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Undergraduate at Magdalene College, 1902-1905.

Son of the Rev. Francis Jourdain (Pembroke College, Oxford), of Ashbourne vicarage, Derbyshire.
School - Derby.

Admitted as a Pensioner (age 18) on 1 August 1889.
Prizeman; Scholar, 1891; B.A. 1892.
Kept a school at Clifton, near Ashbourne in Derbyshire.
Served in the Great War, 1914-19 (Capt., R. Fusiliers; Staff Capt., War Office; wounded; Brevet-Major; mentioned in Secretary of State's List for "valuable services").

Of Charlynch, near Bridgwater in Somerset.

Died on 31 July 1942, in Newquay, Cornwall.

Eugene Power was born in Traverse City, Michigan and received his BA degree (1927) and his MBA (1930) from the University of Michigan.

During World War II, Power directed the microfilming of thousands of rare books and other printed materials in British libraries. He paid the library a minimal fee per exposure and then took the film to the United States where he sold copies to US libraries. The idea was both a clever business arrangement and a benefit to American scholars, who lacked access to European library collections. It was also an inventive form of preservation in light of wartime threats to libraries. Queen Elizabeth II knighted Power in the 1970s for this preservation work.

In 1938 he founded University Microfilms International in Michigan. The company merged microfilming with xerography, helping to make out-of-print books available for circulation again. The company also pioneered a business model for publishing limited-interest doctoral dissertations, becoming the publisher of record for all U.S. dissertations in 1951.
University Microfilms was acquired by the Xerox Corporation in 1962 for $8 million. Power continued to work for Xerox until his mandatory retirement in 1970 at the age of 65. The company he founded is now ProQuest.

In 1967, Power created the Power Foundation for Philanthropy. He donated funds to establish the Power Center for the Performing Arts at his alma mater, the University of Michigan. He also endowed a scholarship program at the university (affiliated for many years with Magdalene College at Cambridge University) and helped to buy the site of the Battle of Hastings in England to preserve it from real estate speculation.

Power served two terms as a regent of the University of Michigan, served on the council of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and became president of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges in 1970. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1975.

In 1987, Marion Island in Lake Michigan, was renamed "Power Island". Power died of Parkinson's disease in 1993 at the age of 88.

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.

Admitted pensioner aged 17 at Magdalene College 22 May 1897

Son of Francis William Otter, of West Grinstead Lodge, West Grinstead, Horsham, [Sussex], deceased and Dorothea Mary Augusta, daughter of Sir Walter Wyndham Burrell, Bart.

Born 1879
Eton School, one term only
Matriculated, Michaelmas term 1897

Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion, the Royal Sussex Regiment and served in the Great War.
Captain and Adjt., Sussex Yeomanry.

Married Patience Marion, only daughter of Sir Edmund Loder, Bart, on 21 June 1904
Had issue

Lived at Selehurst, Horsham, Sussex

Died on 6 August 1940 and is buried at Lower Beeding, Sussex

Born in Willesden, north London, on 25 July 1897. Attended University College School in Hampstead in 1912.

In December 1915 he won a scholarship in history to Peterhouse, Cambridge but war service intervened and he was commissioned into the West Yorkshire regiment. He saw active service on the western front, chiefly as his battalion's signals officer. He was wounded and captured in the German offensive of March 1918 and spent the rest of the war as a prisoner.

Willey went up to Peterhouse in January 1919, and took the second part of the historical tripos in the summer of 1920, obtaining a First. He then switched to the newly established English tripos, taking a First in 1921. He won the Le Bas prize in 1922. He began to lecture (as a freelancer) for the English course in 1923.

Following the reorganisation of the University in 1926, he held one of the new probationary faculty lectureships at Cambridge for five years.
In 1934 he was appointed to a permanent lectureship, becoming a Fellow of Pembroke College in 1935.

On 20 July 1923 he married Zélie Murlis Ricks with whom he was to have two sons and two daughters. Following his marriage he and his family lived at 282 Hills Road, but in 1938 he commissioned an architectural colleague to design a much larger house on land at 18 Adams Road, where apart from two extended periods as a visiting professor in the USA, he lived until his death.

