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Born on 14 June 1950 in Swansea. Only child of Aneurin Williams and his wife Nancy Delphine

School – Dynevor School, Swansea

Undergraduate at Christ’s College and admitted to Wadham College, Oxford. He graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1975

1975-1977 - lectured and trained for ordination at the College of the Resurrection in Mirfield, West Yorkshire
In 1977 he returned to Cambridge to teach theology as a tutor (as well as chaplain and Director of Studies) at Westcott House and was made a deacon in the chapel
While there, he was ordained a priest
1980 – made curate at St George's, Chesterton, Cambridge
1983 - appointed as university lecturer in divinity at Cambridge
1984 – appointed dean and chaplain of Clare College
1986 - appointed to the Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Oxford, a position which brought with it appointment to a residentiary canonry of Christ Church Cathedral
1989 - received the degree of Doctor of Divinity (DD)
1990 - elected a Fellow of the British Academy
1991 - elected Bishop of Monmouth
1992 - consecrated a bishop at St Asaph Cathedral and enthroned at Newport Cathedral
He continued to serve as Bishop of Monmouth after he was elected to also be the Archbishop of Wales in December 1999
2003 - he was enthroned at Canterbury Cathedral and served until 2012

On 17 January 2013, Williams was admitted as the 35th Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge and served until September 2020

On 4 July 1981, Williams married Jane, a writer and lecturer in theology. They have two children.
He speaks or reads eleven languages: English, Welsh, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Biblical Hebrew, Syriac, Latin, and both Ancient (koine) and Modern Greek. He is also a poet and translator of poetry.

Born in Rawdon, near Leeds, the son of Thomas Marsden
School - Kingston-on-Hull
Apprenticed as a blacksmith before being admitted as a sizar (age 25) at Magdalene on 24 June 1790
Matriculated Michaelmas 1790

17 March 1793 - Ordained deacon (Bristol); priest (Litt. dim. from Canterbury), 1793

Second chaplain (C.M.S.) in New South Wales
Lived at Parramatta where (and at Sydney and Hawkesbury) he had charge of the religious instruction of convicts

Returned to England to report, and to solicit further financial assistance. Obtained an audience of King George III, who presented him with five of his own Spanish sheep, which became the progenitors of extensive fine-woolled flocks in Australia.

Made seven voyages from New South Wales to New Zealand between 1814 and 1837 to superintend the work of the Church Missionary Society.
Was a great admirer of the Maoris and in April 1830 conducted the first inter-racial marriage between a European and a Maori bride.

Married, 1793, Ellen Tristan, and had issue.
Author of pamphlets.

Died on 12 May 1838, at Windsor, N.S.W. Buried at Parramatta.

Article 'The Pioneer Missionaries' by R. Hyam, College Magazine, No. 32, 1987-88

4th son of James Stephen, Barrister of London
School - Little Shelford, Cambridgeshire

Admitted pensioner at Magdalene on 9 October 1812
Admitted Solicitor, c. 1819.
Admitted at Gray's Inn, 11 January 1831
Called to the Bar, 1849
Practised in Liverpool
Collected evidence abroad during the trial of Queen Caroline

Originator of an organisation which played an important part in the anti-slavery agitation
Solicitor (unpaid) for the relief of pauper prisoners for debt
Knighted, in recognition of his services in the cause of negro emancipation, 14 February 1838, the first person to be knighted by Queen Victoria

Went to Melbourne, Australia in 1855
Commissioner of Insolvent Estates at Geelong

In 1821 married Henrietta, eldest daughter of W. Ravenscroft

Author of various works including Adventures of a Gentleman in search of a Horse (which had great popularity) and Adventures of an Attorney in Search of a Practice; and Anti-Slavery Recollections

Died on 20 June 1879 in Melbourne

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

Born at Audley End, the son of 7th Lord Braybrooke and Dorothy Edith Lawson.

Educated at Eton.

Admitted to Magdalene as a Pensioner in October 1937 to study Classics.

Succeeded on the death of his father in 1941 to become 8th Baron Braybrooke and Visitor of Magdalene College.

We served as a Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards during the Second World War and was killed on active service in Tunisia on 23 January 1943. He is buried in the Medjez el Bab Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery.

Educated at Rugby School and Trinity College where he took Honours in History.

He held the Curacies of St Mary's, Bryanston Square, and Great St Mary's, Cambridge.
During the First World War he held a Mastership at Rossall.

Joined the College in 1919 as a Chaplain and lecturer in History and was elected as a Fellow in 1925.
As a Chaplain he was noted for his quiet and beautiful reading and excellent sermons.
Dean from 1924; intermitted during war (1940 -1946).

