Born on 6 July 1886, in Eton, Buckinghamshire the son of Charles Thomas Clement James and Caroline Louise Dell.
He was admitted to Magdalene College in 1906
In March 1935 he married Dorothy Kathleen Whitmarsh in March 1935, in Salisbury.
He died in 1952, at the age of 66.
Master of Trinity Hall, 1559-1585
Son of Robert Harvey of Stadbrooke, Suffolk
LL.B. from Trinity Hall, 1538
LL.D. 1542
Admitted advocate, 1550
Vice-Chancellor of the University, 1560
Archdeacon of Middlesex, 1551-4
Vicar-general of London and subsequently of the province of Canterbury
Precentor of St Paul's, London, 1554
Rector of Littlebury, Essex, 1554-82
Commissioner for the detection of heretical books at Cambridge, 1556
Prebend of Salisbury, 1558-72 and of Lichfield, 1559-61
Prebend of Ely, 1567-85
Master in Chancery, 1568
Died 20 February 1585
Benefactor to Trinity Hall and other colleges
Master of Magdalene, 1668-1679
Born in 1606 in the Lodge at Jesus College. Son of John Duport, Master of Jesus College
Matriculated as a pensioner from Trinity College at Mchaelmas 1622
B.A. 1626/7
M.A. 1630
B.D. 1637
D.D. 1660 (Lit. Reg.)
Fellow of Trinity, 1627
Regius Professor of Greek, 1639-54 (ejected due to his Royalist support)
Prebendary of Lincoln, 1641
Archdeacon of Stow, 1641
Restored to his stall, and made King's chaplain, 1660
Lady Margaret preacher, 1660
Dean of Peterborough, 1664
Rector of Boxworth, Cambridgeshire, 1668
Master of Magdalene, 1668
Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, 1669-70
An eminent scholar and author and an effective and conscientious Master
Benefactor to Magdalene College and Peterborough Grammar School. He left land a Stow Cum Quy to the College to found four scholarships, and a silver ewer and basin to the Chapel. He also provided a handsome organ and pushed through the governing body an act to provide the organist with a salary of £8 per annum - in effect the first organ scholarship. He left most of his books an largest benefactions to Trinity College [A History of Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1428-1988, Cunich et al]
Died on 17 July 1679
Buried in Peterborough Cathedral
Article: 'James Duport: A Celebration' (Dr Luckett), College Magazine, No. 51 (2006-07)
Lincolnshire benefactor
In 1584 John Spendluffe gave the College two properties, then valued at £40 per annum, to fund a fellowship and two scholarships, all of five years duration. The properties lay to the south of Alford and the scholarships were tied to Alford School.
Benedict Spinola was a Genoese money lender. He saw the potential of the land in London that had been granted by Lord Audley to the College on its foundation.
Due to an Act of 1571 he could not lease the land directly from the College so the College granted the freehold of the land (seven acres of land in the Parish of St Botolph without Aldgate) to Queen Elizabeth I in return for a perpetual rent chatge of £15 a year (13 Dec 1574). The grant was to be invalid if the Queen did not convey the land to Spinola by 1 April 1575. However, the Queen who was repeatedly in debt to Spinola, took only 6 weeks to complete the transfer.
Why did the College give away its most valuable asset to Spinola? Mainly due to pressure from Lord Burghley.
The immediate effect was to see the College's income rise from £6 per annum to £15. But Spinola quickly divided the property into different plots and began building on them. He then sold his interest in the estate to the Earl of Oxford. By the early 17th century the estate was worth £10,000 with a yearly income of £800.
When Barnaby Goche (lawyer) became Master of the College he set about legal proceedings to challenge the legal validity of the transfer to the Earl of Oxford.
In 1615 the Chief Justice found for the College but the Earl of Oxford appealed and the case went to Chancery where they found against the College.
Goche and Smith were outraged and protested that they had aleady secured judgement. They only succeeded in securing a spell in the Fleet Prison.
