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Belgian Congressman.

Belgian politican.

Maltese lithographer and painter. Settled in London in 1809.

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.

Alice Gaselee (née Frost) was the mother of Sir Stephen Gaselee, Pepys Librarian.

Educated at Eton and Magdalene College. While still an undergraduate, his show 'Share my lettuce' was performed in the West End (1957-1958); meanwhile he took a double first in the English Tripos. He might have then become a Research Fellow, but instead went to Yale as a Commonwealth Fund Fellow (1958-1959). Author, theatre-critic, broadcaster; and publisher of scholarly editions of nineteenth-century prints; best known as TV presenter of 'University Challenge', 1962-1987. Sandars Reader in Bibliography, Cambridge, 1993-1994. Honorary Fellow, 1996. Co-founder and editor-in-chief of 'www.historyworld.net' (2000).

College Magazine
Obituary by James Raven, College Magazine, No. 66 (2021-22), pp. 20-25

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.

1926 she went to St Hilda's College, Oxford, and in 1929 obtained First Class Honours in English language and literature.

1929 -1931 accepted a temporary post at the University of Birmingham.
1931-1934 worked as an assistant lecturer at the Royal Holloway College, London before returning to Birmingham where she joined the English department (1934–41).

In 1941 she returned to Oxford to become a tutor (1941–54), and later Fellow (1942–66), at her old college.

In 1954 she was made reader in Renaissance studies and after one set-back was elected in 1966 Merton professor of English language and literature, with a fellowship at Lady Margaret Hall. The distinction of being the first woman to hold this chair gave her special satisfaction. She exerted herself as a supervisor and was as successful as she was strict.

To her Oxford DLitt (1963) and Cambridge honorary LittD (1981) she added honorary degrees from eight other universities.
She was appointed CBE in 1962 and a DBE in 1967.
She was made a Fellow of the British Academy in 1958, twice won the Crawshay prize (1952 and 1980), and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1962.

In person Helen Gardner was small and sturdy. Vivacious, temperamental, and occasionally overbearing, she appreciated good food and drink, liked to dress well, and revelled in parties where she talked well but, as she herself knew, too much. She was kinder in her actions than in her wit.

She retired in 1975 and died, unmarried, on 4 June 1986 in a nursing home at Bicester, Oxfordshire.

Walter Gardiner was a botanist. He was a Fellow and Bursar of Clare College.

Writer of novels and non-fiction.

Mentioned by George Mallory.

Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand [known as Mahatma Gandhi] (1869–1948), political leader and religious and social reformer, was born in Porbandar, Kathiawar, western India, on 2 October 1869, to Karamchand Uttamchand Gandhi and his fourth wife, Putlibai: he was the youngest of the one daughter and three sons of the marriage.

Portraitist and landscape painter with works in government and regional art collections (Ipswich and Hertfordshire).
Richard Evelyn Fuller Maitland was the son of the art collector and Liberal politician William Fuller Maitland (1884–1932), of Stansted Hall, Essex. William Maitland had inherited from his own father an important collection of early Italian paintings, nine of which he sold to the National Gallery, London, in 1878, including The Mystic Nativity by Sandro Botticelli. Educated at Harrow School, Richard Maitland went on to study at Sir Hubert Herkomer’s Art School, Bushey, Hertfordshire. He also pursued a part-time military career, gaining the rank of captain in the Scots Guards. Essentially a gentleman-artist, Maitland exhibited twice at the Royal Academy, in 1904 and in 1921, when he showed a portrait of a judge, Edwin Max Konstam. His known oeuvre is small and includes A Mediterranean Scene (Bushey Museum and Art Gallery, 2004.108.1), a portrait of Sir Frederick Liddell, First Parliamentary Counsel, dated 1913 (Government Art Collection, no. 1203) and two portraits of senior members of the Admiralty. Also in 1913, Magdalene College, Cambridge, commissioned a sketch from Maitland of Thomas Hardy, then aged seventy-two.

One of the first engravers to experiment with steel plates.

1912 - Jack French died at a dinner of the Conservative Club. He had served the College for fifty years, since the age of 17 or 18, first employed as a servant in 1862, before rising to Under-porter, Porter, Butler, Kitchen Manager, and sometime caterer.

College Magazine, No. 12 March 1913
“The other loss was a very severe one. The newly-appointed President [AC Benson] had signalised his accession to his office by a supper to the College servants, and the Butler, Jack French, presided at it with his accustomed tact and good humour. He was forced to leave it rather early, in order to keep an engagement, and walked down to the Conservative Club, where he was a very familiar figure; he spoke to a couple of friends, and in a moment rolled over from his chair, dead: the cause was afterwards found to be valvular disease of the heart. He was buried on the 27th and the first part of the service took place in the College Chapel, the Master officiating; besides the family and private friends, including the Mayor, were present.
Man and boy, Jack French had been a devoted servant and friend to the College for fifty years. His father was once Head Porter, and he too, started at the gate, but was comparatively soon transferred to the buttery, where he spent the rest of his life, rising finally to be Butler and Kitchen Manager. He had many interests outside the College, such as politics, and a share in a catering business, which very successfully supplied the Royal Show for some years, but his heart was above all things in the welfare of Magdalene, and it is certain that nobody rejoiced more at its latter-day prosperity than Jack French. A neat brass to his memory has been placed in the Ante-Chapel by the President.

See MCCA/MCPH/3/1 32a for a photograph