Son of Benjamin Bywater of Lanchester, Co. Durham
Admitted pensioner at Magdalene College on 22 April 1769
Scholar, 1768; matriculated Michaelmas 1769
B.A. 1773; M.A. 1776
Fellow, Steward and Bursar
Rector of Anderby-cum-Cumberworth, Lincs., 1791-1820
P.C. of Grainthorpe
Vicar of West Wratting, Cambs., 1792-1820
Died in West Wratting on 31 October 1820
Benedict Spinola was a Genoese money lender. He saw the potential of the land in London that had been granted by Lord Audley to the College on its foundation.
Due to an Act of 1571 he could not lease the land directly from the College so the College granted the freehold of the land (seven acres of land in the Parish of St Botolph without Aldgate) to Queen Elizabeth I in return for a perpetual rent chatge of £15 a year (13 Dec 1574). The grant was to be invalid if the Queen did not convey the land to Spinola by 1 April 1575. However, the Queen who was repeatedly in debt to Spinola, took only 6 weeks to complete the transfer.
Why did the College give away its most valuable asset to Spinola? Mainly due to pressure from Lord Burghley.
The immediate effect was to see the College's income rise from £6 per annum to £15. But Spinola quickly divided the property into different plots and began building on them. He then sold his interest in the estate to the Earl of Oxford. By the early 17th century the estate was worth £10,000 with a yearly income of £800.
When Barnaby Goche (lawyer) became Master of the College he set about legal proceedings to challenge the legal validity of the transfer to the Earl of Oxford.
In 1615 the Chief Justice found for the College but the Earl of Oxford appealed and the case went to Chancery where they found against the College.
Goche and Smith were outraged and protested that they had aleady secured judgement. They only succeeded in securing a spell in the Fleet Prison.
The College tried to over turn the ruling in 1621 and during Charles II's reign. Between 1805 and 1807 the College spent more than £100 trying to secure legal opinion for their case and A.C. Benson tried again in 1914 but all to no avail.
[A History of Magdalene College, 1428-1988, Cunich et al]
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.
Master of Trinity Hall, 1559-1585
Son of Robert Harvey of Stadbrooke, Suffolk
LL.B. from Trinity Hall, 1538
LL.D. 1542
Admitted advocate, 1550
Vice-Chancellor of the University, 1560
Archdeacon of Middlesex, 1551-4
Vicar-general of London and subsequently of the province of Canterbury
Precentor of St Paul's, London, 1554
Rector of Littlebury, Essex, 1554-82
Commissioner for the detection of heretical books at Cambridge, 1556
Prebend of Salisbury, 1558-72 and of Lichfield, 1559-61
Prebend of Ely, 1567-85
Master in Chancery, 1568
Died 20 February 1585
Benefactor to Trinity Hall and other colleges
Was a member of Magdalene from 1919 to 1922. He went on to become the Chairman of Shell-Mex and BP and for a brief period was Chairman of Governors at Sedburgh School. He was a close personal friend of Fairfax Scott, Frank Salter, and Owen Morshead. His son Michael and five other members of his family have attended Magdalene.
Born on 6 July 1886, in Eton, Buckinghamshire the son of Charles Thomas Clement James and Caroline Louise Dell.
He was admitted to Magdalene College in 1906
In March 1935 he married Dorothy Kathleen Whitmarsh in March 1935, in Salisbury.
He died in 1952, at the age of 66.
Shortly before the outbreak of war in 1939, while he was still an undergraduate at Magdalene, Emanuel Barnett Lyons joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve as a trainee pilot. He was promptly called up in September 1939 and, after a year's training, he was posted to RAF Turnhouse (now Edinburgh Airport). His log books recorded a series of "dog-fights" against German intruders, encounters which accorded "Butcher" Lyons the status of a Battle of Britain pilot. (The nickname is unexplained.) In July 1941, he moved to Manston, the front-line fighter station in Kent, where he took part in missions providing cover for Bomber Command raids on targets in northern France. From there, he was transferred to North Africa, where he noted of one mission that three fellow pilots "did not return". In February 1945, he took charge of a squadron based in Holland: since he was still technically a member of the RAFVR, he held the nominal rank of Acting Squadron Leader. Their Hawker Tempest single-engine fighters were effective in low-level attacks, particularly the "rat scramble", the ambushing of the Luftwaffe's new Messerschmitt 262 fighter jet as it was coming in to land and unable to escape by accelerating. In response, the Germans protected their airfields by creating "flak lanes" of intensive ground fire that inflicted heavy casualties on the Tempests. On 11 April, within four weeks of the end of the war, Lyons led an attack on an airfield at Fassberg, ninety kilometres south of Hamburg and deep inside Germany. Flak shattered the canopy of his cockpit, and the debris caused a head wound. Despite his injury, he was able to fly his damaged plane two hundred miles back to base, an achievement for which he received the Distinguished Flying Cross: the award was actually gazetted on VE Day. There were Dutch pilots attached to his squadron and he was later also awarded the Netherlands Flying Cross in recognition of his skill in leading them back to safety. In 1947-8, he served as Treasurer of the Jewish Ex-Servicemen's Association.
Also see: https://www.bbm.org.uk/airmen/Lyons.htm
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.