The College tried to over turn the ruling in 1621 and during Charles II's reign. Between 1805 and 1807 the College spent more than £100 trying to secure legal opinion for their case and A.C. Benson tried again in 1914 but all to no avail.
[A History of Magdalene College, 1428-1988, Cunich et al]
Harry Redfern was a British architect. He went to Abingdon School and was then articled to Henry Woodyer in 1876 and subsequently worked for William Butterfield, Alfred Lawers, Alfred Young Nutt, Peter Dollar, and William Young. In 1889 he established an independent practice in Derby, then worked in partnership with J. J. Stevenson from 1896 until Stevenson's death in 1908. He became a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1903.
As Chief Architect to the State Management Districts of the Home Office (1915-45) he was responsible for an extensive programme of rebuilding or remodelling public houses in and around Carlisle and Gretna Green. He was also architect of the British Hospital at Port Said.
His Cambridge work began as a partner of J.J. Stevenson (1896-1908), working on laboratories on the Downing Street Site; his own principal contribution was the Parasitology Laboratory (the Molteno Institute, 1919). It was perhaps through Prof. Nuttall that he came to Magdalene. Throughout the 1920s and '30s he was responsible for all restoration work in College, and designed the Mallory Court conversion (1925). In addition he built several dons' houses in Cambridge, worked also worked for for Christ's College. In Oxford he carried out additions and restoration work at Oriel College and St John's College; and was architect of the biochemistry laboratories.
British church architect and Gothic Revival designer best known for his work at Westminster Abbey, Bury St Edmunds Cathedral and the Chapel at Lancing College.
John Merrill was a bookseller in Cambridge with premises on Regent’s Walk (now the site of the Senate House). Circa 1750s, operated as Thomas and John Merrill (booksellers). In 1790s, operated as J. & J. Merrill.
Charles Louis Napoleon Achille Murat (known as Achille), was the eldest son of Joachim Murat, the brother-in-law of Napoleon who was appointed King of Naples during the First French Empire. After his father was deposed and executed by his own subjects, Achille Murat went into exile in the Austrian Empire with his siblings and mother.
At the age of 21, Achille Murat emigrated to the United States and settled at St. Augustine, Florida, becoming a naturalised citizen sometime after July 1828 and dropping his European titles.
Frances Wray was the daughter of the Magdalene benefactor Sir Christopher Wray.
She married her brother’s friend, Sir George St Paul (1562-1613), who had homes at Melwood Grange , Epworth, and Snarford in Lindsey.
He was an ardent puritan. His grandmother was Jane Askew, sister of the famous Protestant martyr Anne Askew.
Frances and St Paul’s only child, a daughter, had died in 1597 and much of their wealth was spent on charity. They supported ten old men and old women and young tradesmen in Market Rasen where St Paul also funded a schoolmaster and supported a hospital. He died in 1613.
Frances and her sister Isabel together are credited with financing the Cambridge education of the puritan rector of Worksop Richard Bernard and he dedicated his book, Christian Advertisement, to St Paul and Frances.
Frances then married Robert Rich, 1st Earl of Warwick, who was also a puritan. She was described in later life as ‘a person of shining conversation and eminent bounty’ and who supported her father’s patronage of Magdalene College at Cambridge with three Fellowships and six scholarships. The Countess of Warwick, as she had now become, continued to support the university education of suitable young men such as Edward Reyner, who graduated in 1621 and then became master of Sir George St Paul’s school in Market Rasen. During the Civil War he was nearly murdered by Royalists in the cathedral library, but was saved by a past pupil; later he preached to the Parliamentary army at the siege of Newark.
Son of Henry Jowett of Leeds
School - Leeds
Admitted as a sizar (age 17) at Magdalene on 28 March 1774
Matriculated at Easter, 1775
B.A. 1778
M.A. 1781
Fellow
Ordained deacon (Peterborough, Litt. dim. from Ely) on 24 May 1779; priest (Peterborough) on 17 December 1780
Rector of Little Dunham, Norfolk, 1813-29
Died on 5 April 1830, aged 73, at Little Dunham Rectory, Norfolk
Born 1752, son of John James, merchant-tailor, Shrewsbury
School - Shrewsbury School, Shrewsbury
Admitted as a pensioner to Magdalene College on 25 May 1770
Matriculated October 1770
BA 1774
MA 1779
Fellow
Ordained deacon at Ely 12 March 1775
Vicar of Belford, Northumberland, 1804-43
Died in Belford on 23 January 1843.
