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College Plumber, 1988-2011.

Born in Rochester and educated at Repton School and Magdalene College, Cambridge

During World War II he was an assistant adjutant in the Rifle Brigade. After the war he worked for the Ford Motor Company

1952-55 Secretary to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
1955 joined the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
1960-70 assistant general administrator
1960-80 general administrator until 1980, when it was renamed general director
1988 retired

Born 1 June 1889 at Rossall, Fleetwood, son of Charles Burdell Ogden and Fanny Hart. Educated at Rossall School.

Admitted to Magdalene in 1908 as a subsizar. Tutor: A. G. Peskett.

Originated Basic English, a simplified system of the English language intended as a uniform, standardised means of international communication.

Admitted to Magdalene in 1924.

He was a prominent figure in the legal and ecclesiastical fields. He served as Vicar General of the Province of York (1944-1972) and Dean of the Arches Court of Canterbury. He was also a Queen's Counsel (QC) and a leading ecclesiastical lawyer.

His bequest to Magdalene College, Cambridge, helped establish the Wigglesworth Law Library.

John Purchas was a well-established haberdasher and mercer. He sold his business to Joseph Hart in 1784.

He served as Mayor of Cambridge in 1760

Member of staff of the British Museum department of Prints & Drawings. Joined 1914, promoted Higher Clerical Officer in January 1947, and Higher Executive Officer in 1955. MBE 1960, the year of his retirement. In his retirement he worked briefly for Colnaghi, but mainly on compiling the catalogue of the print collection of Samuel Pepys in Magdalene College, Cambridge.

Augustine was born to Joseph Brimley and Jane Gutteridge and baptised at the Baptist church in Blunham Bedfordshire.

He married Hannah Gotobed (1789–1825) on 11 March 1819. They had at least four children: George (1819), Harriet (1821-1822) and Caroline (1823). Hannah died in 1825 at the age of 35. Augustine went on to marry her sister Harriet (1795-1833) on the 24 June 1827 at St Georges Church, Hanover Square, London. They had 2 children Harriett (1829) and Fanny (1831). Harriett died in 1933 after a long illness, aged 39.

Mayor A.G. Brimley from Mayors of Cambridge:
Augustine was a grocer, wholesale grocer, hop and provision merchant, a Deacon at St Andrew’s Baptist church and an Alderman of the borough, serving on many committees. From 1853 to 1854 he served at Mayor and on one occasion he met Prince Albert.

In 1841 Augustine and George were living at 4 Hills Road, Cambridge. In 1851 he was living at 13 Park Terrace, Cambridge with 2 unmarried daughters. Harriet who married William Henry Farthing Johnson and Caroline who married Alexander Macmillan, and two sisters in law.

Frederick was born in Cambridge and was the third son of solicitor Stephen Adcock (1803-1867) and his wife Johanna (née Poland) (1805-1883).

He went to the Perse School, Cambridge and then to Jesus College Cambridge. He studied Law and obtained his L.L.B in 1866 and his L.L.M in 1869. He did not go to Jesus College until 1862 and was already working as a solicitor before entering University life.

He married widow Fanny Hardwicke at St George’s Church, Hannover Square in London on 31 January 1859. They had at least three children: Laura Belle (1861-1922), Emma Robinson (1862-1875) and Richard Robinson (1865-1905). He practised at 7 Regent Terrace (1861) and was widowed in 1867 when he was 32 years old.

He married for a second time to Mary Moseley at St Mark’s Church, Tollington Park, London on 3 May 1870, and was widowed for a second time in 1875. He died at his home at 30 Regent Street aged 47 years old.

Edward Fenton was an undergraduate at Magdalene College (admitted 1977).

He has worked as a writer, publisher and editor. He started out as a music journalist for NME, before getting his first job in publishing. His novel Scorched Earth won the Sinclair Prize for Fiction.

He has written and/or researched over twenty radio documentaries, broadcast on BBC Radios 1, 3 and 4, including a documentary on Samuel Pepys’s love of music. He has a particular interest in diaries, and in 1998 he set up an independent publishing company, Day Books.

College cook. Was succeeded by William Winder. The exact date is unknown but was between 1782-84.

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.

Born on 11 July 1777, the 4th sone of William Bird of Hereford

Admitted a pensioner aged 16 Magdalene College 9 July 1794
Scholar 1794
BA 1799
MA 1802

Ordained priest Bristol, Litt. dim . from Hereford 1801
Rector of Dinedor, Herefordshire, 1801-54
Rector of Mordiford, Herefordshire, 1803-54
Rural Dean of Ross, Herefordshire

The Favell family seem to have a long history as painters and glaziers in Cambridge.

In the Magdalene Archives there are receipts from John Favell, painter (c. 1781-1812).

According to the Jesus College Archives:
Elizabeth Favell (d. 1840) was a widow who ran a decorating firm under the name Elizabeth Favell and Son. She lived in Petty Cury, Cambridge, and had at least four children: Edward, James, Samuel, Thomas and Mary. She was already a widow when, in 1809, the Norfolk Chronicle reported that she and James Favell 'painters' had filed for bankruptcy. In 1813, the Prince Regent granted her a pension of £40p/a following the death of her son, Captain Samuel Favell, at the Battle of Salamanca in 1812. She also lost another son, Lieutenant Thomas Favell, during the Siege of Cadiz. By the 1830s, she was running the business with her son Edward and his signature features on many of the receipts. (Norfolk Chronicle, Saturday 21 October 1809, p. 2; Will of Elizabeth Favell, 1840, National Archives, PROB/11/1936/73; Norfolk Chronicle, Saturday 29 August 1812, p. 4; Bury and Norwich Post, Wednesday 3 February 1813, p. 2; Sussex Advertiser, Monday 8 February 1813, p. 4).

