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Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and empress of India.

Daughter of Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Maria Antonia Koháry de Csábrág.

Duchess of Kent and mother of Queen Victoria. The fourth daughter of Franz Friedrich Anton (Francis), duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (b. 1750), and his wife Augusta Caroline Sophia.

Was a member of Magdalene from 1919 to 1922. He went on to become the Chairman of Shell-Mex and BP and for a brief period was Chairman of Governors at Sedburgh School. He was a close personal friend of Fairfax Scott, Frank Salter, and Owen Morshead. His son Michael and five other members of his family have attended Magdalene.

French congressman.

A French sculptor. He was born in Lille, France, and died in Paris. He studied at the Accademia Albertina in Turin. One of his teachers was Odoardo Tabacchi. From 1885, Villanis lived in Paris and became one of the most productive sculptors towards the end of the 19th century. His female bronze busts, cast by the Society de Bronze de Paris, were exported all over the world from Paris, particularly to the United States. Today his sculptures can be found regularly in auctions.

Vincent Brooks, Day & Son was a major British lithographic firm most widely known for reproducing the weekly caricatures published in Vanity Fair magazine. The company was formed in 1867 when Vincent Brooks bought the name, good will and some of the property of Day & Son Ltd, which had gone into liquidation that year. The firm reproduced artwork and illustrations and went on to print many of the iconic London Underground posters of the twenties and thirties before being wound up in 1940.

Dr Arthur Wakefield, a general practitioner from Cumbria, was a member of the 1922 British Mount Everest Expedition.

Prolific waterolourist who produced many works of East Anglia in the 1840s and the east coast of America in the 1850s.

British engraver (burin/mezzotint).

Master of Magdalene College, 1774-1781

Born on 3 Jan 1745, the third son of John, Viscount Lymington (son of John Wallop, 1st Earl of Portsmouth) and Catherine Conduit (great niece of Issac Newton)
His eldest brother John Wallop, succeeded his grandfather and became the 2nd Earl of Portsmouth. John’s son and therefore Barton’s nephew was John Charles Wallop 3rd Earl of Portsmouth (subject of two Lunacy Commissions)

School - Eton

Admitted as a Fellow Commoner (aged 18) to Magdalene College on 5 Nov 1762
Matriculated Michaelmas 1764; M.A. 1766

Rector of Portsmouth
Rector of Cliddesden with Farleigh, Hampshire

Master of Magdalene, 1774-81
Vice-Chancellor, 1774-75

Married 14 May 1771, his cousin, Camilla Powlett, daughter of the Rev. Richard Smyth, of Crux-Easton, Hampshire
Children:
(1) Urania Catharine Camilla, born 23 November 1774
(2) Postumous son William Barton Wallop – on the 15th Dragoons, and then Captain in the Nova Scotia Fencibles. On 11 Sept 1807 he married Miss Ward of St John’s in New Brunswick, North America

Died 1 Sept 1781, at Upper Wallop

From: A History of Magdalene College, Cambridge 1428-1988

Thomas Chapman (Master) died in 1760 (either of a fever or of gluttony having eaten 5 mackerel followed later by a turbot resulting in ‘a violent looseness’ which carried him off’).

At the time the Visitor was Elizabeth, Countess of Portsmouth (daughter of James Griffin, 2nd Baron Griffin of Braybrooke). By her 2nd marriage she married John Wallop , 1st Earl of Portsmouth (also his 2nd marriage).

Her step-grandson was Barton Wallop who in 1760 was aged 16 and at Eton.

On the death of the Master Thomas Chapman the Fellows decided they wanted the current President, Lawrence Eliot, to be elected Master and they got the backing of the other Heads of Houses. But Elizabeth had promised the vacancy to her step-grandson Barton. He was only 16 so she appointed George Sandby on condition that he gave up the Mastership in favour of Barton when she or her heirs asked. This bond was witnessed by the College cook and butler. He served as Master from 1760 until 1774.

Barton ‘that pretty young gentleman’ was admitted to the College as a Fellow-Commoner in 1762 though he did not matriculate until 1764 and he did not reside [he is in the Butlers books having spent money on sizings at the buttery so I dispute this]. He took an honorary MA in July 1766 and was elected to a Goche fellowship the same day.

He seemed little interested in College affairs busying himself with hunting and shooting, financed by a series of Hampshire livings in the gift of his family including the rectory of Portsmouth.

Elizabeth Griffin died in 1762 but had secured an undertaking from her heir, Sir John Griffin, to honour the promise to Barton and so in April 1774 Sandby was asked to resign.
Barton was now married and aged 29 which was the minimum statutory age for appointment to the Mastership and had declared himself ‘very desirous’ to take it up.

The appointment caused consternation in the College and Cambridge as Barton’s crass ignorance and rackety life-style were well-known, and Magdalene was due to provide the next Vice-Chancellor. The prospect of such a man as head of the university was appalling. In late 1773 Archbishop Cornwallis and the Chancellor had tried to buy Barton off with a swap of preferment, and to secure the Mastership instead for the newly-appointed Regius Prof of Divinity Bishop Watson so he could live in Cambridge with a ‘dignity becoming the prof of Divinity’.
Barton refused to co-operate.
The Archbishop said ‘he will, I think, disgrace both himself and the University’, and the University expressed their displeasure by refusing to grant the honorary DD customarily granted to incoming heads of house.

Attempts were made to get him to waive his turn as vice-chancellor but he insisted on performing the office. He resided in Cambridge from the beginning of March – end of July 1775 and again for the most of Michaelmas term. Then when his round of duty was finished he took himself off to his country estates and for the rest of his Mastership was rarely seen in Cambridge.

Day to day affairs were carried out by the President and tutors.

On 1 September 1781 Barton died suddenly at his country house in Upper Wallop, as a result of ‘faintings and violent oppressions on his stomach’ possibly caused by his heavy drinking.

He was succeeded by Peter Peckard.

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.

Mentioned by George Mallory in letters to his wife Ruth Mallory in 1923.

Benefactor to Magdalene College