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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.

Born in Cleveleys, Lancashire, but was taken to his mother's "bomb-damaged house in London" the following week.
His father Roy, was a property developer. His parents separated when he was seven years old and he chose to remain with his father while his mother cared for his two half sisters. He was educated at Dulwich College Preparatory School and St Paul's School.

Admitted to Magdalene College where he read English and was editor of Granta magazine.

After Magdalene he started as a trainee sub-editor at BBC radio news. and became a BBC reporter in 1970. Early in his career, the then prime minister Harold Wilson, angered by being asked whether he was about to call an election, punched Simpson in the stomach.

1980-81 - BBC's political editor
1981-82 - he presented the Nine o'clock News
1982 - became diplomatic editor
1988 - became BBC world affairs editor

Simpson's reporting career includes the following:

Nov 1969 - he interviewed the exiled King of Buganda, Mutesa II, hours before the latter's death in his London flat from alcohol poisoning. The official cause was suicide but some suspected assassination. Simpson told the police the following day that the king, a fellow-graduate of Magdalene College, Cambridge, had been sober and in good spirits, but this line of enquiry was not pursued.

1 Feb 1979 - he travelled back from Paris to Tehran with the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini, a return that heralded the Iranian Revolution, as millions lined the streets of the capital.

1989 - he avoided bullets at the Beijing Tiananmen Square massacre.

1989 - he reported the fall of the Ceauşescu regime in Bucharest.

Early part of the 1991 - Gulf War in Baghdad, before being expelled by the authorities.

1999 - reported from Belgrade during the Kosovo War, where he was one of a handful of journalists to remain in the Yugoslav capital after the authorities, at the start of the conflict, expelled those from NATO countries.

2001 - he was one of the first reporters to enter Afghanistan disguising himself by wearing a burqa, and subsequently Kabul in the US-led invasion of Afghanistan.

He was hunted by Robert Mugabe's forces in Zimbabwe.

2002 - he had an interview with the Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn just four days before his assassination. Fortuyn was not happy with Simpson and his questions and so sent him away just five minutes after the start of the interview.

He was the first BBC journalist to answer questions in a war zone from internet users via BBC News Online.

While reporting on a non-embedded basis from Northern Iraq in the 2003 Iraq war, Simpson was injured in a friendly fire incident when a U.S. warplane bombed the convoy of American and Kurdish forces he was with. The attack was caught on film: a member of Simpson's crew was killed and he himself was left deaf in one ear.

During the 2011 Libyan civil war Simpson travelled with the rebels during their westward offensive, reporting on the war from the front lines and coming under fire on several occasions.

2016 - he presented a Panorama special, "John Simpson: 50 Years on the Frontline", revisiting the people and places that have impacted on him most, revealing his thoughts on the challenges for the future.

2018 - he described how a previous head of BBC News had recently tried to force him out of the BBC. "I wasn't the only one: he did the same to several eminent broadcasters, on the grounds that the news department was clogged at the top by the aged. I was unsighted by being assured regularly how wonderful my contribution to the BBC was. 'I'd be distraught if you left', he said."

Since 2022 he regularly presents Unspun World with John Simpson for the BBC, dissecting political opinions from around the world as their world affairs editor.

Awards
CBE in the Gulf War honours list in 1991
International Emmy for his report for the BBC Ten o'clock News on the fall of Kabul
Golden Nymph at the Cannes Film Festival
Peabody award in the US
Three BAFTAs
2000 - made an Honorary Fellow of Magdalene
2005 - became the first Chancellor of Roehampton University

Various universities have awarded him honorary doctorates:
De Montfort, Suffolk College at the University of East Anglia, Nottingham, Dundee, Southampton, Sussex, St Andrews, Exeter and Leeds.
He has received the Ischia International Journalism Award and the Bayeux-Calvados Award for war correspondents.
In June 2011 he was made a Freeman of the City of London.
He was honoured by the City of Westminster at a Marylebone tree planting ceremony in May 2012.

Mary Skinner became Pepys' mistress after the death of his wife and remained with him until the end of his life, accepted by his friends and his family as his partner.

An undergraduate at St John’s College, Cambridge, who matriculated in 1817. Smith was invited by the Master of Magdalane College to transcribe Samuel Pepys's diary in readiness for publication - a task which he commenced in 1819 and completed in 1822. A clergyman by profession, Smith became Rector of Baldock in 1832 and continued there until his death in 1870.

