the founder) it is no surprise that croquet is in Alice in Wonderland because Lewis Carroll was a family friend and we had commissioned the illustrator Sir John Tenniel, who went on to illustrate Alice in Wonderland, to draw the original Happy Families characters when he was a cheap jobbing illustrator in 1851. Carroll’s niece Irene Dodgson then married John Jaques III.

Master of Magdalene College, 1774-1781

Born on 3 Jan 1745, the third son of John, Viscount Lymington (son of John Wallop, 1st Earl of Portsmouth) and Catherine Conduit (great niece of Issac Newton)
His eldest brother John Wallop, succeeded his grandfather and became the 2nd Earl of Portsmouth. John’s son and therefore Barton’s nephew was John Charles Wallop 3rd Earl of Portsmouth (subject of two Lunacy Commissions)

School - Eton

Admitted as a Fellow Commoner (aged 18) to Magdalene College on 5 Nov 1762
Matriculated Michaelmas 1764; M.A. 1766

Rector of Portsmouth
Rector of Cliddesden with Farleigh, Hampshire

Master of Magdalene, 1774-81
Vice-Chancellor, 1774-75

Married 14 May 1771, his cousin, Camilla Powlett, daughter of the Rev. Richard Smyth, of Crux-Easton, Hampshire
Children:
(1) Urania Catharine Camilla, born 23 November 1774
(2) Postumous son William Barton Wallop – on the 15th Dragoons, and then Captain in the Nova Scotia Fencibles. On 11 Sept 1807 he married Miss Ward of St John’s in New Brunswick, North America

Died 1 Sept 1781, at Upper Wallop

From: A History of Magdalene College, Cambridge 1428-1988

Thomas Chapman (Master) died in 1760 (either of a fever or of gluttony having eaten 5 mackerel followed later by a turbot resulting in ‘a violent looseness’ which carried him off’).

At the time the Visitor was Elizabeth, Countess of Portsmouth (daughter of James Griffin, 2nd Baron Griffin of Braybrooke). By her 2nd marriage she married John Wallop , 1st Earl of Portsmouth (also his 2nd marriage).

Her step-grandson was Barton Wallop who in 1760 was aged 16 and at Eton.

On the death of the Master Thomas Chapman the Fellows decided they wanted the current President, Lawrence Eliot, to be elected Master and they got the backing of the other Heads of Houses. But Elizabeth had promised the vacancy to her step-grandson Barton. He was only 16 so she appointed George Sandby on condition that he gave up the Mastership in favour of Barton when she or her heirs asked. This bond was witnessed by the College cook and butler. He served as Master from 1760 until 1774.

Barton ‘that pretty young gentleman’ was admitted to the College as a Fellow-Commoner in 1762 though he did not matriculate until 1764 and he did not reside [he is in the Butlers books having spent money on sizings at the buttery so I dispute this]. He took an honorary MA in July 1766 and was elected to a Goche fellowship the same day.

He seemed little interested in College affairs busying himself with hunting and shooting, financed by a series of Hampshire livings in the gift of his family including the rectory of Portsmouth.

Elizabeth Griffin died in 1762 but had secured an undertaking from her heir, Sir John Griffin, to honour the promise to Barton and so in April 1774 Sandby was asked to resign.
Barton was now married and aged 29 which was the minimum statutory age for appointment to the Mastership and had declared himself ‘very desirous’ to take it up.

The appointment caused consternation in the College and Cambridge as Barton’s crass ignorance and rackety life-style were well-known, and Magdalene was due to provide the next Vice-Chancellor. The prospect of such a man as head of the university was appalling. In late 1773 Archbishop Cornwallis and the Chancellor had tried to buy Barton off with a swap of preferment, and to secure the Mastership instead for the newly-appointed Regius Prof of Divinity Bishop Watson so he could live in Cambridge with a ‘dignity becoming the prof of Divinity’.
Barton refused to co-operate.
The Archbishop said ‘he will, I think, disgrace both himself and the University’, and the University expressed their displeasure by refusing to grant the honorary DD customarily granted to incoming heads of house.

