General of cavalry of the Austrian Army. Founder of the Haus of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha-Koháry and the catholic branch of the Saxe-Coburg.
Half-sister of Queen Victoria and wife of Ernst I, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg.
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.
Born in 1841 and educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, where he was a Fellow from 1864 to 1867 and president of the Oxford Union in 1864. He was ordained deacon in 1867 and priest the following year. He married Mary Freeman, the daughter of an Archdeacon of Exeter when he became Headmaster of Durham School. He was Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Newcastle from 1882 to 1884 when he returned to Winchester, where he was Headmaster until 1901. He was Archdeacon of Winchester from 1903 to 1920, Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Winchester from 1903 to 1915; and Canon of Winchester from 1906 until 1920.
The Favell family seem to have a long history as painters and glaziers in Cambridge.
In the Magdalene Archives there are receipts from John Favell, painter (c. 1781-1812).
According to the Jesus College Archives:
Elizabeth Favell (d. 1840) was a widow who ran a decorating firm under the name Elizabeth Favell and Son. She lived in Petty Cury, Cambridge, and had at least four children: Edward, James, Samuel, Thomas and Mary. She was already a widow when, in 1809, the Norfolk Chronicle reported that she and James Favell 'painters' had filed for bankruptcy. In 1813, the Prince Regent granted her a pension of £40p/a following the death of her son, Captain Samuel Favell, at the Battle of Salamanca in 1812. She also lost another son, Lieutenant Thomas Favell, during the Siege of Cadiz. By the 1830s, she was running the business with her son Edward and his signature features on many of the receipts. (Norfolk Chronicle, Saturday 21 October 1809, p. 2; Will of Elizabeth Favell, 1840, National Archives, PROB/11/1936/73; Norfolk Chronicle, Saturday 29 August 1812, p. 4; Bury and Norwich Post, Wednesday 3 February 1813, p. 2; Sussex Advertiser, Monday 8 February 1813, p. 4).
In April 1854 Edward Favell went into partnership with Robert Ellis to found the company Favell & Ellis.
Robert's son Augustus Ellis (1836-1912) worked in the business and it was later known as Favell, Ellis & Sons and then Favell, Ellis & Kirkman.
They had offices at 5 St Andrews Street.
MCAC/2/2/8 is an account book with Favell, Ellis & Sons between 1906 and 1912
In the 1914 trade directory the company is listed as Favell, Ellis & Kirkman
Vincent-Désire Faure de Brousse (1843 to 1908 Montpellier Paris) was a French sculptor. He was a student of Hugo Salmson in Paris and presented from 1876 - 1883 at the Paris Salon. Faure de Brousse was an exceptionally talented artist who specialised in bronze, figurative sculptures, crafted in the Italian Renaissance style. He was well-respected as a sculptor, and was regularly selected to exhibit at the Salon in Paris in the late 19th Century.
Percy Farrar was born in 1857 in Chatteris, Cambridgeshire. He was President of the Alpine Club between 1917-1919 and was an original member of the Mount Everest Committee (a joint body composed of Alpine Club and Royal Geographical Society members that was set up to co-ordinate the reconnaissance of the approaches to and possible routes up Mount Everest in 1921). He had been party to the discussions that led to this body's formation and proposing the mountain as an achievable mountaineering objective Farrar's role was, amongst other things, to raise funds for the expedition. He was the one who successfully proposed that George Mallory, to whom he had been introduced at one of Geoffrey Winthrop Young's parties at Pen-y-Pass in 1909, should go on the initial 1921 expedition.
Educated at Wesley College, Perth and University of Western Australia.
He was admitted to Magdalene in 1987 as a candidate for the PhD degree which was awarded in 1992.
1992 - appointed College Organist.
1995 - elected to a Fellow-Commonership and as Precentor of Magdalene in 1995.
Obituary - College Magazine, 2001-2002, pp. 23-26
Matriculated in 1774; Senior Wrangler in 1778 aged 19
Made a Fellow in 1778
Appointed Tutor in 1782
Appointed Professor of Chemistry in 1794
President of the College in 1798
1813-1837 Jacksonian Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy
In 1800 he resigned his Tutorship (but not his University Professorship) and became Vicar of St Giles's parish in Cambridge. He had no previous experience of parochial work. By 1817 he had built two schoolrooms - one for 400 boys and one for 300 girls, and had englarged the church from his private benevolence.
In 1836 he became Rector of Little Stonham in Suffolk where he died on 12 January 1837.
A skilled engineering model-maker, he foresaw the time when steam would be the main power for travel by land and sea, and he predicted that the technology would one day be found to travel through the air. He was also an influential pioneer and agitator against the slave trade and played a leading part in the related inauguration of the Protestant missionary movement. Marsden, Brown, Robert Grant and Lord Glenelg were among his protégés.
Articles in the College Magazine:
Article: 'William Farish, 1759-1837', by Charles Smyth, College Magazine, No. 76, December 1937
Article, ''William Farish, 1759-1837', by Dr K. R. Webb, College Magazine, No. 86, Michaelmas 1955
Founder of the Royal Academy of Music, London in 1823.
Member of the National Congress of Belgium.
cartographer and painter. Brother of engraver Johann Gottlieb Facius. The Facius brothers were born in Regensburg (Germany) and received engraving training in Brussels. By 1776, their works were already well known and they moved to London at the invitation of John Boydell, with whom they worked for many years.
Born in Holland, John Faber came to London in around 1687 and began engraving portraits shortly thereafter. By 1707, he had established a shop near the Savoy in the Strand where he printed and published his own work. Among his more famous mezzotints are portraits of the founders of both Oxford and Cambridge, a set of the heads of the twelve Caesars and twenty-one portraits of the Reformers. Faber's work is noteworthy because he was one of the few mezzotint engravers who often both designed and engraved his plates. His son, John Faber, also became a portrait engraver.
London line and mezzotint engraver, exhibited at the RA from 1864 to 1905.
First Master of Magdalene, 1544-1546.
Dean of Bangor Cathedral from 1534. At the time he was made Master he also held two rectories of Llaneingan and Aber in Carnarvonshire and the vicarage of Terrnington St John in Norfolk to which he had been presented by the Bishop of Ely in 1541. Had no connections with Cambridge prior to being made Master.
Father of Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria.
Engraver, mainly in line.