Willey's life coincided with, and was profoundly shaped by, the heyday of the Cambridge English tripos, which had been taught for the first time in 1919.

In 1946 he was elected Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch's successor as the King Edward VII Professor at Cambridge, and he held the chair until retirement in 1964.

He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1947.
Subsequent honours included Fellowship of the Royal Society of Literature, an honorary DLitt from Manchester University, and an honorary fellowship at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was for twelve years chair of the Dove Cottage Trustees, and from 1958 to 1964 he served as president (vice-master) of his college.
He gave the Hibbert lectures in 1959.

Born on in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State.

In December 1910 he won an exhibition to Exeter College, Oxford and went up to the University in 1911 to read Classics. In 1913 he achieved a Second and changed to study English. He achieved a First in his finals in 1915.

He served in France during the war including at the Battle of the Somme. In October 1916 he got Trench Fever and returned to England where he remained for the rest of the war.

1920 – appointed reader in English language at the University of Leeds.
1925 – 1945 held the Rawlinson and Bosworth chair of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University and was a Fellow of Pembroke College.
1945 – 1959 was the Merton Professor of English Language and Literature and Fellow of Merton College.

Tolkien was a close friend of C. S. Lewis, a co-member of the informal literary discussion group The Inklings.

He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II on 28 March 1972.

Amongst his work are The Silmarillion, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

1926 she went to St Hilda's College, Oxford, and in 1929 obtained First Class Honours in English language and literature.

1929 -1931 accepted a temporary post at the University of Birmingham.
1931-1934 worked as an assistant lecturer at the Royal Holloway College, London before returning to Birmingham where she joined the English department (1934–41).

In 1941 she returned to Oxford to become a tutor (1941–54), and later Fellow (1942–66), at her old college.

In 1954 she was made reader in Renaissance studies and after one set-back was elected in 1966 Merton professor of English language and literature, with a fellowship at Lady Margaret Hall. The distinction of being the first woman to hold this chair gave her special satisfaction. She exerted herself as a supervisor and was as successful as she was strict.

To her Oxford DLitt (1963) and Cambridge honorary LittD (1981) she added honorary degrees from eight other universities.
She was appointed CBE in 1962 and a DBE in 1967.
She was made a Fellow of the British Academy in 1958, twice won the Crawshay prize (1952 and 1980), and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1962.

In person Helen Gardner was small and sturdy. Vivacious, temperamental, and occasionally overbearing, she appreciated good food and drink, liked to dress well, and revelled in parties where she talked well but, as she herself knew, too much. She was kinder in her actions than in her wit.

She retired in 1975 and died, unmarried, on 4 June 1986 in a nursing home at Bicester, Oxfordshire.

Probably born in Dieppe, around 1650-1660. Cavalier was a Huguenot who travelled extensively, working as a wax modeller and ivory sculptor, and specialising in portrait medallions. In 1682/3 he went to London, where he stayed until 1686; he then went to Trier, perhaps Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Hannover, Kassel, and in 1689 to Vienna, Munich and perhaps Dresden. By 1690 he was back in London, where he carved pictures of the King and Queen and was given the passport as the 'King's medallist'. He was then at the Danish Court in 1691/3, and from 1694/5-7 in Stockholm, from whence he and his brother Denis, also a sculptor, journeyed as ambassadors on behalf of Sweden to Russia and Persia, where they both died. Cavalier was the most accomplished ivory-carver working in late Stuart England until the arrival of David Le Marchand around 1700.

Arthur Guy Lee known informally as Guy Lee, was a British Classical scholar and poet. He was particularly notable as a Latinist for his work on the Roman poets Ovid, Propertius, and Catullus; he also translated Virgil's Eclogues, Tibullus, and Persius.

He was an undergraduate at St John's College, Cambridge. He taught at the University of Cambridge for most of his career, where he was admitted as a Fellow of St John's in 1946.

In the Second World War, he joined the British military, and was posted in Iceland, where he learned Icelandic and earned a military award for his work on ciphers. He was later posted to French North Africa, Belgium, Italy, Norway, and Germany.

He returned to Cambridge after the war and served as a librarian, tutor, praelector, and lecturer of classics at various times.

