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Benefactor of the College, and particularly of the Pepys Library. A Londoner who was Chairman of the Trees, Gardens and City Open Spaces Committee of the City of London, Common Councillor of the Corporation of London; Chairman of Haslemere Estates, 1943-1983. His interests were the built environment, gardens, and Samuel Pepys. Honorary Fellow, 1973.

Further reading:
Article: 'F. E. Cleary by C. F. Kolbert, R. C. Latham & D. J. H. Murphy, College Magazine, No. 23, 1978-79, pp. 38-40
Obituary by C. F. Kolbert, College Magazine, vol. 28 (1983-84) pp. 5-8

Born in London where his father was a tailor. Educated at St Paul’s School where he was friends with Samuel Pepys.

Matriculated from Magdalene in 1649 and became a Fellow in 1653. Amongst his friends and contemporaries at Magdalene were Hezekiah Burton, Sir Samuel Morland and Orlando Bridgeman.

In 1658 he was made Rector of Brampton Ash in Northamptonshire and in 1661 was appointed as one of the twelve preachers of the University. In 1670 he became Rector of All Saints in Stamford and married Anne Quinsey. In 1672 he published De Legibus Naturae which was dedicated to Sir Orlando Bridgeman.
In 1691 he was made Bishop of Peterborough and only found out when he read the newspaper in a coffee house in Stamford. He was persuaded to accept by his friends although he refused any further appointments. He carried out his new duties with energy and continued his episcopal visitations until he was 80. He was distinguished by his gentleness and humility. He died on 8 October 1718 and is buried in Peterborough Cathedral.

Like Bishop Rainbow (see WA/A/106) he gave all his surplus revenue to the poor, reserving only £25 to pay for his funeral.

Memorial brass in Chapel.

Born into one of the leading Singhalese families (from the time of the Kingdom of Kandy onwards) – that of Dias Bandaranaike. ‘Mickey’ was a third-generation Law student at Trinity Hall, where his grandfather, F. R. Dias, was one of the earliest Asians admitted. His father became a High Court Judge in Ceylon.

Dias was elected a Fellow of Magdalene in 1955, when Asian Fellows were still a rarity in Cambridge. For almost half a century he was the presiding genius of Law in the College, and many of his pupils went on to become distinguished members of the bar and bench. He became President for three years in 1988 at the advanced age of 67, without holding any other previous College office except that of Director of Studies, though he served as Senior Proctor (1987-1988). A University Lecturer, his specialities were jurisprudence, Roman law, and the law of tort.

Further Reading:
Article: 'Forty Years On Mr Dias and Law in Magdalene, College Magazine, vol. 40 (1995-96) pp. 42-43

Obituary by R. Hyam, College Magazine, vol. 54, 2009-10, pp. 14-18

Guy Bullock was a member of the 1921 British Mount Everest Expedition.

As expedition mountaineers, Guy Bullock and George Mallory found a northern access route to Everest by climbing the 6,849-metre (22,470 ft) Lhakpa La col above the East Rongbuk Glacier and by going on to reach the North Col at 7,020 metres (23,030 ft). They did not, however, reach the summit of Mount Everest.

Shortly before the 1921 Everest expedition was due to embark, one of the climbing team was asked to drop out (Finch) and Mallory suggested Bullock as a replacement. The Foreign Office rejected Younghusband's request to grant leave to Bullock, who was in Lima at the time, to join the expedition but he gained a special dispensation from the British Foreign Secretary, Lord Curzon, so he could have leave on half pay until the end of 1921 but with no chance of this being renewed.  Bullock and his wife sailed for Bombay on the SS Naldera, arriving on 30 April 1921. The expedition had a climbing team of four but, of the two most experienced members, one died doing the march-in (Kellas) and the other was taken ill (Raeburn). This left only two main climbers, Mallory and Bullock. Bullock was a well-organised person, able to get on well with almost everybody. He was steady and cheerful, and so was a very good companion for Mallory (the better climber). Bullock was reunited with his wife at Lachen in the Teesta valley in Sikkim on 8 October and they eventually sailed home from Bombay.