In the College Magazine
Photograph - a much later photograph (full length and bearded) as frontispiece - this photograph was presented to the College, but is now lost, College Magazine, No. 52 (1926) pp. 65-66

Latham, R. C. Pepys and His Editors (Occasional Paper No. 6, 1992) p. 2.

An English mezzotint engraver and print seller. Closely associated with the portrait painter Godfrey Kneller, Smith was one of leading exponents of the mezzotint medium during the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and was regarded among first English-born artists to receive international recognition, alongside the younger painter William Hogarth.

Master of Magdalene, 1626-1642

Henry Smyth was a sizar at Trinity College, Cambridge.
BA in 1594 and DD in 1612.
He was chaplain to the Earl of Suffolk [Visitor] and parish priest in Hildersham.

He was Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge from 1626 until his death in 1642.
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge from 1626 until 1627.
Prebendary of Lincoln from 1611 until 1629.

“Competent and diligent, if a little proud and abrasive, he was otherwise undistinguished and played virtually no part in the intrigues and arguments that dominated university politics on the eve of Civil War”. [History of Magdalene College, 1428-1988, By Cunich et al]

Author, journalist and literary hostess.

Renowned for his amorous escapades and as the founder in 1819 of the ‘four-in-hand club’ and leader of the Badminton and Windsor hunts.

Dr Howard Somervell was a member of the 1922 and 1924 British Mount Everest Expeditions.

Howard Somervell was born on 16 April 1890, the eldest of three children and elder son of William Henry Somervell, of Brantfield, Kendal, and his wife, Florence Howard. His father worked for Somervell Brothers of Kendal, later more widely known as K Shoes. He was educated at Rugby School (1904–9) but was unhappy there. When he was eighteen he became a member of the Keswick-based Fell and Rock Climbing Club and thus started a lifetime's devotion to the mountains of the English Lake District.

Somervell went to Caius College, Cambridge, where he obtained first classes in both parts of the Natural Sciences Tripos (1911 and 1913). He then served with the British Expeditionary Force in France (1915–18) as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps, and was mentioned in dispatches. After the war he graduated from London's University College Hospital (MB, BCh, 1921) and became FRCS in 1920.

Somervell's Everest ambitions were stimulated in 1921 during mountaineering trips in Britain and Europe. He realised that the Himalayan region called for constant movement above 20,000 ft. Everest was to be his physical test in 1922 and 1924, but his colleagues commented too on his mental endurance.

Somervell wrote of Mallory that his outlook on life was "lofty and choice, human and loving and in a measure divine".

In 1924 Somervell was in danger of choking to death, E. F. Norton wrote: 'Somervell very nearly choked, and was handicapped for three days. Only saved by coughing up the obstructing matter with a lot of blood. That he achieved what he did in this condition was a remarkable performance'.

After the 1922 Everest expedition he set out to see India. He saw that it was ill-equipped medically and poorly provided for in the skills which he possessed. When he visited the main hospital of the south Travancore medical mission and its group of outstations centred on Neyyoor, he found only one qualified surgeon, Stephen Pugh, struggling with a queue of waiting patients which would take ten days to reduce. Somervell offered to perform those overdue operations. He returned to London and told his friends in London hospitals that he had decided to devote his life to India after another attempt on Everest. He joined the 1924 expedition on which Mallory and Irvine died.

From 1924 to 1949 Somervell worked for the south Travancore medical mission which, with its branch hospitals, could claim to be the largest of its kind in the world. He attracted young surgeons to work with him, especially in the surgery of the stomach. Somervell also pioneered the modern treatment of leprosy believing that it could be cured. His home for leprosy patients had four big dormitories for eighty patients, and there was also a leprosy settlement for permanent residents. By 1936 several scores of patients had been sent home cured and free from all symptoms of the disease.

In 1938 he was awarded the Kaisar-i-Hind gold medal, and was appointed OBE in 1953.

He accepted the post of associate professor of surgery at the Vellore Christian Medical College (1949–61), then at a crucial stage of its development as a teaching hospital. It was a fitting climax to his forty years' service in India.

He died on 23 January 1975. Sir Francis Younghusband described him as 'a man of science, a man of art, a man of warm humanity and of strong religious feeling'.

An English painter and teacher of art, regarded as one of the foremost British portrait painters of his day. Born in Hammersmith, Spear attended the local art school before going on to the Royal College of Art in 1930. He began his teaching career at Croydon School of Art, later teaching at the Royal College of Art from 1948 to 1975, where his students included Sandra Blow

Politician, agriculturist and sportsman.