Tributes from three friends in the College Magazine, vol. XII, No. 84, pp.25-26

Fellow of Magdalene College, 1953-1983
Professor of Veterinary Clinical Studies, 1951-1963

Educated at the Liverpool Institute High School and at Clare College (1952-1955) taking the Mathematical Tripos.

1955-58 - Assistant in Research in Cambridge
1958-62 - Systems Development Engineer at BIC
1963-68 - Principal Scientific Officer British Rail
1968-69 - Assistant Director of Research, Cambridge University

1973 Fellow of Magdalene
1973-1975 Dean
1973-2000 College lecturer in Engineering
2001 Emeritus Fellow

1984-2001 - treasurer of C.U. Musical Society
1983-86 - Director of CADCAM Association (Chairman, 1984)
1974 President of the CU Engineering Society

Obituary, College Magazine, No. 45, pp. 19-20

Educated at St Edward's School, Oxford.
Admitted to King's College, Cambridge.

Called to the bar at Gray's Inn (where he was later a Bencher), and was in private practice as a barrister in Nairobi until 1960, when he joined the Lord Chancellor's Department.

He served as Private Secretary to three successive Lord Chancellors and also served as Secretary to the Beeching Royal Commission on Assizes and Quarter Sessions.

1982-89 - Permanent Secretary of the Lord Chancellor's Department and Clerk of the Crown in Chancery
1984 - knighted
1985 - appointed Queen's Counsel
1989 - appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
He was awarded a University of Cambridge PhD

After retiring from the civil service he entered academia, becoming a Research Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge in 1990. He subsequently became a Life Fellow and, until his retirement in June 2007, supervised undergraduate students in constitutional law.

Sir Derek received a standing ovation from the College Law Society following his retirement at the Annual Lawyers' Dinner in 2007. A bench sits beside the River Cam in the grounds of the College in his honour.

In 1955 he married Margaret Oxley and they had four children.

He died on 1 August 2016.

Obituary College Magazine No. 61 (2016-17)

Chimney sweep for Magdalene College. Marries Ann (nee Standley) and had a son Robert.

Supplied lamps, candles, oil, and sand to the College.

Succeeded William Murfitt as the College cook. The exact date is unknown but was between 1782-84.

He learned his trade from Richard Wallis Nash, sometime cook at Christ’s College, to whom he was apprenticed in 1768 shortly after his father’s death.
A newspaper report from 1800 suggests he was at least briefly at the Pickerel in Cambridge in 1799 / 1800.
William’s son James Winder remained in Cambridge and was a baker.

He was succeeded in 1799 as College cook by Thomas Riddel.

William Winder’s uncle was Robert Gunnell, a Cambridge-born man who ended up in London as clerk to the House of Commons.
Gunnell’s wife was Ann Rosea whose brother, Jessintour Rosea, was cook to the Duke of Somerset.

Possibly Head Porter.

John Deighton was a bookseller who founded Deighton, Bell & Company in 1778 in Cambridge. The company enjoyed a long and close association with the University of Cambridge.

The company's premies were located in "narrow, early eighteenth-century premises" at the corner of Green and Trinity Streets.

John Deighton became a major publisher for Cambridge University and a binder for the University Library. He also gained a reputation as a book retailer with a "remarkable ability to supply foreign books, even in time of war".

In the years 1813-1827 the firm was operated as a partnership between the founder and his two sons, John Deighton the younger (1791-1854) and Joseph Jonathan Deighton (1792-1848), trading as John Deighton & Sons. Following the elder John Deighton's retirement in 1827, the firm traded as J. & J. J. Deighton. Beginning in 1848, following Joseph's death, the firm traded as J. Deighton.

In 1854 the firm was acquired by the educational publisher George Bell of George Bell & Sons, following which it became known as Deighton, Bell, and Company.

In 1876 it was publishing, jointly with George Bell & Sons and Whittaker & Co., a number of textbook series. During the twentieth century the firm concentrated mainly on bookselling of both new and secondhand books. While its publishing activities had mostly ceased, in 1932 the firm published and distributed F. R. Leavis's literary quarterly Scrutiny. From 1967 the firm devoted itself exclusively to antiquarian bookselling. In 1987 Deighton, Bell, and Co. was acquired by Heffers, which was in turn taken over by Blackwell's.

Born in Cheshire the son of John Wesley Lloyd (dental surgeon and Methodist lay preacher) and Mary Rachel Warhurst. He had three sisters.

School - Leas School and as a boy was particularly interested in military history to which he later attributed his successful military career.
In 1918 (age 13) he won a scholarship to Fettes College.

