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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.

Gregoire trained under the celebrated sculptor Jean Jules Salmson at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and his work was first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1867. His bronze sculptures were often classical in nature and commonly took war and music as their themes, typical of the Academic style in which he was trained.

Master of Magdalene College (1 October 2020 - present)

Sir Christopher Greenwood went to school in Singapore and Northamptonshire before coming up to Magdalene in 1973. He obtained his BA in Law in 1976 and LlB (now LlM) in International Law in 1977. During his undergraduate years he was President of the Cambridge Union Society (Lent Term 1976).

After being called to the Bar by Middle Temple, he became a Fellow of Magdalene in 1978. He served successively as Dean, Director of Studies in Law and Tutor. A Lecturer in the Law Faculty, he taught International Law, the Law of Armed Conflict, European Community Law, Criminal Law and Constitutional Law.

Sir Christopher left Magdalene in1996 to become Professor of International Law at the London School of Economics, specialising in international humanitarian law. During these years he also practised as a barrister, becoming a Queen’s Counsel in 1999. His court appearances included the Pinochet case in the House of Lords, cases about the Lockerbie bombing and the Kosovo conflict in the International Court of Justice and numerous cases before the European Court of Human Rights, the Court of Justice of the European Union and the English courts. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) for services to international law in 2002 and was knighted in 2009.

In 2008 he was elected by the United Nations as a Judge of the International Court of Justice and by Magdalene as an Honorary Fellow. He served on the Court until 2018 and was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) for services to international justice in the same year. The United States appointed him as one of its three appointees on the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in 2018. A Bencher of Middle Temple since 2003, he was Master Reader of the Inn in Lent 2020.

An English portrait painter, a pupil of Peter Lely, who approached his teacher in artistic excellence, but whose life was cut short by a dissolute lifestyle.

Robert Graves had been a pupil at Charterhouse when George Mallory was a Master there. Mallory introduced him to contemporary literature and took him mountaineering in the holidays.

At the outbreak of the First World War Graves enlisted taking a commission in the 3rd Battalion of the Royal Welch Fusiliers as a second lieutenant (on probation) on 12 August. He was confirmed in his rank on 10 March 1915, and received rapid promotions to lieutenant on 5 May 1915 and to captain on 26 October.

He published his first volume of poems, Over the Brazier, in 1916. He developed an early reputation as a war poet and was one of the first to write realistic poems about the experience of frontline conflict. At the Battle of the Somme, he was so badly wounded by a shell-fragment through the lung that he was expected to die and was officially reported as having died of wounds. He gradually recovered and, apart from a brief spell back in France, spent the remainder of the war in England.

His father and grandfather were notable printsellers in London. The family business had been established in 1752 by his grandfather Robert Graves (d. 1802) and was continued by his father, also Robert Graves (d. 1825), who was reputedly the best connoisseur of rare prints in his day.

Irish journalist and novelist.

Born in 1779 in Bengal. Son of Charles Grant.

Admitted pensioner at Magdalene, aged 15 in 1795.

Craven Scholar, 1799; B.A. (3rd Wrangler) 1801; 2nd Chancellor's Medal, 1801; M.A. 1804.
Made a Fellow in 1802.
Called to the Bar, Lincoln's Inn, 30 January 1807.
King's Serjeant in the Court of the Duchy of Lancaster and one of the Commissioners of Bankrupts.
M.P. for Elgin Burghs, 1818; for Inverness Burghs, 1826; for Norwich, 1830 and 1831; for Finsbury, 1832.
Commissioner of Board of Control, 1830. P.C., 1831. In the House of Commons he persistently championed the movement for repealing the civil disabilities of Jews. Judge Advocate-General, 1832.
Served as Governor of Bombay, 1835-1838, in which capacity he brought Aden into the British Empire (1838: the first acquisition of Queen Victoria’s reign).
Knighted, 1834. K.C.H., 1834.

In 1829 he married Margaret, daughter of Sir David Davidson, of Cantray, Nairnshire, and had issue.
Well known as a hymn-writer. A book of sacred poems by him was published by his brother Charles, Lord Glenelg in 1839. ‘O worship the King’ has been adopted as ‘the College hymn’.
His Indian servants believed he was reborn as a cat.

Died 9 July 1838, at Dapoorie, India. Buried at Poona.

A volume of his sacred poems was published by his brother Charles (Lord Glenelg) in 1839:

Arms in Hall glass, W2. Memorial brass in Chapel.

Matriculated in 1795; Fellow, 1802-1818.

Arms in Hall glass, W2.

Lithographic printer.

Alan Goodfellow was a pupil of George Mallory at Charterhouse School. He joined Mallory on some of his climbing trips.

Born on 2 March 1760 in Westminster. He attended Eton College and joined King's College in 1778. He gained Browne's Medals in 1781 and 1782, and the Craven Scholarship in 1782. He graduated B.A. in 1783 and M.A. in 1786.

In 1783 he became a Fellow of King's and assistant-master at Eton. In 1801 he was appointed headmaster of the school. In 1808 he became canon of Windsor on the recommendation of his friend and schoolfellow Marquess Wellesley. In 1809 he succeeded Jonathan Davies as Provost of Eton.

Master of Magdalene College, 1604-1626

Former undergraduate, admitted Pensioner in 1582. BA in 1587. Wray Fellow 1588.
He had been granted special dispensation to study civil law in 1591.

Studied at the Royal College of Art, where he won a Travelling Scholarship. Married to the sculptor Mary Gillick. Exhibited RA, RSA and Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.
Gillick was awarded the RBS medal in 1935, three years later becoming a fellow. Was master of the Art Workers’ Guild in 1935, served on the faculty of sculpture of the British School in Rome and on the Imperial Arts League’s council. Gillick completed a large volume of public sculpture, including the Frampton memorial in St Paul’s Cathedral, London; medals for the Royal Mint, RA and Inner Temple; London’s Lord Mayor’s seal; plus a variety of work for Commonwealth countries. Lived in London. The Henry Moore Institute archive, Leeds, holds a huge postcard collection documenting sculpture, monuments and paintings by Gillick from around the world.

An English portrait painter and copyist, notable as master of George Vertue. Gibson's sitters included a number of important public figures: Dr Henry Sacheverell (1710; Oxford, Magdalen Coll.), John Flamsteed (1712; Oxford, Bodleian Lib.), Sir Robert Walpole (untraced; engr. G. Bockman), Archbishop William Wake (Oxford, Christ Church Pict. Gal.) and Archbishop John Potter (London, Lambeth Pal.).

Belgian Congressman.

Belgian politican.