Fellow-Commoner, 1993-2014
Cambridge University Press, 1976-2013
Managing Director, Academic & Professional Publishing, 2012-2013
Obituary: College Magazine No. 58 (2013-14)
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)
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)
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