October 1923 - admitted as a scholar to Magdalene College. There he was a friend of the future Archbishop of Canterbury Michael Ramsey. He played rugby and was disappointed not to get a Blue.
He was an active Liberal and in March 1925 he entertained H.H. Asquith at Magdalene after a Liberal Party meeting at the Cambridge Guildhall. He became President of the Cambridge University Liberal Club and was an active debater in the Cambridge Union Society.
He lost his scholarship in June 1925, after obtaining a Second in Classics. He then switched to study History, in which he also obtained a Second. He finally graduated with a third-class in Part II of the Law Tripos in June 1928.

He practised as a barrister and served on Hoylake Urban District Council, by which time he had become a Conservative Party sympathiser. During the Second World War he rose to be Deputy Chief of Staff of Second Army, playing an important role in planning sea transport to the Normandy beachhead and reaching the acting rank of brigadier.

1945-1976 - he was the Member of Parliament for Wirral.
1954-64 - held various ministerial positions under Prime Ministers Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, Harold Macmillan and Alec Douglas-Home, including Foreign Secretary (1955-60) and Chancellor of the Exchequor (1960-62).
1971-76 - Speaker of the House of Commons
1976 - he retired

He was made an Honorary Fellow of Magdalene College

Born at Mount Eden, Auckland, New Zealand, the eldest son of Ernest Bennett, a foreman for a shoe manufacturer, and Alexandra, née Corrall, both born in Leicester, England.

School - Mount Albert Grammar School in Auckland, New Zealand. He notably wrote the Mount Albert Grammar School hymn, which is sung at school assemblies to this day.

Studied at the University of Auckland before going on to Merton College, Oxford.

Part of a loose kit group of extraordinarily gifted young men from New Zealand who studied at Oxford University before the Second World War. The link between them was to endure for the rest of their lives.

During the Second World War he worked with the British Information Service in America.

He became best known as a scholar of Middle English literature. He was editor of the journal Medium Aevum from 1957 to 1981 and was a colleague of C. S. Lewis at Magdalen College, Oxford.

1964 - he succeeded Lewis as Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge University.

He was one of the Inklings, an informal literary group that included C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien.

He was made a Fellow of Magdalene College Cambridge.

Obituary - College Magazine No.25 (1980-81)
Article - College Magazine No.69 (2024-25)

Educated at Wesley College, Perth and University of Western Australia.
He was admitted to Magdalene in 1987 as a candidate for the PhD degree which was awarded in 1992.
1992 - appointed College Organist.
1995 - elected to a Fellow-Commonership and as Precentor of Magdalene in 1995.

Obituary - College Magazine, 2001-2002, pp. 23-26

Born in Minehead, Somerset son of Major A. L. Hunt.

School - Downside School
Admitted to Magdalene College.

1946 - joined the Civil Service

1973-1979 - Cabinet Secretary, being the first Roman Catholic to hold this post since its creation in 1916.

College chef for 40 years.

Fellow-Commoner, 1993-2014
Cambridge University Press, 1976-2013
Managing Director, Academic & Professional Publishing, 2012-2013

Obituary: College Magazine No. 58 (2013-14)

Born in 1933 the son of an Australian father and a Canadian mother, who separated when he was a child, as a result of which he was made a ward of court.

He was educated at Eton College and Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he graduated with first-class honours in law in 1956. He specialised in commercial law.

He served as a Recorder in the Crown Court before being appointed to the High Court of Justice in 1981.
1987 - 1997 served in the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.
2005 - 2006, he served as President of the Court of Appeal of Gibraltar.

Obituary: College Magazine No.59 (2014-15)

Educated at Stowe School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Scholar 1940, Class I in Mechanical Sciences Tripos 1942).
War-time service in industry.

1946-48 Research in Cambridge
1948-57 Engineer in industry
1958-60 University Lecturer in Civil Engineering, Birmingham University
1960-73 University Lecturer in Engineering, Cambridge University
1973-84 Reader in Structural Engineering

1962-88 Official Fellow, Magdalene College
1962-84 Director of Studies in Engineering
1984-88 College Lecturer in Engineering

Obituary - College Magazine, No. 61, 2016-17, pp.17-20

Attended Bristol Grammar School
Trained in Chinese at Cambridge (1967), and at New Asia Research Institute, Hong Kong (1963)
1965-85 University Lecturer in Modern Chinese, at the University of Oxford
1985-89 Professor of Chinese at Cambridge
1989-2000 Shaw Professor of Chinese

Taught Chinese literature at Yale University, UC Berkeley, Beijing Normal University, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong
He was an Honorary Academy Member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (1996)
He served as president of the European Association for Chinese Studies from 1998 to 2002
He was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 1984