Educated at Winchester and Admitted to Magdalene in 1923.
Geology Tripos I June 1924 Class III
English Mays June 25 Class III
English Mays June 1926 Class II
English Tripos June 1927
BA 1927
Born on 10 February 1800 at Middleton Cheney, Northamptonshire, the second son of Ralph Churton (1754–1831), archdeacon of St David's, and his wife, Mary (1770–1829), the daughter of Richard Calcot, of Steane, Northamptonshire.
Educated at Charterhouse (1810–18) and Christ Church, Oxford he proceeded BA in 1821 (MA, 1824).
1821-1829 he was an assistant master at Charterhouse, where his pupils included Thackeray and Thomas Mozley.
1827 he was ordained priest.
1830 he became curate to the rector of Hackney.
He married Caroline Watson in July 1832 and they had four sons and one daughter.
In 1834 he accepted the living of Monks Eleigh, Suffolk, but the following year he was appointed rector of Crayke in the North Riding of Yorkshire, where he remained until his death. He was a prebendary of York Cathedral from 1841, and archdeacon of Cleveland from 1846 to 1873.
He died at Crayke on 4 July 1874 and was buried there. He was survived by his wife.
His daughter Susanna published anonymously a Short Memoir of her father (1874) and edited a volume of his Poetical Remains (1876) which included some of his own verse as well as translations from Spanish, Catalan, and Anglo-Saxon.
She married her father's curate, William Inge, later provost of Worcester College, Oxford. Their son was W.R. Inge, Dean of St Paul's.
Master of Magdalene College, 1979-1985
Educated at University College, Oxford, and Harvard. Scientific Officer, Research and Experiments Dept, Ministry of Home Security, 1941-1945.
Made a Fellow of Magdalene College in 1945 and was Bursar between 1947 and 1949.
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds, 1949-1955
Professor of Applied Science, Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London, 1955-1960
Vice-Chancellor and Warden, University of Durham, 1960-1978
Chairman of the Committee of UK Vice-Chancellors and Principals, 1967-1970
Chairman of the Royal Fine Art Commission, 1980-1985
Honorary Fellow of Magdalene College, 1969-1978 and 1985-2000. One of the College’s most distinguished Masters.
Opened the new campus of the University of Malta.
In the College Magazine
Article: 'Sir Derman Christopherson - A Welcome' by W. Elkan, College Magazine, vol. 22 (1977-78) pp. 4-7
Article: 'Sir Derman Christopherson: Tribute' by J. E. Stevens, College Magazine, vol. 29 (1984-85), pp. 1-3
Obituary by R. Hyam College Magazine, vol. 45 (2000-01) pp. 8-13
Prime minister of Bavaria (1866–1870) and Chancellor of the German Empire (1894-1900).
Author and traveler. Her first book, the anonymous Aunt Dorothy's Tales (1837), was followed by Rambles in the South of Ireland (1839), of which the first edition sold out in a few weeks. After this she published extensively.
French painter and portrait artist. As "T", he was one of the artists responsible for occasional caricatures of Vanity Fair magazine, specialising in French and Italian subjects.
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
M. Charny (late 19th/early 20th century) was active/lived in France. M. Charny is known for Sculpture.
The greatest of the dukes of Burgundy and almost succeeded in creating a kingdom independent of France.
French sculptor in a modified Neoclassical tradition who was known for his use of allegory in his work. In 1850 he began working and studying with a well-known sculptor James Pradier. Following Pradier's death in 1852 Chapu began studying with another sculptor, Francisque Duret. After coming in second in 1851, he won the Prix de Rome in 1855, then spent five years in Italy. His statues Mercury of 1861 and Jeanne d'Arc of 1870 (in which she was represented as a peasant girl) were his first big successes, and led to many commissions thereafter. He is also known for his medals, and led the French revival in the medal as an artistic form.
Edwin Chappell, B.Sc., A.C.G.I., Assoc.M.Inst.C.E., was a naval instructor in the Royal Navy and a lecturer in engineering science at the City and Guilds’ (Engineering) College and Imperial College. Chappell was also a maritime historian and scholar of Samuel Pepys, and edited several works concerning the diarist.
Master of Magdalene College, 1746-1760
Born at Billingham, Durham in 1717 the son of Thomas Chapman
School - Richmond
Admitted pensioner at the age of 17 at Christ's College on 17 May 1734
Matriculated in 1734
Scholar, 1734
B.A. 1737-8; M.A. 1741;
LL.D. from Magdalene, 1748; D.D. 1749 (Lit. Reg.)
Fellow of Christ's, 1741-46
Ordained priest (Lincoln), 23 Sept. 1744
Master of Magdalene, 1746-60
Vice-Chancellor, 1748-49
A History of Magdalene College, 1428-1988 describes him as follows
"Even by the easy-going standards of the 18th century Chapman was a shameless jobber, with all the delicacy of feeling of a hog: nevertheless his entry into a College which he know to have resisted his appointment can hardly have been comfortable".
"Chapman's Mastership came to gruesome but entirely fitting end on Mon 9 June 1760, when he died in the Master's Lodge, apparently as a result of his own gluttony".
"He is gone to his grave with five fine mackerel (large and full of roe) in his belly. He ate them all at one dinner; but his fate was a turbot on Trinity Sunday, of which after his sixth fish he never held up his head more, and a violent looseness carried him off. They say he made a very good end". This may have been an exaggeration and he made have died of a fever which he caught on the Friday.
Chaplain to the King
Rector of Kirkby-Overblow, Yorks., 1749-60
Prebendary of Durham, 1750
Died 9 June 1760
Buried in Magdalene Chapel
The Very Revd Professor Henry Chadwick was an undergraduate at Magdalene College on a music scholarship.
A leading historian of the early church, he was appointed Regius Professor at both the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. He was a noted supporter of improved relations with the Catholic Church, and a leading member of the Anglican–Roman Catholic International Commission. An accomplished musician, having studied music to degree level, he took a leading part in the revision and updating of hymnals widely used within Anglicanism, chairing the board of the publisher Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd. for 20 years.
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.
Typographer and inscriptional letter-cutter in wood, slate and stone, working in Cambridge from 1934, and founder of the Rampant Lions Press.
Made an Honorary Fellow in 1977. He produced many inscriptions and brasses for the College, beginning with the 1939 - 1945 War Memorial designed by Reynolds Stone. Described by Brooke Crutchley, University Printer, as having produced some of the ‘most handsome products of the printing press in this century’, his letter-cutting was perhaps of more variable quality, and not given to virtuoso displays.
In the College Magazine
Article: 'Will Carter and The Rampant Lions Press' by Brooke Crutchley, College Magazine, vol. 26 (1981-82) pp. 41-45
Obituary by R. Hyam and R. Luckett, College Magazine, vol. 45 (2000-01) pp.14-18
A French sculptor. He was one of the founding members of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, and was made an officer of the Legion of Honour. His work encompassed all manner of sculptural subjects and materials, and his naturalism incorporated a breadth of styles: unembellished Realism, neo-Baroque exuberance, and Rococo elegance
A successful British landscape and portrait painter who served as a war artist during World War II. Carr was born in Leeds and trained at Leeds College of Art and the Royal College of Art, under William Rothenstein. During World War I, he served in France with the Royal Field Artillery. After the war his work was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1921, in other British galleries and in Paris. He painted portraits of, among others, Aldous Huxley and Olivia Davis and landscapes of the English south coast.
Scottish author, biographer and historian.