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Jørgen Peter Müller was a Danish gymnastics educator and author.

His book Mit System (My System), published in 1904, was a bestseller and has been translated to English and many other languages. My System explains Müller's philosophy of health and provides guidelines for the 18 exercises that comprise the system, as well as photographic instructions featuring Müller himself. The book was the most successful physical culture book published in Britain during the early twentieth century. Müller moved to London and opened a physical culture institute in 1912.

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.

Geologist and geographer.

College cook. Was succeeded by William Winder. The exact date is unknown but was between 1782-84.

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.

Educated at Downside. Matriculated in 1957.

Assistant Registrar in the Old Schools.

Fellow - 10 August 1977
Bursar, 1 October 1977–2001
Steward to 1997
Tutor, 1997–2003
Development Director, 1997–2003
Honorary Fellow, 2005

A keen golfer and an enthusiast for all things Italian.

Article, 'A personal view: from the Bursar' by D.J.H. Murphy College Magazine, No. 3, 1985-86, pp. 25-26

Commonly referred to as Bishop Muzorewa. He was a United Methodist Church bishop and nationalist politician who served as the first and only Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia from the Internal Settlement to the Lancaster House Agreement in 1979.

In 1804 Napoleon crowned himself Emperor of the French, and embarked on a series of campaigns known as the Napoleonic Wars.

Naundorff claimed to be Prince Louis-Charles, or Louis XVII of France, son of Louis XVI, King of France and Marie Antoinette of Austria.

Mother of Adolphe Van den Wiele (1803-1843).

Educated at the University of Witwatersrand, and University of South Africa (BA); lawyer; President of South Africa, 1994-1999; Nobel (Peace) Laureate, 1993. In 1994 he agreed that the College’s South African postgraduate scholarships (set up by Mr Christopher von Christierson) should be awarded in his name. Elected Honorary Fellow, 2000, and admitted 2 May 2001.

Music teacher and friend of the Turners and George Mallory who was part of the Pen y Pass climbing parties.

A Ceremony of Carols was dedicated to Ursula Nettleship, a singing teacher and choral trainer who was later responsible for assembling the choir that took part in the first performance of Britten’s Saint Nicolas in 1948. (She had shared a house in Chelsea with Britten and Pears in the autumn of 1942, and helped secure them concert engagements through her work with the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts.)

Admitted to Magdalene College in 1862, aged 25 and already ordained, as a Fellow-Commoner. Previously trained in industrial design and lithography. Gained a Class II in Natural Sciences Tripos, 1865. Rector of Shelton, Staffs, 1864-1871; protégé of Bishop Selwyn, and thus first Bishop of Dunedin, 1871-1919, an exceptionally long episcopate; Primate of New Zealand, 1904-1919; Sub-Prelate of the Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, 1906.
Made an Honorary Fellow in 1906, proposed by A. C. Benson (Ref: Archive Benson Diary, 14 May 1906, vol 81, f 36v).
In his diocese he increased the number of churches from eight to nearly seventy, and founded a theological college, two schools and two orphanages, as well as the cathedral. Nevill was of ‘dominating personality’, fiercely defensive of the autonomy of colonial churches, notably at the Lambeth Conference of 1878.

Arms in Hall glass, W3.

Further Reading
College Magazine vol. 38 (1921) pp. 20-21

Master of Magdalene College, 1813 - 1853

Third son of 2nd Baron Braybrooke, he assumed the name of Grenville in recognition of a legacy from a maternal uncle. Educated at Trinity College.

He was appointed Master by his father at the controversial age of 24. This made him ineligible on two accounts as the Master should be 30 years of age 'or thereabouts' and in Holy Orders. The first was ignored and the second was resolved when he was hastily ordained deacon and priest on the same day in Trinity College Chapel.

As a Master of a College he valued good breeding and gentlemanly behaviour and was addicted to genealogy and noble pedigrees. Academic activity was low on his list of priorities.

To provide more undergraduate rooms he moved out of First Court and into a separate new Lodge in 1835.
He was also responsible for starting a project to transcribe and publish Samuel Pepys' diary which had lain unread and virtually unknown in the library [see Cunich, P., Hoyle, D., Duffy, E., Hyam, R., A History of Magdalene College Cambridge, 1428-1988 pp. 195-199 and Latham, R. C. Pepys and his Editors (Occasional Paper no 6, 1992, p. 2) for further details]

Vice-Chancellor, 1818-1819
Dean of Windsor, 1846

Arms in Hall glass, E3. Memorial brass in Chapel.

Son of the 3rd Lord Braybrooke, succeeding his brother Richard in 1861. Matric 1842. Capt in 17th Essex Rifle Volunteers, 1860. High Steward of Wokingham and Vice-Lieutenant of Essex. He made no appointments to the Mastership and was succeeded by his brother Latimer Neville.

Master of Magdalene College, 1853-1904

Educated at Eton.
Matriculated at Magdalene in 1845 otaining a second in the Classical Tripos in 1849
Made a Bye-Fellow in 1849
Rector of Heydon, 1851-1902, Rural Dean of Saffron Walden, 1873-1879
Master of Magdalene, 1853-1904, sometimes with office of Bursar or Dean
Vice-Chancellor, 1859-1861 (during the residence of the Prince of Wales)

'As Master he performed his duties conscientiously, for a long time combining them with the tasks of Bursar, and occasionally acting as Dean. Although he was quite a good cricketer and enjoyed shooting he was neither a hunting nor a rowing man'. He was sufficiently popular with the undergraduates for a new boat to be named after him in 1877. He was not feared as a strict disciplinarian. His 50 year Mastership though oversaw the decline in the standards of the College leaving it on the brink of ruin.