He died in Cambridge in 2005, and is buried at Ascension Parish Burial Ground.

Professor Helen Vendler was an American academic, writer and literary critic. She was a professor of English language and history at Boston University, Cornell, Harvard, and other universities. Her academic focus was critical analysis of poetry and she studied poets from Shakespeare and George Herbert to modern poets such as Wallace Stevens and Seamus Heaney. Her technique was close reading, which she described as "reading from the point of view of a writer".

She was the Parnell Fellow at Magdalene College from 1994-1995 and was elected as an Honorary Fellow in 1997.

Her portrait, by Mrs Mary Minifie, is the first of a female Fellow to hang in Hall (2024).

Obituary - College Magazine, No. 68 (2023-24)

Richard Ladborough was a Fellow of French at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and Pepys Librarian. He specialised in the Enlightenment era of French literature, and donated a wealth of such books to the College which are now held by the Old Library. Friend and correspondent of C.S. Lewis.

Obituary: Magdalene College Magazine and Record, New Series No. 16: 1971-72, p. 3

Admitted to Magdalene College aged 20 on 28 July 1881. Pensioner.

2nd son of the Rev. Lord Edward Henry Julius of Wighill Park, Tadcaster, Yorks and Jane, daughter of Henry Dowker, of Laysthorpe, Yorks. Born 6 August 1860.
School - Eton
Matriculated Michaelmas 1881. Cricket 'blue,' 1882-5 (Capt., 1885).
Succeeded his father as 7th Baron Hawke, of Towton, Yorks. on 5 December 1887.
J.P. for the West Riding.
Served in the 3rd Battalion, The Green Howards, retiring in 1894 with the rank of Hon. Major.

Captain of the Yorkshire Cricket XI, 1883-1910; of the England team on two South African tours; President of the M.C.C., 1914-18.
Received the Freedom of Scarborough.
Author, Recollections and Reminiscences.

Died 10 October 1938 in Edinburgh.

At Magdalene from 1964 to 1967

Born 1 July 1945. Educated St John’s School, Leatherhead and St Catharine’s College Cambridge (Exhibitioner 1964).
Lecturer, Dept of Modern Subjects, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, 1967–69.
Fellow of St Catharine’s (Research Fellow 1970, Official Fellow 1972),
University Assistant Lecturer, 1972
University Lecturer in English,1978
Fellow of Magdalene College (Official Fellow 1978, Emeritus Fellow 2012)
Pepys Librarian and Keeper

Obituary: College Magazine, No. 65 2021-2021

Born in c. 1762, the son of Christopher, of Holland, Lancs. (apothecary, of Liverpool and Upholland)
School - Halifax

Admitted pensioner at Magdalene on 1May 1779
Matriculated at Lent, 1780
B.A. (2nd Wrangler) 1783
M.A. 1786
Fellow

28 September 1802 he was replaced as Bursar and Steward by Rev Thomas Paley was appointed Bursar and Rev Samuel Lowe was appointed Steward [MCGB/4/2/1]

Ordained Deacon at Ely on 10 May 1789
Ordained Priest on 20 December 1789
Rector of Fletton, Hunts., 1798-1828
P.C. of St Catherine Cree, London, 1803-14
Vicar of Yaxley, Hunts., 1806-28 (resigned). Succeeded his brother-in-law, John Hull, at Agecroft Hall, near Manchester, in 1813.

Married Margaret, daughter of Richard Hull, of Agecroft Hall.
Died Aug. 28, 1845, aged 84, at Blackpool.
Father of John (1834) and of Robert (1829).

Thomas Riddel was the cook of Magdalene College, 1799-1826.

On his appointment in 1799 (succeeding William Winder) he secured a substantial rise in the cook's wages from £7 to £12 10s 0d along with £5 for coals.

In 1826 he left the College and set up as a beer retailer in Magdalene Street.

His name is written in the front of the Buttery Books [MCAD/14/2]. The first time it is written on the inside page is in MCAD/1/4/2/3 which covers 1672-76.

The Buttery Book, 1686-1690 [MCAD/14/2/6] is the first one in which Edward Townsend has written his name.

