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Master of Magdalene College, 1760-74

Son of the Rev. Josiah Sandby, Prebend of Worcester

Matriculated from Merton College, Oxford, 5 April 1734, age 17
B.A. (Oxford) 1737; M.A. (Oxford) 1740

M.A. 1760, incorported from Oxford; D.D. 1760

Vice-Chancellor, 1760-61

Rector of Denton, Norfolk, 1750-1807
Rector of Skeyton
Chancellor of the Diocese of Norwich, 1768

Died 24 March 1807, aged 90, at Denton

Educated at Pembroke College. Lecturer in Natural Sciences at Magdalene, and University Demonstrator in Chemistry, from 1931. Made a Fellow in 1938.
Research on chemical warfare during the war, working on various ‘ nerve gases’; and after the war a regional scientific adviser on Civil Defence.
Director of Studies in Natural Sciences and Medicine, 1931-1973. Praelector or Deputy Praelector, 1949-1978. President, 1967-1973. Senior Proctor, 1943-1944.

In his honour rice pudding can always be requested at Magdalene as it was the only thing he could stomach after his wartime experiments.

Further reading:
Obituary: College Magazine No. 28 (1983–84) pp. 1-3 (P. J. Grubb)
Article: 'The Chemistry of B. C. Saunders', College Magazine, No. 56 (2011–12), p. 64-68

Alwyn Faber Scholfield was educated at Eton College and then studied Classics at King's College Cambridge. After graduating, he travelled and taught for a year at Eton. He worked in Cambridge University Library on classical and early printed books in 1911–12 and in 1913 he went to Calcutta as keeper of the records of the Government of India and officiating librarian of the Imperial Library, Calcutta. From 1919 to 1923 he was librarian at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was elected librarian of the University of Cambridge in 1923, and held that post until 1949. During his tenure he supervised the removal of the library from Old Schools to its current site and managed it on restricted resources during the Second World War.

Educated at Lancing College and in 1916 joined the Royal Artillery serving in France during the First World War.
In 1919 he matriculated at Magdalene and studied Classics. He achieved Firsts in both parts of the Tripos and was President of the Boat Club.
In 1923 he was elected a Bye-Fellow and joined the University Press as Assistant Printer.
In 1927 he returned to Magdalene as a Fellow and Tutor and Lecturer in Classics.

WWII - Temporary Administrative Officer, Air Ministry, 1940 - 44.
In 1942 he married Louise May Bywaters and they had two sons and a daughter.

Senior Tutor, 1945 - 1964
Director of Studies in Classics, 1945 - 1969
President, 1962 - 1967
He continued to interview admissions candidates after reaching the age of 70, and died in the middle of one such interview.

Obituary: College Magazine, No.12, 1967-68 (F. McD Turner)
Tribute: College Magazine, No.13, 1968-69

An English artist and satirical cartoonist, comics artist, sculptor, medal designer and illustrator. He is perhaps best remembered as the creator of St Trinian's School and for his collaboration with Geoffrey Willans on the Molesworth series.

American novelist.

Belgian physician and surgeon. Took part in the Battle of Waterloo as a doctor. Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Edward Shebbeare was a member of the 1924 British Mount Everest Expedition, serving as transport officer. He was the deputy leader and transport officer of the 1933 expedition and served as transport officer on the 1929 German Kanchenjunga expedition. In 1928, he was a founding member of The Himalayan Club. He was also a keen naturalist, particularly interested in rhinoceros and elephant conservation. In 1940, he was the founding president of the Malayan Nature Society.

A British printmaker and teacher of printmaking. He revived the practices of mezzotint and pure aquatint, while expanding the expressive power of line in drypoint, etching and engraving. Short also wrote about printmaking to educate a wider public and was President of the Royal Society of Painter Etcher & Engavers (now styled the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers) from 1910 to 1938. He was a member of the Art Workers' Guild and was elected Master in 1901.

Sidgwick was a founding partner of Sidgwick and Jackson, the well-known publishers of the Edwardian era. He was also a prolific writer in his own right.

School - Eton
1927 - admitted to Magdalene College

Grenadier Guards VC, 1944
MP (Conservative) for Chelsea, 1944-45
Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Pensions, 1945
Succeeded 1945 as 6th Baron De L'Isle and Dudley
Secretary of State for Air, 1951-55

1955 made an Honorary Fellow
1956 created Viscount De L'Isle

Governor general of Australia, 1961-65

Obituary - College Magazine, No. 35 (1990-1991)

Lydia Huntley Sigourney published over dozens of volumes of poetry and essays. Her poetry frequently engages native American and anti-slavery concerns within a religious context, and often takes the form of elegy.