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Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1679-1690

He was the son of Robert Peachell of Fillingham, Lincolnshire
School - Gainsborough

1 August 1645 - admitted to Magdalene College as a sizar
B.A. 1649, M.A. 1653
Elected Fellow on Smith's Foundation in 1649, on Spendluffe's in 1651, and a Foundation Fellow in 1656

In 1661 Samuel Pepys spent an evening with him at the Rose Tavern in Cambridge; but says he was embarrassed to be seen walking with Peachell on account of his drinker’s nose. Other than that he said he Peachell was 'a good natured man'

In 1663 he was presented by Sir John Cutts to the rectory of Childerley, Cambridgeshire, which he resigned on obtaining the rectory of Dry Drayton in 1681
He was also presented to the vicarage of Stanwix in Cumberland

1679 became Master of Magdalene College
1686 Vice-Chancellor of the University

In 1687 he was suspended as Vice-Chancellor and Master of Magdalene for representing the University in standing up to King James II and refusing to confer an Honorary MA on a Benedictine Monk, Alban Francis. His College stood by him and the emoluments which were officially forfeit were still paid in 1687 and 1688. No College business was transacted without him and no new Fellows were admitted. He was restored to the Mastership in 1688

He died in 1690, allegedly as a result of four days' abstinence from alcohol.

He was buried in Magdalene College Chapel on 5 February 1690

Eldest son of Robert Bertie, 3rd Earl of Lindsey and, his second wife, the Hon. Elizabeth Wharton

Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire

Entered Parliament as MP for Boston in 1685
Commissioned captain of an independent troop of horse raised to suppress the Monmouth Rebellion on 20 June 1685
1688 - took part in the northern rising led by his kinsman, the Earl of Danby, in favour of William of Orange. He was rewarded with the chancellorship of the Duchy of Lancaster in 1689, a post which enabled him to secure a seat at Preston at the general election of 1690
He moved to the House of Lords after receiving a writ of acceleration as Baron Willoughby de Eresby
He inherited the earldom of Lindsey on his father's death in 1701, and was invested a Privy Counsellor one month later. Along with the Earldom of Lindsey, he also inherited the offices of Lord Great Chamberlain and Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire, both of which he would hold until his death.

1706 - created Marquess of Lindsey
1715 - created Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven

In 1715, he employed Sir John Vanbrugh to design a baroque front to his house at Grimsthorpe to celebrate his ennoblement as first Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven

Ironmonger, son was named R. Paul

Born at Somerleigh House, Dorchester, the son of Sir Edward Robert Pearce Edgcumbe and Clara Jane Conybeare

School - Winchester

Admitted to Magdalene on 16 May 1905

Took Part I of the Classical Tripos in 1908

He married in 1932 and lived in Winchester St Cross with St Faith, Winchester in 1901and in Cambridge in 1911

He died in 1974, in Norwich

Succeeded Charles Prosser as College cook in 1846.

Edward Hills of Littleport.

1851 census – listed as a cook (that is, caterer) employing three men and two women, and living at 6 Magdalene Street.

1861 census - lived at 8 Magdalene Street, and is listed as ‘Master Cook’, employing four men.
His houses stood in the row that was demolished for street-widening in the early twentieth century. Today, their foundations lie under the Master’s front garden and Benson Hall.

Hills died in 1866, aged about 53.

Hills was succeeded by John Hobson.

Born on 15 October 1882 the son of Rev. Charles MacMichael of Walpole Rectory, Wisbech
Educated at Bedford Grammar School
Admitted pensioner 28 July 1901

There is a photograph of him in the Football team (1904-1905 - see MCCP/AVP/2 and a carte de visite size portrait in MCPP/AVP4)
He was a member of the Boat Club and rowed in the Lent and May Boats in 1902, 1903, 1904 and 1905. He was Secretary in 1903 and Captain in 1904

After leaving Magdalene he passed his civil service exam and entered the Sudan Political Service in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. He then served in the Blue Nile Province until 1915, when he became a senior inspector of Khartoum Province. He rose to the position of civil secretary in 1926. In 1933, he became governor of Tanganyika until 1937.

