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Born at Clapton on 17 May 1856 the son of John, head of the firm of Charrington, Sells, Dale and Co. which firm he entered in 1880; subsequently chairman.
School - Haileybury (of which he later became a governor)

Admitted pensioner at Trinity on 25 May 1875
Matriculated Michaelmas 1875; B.A. 1879; M.A. 1885
Honorary Fellow of Magdalene, 1936

As a young man became interested in prints, and expert in the investigation of early examples.
In 1910 became the first Honorary Keeper of the Prints at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, where he undertook the examination of the whole collection of prints. In 1923 he published a catalogue of the 'Mezzotints after, or said to be after, Rembrandt'.

Undertook exhaustive researches in connection with the Pepys Library at Magdalene and in 1936 published a 'Catalogue of the engraved portraits in the library of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S., now belonging to Magdalene College.' Few other people, if any, could have accomplished the Pepys Library catalogue, involving, as it did, the identification of hundreds of portraits without any title.

In 1933 he presented to the Fitzwilliam Museum a great collection of engraved portraits, now housed in the new print Room built at his cost.
Made many important gifts of early printed books to Cambridge University Library.
Was always proud to be known as 'A great lover of Cambridge.'

Died on 24 February 1939, aged 82, at Shenley

Educated at Rugby School and Trinity College where he took Honours in History.

He held the Curacies of St Mary's, Bryanston Square, and Great St Mary's, Cambridge.
During the First World War he held a Mastership at Rossall.

Joined the College in 1919 as a Chaplain and lecturer in History and was elected as a Fellow in 1925.
As a Chaplain he was noted for his quiet and beautiful reading and excellent sermons.
Dean from 1924; intermitted during war (1940 -1946).

Tributes from three friends in the College Magazine, vol. XII, No. 84, pp.25-26

Educated at the Liverpool Institute High School and at Clare College (1952-1955) taking the Mathematical Tripos.

1955-58 - Assistant in Research in Cambridge
1958-62 - Systems Development Engineer at BIC
1963-68 - Principal Scientific Officer British Rail
1968-69 - Assistant Director of Research, Cambridge University

1973 Fellow of Magdalene
1973-1975 Dean
1973-2000 College lecturer in Engineering
2001 Emeritus Fellow

1984-2001 - treasurer of C.U. Musical Society
1983-86 - Director of CADCAM Association (Chairman, 1984)
1974 President of the CU Engineering Society

Obituary, College Magazine, No. 45, pp. 19-20

Educated at St Edward's School, Oxford.
Admitted to King's College, Cambridge.

Called to the bar at Gray's Inn (where he was later a Bencher), and was in private practice as a barrister in Nairobi until 1960, when he joined the Lord Chancellor's Department.

He served as Private Secretary to three successive Lord Chancellors and also served as Secretary to the Beeching Royal Commission on Assizes and Quarter Sessions.

1982-89 - Permanent Secretary of the Lord Chancellor's Department and Clerk of the Crown in Chancery
1984 - knighted
1985 - appointed Queen's Counsel
1989 - appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
He was awarded a University of Cambridge PhD

After retiring from the civil service he entered academia, becoming a Research Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge in 1990. He subsequently became a Life Fellow and, until his retirement in June 2007, supervised undergraduate students in constitutional law.

Sir Derek received a standing ovation from the College Law Society following his retirement at the Annual Lawyers' Dinner in 2007. A bench sits beside the River Cam in the grounds of the College in his honour.

In 1955 he married Margaret Oxley and they had four children.

He died on 1 August 2016.

Supplied lamps, candles, oil, and sand to the College.

Born at Mount Eden, Auckland, New Zealand, the eldest son of Ernest Bennett, a foreman for a shoe manufacturer, and Alexandra, née Corrall, both born in Leicester, England.

School - Mount Albert Grammar School in Auckland, New Zealand. He notably wrote the Mount Albert Grammar School hymn, which is sung at school assemblies to this day.

Studied at the University of Auckland before going on to Merton College, Oxford.

Part of a loose kit group of extraordinarily gifted young men from New Zealand who studied at Oxford University before the Second World War. The link between them was to endure for the rest of their lives.

During the Second World War he worked with the British Information Service in America.

He became best known as a scholar of Middle English literature. He was editor of the journal Medium Aevum from 1957 to 1981 and was a colleague of C. S. Lewis at Magdalen College, Oxford.

1964 - he succeeded Lewis as Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge University.

He was one of the Inklings, an informal literary group that included C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien.

