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French General.

Admitted as a pensioner at Magdalene College in October 1876.

Was a D.L. (Deputy Lieutenant) and J.P. (Justice of the Peace).

He died at Bronsil, Eastnor, Ledbury aged 70.

Belgium classical philologist.

Bentley Beetham was an English mountaineer, ornithologist and photographer, and a member of the 1924 British Mount Everest expedition.

Bentley Beetham was born in Darlington in 1886, the second son of James Weighell Beetham and his wife Frances. His father was a bank manager and died when Beetham was four years old. Until the age of eight Beetham was educated at Mr Bowman's Preparatory School; he then attended the Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Darlington. From 1899 to 1903 he attended the North Eastern County School where he was a boarder. He left school at the age of sixteen.

Initially he worked in an architect's office in Darlington and then between 1903-1914 he was busy with field research, writing books and articles, photography and giving lectures. In

1914, having established himself as a leading ornithologist, he returned to the North Eastern County School to teach natural history.
Beetham started rock climbing in the Lake District where he used Wasdale Head as a base and became fiends with Howard Somervell. Together they made ascents of the classic Lakeland climbs in the period before the First World War. After the war, Beetham and Somervell started climbing in the Alps. In 1924 they were both chosen to join the 1924 Everest Expedition.

In 1927 he was elected a member of the Royal Geographical Society.

In 1949 he retired and in 1962 he was disabled by a stroke. He spent his last year in a nursing home, where he died on 5 April 1963.

Son of Charles, ironmonger and born Louth in Lincolnshire
School - Louth

2 Oct 1713 - Admitted as a pensioner (age 17) at Magdalene College
B.A. 1718
M.A. 1721
Fellow 1719
Senior Proctor 1741-2
Ordained deacon (Lincoln) on 12 June 1720
Priest Sept. 23 1722
Rector of Ingoldmells, Lincs., 1722
Rector of Westley Waterless, Cambs., 1735-66
Died 1766

Belgian lithographer.

A French psychoanalyst and pacifist. His psychoanalytical work combined Freudianism with elements of the thought of Carl Jung and Alfred Adler.

A Tuscan artist working in Florence, he produced decorative marbles and alabasters for the European market.

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

Wife of Joshua Bates (1788-1864), American financier.

Educated at Eton College and Westcott House. Matriculated from Magdalene in 1950 (Scholar).

1956 - 1960 Chaplain
1963 - 1969 Fellow and Dean of Chapel
1975 - 1985 General Secretary of the Church Missionary Society
1985 - 1997 Bishop of Coventry
1987 - 1991 Chairman, Partnership for World Mission
1986 - 1996 International Affairs Committee, Board for Social Responsibility of General Synod
1987 made an Honorary Fellow 1987
1997 (resident) Honorary Assistant Chaplain
1989 made a Prelate of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG 2001).

College Magazine
Article vol. 32 (1987–88) p. 17
Obituary by Ronald Hyam, College Magazine, No. 64 (2019-20), pp. 11-17