Attempts were made to get him to waive his turn as vice-chancellor but he insisted on performing the office. He resided in Cambridge from the beginning of March – end of July 1775 and again for the most of Michaelmas term. Then when his round of duty was finished he took himself off to his country estates and for the rest of his Mastership was rarely seen in Cambridge.

Day to day affairs were carried out by the President and tutors.

On 1 September 1781 Barton died suddenly at his country house in Upper Wallop, as a result of ‘faintings and violent oppressions on his stomach’ possibly caused by his heavy drinking.

He was succeeded by Peter Peckard.

Buttery Book starting in 1743 [MCAD/14/2/1/19] is the first in which John Palmer's name appears.

He was witness to the bond of resignation prepared by George Sandby (Master) in 1761 at the request of the Countess of Portsmouth as part of the conditions of his appointment.

Born in Rawdon, near Leeds, the son of Thomas Marsden
School - Kingston-on-Hull
Apprenticed as a blacksmith before being admitted as a sizar (age 25) at Magdalene on 24 June 1790
Matriculated Michaelmas 1790

17 March 1793 - Ordained deacon (Bristol); priest (Litt. dim. from Canterbury), 1793

Second chaplain (C.M.S.) in New South Wales
Lived at Parramatta where (and at Sydney and Hawkesbury) he had charge of the religious instruction of convicts

Returned to England to report, and to solicit further financial assistance. Obtained an audience of King George III, who presented him with five of his own Spanish sheep, which became the progenitors of extensive fine-woolled flocks in Australia.

Made seven voyages from New South Wales to New Zealand between 1814 and 1837 to superintend the work of the Church Missionary Society.
Was a great admirer of the Maoris and in April 1830 conducted the first inter-racial marriage between a European and a Maori bride.

Married, 1793, Ellen Tristan, and had issue.
Author of pamphlets.

Died on 12 May 1838, at Windsor, N.S.W. Buried at Parramatta.

Article 'The Pioneer Missionaries' by R. Hyam, College Magazine, No. 32, 1987-88

Chimney sweep for Magdalene College. Marries Ann (nee Standley) and had a son Robert.

John Deighton was a bookseller who founded Deighton, Bell & Company in 1778 in Cambridge. The company enjoyed a long and close association with the University of Cambridge.

The company's premies were located in "narrow, early eighteenth-century premises" at the corner of Green and Trinity Streets.

John Deighton became a major publisher for Cambridge University and a binder for the University Library. He also gained a reputation as a book retailer with a "remarkable ability to supply foreign books, even in time of war".

In the years 1813-1827 the firm was operated as a partnership between the founder and his two sons, John Deighton the younger (1791-1854) and Joseph Jonathan Deighton (1792-1848), trading as John Deighton & Sons. Following the elder John Deighton's retirement in 1827, the firm traded as J. & J. J. Deighton. Beginning in 1848, following Joseph's death, the firm traded as J. Deighton.

In 1854 the firm was acquired by the educational publisher George Bell of George Bell & Sons, following which it became known as Deighton, Bell, and Company.

In 1876 it was publishing, jointly with George Bell & Sons and Whittaker & Co., a number of textbook series. During the twentieth century the firm concentrated mainly on bookselling of both new and secondhand books. While its publishing activities had mostly ceased, in 1932 the firm published and distributed F. R. Leavis's literary quarterly Scrutiny. From 1967 the firm devoted itself exclusively to antiquarian bookselling. In 1987 Deighton, Bell, and Co. was acquired by Heffers, which was in turn taken over by Blackwell's.

Born in Minehead, Somerset son of Major A. L. Hunt.

School - Downside School
Admitted to Magdalene College.

1946 - joined the Civil Service

1973-1979 - Cabinet Secretary, being the first Roman Catholic to hold this post since its creation in 1916.

Born in 1933 the son of an Australian father and a Canadian mother, who separated when he was a child, as a result of which he was made a ward of court.

He was educated at Eton College and Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he graduated with first-class honours in law in 1956. He specialised in commercial law.

He served as a Recorder in the Crown Court before being appointed to the High Court of Justice in 1981.
1987 - 1997 served in the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.
2005 - 2006, he served as President of the Court of Appeal of Gibraltar.

Obituary: College Magazine No.59 (2014-15)

Educated at Stowe School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Scholar 1940, Class I in Mechanical Sciences Tripos 1942).
War-time service in industry.