In April 1854 Edward Favell went into partnership with Robert Ellis to found the company Favell & Ellis.

Robert's son Augustus Ellis (1836-1912) worked in the business and it was later known as Favell, Ellis & Sons and then Favell, Ellis & Kirkman.
They had offices at 5 St Andrews Street.

MCAC/2/2/8 is an account book with Favell, Ellis & Sons between 1906 and 1912

In the 1914 trade directory the company is listed as Favell, Ellis & Kirkman

Robert Painter worked with his son Robert Painter Junior. Need more evidence to work out their dates and which is submitting the bill. This could be worked out by a closer inspection of handwriting.

The son of Henry Beynon, merchant of Winchester Place, Winchester, Pentonville, Middlesex

Admitted as a pensioner at Magdalene College aged 16 on 31 October 1793:10:31 as Batley, E. T.

Matriculated in Michaelmas term 1794
Scholar 1797
BA 1798
MA 1801
Fellow, as Batley, E. T
In Holy Orders

Assumed the surname of Beynon in lieu of Batley on his marriage with Martha Beynon daughter of Edward Beynon of Carshalton, Surrey , 1 November 1805

Died aged 65 Carshalton, Surrey, 1842

The following was written on the College website:

It is with very great sadness that we inform Members that our friend, colleague and Magdalene Life Fellow, Dr Jeffery Lewins (1985), died on Friday 23 August in hospital.

He had been ill for some time, but he suffered a stroke on Wednesday from which he did not recover. The death of Dr Jeffery Lewins deprives Magdalene of one of our most amiable, engaged and accomplished Fellows.

Jeffery joined us after a distinguished career in the University of London, but he started out as a sapper. After Sandhurst (where he was awarded the Gold Medal), he held a commission in the Royal Engineers, serving in Korea, Germany and Scotland. While in the army, he studied Mechanical Science at Cambridge and then gained his PhD in Nuclear Engineering at MIT. Later he gained a further PhD from Cambridge and a London DSc (Eng). His work was in the application and interpretation of mathematical methods to nuclear power problems and he published many books and articles in this field, becoming editor of several prestigious academic series and serving as President of the Institute of Nuclear Engineers.

After leaving the military, he took up a post as the first Warden of Hughes Parry Hall and as a lecturer in the University of London in 1968. Coming to the Department of Engineering here in Cambridge, Jeffery joined Magdalene College, succeeding Dr Roger Morris as Director of Studies in Engineering, and taking on many roles within the College including a memorable stint as Praelector. After retirement, he became a Life Fellow. Playing an important part in the expansion of the College’s computer facilities at an early stage, and sharing amongst the Fellows, students and staff his lifelong passion for the writing of Rudyard Kipling, he remained a lively presence within the College until very recently. Despite failing eyesight, he attended Chapel, dinner in Hall and many special musical occasions. He will be very much missed for his consistent upbeat approach to life, for his unfeigned interest in everyone he met, and for his major contribution to the development of Engineering within the College.

We offer his family our deep condolences.

Shortly before the outbreak of war in 1939, while he was still an undergraduate at Magdalene, Emanuel Barnett Lyons joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve as a trainee pilot. He was promptly called up in September 1939 and, after a year's training, he was posted to RAF Turnhouse (now Edinburgh Airport). His log books recorded a series of "dog-fights" against German intruders, encounters which accorded "Butcher" Lyons the status of a Battle of Britain pilot. (The nickname is unexplained.) In July 1941, he moved to Manston, the front-line fighter station in Kent, where he took part in missions providing cover for Bomber Command raids on targets in northern France. From there, he was transferred to North Africa, where he noted of one mission that three fellow pilots "did not return". In February 1945, he took charge of a squadron based in Holland: since he was still technically a member of the RAFVR, he held the nominal rank of Acting Squadron Leader. Their Hawker Tempest single-engine fighters were effective in low-level attacks, particularly the "rat scramble", the ambushing of the Luftwaffe's new Messerschmitt 262 fighter jet as it was coming in to land and unable to escape by accelerating. In response, the Germans protected their airfields by creating "flak lanes" of intensive ground fire that inflicted heavy casualties on the Tempests. On 11 April, within four weeks of the end of the war, Lyons led an attack on an airfield at Fassberg, ninety kilometres south of Hamburg and deep inside Germany. Flak shattered the canopy of his cockpit, and the debris caused a head wound. Despite his injury, he was able to fly his damaged plane two hundred miles back to base, an achievement for which he received the Distinguished Flying Cross: the award was actually gazetted on VE Day. There were Dutch pilots attached to his squadron and he was later also awarded the Netherlands Flying Cross in recognition of his skill in leading them back to safety. In 1947-8, he served as Treasurer of the Jewish Ex-Servicemen's Association.

Also see: https://www.bbm.org.uk/airmen/Lyons.htm