In 1938 he became High Commissioner of the British Mandate of Palestine.
In 1942 he was blamed for sending at least 768 Jewish refugees aboard MV Struma to their deaths.
During his tenure, he was the target of seven unsuccessful assassination attempts.

MacMichael also served as High Commissioner of Malta.

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

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.

Son of Richard Hey, deceased, of Pudsey, Yorks

Admitted as a pensioner (age 21) at Magdalene on 7 Oct 1766
Matriculated Michaelmas 1767
B.A. (9th Wrangler) 1771; M.A. 1774
Fellow
Senior Proctor
President of the College, 1778-1786

Vicar of Steeple Ashton, Wilts., 1787-1828

Died 31 Jan 1828, aged 88

Brother of John and Richard

From Capturing Cambridge website:

William Sindall (1853-1934) was the youngest son of a farmer (who doubled as a maltster & brewer) in Isleham. He started life as a carpenter in Cambridge, but by 1880 he already had his own building business which specialised in quality work for the university. His two elder sons were killed/died of wounds in WW1, but his youngest son carried on the firm.

Founded by William Sindall early in the 20th century, the firm is believed to have started in Mill Road before moving to Newnham Mill. At the end of the 1940s the firm was in Gloucester Street up Castle Hill. They moved in the 1950s to the Cherry Hinton Road site because of a planning scheme that would have seen a new roundabout at the top of Castle Hill with a new road through the old Sindalls site parallel with Magrath Road. This project was eventually aborted.

According to the Cambridge News article of 1964, at that time the firm employed around 1,200 people. The managing directors were the two brothers H D and F A Ridgeon.

Martin Nockolds from the firm Martin Nockolds and Sons of Saffron Waldon, land agents and surveyors. They were agents to the Visitor and the College.
Attended the Audit meeting of the College. Managed the college estates.

'The head of the firm was a fine figure of a man, well over six feet tall, with a dignified carriage. He knew his work thoroughly' [A.S. Ramsey Bygone Days at Magdalene]

Frank Plumpton Ramsey (/ˈræmzi/; ) was a British philosopher, mathematician, and economist who made major contributions to all three fields before his death at the age of 26. He was a close friend of Ludwig Wittgenstein and, as an undergraduate, translated Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus into English. He was also influential in persuading Wittgenstein to return to philosophy and Cambridge. Like Wittgenstein, he was a member of the Cambridge Apostles, the secret intellectual society, from 1921.

Son of Arthur Stanley Ramsey (a mathematician, Tutor, Bursar and President of Magdalene College) and Mary Agnes Stanley (1875–1927).
He was the eldest of two brothers and two sisters, and his brother Michael Ramsey, later became Archbishop of Canterbury.

Educated at Winchester College and Trinity College, Cambridge where he studied mathematics becoming Senior Wrangler.
Was a student of John Maynard Keynes and an active member in the Apostles.

He was immensely widely read in English literature, enjoyed Classics, and was very interested in politics.
In October 1924, with John Maynard Keynes's support, he became a fellow of King's College, Cambridge.

He married Lettice Baker in August 1925. After Ramsey's death, Lettice Ramsey opened a photography studio in Cambridge with photographer Helen Muspratt.

In 1926 he became a university lecturer in mathematics and later a Director of Studies in Mathematics at King's College.

He developed jaundice after an abdominal operation and died on 19 January 1930 at the age of 26. There is a suspicion that the cause of his death might be an undiagnosed leptospirosis with which Ramsey, an avid swimmer, could have become infected while swimming in the Cam.

Son of Edward Thornton Littlewood and Sylvia Maud (née Ackland)
In 1892, his father accepted the headmastership of a school in Wynberg, Cape Town, in South Africa, taking his family there.

Educated at St Paul's School in London
1903 - admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge
Senior Wrangler bracketed with James Mercer
1908 - elected a Fellow of Trinity College
October 1907 to June 1910 - worked as a Richardson Lecturer in the School of Mathematics at the University of Manchester. He was elected to the membership of Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society on 14 January 1908

He returned to Cambridge in October 1910, where he remained for the rest of his career.
He was appointed Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics in 1928, retiring in 1950.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1916, awarded the Royal Medal in 1929, the Sylvester Medal in 1943, and the Copley Medal in 1958.
He was president of the London Mathematical Society from 1941 to 1943 and was awarded the De Morgan Medal in 1938 and the Senior Berwick Prize in 1960.