Bullock's diary of the expedition was published in 1962 in the Alpine Journal. Bullock had previously declined to lend the diary to Mallory who had been wanting to make use of it for his lectures after the expedition.

He died in a London hospital in 1956.

English painter of portraits of Dutch or Flemish parentage. He was active in England, from at least 1618 to 1643, when he moved to Middelburg in the Netherlands to escape the English Civil War. Between 1646 and 1652 he lived in Amsterdam, before settling in Utrecht, where he died. Johnson painted many portraits of emerging new English gentry. His early portraits were panel paintings with "fictive" oval frames. His works can be found in major collections in the UK and overseas as well as in private collections in stately homes in Britain. He was an accomplished portrait painter, but lacked the flair of a master such as Van Dyck.

Educated at Clare Hall/College; Fellow of Clare. From 1618 to 1624 he was director to the affairs of the Virginia Company. Ferrar was ordained as a deacon in 1626 and founded the small Anglican community of Little Gidding, Huntingdonshire, shortly after his mother Mary Ferrar purchased the land there in 1624.

Matric 1926. Despite six generations of engineers behind him (Garrett Engines of Leiston, Suffolk), he took up Botany, and married Jane Perkins from the rival firm in Peterborough. After research work in Adelaide, London and Rothamsted, Berks, he returned to Cambridge in 1949, becoming Reader in Mycology in 1961 and Professor in 1971. He became a Fellow in 1962, one of two elections (the other was Dr R V Short in Physiology) made to meet the recommendations of the Bridges Report about increasing the number of College fellowships for those with University posts. Garrett was an adventurous eater of fungus species, but never made a mistake.

Stephen Gaselee was born in Brunswick Gardens, Kensington, London, the elder son of Henry Gaselee (1842–1926), fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and his wife, Alice Esther. His great-grandfather was Sir Stephen Gaselee, justice of the court of common pleas.

He was educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge (matriculated 1901). He obtained a first class in part 1 of the classical tripos (1904) and a second class in part 2 (1905). He left Cambridge in that year and, as tutor to Prince Leopold of Battenberg (later Lord Leopold Mountbatten) and travelled widely. He returned to Cambridge in 1907 and was editor of the Cambridge Review.

Between 1908 and 1919 he was Pepys librarian at Magdalene College, and became a Fellow in 1909 (which he held for 4 years).

In 1916 Gaselee entered the Foreign Office and was rewarded for this war service in 1918 by appointment as CBE. By Michaelmas term 1919 he was back in Cambridge.
On 1 January 1920 he was made librarian and keeper of the papers at the Foreign Office. He was appointed KCMG in 1935, and served the crown until his death.

In 1917 he married May Evely. They had three daughters.

He had a large number of interests he was a Latinist, Coptologist, medievalist, palaeographer, liturgiologist, and hagiographer. In 1932 he was president of the Bibliographical Society and from 1928 honorary librarian of the Athenaeum.

In 1934 he presented to the Cambridge University Library 300 early printed books, to which he subsequently added his rare and large collection of early sixteenth-century books and his Petroniana.

He died at his home in London on 16 June 1943.

Arms in Hall glass, W1.

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.

Belgium classical philologist.

A daughter of Maria Theresa and the Emperor Francis I, she married the future Louis XVI of France in 1770, becoming queen four years later. She became a focus for opposition to reform and won widespread unpopularity through her extravagant lifestyle. Like her husband she was imprisoned during the French Revolution and eventually executed.

Belgian lithographer.

American painter and engraver. His early work was mainly as an engraver and he established his reputation with his print after John Trumbull’s Declaration of Independence and with portraits of eminent contemporaries. In the 1830s he turned increasingly to painting.

French politician.

Belgian liberal politician and industrialist.

Belgian politician.

Liberal Belgian politician.