A. C. Benson described him as 'a dear old man' and thought his wife was 'the evil genius of the place'. Her view was that 'the College was a disagreeable sort of incumbrance on the Mastership'.

A.S. Ramsey Bygone Days at Magdalene: 'The old Master was very short sighted and wore spectacles with rather thick lenses which usually looked so much in need of cleaning that I wondered how much he was able to see distinctly. When out walking, if a lady bowed to him, he just smiled nd bowed in return but did not raise his hat. This suggested a doubt as to whether he objected to raising his hat or whether he failed to recognise whether it was a man or a woman who saluted him. He always wore a tall silk hat'.

In 1902 he became 6th Baron Braybrooke (following the deaths of his elder 3 brothers). This meant that for a short time he was Visitor and Master.

Eldest son of the 2nd Baron Braybroke. Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. Made Honorary Doctor of Civil Law in 1810.
Matriculated and graduated at Magdalene in 1811.
Between 1805 and 1825 he was successively MP for Thirsk, Saltash, Buckingham and Berkshire. He succeeded his father as 3rd Baron in 1825, and removed from Billingbear, the family seat of the Nevilles, near Wokingham, to Audley End, which had been left to his father by his distant relative, Lord Howard de Walden. Was the Recorder of Saffron Walden and High Steward of Wokingham.

Author, President of the Camden Society (1853-1858), and first Editor of the Pepys Diary (1825). As Visitor, he appointed his fourth son, Latimer Neville, as Master in 1853.

Visitor of Magdalene College, Cambridge

He assumed the name Griffin by Royal Licence in 1797. The Visitorship derived from the Griffin inheritance when he succeeded his great uncle in the Barony of Braybrooke.
Educated at Merton College, Oxford; Honorary Doctor of Civil Law; incorporated Honorary LLD Cambridge, on admission to Magdalene as a nobleman in 1819.
As Visitor he had already nominated his son, the Reverend George Neville (later Neville-Grenville), who was only 24, as Master in 1813.

Lord Lieutenant and Vice-Admiral of Essex, 1798-1825; Recorder of Saffron Walden; High Steward of Wokingham; Provost-Marshal of Jamaica.

Born at Audley End, the son of 7th Lord Braybrooke and Dorothy Edith Lawson.

Educated at Eton.

Admitted to Magdalene as a Pensioner in October 1937 to study Classics.

Succeeded on the death of his father in 1941 to become 8th Baron Braybrooke and Visitor of Magdalene College.

We served as a Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards during the Second World War and was killed on active service in Tunisia on 23 January 1943. He is buried in the Medjez el Bab Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery.

Matriculated at Magdalene College in 1848. Held a travelling Fellowship from 1854. Made a Foundation Fellow in 1877.
Fellow of the Royal Society, 1870; Royal Medal 1900.

An ornithologist who was the first Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, 1866-1907.
A world leading pioneer in environmental conservation. British Ornithologists’ Union founded in 1858 from Old Lodge. Sponsor of the first sea-bird protection act in 1868.

He walked with two sticks.
Died from dropsy on 7 Jun1 1907 and his funeral was held in St Giles' church, by his wish without music. It would have been held at the University Church had not the funeral service for Dr Routh, the mathemetician, been held there at the same time [A.S. Ramsey Bygone Days at Magdalene]

See A.S. Ramsey Bygone Days at Magdalene pp.30-42 for a description of Newton's life and character.
Ramsey disagrees with Benson's assessment of him.

English painter and printmaker. He attended Hubert von Herkomer’s school at Bushey (1888–9), but he was dismissed for ‘Whistlerian impudence’. He went to Paris in 1899 and enrolled for several months at the Académie Julian. As the Beggarstaff Brothers he and his brother-in-law James Pryde designed a series of striking posters (1893–9), which recall those of Toulouse-Lautrec. In 1896 Whistler recommended Nicholson to the London publisher William Heinemann, who commissioned An Alphabet, a series of woodcut illustrations. It appeared together with An Almanac of Twelve Sports and London Types in 1898. From 1900 Nicholson worked mainly in oils. At first his debt to Whistler was paramount, evident in Max (1900; London, N.P.G.), although his portrait of the actress Marie Tempest (1903; London, N.P.G.) invites comparison with the work of John Singer Sargent. By contrast Girl with the Tattered Glove (1909; Cambridge, Fitzwilliam) is uncompromising in its realism.

In 1917 Nicholson established his studio at a fashionable address in London’s St James’s. During the 1920s and 1930s he sustained a successful portrait practice but also indulged his interest in still-life and landscape. His later work reflected the influence of younger artists, including his son Ben Nicholson. Sir Winston Churchill was among his pupils (1934–6). Nicholson served as a trustee of the Tate Gallery (1934–6), and he was knighted in 1936.

Martin Nockolds from the firm Martin Nockolds and Sons of Saffron Waldon, land agents and surveyors. They were agents to the Visitor and the College.
Attended the Audit meeting of the College. Managed the college estates.

'The head of the firm was a fine figure of a man, well over six feet tall, with a dignified carriage. He knew his work thoroughly' [A.S. Ramsey Bygone Days at Magdalene]

Philanthropist and wife of Lord Byron.