Robert Painter worked with his son Robert Painter Junior. Need more evidence to work out their dates and which is submitting the bill. This could be worked out by a closer inspection of handwriting.
Born on 11 July 1777, the 4th sone of William Bird of Hereford
Admitted a pensioner aged 16 Magdalene College 9 July 1794
Scholar 1794
BA 1799
MA 1802
Ordained priest Bristol, Litt. dim . from Hereford 1801
Rector of Dinedor, Herefordshire, 1801-54
Rector of Mordiford, Herefordshire, 1803-54
Rural Dean of Ross, Herefordshire
The son of Henry Beynon, merchant of Winchester Place, Winchester, Pentonville, Middlesex
Admitted as a pensioner at Magdalene College aged 16 on 31 October 1793:10:31 as Batley, E. T.
Matriculated in Michaelmas term 1794
Scholar 1797
BA 1798
MA 1801
Fellow, as Batley, E. T
In Holy Orders
Assumed the surname of Beynon in lieu of Batley on his marriage with Martha Beynon daughter of Edward Beynon of Carshalton, Surrey , 1 November 1805
Died aged 65 Carshalton, Surrey, 1842
Supplied lamps, candles, oil, and sand to the College.
Born in Willenhall, Staffordshire and was the son of an engineer.
Educated at West Bridgford Grammar School and Nottingham University.
In 1936 he moved to Cambridge where he taught for the University Correspondence College. He produced a number of editions for the University Tutorial Press.
In 1956, a chance meeting with John Stevens (Director of Studies at Magdalene) secured an invitation to supervise for the College.
1965 - became a Lecturer in English
1980 - he retired and was made a Fellow-Commoner
He met his first wife, Nell, at local meetings of young socialists during the 1930s. They married in 1936 and had two sons.
After her death in 1989 he married Penny Moffett.
He died in Girton in 2000.
Obituary in the College Magazine, 1999-2000, pp. 14-15
Son of a Belfast solicitor, educated at Malvern School and University College Oxford
Achieved Firsts in Mods & Greats and English
Fellow and Tutor of Magdalen College, Oxford, 1925-1954
Appointed the first Professor of Medieval & Renaissance English at Cambridge, and was a Professorial Fellow of Magdalene College, 1954-1963
Made an Honorary Fellow in 1963.
College Magazine
Obituary - College Magazine, vol. 8 (1963-64) pp.13-14
Book review of The Discarded Image, College Magazine, vol. 8 (1963-64) pp.17-21
Article - 'C.S. Lewis: from Magdalen to Magdalene (1954)', by John Constable, College Magazine, vol. 32 (1987-88) pp. 42-46
Article - 'Celebrating C. S. Lewis', by Simon Barrington-Ward, College Magazine, vol. 43 (1998-99) pp. 31-33
Memorial slate in Chapel
Edward Fenton was an undergraduate at Magdalene College (admitted 1977).
He has worked as a writer, publisher and editor. He started out as a music journalist for NME, before getting his first job in publishing. His novel Scorched Earth won the Sinclair Prize for Fiction.
He has written and/or researched over twenty radio documentaries, broadcast on BBC Radios 1, 3 and 4, including a documentary on Samuel Pepys’s love of music. He has a particular interest in diaries, and in 1998 he set up an independent publishing company, Day Books.
Frederick was born in Cambridge and was the third son of solicitor Stephen Adcock (1803-1867) and his wife Johanna (née Poland) (1805-1883).
He went to the Perse School, Cambridge and then to Jesus College Cambridge. He studied Law and obtained his L.L.B in 1866 and his L.L.M in 1869. He did not go to Jesus College until 1862 and was already working as a solicitor before entering University life.
He married widow Fanny Hardwicke at St George’s Church, Hannover Square in London on 31 January 1859. They had at least three children: Laura Belle (1861-1922), Emma Robinson (1862-1875) and Richard Robinson (1865-1905). He practised at 7 Regent Terrace (1861) and was widowed in 1867 when he was 32 years old.
He married for a second time to Mary Moseley at St Mark’s Church, Tollington Park, London on 3 May 1870, and was widowed for a second time in 1875. He died at his home at 30 Regent Street aged 47 years old.
Augustine was born to Joseph Brimley and Jane Gutteridge and baptised at the Baptist church in Blunham Bedfordshire.
He married Hannah Gotobed (1789–1825) on 11 March 1819. They had at least four children: George (1819), Harriet (1821-1822) and Caroline (1823). Hannah died in 1825 at the age of 35. Augustine went on to marry her sister Harriet (1795-1833) on the 24 June 1827 at St Georges Church, Hanover Square, London. They had 2 children Harriett (1829) and Fanny (1831). Harriett died in 1933 after a long illness, aged 39.
Mayor A.G. Brimley from Mayors of Cambridge:
Augustine was a grocer, wholesale grocer, hop and provision merchant, a Deacon at St Andrew’s Baptist church and an Alderman of the borough, serving on many committees. From 1853 to 1854 he served at Mayor and on one occasion he met Prince Albert.
In 1841 Augustine and George were living at 4 Hills Road, Cambridge. In 1851 he was living at 13 Park Terrace, Cambridge with 2 unmarried daughters. Harriet who married William Henry Farthing Johnson and Caroline who married Alexander Macmillan, and two sisters in law.