Littlewood died on 6 September 1977.

School - Eton
1927 - admitted to Magdalene College

Grenadier Guards VC, 1944
MP (Conservative) for Chelsea, 1944-45
Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Pensions, 1945
Succeeded 1945 as 6th Baron De L'Isle and Dudley
Secretary of State for Air, 1951-55

1955 made an Honorary Fellow
1956 created Viscount De L'Isle

Governor general of Australia, 1961-65

Obituary - College Magazine, No. 35 (1990-1991)

Studied graphic design at the Royal Academy in the Hague before joining David Kindersley’s workshop in Cambridge in 1976.
Owner of Cardozo Kindersley Workshop since 1981.
She carves letters in stone and other media, designs typefaces, trains apprentices in letter cutting by hand and writes books on the subject.
Made an Honorary Fellow of Magdalene College in 2014.

South African politician, anti-apartheid activist, and second wife of Nelson Mandela.

Born in Bizana, and a qualified social worker, she married anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela in 1958.
In 1963, after Mandela was imprisoned following the Rivonia Trial, she became his public face during the 27 years he spent in jail.
During that period, she rose to prominence within the anti-apartheid movement.
She was detained by apartheid state security services on various occasions, tortured, subjected to banning orders, and banished to a rural town, and she spent several months in solitary confinement.
In the mid-1980s, she exerted a 'reign of terror', and was at the centre of the violence in Soweto. This led to condemnation by the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa and a rebuke by the ANC in exile. During this period, her home was burned down by residents of Soweto.

Nelson Mandela was released from prison in 1990, and the couple separated in 1992. They divorced in 1996.

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) established by Nelson Mandela's government to investigate human rights abuses found that she had been "politically and morally accountable for the gross violations of human rights committed by the Mandela United Football Club", her security detail. She endorsed the necklacing of alleged police informers and apartheid government collaborators, and her security detail carried out kidnapping, torture, and murder, including the killing of 14 year old girl Stompie Seipei. Madikizela-Mandela was convicted of her kidnapping.

As a senior ANC figure, she took part in the post-apartheid ANC government , although she was dismissed from her post amid allegations of corruption.
In 2003 she was convicted of theft and fraud, and she temporarily withdrew from active politics before returning several years later.

Ideologically an African nationalist and African socialist, he was at the forefront of a grassroots anti-apartheid campaign known as the Black Consciousness Movement during the late 1960s and 1970s. His ideas were articulated in a series of articles published under the pseudonym Frank Talk.

He campaigned for an end to apartheid and the transition of South Africa toward universal suffrage and a socialist economy. Biko believed that black people needed to rid themselves of any sense of racial inferiority, an idea he expressed by popularizing the slogan "black is beautiful".
The government came to see Biko as a subversive threat and placed him under a banning order in 1973, severely restricting his activities but he remained politically active.

Following his arrest in August 1977, Biko was beaten to death by state security officers. Over 20,000 people attended his funeral.

Economist and parliamentary candidate for South Africa's National Party, tipped as a future Minister of Finance.

He was murdered, along with his wife Jean-Cora, on 22 November 1977. No arrests have ever been made, and there was little evidence in the case, but the murders are widely suspected to have been politically motivated. Cabinet Minister Pik Botha described it as "one of the most haunting criminal mysteries in our country", and the police investigation remained open as of November 2012.

Zimbabwean politician and statesman who founded the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) in July 1963. This was a militant, nationalist organisation that opposed the government of Rhodesia.

He worked as a United Church of Christ in Zimbabwe (UCCZ) minister.

He spent 10 years in prison after the government banned ZANU. A rift along tribal lines split ZANU in 1975, and he lost the 1980 elections to Robert Mugabe.

Rhodesian and Zimbabwean politician, farmer, and former fighter pilot who served as Prime Minister of Rhodesia from 1964 to 1979.

He led the predominantly white-minority government that unilaterally declared independence from the United Kingdom in November 1965 after rejecting British demands for a transition to majority rule.