Buttery Book starting in 1743 [MCAD/14/2/1/19] is the first in which John Palmer's name appears.

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.

The first Buttery book in which Edward Mills writes his name begins in 1789 [MCAD/14/2/1/28].

It was recorded at a meeting of the Master and Fellows on 7 March 1799 that the College had been defrauded by the late Butler Edward Mills to a very considerable amount and they resolved to use all legal means to recover the amount of that fraud [MCGB/4/2/1 pg. 181].

Born in Helston, Cornwall in 1778, son of Edward
Schools - Helston and Shacklewell

Admitted sizar at Jesus College on 10 July 1794
Matriculated Michaelmas 1795; Scholar, 1796; B.A. 1799; M.A. 1802

Fellow of Magdalene, 1803; Tutor

Vicar of Bishopstone, Wilts., 1816
Vicar of Constantine, Cornwall, 1817-56
Prebendary of Salisbury

He married:
(1) Sophia
(2) 22 Nov, 1821, Catherine Groube, daughter of John Boulderson, of St Mawnan, and had issue

Died at Constantine on 25 Aug 1856

Born in Walesby, Lincs. in 1681. Son of Henry Waterland, Rector of Walesby

Admitted sizar at Clare College on 4 May 1699
Matriculated 1699
B.A. 1702/3; M.A. 1706
D.D. from Magdalene, 1725

Fellow of Clare, 1705-14
Fellow of Magdalene, 1714-24
Brother of Daniel Waterland, Master of Magdalene College who appointed him Bursar and Steward in c. 1718
Senior Proctor, 1721-22

Incorporated at Oxford in 1724
Ordained priest (Ely) 30 May 1708
Vicar of St Peter's, Cambridge, 1711-18
Vicar of St Giles', Cambridge, 1711-20
Vicar of Longstanton All Saints' and Longstanton St Michael's, Cambridgeshire, 1720-64
Minister of St Benetfink, London

Died in Hackney, 18 March 1764

Son of Benjamin Bywater of Lanchester, Co. Durham

Admitted pensioner at Magdalene College on 22 April 1769
Scholar, 1768; matriculated Michaelmas 1769
B.A. 1773; M.A. 1776
Fellow, Steward and Bursar

Rector of Anderby-cum-Cumberworth, Lincs., 1791-1820
P.C. of Grainthorpe
Vicar of West Wratting, Cambs., 1792-1820

Died in West Wratting on 31 October 1820

Admitted as a pensioner at Magdalene on 15 May 1806
Matriculated Michaelmas 1806
B.A. 1810; M.A. 1813
Fellow

Ordained deacon (Norwich) 8 July 1810; priest, 21 June 1812
Rector of Long Stanton St Michael's, Cambs., 1819-23

Died 1823.

In the Audit receipts and Account Books he signs as Steward in 1811, 1814-1818 and as Bursar in 1813 - not comprehensive as we are still cataloguing (Nov 2025)

Born in 1856 the second son of Jeremiah Creswell (Magdalen Hall, Oxford), of 5, Lansdowne Villas, East Down Park, Lee.
School - Blackheath

Admitted pensioner at Magdalene 1 October 1874
Matriculated Easter 1875; Scholar
B.A. (Class. Trip., 1st Class) 1879; M.A. 1882
Fellow and tutor
Steward

Esquire Bedell, 1893-9
Fellow of King's College, London, 1885-99.
Author of Life and Poems of Lefroy

Died on 7 December 1899, aged 43, at Lugano, Switzerland

Born 5 May 1796 the third son of Hugh, Earl Fortescue, of Castle Hill, near South Molton, Devon.
School - Eton

Admitted Fellow-Commoner at Magdalene on 14 January 1814
Matriculated Lent, 1814; M.A. 1816
Fellow

Rector of Anderby with Cumberworth, Lincs., 1821-35
Canon Residentiary of Worcester, 1834-69
Rector of Poltimore with Huxham, Devon, 1835-69
Master of St Oswald's Hospital, Worcester, 1847-69

13 April 1842 married Sophia, daughter of Henry Nevile, Rector of Cottesmore, Rutland

Died on 3 January 1869