Baptised in January 1740
School - Shrewsbury
Admitted as a pensioner at Magdalene college on 31 Dec 1758
Matriculated Michaelmas 1759
B.A. 1763; M.A. 1766
Made a Fellow in 1763
Ordained a deacon (Norwich) 18 Dec 1763
Worked for Jeffs and Dawson.
Born in Barnsley, Yorkshire
Admitted to Magdalene College
1931
sailed for China to serve with the China Inland Mission and spent the next few years primarily in Szechwan, West China, working in various hospitals and in outlaying towns and villages
1940
married Irene Walker (another CIM missionary) at Yingshan, Szechwan
1944
their first child (they had four in total) was born in China and soon after Irene and her son were forced to leave China for India because of the national unrest. Max later joined them and they all returned to the UK. In 1946 Frank and Irene returned to China to carry on their work.
1948
Missionary work in China became increasingly difficult due the rise of Communism and in 1951 the CIM recalled all missionaries from China.
This journey was extremely difficult and fraught with danger - at one point Max was arrested at gun point and taken away. He returned some time later and was then held under room imprisonment until they could continue the journey to Hong Kong and then back to England.
Max and Irene later spent time working in Malaya returning when Max needed surgery. They then settled in England whilst he recovered by starting two part time roles in GP practices. He supplied Bible reading notes and Christian books and newspapers to patients. Irene became heavily involved in the Reading Chinese Christian Fellowship.
c. 1980
Max retired from active medical service but continued his mission work through letter writing
1991
Max died in Reading
1999
Irene died
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
Son of William Thompson (clerk). Born at Well, Lincolnshire
School - Alford
Admitted sizar (age 18) at Magdalene on 3 Jan 1724
B.A. 1728
M.A. 1731
Fellow, 1728
Ordained deacon (Lincoln) 22 Feb 1730; priest, 19 Sept 1731
Curate of Chapel Allerton (West Riding of Yorkshire)
Died May 1734
Master of Magdalene College, 1760-74
Son of the Rev. Josiah Sandby, Prebend of Worcester
Matriculated from Merton College, Oxford, 5 April 1734, age 17
B.A. (Oxford) 1737; M.A. (Oxford) 1740
M.A. 1760, incorported from Oxford; D.D. 1760
Vice-Chancellor, 1760-61
Rector of Denton, Norfolk, 1750-1807
Rector of Skeyton
Chancellor of the Diocese of Norwich, 1768
Died 24 March 1807, aged 90, at Denton
Son of Samuel Purkis of Wisbech
School - Wisbech
Admitted sizar (age 17) at Magdalene on 3 July 1752
Matriculated Michaelmas 1753
B.A. (5th Wrangler) 1756; M.A. 1760; D.D. 1786
Fellow
Senior Proctor, 1772-73
Rector of Anderby with Cumberworth, Lincs., 1765-91
F.S.A. 'Bishop Watson complains in 1762 that the dinner-hour [in Cambridge] had changed from 12 to 3, and foolish dons, like William Purkis, of Magdalene, talked of combining the scholar and the gentleman.
Purkis got in consequence the name 'Mr Union'.
Author of Sermons, preached before the University, 1786 and 1789
Died 25 February 1791
Son of Timothy Douthwaite. Born in Bishop Auckland, Co. Durham
School - Bishop Auckland
Admitted sizar (age 19) at Magdalene on 17 June 1729
Matriculated 1729
B.A. 1732/3
M.A. 1736
Fellow, 1735
Tutor
Ordained priest (Ely) June 1734
Rector of Stoke St Mary, Ipswich
Vicar of Rushmere, Suffolk
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.