He was made a Fellow of Magdalene College Cambridge.

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

College chef for 40 years.

Fellow-Commoner, 1993-2014
Cambridge University Press, 1976-2013
Managing Director, Academic & Professional Publishing, 2012-2013

Master of Magdalene College, 1995-2002

Educated at Christ Church Oxford. University of Cambridge, John Henry Plummer Professor of Cell Biology, 1983-2001; Fellow of Churchill College until taking up the Mastership; Honorary Fellow, 2002. Chairman of The Wellcome Trust & Cancer Research UK Institute of Cancer & Developmental Biology, 1991, which was renamed The Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute in 2003 in recognition of his inaugural directorship. Japanese Academy’s Emperor Hirohito Prize for Biology, 1987; Israel’s Wolf Prize for Medicine, 1989; Copley Medal, 2003; Hon ScD 2007; Nobel Prize for Medicine 2012.

Further Reading:
Article 'Appointment to the Mastership' by Peter Grubb, College Magazine vol. 38 (1993-94) pp. 8-9
Article, 'Hail and Farewell' by Eamon Duffy, College Magazine, vol. 46 (2001-02) pp. 9-11

Master of Magdalene College, 1967-1978

Educated at Trinity College, and Fellow of Trinity, 1931-1933, 1946-1950 (University Lecturer in Classics, 1947). Published an extremely successful translation of Plato’s Symposium (1951). Head Master of Westminster School (1950-1957) and of Rugby (1957-1966); chairman of the Headmasters’ Conference. Honorary Fellow , 1978.

‘Not so hearty as Willink, not so pedagogic as Ramsay, not so melancholy as Benson, and not so teetotal as Donaldson’ – Lord Ramsey, on Hamilton’s retirement (College Magazine 22 (1977-78) p 2). What most people remember is his baleful humour.

Further reading:
College Magazine vol. 22 (1977-78) pp. 2-4 (D. W. Babbage)
Obituary College Magazine vol. 32 (1987-88) pp. 11-16 (R. Hyam)
College Magazine* vol. 36 (1991-92) pp. 59-61 (review by R. Luckett)

Painter notable for perceptive portraits and subtle landscapes, stage designer, exhibition organiser and writer, brother of the artist John Hill. He was born Arthur Derek Hill in Bassett, Hampshire. Was educated at Marlborough College, then studied stage design in Munich, Paris and Vienna, 1933–5, and began life drawing. Although he designed sets and costumes for the ballet The Lord of Burleigh at Sadler’s Wells in 1937, in Paris a year later he chose to paint rather than pursue designing. During World War II he worked on a farm in England, painting spare-time. Contributed articles to Penguin New Writing, New Statesman and other magazines. The 1940s and 1950s were busy years for Hill, for he had a first solo show at Nicholson Gallery, 1943; designed for Il Trovatore at Covent Garden, 1947; painted in Ireland and Italy, where he was encouraged by the critic Bernard Berenson; organised the Degas exhibition at Edinburgh Festival, 1952; had a series of shows at Leicester Galleries; and was art director of the British School in Rome, 1953–4, and 1957–8.

Matriculated 1764; 3rd Wrangler, 1768 and Chancellor’s Medalist. Fellow and Tutor, 1782, but later apparently a non-resident Fellow, who was primarily an author. Apart from publishing studies on civil liberties, gaming and duelling, suicide, happiness (a reply to Tom Paine’s Rights of Man), Egyptian mummification, and the promotion of Christianity in India, he also wrote a tragedy, The Captive Monarch in 1794, and a novel, Edington in 1796).
His younger brother Samuel was President of the College, 1778-1786, but is not the subject of a College portrait.

Scottish painter and printmaker, notable for illustrating the works of Bunyan, Coleridge and Kipling. Strang was born at Dumbarton, the son of Peter Strang, a builder, and was educated at the Dumbarton Academy. For fifteen months after leaving school he worked in the counting-house of a firm of shipbuilders, then in 1875, when he was sixteen, went to London. There he studied art under Alphonse Legros at the Slade School for six years. Strang had great success as an etcher and became assistant master in the etching class. He was one of the founding members of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers, and his work was part of its first exhibition in 1881. Some of his early plates were published in The Portfolio and other art magazines.