His premiership was marked by international non-recognition, United Nations sanctions, and the Rhodesian Bush War.

Born in Gloucester in 1905, the third of four sons of Ernest Dykes Bower MD, a general practitioner and ophthalmic surgeon, and his wife, Margaret Dora Constance Sheringham. Two of his brothers (Michael and Wilfrid) became well-known doctors, and the other, Stephen Ernest Dykes Bower, an architect who carried out work at Magdalene College.

Educated at Cheltenham College and at the same time was a pupil of Herbert Brewer, organist of Gloucester Cathedral.
1922 admitted to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and won the John Stewart of Rannoch university scholarship in music in 1922 and 1925.

1926-1929 - organist at Truro (1926–9)
1929 - organist at New College, Oxford
1933 - cathedral organist at Durham, with a university lectureship
1934-37 - Corpus Christi College elected him a (non-resident) fellow
1936 - appointed to St Paul's Cathedral

During the Second World War he lost everything in the bombing of London
1940 - joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and, with the rank of squadron leader, worked in the Air Ministry
1945-1952 - he continued work at St Paul's and was also associate director of the Royal School of Church Music
1936-1969 - professorship of organ at the Royal College of Music
1967 - retired sue to bad eyesight

1953 - appointed CVO
1968 - knighted
1944 - Oxford made him an honorary DMus
1980 - Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi, Cambridge
1967-68 - master of the Worshipful Company of Musicians

He died, unmarried, on 29 May 1981 in Kent

British church architect and Gothic Revival designer best known for hBrother of the organist Sir John Dykes Bower.

Born in Gloucester on 18 April 1903, the second of the four sons of Ernest Dykes Bower, general practitioner and ophthalmic surgeon, and his wife, Margaret Dora Constance, the youngest daughter of John William Sheringham, archdeacon of Gloucester. The organist Sir John Dykes Bower was his brother.

Educated at Cheltenham College and then was admitted to Merton College, Oxford, as an organ scholar in 1921
1924 - graduated with a third-class degree in English in 1924
A meeting with Sir Ninian Comper encouraged him to proceed to study architecture at the Architectural Association

1931 - set up practice moving to Quendon Court, near Saffron Walden, Essex, in 1933, where he lived and ran an office for the remainder of his life.

He is known for his work on Westminster Abbey, Bury St Edmunds Cathedral and the Chapel at Lancing College. He carried out a number of projects for Magdalene College.

He died at Quendon Court, Essex, on 11 November 1994. He never married.

Son of the Revd Francis Jourdain (Pembroke College, Oxford), of Ashbourne vicarage, Derbyshire.
School - Derby.

Admitted as a Pensioner (age 18) on 1 August 1889.
Prizeman; Scholar, 1891; B.A. 1892.
Kept a school at Clifton, near Ashbourne in Derbyshire.
Served in the Great War, 1914-19 (Capt., R. Fusiliers; Staff Capt., War Office; wounded; Brevet-Major; mentioned in Secretary of State's List for "valuable services").

Of Charlynch, near Bridgwater in Somerset.

Died on 31 July 1942, in Newquay, Cornwall.

Zimbabwean politician who served as justice minister in Zimbabwe Rhodesia and subsequently in the post-independence Parliament of Zimbabwe.

He supported and participated in Prime Minister Ian Smith's Internal Settlement.

He later served as ZANU-PF MP for Gokwe until April 1986 when he lost his position for misdemeanors.

On 18 April 1978 he was dismissed after he criticised the government for excluding blacks from high-level jobs.

In 1980 he was thrown out of Parliament after he openly criticized the Mugabe administration for corruption.

Anglo-Irish diplomat and writer
First cousin of Sir Winston Churchill
Became a Roman Catholic and supported Irish Home Rule

Leon Lovett studied music in Cambridge. Early in his career, he became the Assistant Conductor of the Scottish National Orchestra, and also conducted the Scottish Opera. In 1950, he co-founded the New Opera Company at Sadler’s Wells with Peter Hemmings and Brian Trowell. As Music Director of the New Opera Company, he conducted over 20 British opera premieres.