1946-48 Research in Cambridge
1948-57 Engineer in industry
1958-60 University Lecturer in Civil Engineering, Birmingham University
1960-73 University Lecturer in Engineering, Cambridge University
1973-84 Reader in Structural Engineering

1962-88 Official Fellow, Magdalene College
1962-84 Director of Studies in Engineering
1984-88 College Lecturer in Engineering

Obituary - College Magazine, No. 61, 2016-17, pp.17-20

Born 1 June 1889 at Rossall, Fleetwood, son of Charles Burdell Ogden and Fanny Hart. Educated at Rossall School.

Admitted to Magdalene in 1908 as a subsizar. Tutor: A. G. Peskett.

Originated Basic English, a simplified system of the English language intended as a uniform, standardised means of international communication.

John Purchas was a well-established haberdasher and mercer. He sold his business to Joseph Hart in 1784.

He served as Mayor of Cambridge in 1760

Member of staff of the British Museum department of Prints & Drawings. Joined 1914, promoted Higher Clerical Officer in January 1947, and Higher Executive Officer in 1955. MBE 1960, the year of his retirement. In his retirement he worked briefly for Colnaghi, but mainly on compiling the catalogue of the print collection of Samuel Pepys in Magdalene College, Cambridge.

The following was written on the College website:

It is with very great sadness that we inform Members that our friend, colleague and Magdalene Life Fellow, Dr Jeffery Lewins (1985), died on Friday 23 August in hospital.

He had been ill for some time, but he suffered a stroke on Wednesday from which he did not recover. The death of Dr Jeffery Lewins deprives Magdalene of one of our most amiable, engaged and accomplished Fellows.

Jeffery joined us after a distinguished career in the University of London, but he started out as a sapper. After Sandhurst (where he was awarded the Gold Medal), he held a commission in the Royal Engineers, serving in Korea, Germany and Scotland. While in the army, he studied Mechanical Science at Cambridge and then gained his PhD in Nuclear Engineering at MIT. Later he gained a further PhD from Cambridge and a London DSc (Eng). His work was in the application and interpretation of mathematical methods to nuclear power problems and he published many books and articles in this field, becoming editor of several prestigious academic series and serving as President of the Institute of Nuclear Engineers.

After leaving the military, he took up a post as the first Warden of Hughes Parry Hall and as a lecturer in the University of London in 1968. Coming to the Department of Engineering here in Cambridge, Jeffery joined Magdalene College, succeeding Dr Roger Morris as Director of Studies in Engineering, and taking on many roles within the College including a memorable stint as Praelector. After retirement, he became a Life Fellow. Playing an important part in the expansion of the College’s computer facilities at an early stage, and sharing amongst the Fellows, students and staff his lifelong passion for the writing of Rudyard Kipling, he remained a lively presence within the College until very recently. Despite failing eyesight, he attended Chapel, dinner in Hall and many special musical occasions. He will be very much missed for his consistent upbeat approach to life, for his unfeigned interest in everyone he met, and for his major contribution to the development of Engineering within the College.

We offer his family our deep condolences.

Lincolnshire benefactor
In 1584 John Spendluffe gave the College two properties, then valued at £40 per annum, to fund a fellowship and two scholarships, all of five years duration. The properties lay to the south of Alford and the scholarships were tied to Alford School.

British church architect and Gothic Revival designer best known for his work at Westminster Abbey, Bury St Edmunds Cathedral and the Chapel at Lancing College.

John Merrill was a bookseller in Cambridge with premises on Regent’s Walk (now the site of the Senate House). Circa 1750s, operated as Thomas and John Merrill (booksellers). In 1790s, operated as J. & J. Merrill.

Charles Louis Napoleon Achille Murat (known as Achille), was the eldest son of Joachim Murat, the brother-in-law of Napoleon who was appointed King of Naples during the First French Empire. After his father was deposed and executed by his own subjects, Achille Murat went into exile in the Austrian Empire with his siblings and mother.

At the age of 21, Achille Murat emigrated to the United States and settled at St. Augustine, Florida, becoming a naturalised citizen sometime after July 1828 and dropping his European titles.