Educated at Trinity College. Fellow of Magdalene, 1818; President and senior Fellow, 1829-1836; Tutor, 1821-1826, 1831-1832; Senior Proctor, 1833-1834. University Librarian, 1822; elected sole Principal Librarian – Protobibliothecarius – in succession to Thomas Kerrich in 1828, a post he held until 1845.
In 1836 there was a dispute with the College about his continued combination of the Presidency with the University Librarianship (which his predecessor Kerrich had not done), and he vacated his Fellowship to take up the College living of Anderby. ‘Lodge had shown more energy, more understanding and more willingness to work at the Librarianship than almost any of his predecessors for nearly two centuries’ (McKitterick, pp. 506-507).

Arms in Hall glass, W2.

A painter who was one of the five sons of Thomas Forbes Walmisley (1783–1866), a London-born organist, composer and ‘Professor of Music’, who also had at least two daughters.
Walmisley trained at the Royal Academy schools and according to Redgrave’s dictionary was also a pupil of H. P. Briggs. Redgrave also says that he ‘became paralysed in his legs early in life’ and that his works ‘were very mannered from want of power to study’. He nonetheless exhibited 21 at the Academy between 1838 and 1868, 18 at the British Institution between 1841 and its closure in 1867 and 16/17 at the Society of British Artists (SBA) during 1840–1872. The majority were landscapes and subject paintings, the latter often derived from literature and drama but the first five at the Academy (to 1841) were portraits.

Walmisley appears not to have married, and lived with his father and his two unmarried sisters. From some point before 1840 this was at 18 Cowley Street, Westminster, but probably from 1843 until 1846 he was in Rome. According to Graves’s Royal Academy listings, a Roman view he sent home in 1843/1844 was noted as ‘painted on the spot’ when submitted for the 1844 Academy show by his father. In the 1844 catalogue itself, his Rome address is given as Café Graeco and, in 1845, Via di Capo le Cose. From then on, Italian subjects from Venice to the Naples area predominate in his exhibition record, including after his return to London in 1847.

In about 1864 he and his father moved to 19 Earl’s Court Gardens, Brompton. His father died there aged 84 in 1866, leaving an estate of under £1,500, Frederick being executor. He died at St John’s Wood on 25th December 1875, aged 60.

Two of Walmisley’s brothers were organists. The eldest, Thomas Attwood Walmisley (1814–1856), became Professor of Music at Cambridge University in 1836. The other was Henry (1830–1857), an organist in London. Frederick’s portraits of them both were lent by their civil engineer brother, Arthur Thomas Walmisley (1847–1923), to the Victorian Era Exhibition of 1897 at Earl’s Court. The fifth brother, Horatio (1827–1905), became a clergyman. Frederick is also recorded in published RIBA papers for 1868–1869 to have done a ‘remarkably good portrait in oil’ of the architect Arthur Ashpitel, ‘representing him sitting and sketching’, of unknown date. (Ashpitel also studied in Rome from 1853.)

While Walmisley was only baptised Frederick (on 26th May 1815 at St Mary, Newington, Surrey) some contemporary and later printed references call him ‘F. W.’ or ‘Frederick W.’ which is seemingly an error.

Matriculated in 1834. Made a Fellow in 1841. Called to the Irish Bar in 1844; QC 1865; Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, 1877-1887, and Lord Justice of Appeal (1878); he narrowly avoided having to try his fellow Old Member, C. S. Parnell, in the case of conspiracy against the payment of rent in 1880-1881 but having dismissed a motion for the postponement of the trial, he was accused of partiality, and did not sit. ‘A learned, painstaking and impartial judge’ (DNB).

Arms in Hall glass, E1.

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.
Lived in Old Lodge as a conservative eccentric; however, he was also 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.

Master of Magdalene College, 1781-1797

Educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford in the late 1730s where he was a young tearaway, repeatedly in trouble for being drunk, even during divine service, which he often skipped. A major transformation in his character must later have taken place, perhaps due to his service as an Army Chaplain.
He lost his left arm 'when very young' the result of 'the unexpected going off of his companion's gun'. He was skilful in concealing the injury.

Married Martha Ferrar in 1755.
Vice-Chancellor, 1784-1785.
Dean of Peterborough, 1792-1797.
The first Anglican sermons against the slave trade were preached by Peckard in the College Chapel, leading to courageous and galvanic sermons in Great St Mary’s in 1783 and 1784, and to the prize essay which inspired Thomas Clarkson's campaign. Peckard was also a notable benefactor to the College.

Memorial brass in the Old Library.