In 1973, Lovett founded the London Oriana Choir. He led companies and ensembles such as The London Chorus, English Baroque Orchestra, and the City of Cambridge Symphony Orchestra. He appeared frequently on BBC radio and television, including “Proms.”

Commonly referred to as Bishop Muzorewa. He was a United Methodist Church bishop and nationalist politician who served as the first and only Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia from the Internal Settlement to the Lancaster House Agreement in 1979.

Born at Crayke, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, the eldest son of William Inge, curate of Crayke, and his wife, Susanna Mary Churton.

William Ralph Inge (1860–1954), theologian, Dean of St Paul's
Edward Churton Inge (1864–1865), died in infancy
Charles Cuthbert Inge (1868–1937), Vicar of St Giles' Church, Oxford
Agnes Sophia Inge (1862-1945)
Mary Caroline Inge (1866-1896), unmarried
Mary Anne Inge (died in infancy)

He was educated by his parents until he was thirteen and then won a scholarship to Eton College in 1874. There he met A.C. Benson (Master of Magdalene College, 1915-1925), who became a lifelong friend, and with whom he was caned for making an indoor bonfire out of blotting paper.

1879-1883 - undergraduate at King's College, Cambridge. He won the Craven, Bell, and Porson scholarships, took a first in both parts of the classical tripos (1882–3), and was senior-chancellor's medallist. Both Inge and Benson were susceptible to bouts of acute depression, which Inge attributed to overwork, and in Benson's case to the fact that he was celibate.

After graduating he spent four years teaching at Eton but felt he was not suited to the role. In 1889 he became a fellow of Hertford College, Oxford, where he taught classics and developed an interest in philosophy.

1888 - ordained deacon but religious doubts meant that he did not proceed to the priesthood for four years.

1905 - appointed vicar of All Saints', Ennismore Gardens, in central London.

The same year he married Mary Catharine (Kitty) Spooner (1880–1949). Her father was archdeacon of Canterbury, her uncle, William Spooner was warden of New College. This marriage was very successful, and Kitty succeeded in alleviating Inge's depression and in helping him to overcome his shyness. They had five children:

William Craufurd Inge (1906–2001)
Edward Ralph Churton Inge (1907–1980)
Catharine Mary Inge (1910–1997), married Derek Wigram
Margaret Paula Inge (1911–1923), died from type 1 diabetes
Richard Wycliffe Spooner Inge (1915–1941), priest, killed on an RAF training flight

1907-1911 - Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity and Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge.

1911-1934 - Dean of St Paul's. He hated choral music, found the daily services 'dreary and interminable’, and was often seen reading a book in his stall. As a modernist he was often at odds with his Anglo-Catholic canons. He had been appointed in order to revive the literary eminence which St Paul's had previously enjoyed and in this respect he was a great success. His writings attained their widest readership through his weekly columns in the Evening Standard, which ran, with some interruptions, from 1921 to 1946. These articles were on literary, political, and religious themes.

Between the wars - Inge was one of the most vociferous defenders of the rights of the middle classes. One of his most pressing social concerns was the shortage of domestic servants, which he called 'a matter of national importance'. Inge was also concerned that the working classes were breeding too fast and that unless measures were taken to stop them they would overwhelm the middle classes. His interest in eugenic theory had deepened through his friendship with Sir Francis Galton, and he served on the council of the Eugenics Society.

1920s - was a leading spokesman for the modernist wing of the Church of England, becoming president of the Modern Churchmen's Union (1924–34).

He was made CVO in 1918 and KCVO in 1930. He received a BD and DD from Cambridge in 1909, was an Honorary Fellow of several Oxford and Cambridge Colleges and was elected FBA in 1921.

Inge and his wife Kitty had three sons and two daughters. In 1923 his 11 year old daughter, Paula, died of diabetes. His youngest son Richard was an undergraduate at Magdalene, 1934-1937 but was killed in an RAF training flight in 1941.

1934 - he retired to Brightwell Manor near Wallingford. He was not a pacifist but did oppose Britain's entry into the Second World War on the grounds that she had no quarrel with Germany. After the outbreak of war he continued to call for a negotiated peace.

26 February 1954 - he died at Brightwell Manor.