College Mgazine:
Article: 'Peter Peckard', College Magazine, No. 1, 1956-57, pp.15-23
Article: 'The Peckard Bicentenary', College Magazine, vol. 42, 1997-98, pp. 29-31

Martha Peckard was a published poet in her day. Her Ode to Spring and Ode to Cynthia were featured in the periodicals The Gentleman's Magazine and The Weekly Magazine, or Edinburgh Amusement. She was the eldest daughter of Edward Ferrar, a lawyer in Huntingdonshire, and she married Peter Peckard in 1755. She ensured the safe transfer of the Ferrar Papers and Peckard's personal library to Magdalene College upon Peckard's death.

Elizabeth de St Michel was born at Bideford, Devon, on 23 October 1640. She was the daughter of Alexandre le Marchant de St Michel and Dorothea Fleetwood. The family lived in Devon, where Dorothea had inherited land. They later lost this property and subsequently travelled between Germany, Flanders, and Ireland. Dorothea, along with Elizabeth and her brother Balthasar, fled to Paris after their fortunes had been undermined by Alexandre's increasingly determined religious views. Her mother intended that Elizabeth should become a nun, and she was briefly placed in the city's Ursuline convent before she and Balty were removed to London by their father.

It was in London that Elizabeth met Samuel Pepys, then in the employ of Edward Mountagu, later first earl of Sandwich. Details of the circumstances of their meeting remain unknown, though it is evident, given that neither party stood to gain financially from the union, that theirs was a love match. The couple were married at a civil service at St Margaret's, Westminster, on 1 December 1655, when Elizabeth, described as being of St Martin-in-the-Fields, was aged fifteen and Samuel twenty-two. By the time of this service the couple had apparently already 'married' in an unrecorded religious ceremony which took place on 10 October, the date Pepys identified as their anniversary during his years of diary keeping.

The early months of their marriage were characterised by antagonism and argument. The cramped conditions of his attic apartment at Whitehall Palace exacerbated both Elizabeth's irritation at the prosaic nature of married life and Samuel's jealousy and sexual frustration which derived, in part, from his own and his wife's recurrent ill health. Within a year of their marriage Elizabeth left her husband to stay with her family at Charing Cross returning to Whitehall in December 1657. In August of the following year the couple left for a house in Axe Yard, Westminster, where they stayed until July 1660 before moving to the Navy Office at Seething Lane.

By this date Pepys had begun a diary, which he maintained daily until six months before his wife's death. Pepys never named her in his journal but referred to 'his wife'.

Elizabeth gained additional leisure time as her husband's career, and salary, improved over the decade. She also enjoyed more freedom than many women of her status on account of the marriage remaining childless.

In June 1669 Elizabeth accompanied her husband and brother on a tour of northern France and the Netherlands. Here she contracted the fever, probably typhoid, which developed during their return journey and from which, aged twenty-nine, she died at Seething Lane on 10 November.

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.

Samuel Pepys was admitted as a Sizar to Magdalene College in October 1650, and was subsequently a benefactor to the College. His most notable appointments to which he was appointed are as follows: Secretary to the Admiralty, 1673-1679, 1684-1689; MP for Castle Rising, 1673-1679, and Harwich 1679, 1685; Deputy Lieutenant for Huntingdonshire, 1685-1689; President of the Royal Society, 1684-1686. Pepys kept his celebrated diary ran from January 1660 to May 1669.

Arms in Hall glass, E2.

Further reading:
Latham, R. C. & Matthews, W. eds, The Diary (11 vols, 1970-1983)

Cunich, P., Hoyle, D., Duffy, E., Hyam, R., A History of Magdalene College Cambridge, 1428-1988 pp. 129-130

Article: ‘Pepys and Pascal’ College Magazine, vol. 86 (1955), pp. 5-8 (R. W. Ladborough)
Article: 'The Religion of Pepys' College Magazine, vol. 27 (1982-83) pp. 52-59 (E. Duffy and J. E. Stevens)
Article: 'Pepys and the Law', vol. 30 (1985-86) pp. (R. W. M. Dias)
Article: 'Pepys's Health Problems', vol. 42 (1997-98) pp. 40-45 (M. Keynes)

Among the biographies:
Ollard, R. Pepys: A Biography (1974)
Tomalin, C. Samuel Pepys: the Unequalled Self (2002)

An English portrait painter, a pupil of Peter Lely, who approached his teacher in artistic excellence, but whose life was cut short by a dissolute lifestyle.

Matriculated in 1870. Senior Classic, 1875, Chancellor’s Medalist. Made a Fellow in 1875.
Tutor, 1896-1912
President, 1896-1912.
Peskett was the first married Fellow (1882)

Arms in Hall glass, W2

Obituary: College Magazine vol. 68 (1932) pp. 29-31