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Francis Turner was the son of C.H. Turner, Bishop of Islington, and grandson of F.T. McDougall, first Bishop of Sarawak.

He was educated at Marlborough and then served in the Royal Flying Corps 1916-19 winning both the M.C. and the D.F.C.

He was admitted to Magdalene in 1920 to read History and became a Bye-Fellow in 1923, and a Fellow in 1926.
He served as a Precentor, Tutor, College and Pepys Librarian, Fellows' Steward, and President (1957-62).

He retired in 1962 and moved to Chichester where he married Anne Martindale in 1978.
He died with his wife in a fire at their home in Chichester on 18 January 1982.

Obituary:
College Magazine, No. 26, 1981-82, pp. 1-5.

Born at Clapton on 17 May 1856 the son of John, head of the firm of Charrington, Sells, Dale and Co. which firm he entered in 1880; subsequently chairman.
School - Haileybury (of which he later became a governor)

Admitted pensioner at Trinity on 25 May 1875
Matriculated Michaelmas 1875; B.A. 1879; M.A. 1885
Honorary Fellow of Magdalene, 1936

As a young man became interested in prints, and expert in the investigation of early examples.
In 1910 became the first Honorary Keeper of the Prints at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, where he undertook the examination of the whole collection of prints. In 1923 he published a catalogue of the 'Mezzotints after, or said to be after, Rembrandt'.

Undertook exhaustive researches in connection with the Pepys Library at Magdalene and in 1936 published a 'Catalogue of the engraved portraits in the library of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S., now belonging to Magdalene College.' Few other people, if any, could have accomplished the Pepys Library catalogue, involving, as it did, the identification of hundreds of portraits without any title.

In 1933 he presented to the Fitzwilliam Museum a great collection of engraved portraits, now housed in the new print Room built at his cost.
Made many important gifts of early printed books to Cambridge University Library.
Was always proud to be known as 'A great lover of Cambridge.'

Died on 24 February 1939, aged 82, at Shenley

4th son of James Stephen, Barrister of London
School - Little Shelford, Cambridgeshire

Admitted pensioner at Magdalene on 9 October 1812
Admitted Solicitor, c. 1819.
Admitted at Gray's Inn, 11 January 1831
Called to the Bar, 1849
Practised in Liverpool
Collected evidence abroad during the trial of Queen Caroline

Originator of an organisation which played an important part in the anti-slavery agitation
Solicitor (unpaid) for the relief of pauper prisoners for debt
Knighted, in recognition of his services in the cause of negro emancipation, 14 February 1838, the first person to be knighted by Queen Victoria

Went to Melbourne, Australia in 1855
Commissioner of Insolvent Estates at Geelong

In 1821 married Henrietta, eldest daughter of W. Ravenscroft

Author of various works including Adventures of a Gentleman in search of a Horse (which had great popularity) and Adventures of an Attorney in Search of a Practice; and Anti-Slavery Recollections

Died on 20 June 1879 in Melbourne

Born on 14 June 1950 in Swansea. Only child of Aneurin Williams and his wife Nancy Delphine

School – Dynevor School, Swansea

Undergraduate at Christ’s College and admitted to Wadham College, Oxford. He graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1975

1975-1977 - lectured and trained for ordination at the College of the Resurrection in Mirfield, West Yorkshire
In 1977 he returned to Cambridge to teach theology as a tutor (as well as chaplain and Director of Studies) at Westcott House and was made a deacon in the chapel
While there, he was ordained a priest
1980 – made curate at St George's, Chesterton, Cambridge
1983 - appointed as university lecturer in divinity at Cambridge
1984 – appointed dean and chaplain of Clare College
1986 - appointed to the Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Oxford, a position which brought with it appointment to a residentiary canonry of Christ Church Cathedral
1989 - received the degree of Doctor of Divinity (DD)
1990 - elected a Fellow of the British Academy
1991 - elected Bishop of Monmouth
1992 - consecrated a bishop at St Asaph Cathedral and enthroned at Newport Cathedral
He continued to serve as Bishop of Monmouth after he was elected to also be the Archbishop of Wales in December 1999
2003 - he was enthroned at Canterbury Cathedral and served until 2012

On 17 January 2013, Williams was admitted as the 35th Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge and served until September 2020

On 4 July 1981, Williams married Jane, a writer and lecturer in theology. They have two children.
He speaks or reads eleven languages: English, Welsh, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Biblical Hebrew, Syriac, Latin, and both Ancient (koine) and Modern Greek. He is also a poet and translator of poetry.

Master of Magdalene College, 1797 - 1813

Educated at Peterhouse. Successor Dr Peter Peckard as Master. He was 'a man of no particular distinction who, as vicar of Saffron Walden, archdeacon of essex and a justice of the peace, was known at Audley End' [ie. known to the Visitor who had the power to appoint the Master. At this time the position of Visitor was held jointly by the Revd Dr and Mrs Parker].
He was not greatly interested in academic distinction and had no time for Evangelicas [who dominated Magdalene at this time]. His Mastership marked the start of a downward spiral from which it took a century to emerge.

He served as Vice-Chancellor, 1800-1801.

Most exceptionally, he was buried in the College Ante-Chapel, under a diamond-shaped slab.

Born in 1653, the son of Anthony Millington of Shropshire

Admitted pensioner (age 15) at Magdalene on 26 June 1668
Matriculated in 1669
B.A. 1671/2
M.A. 1675
D.D. 1702

Fellow, 1674 until at least 1701
Taxor, 1691
Senior Proctor, 1700-1

Incorporated at Oxford, 1677

Ordained deacon (Ely) 18 September 1675; priest (London) 24 February 1677/8
Vicar of Fulbourn All Saints', Cambridgeshire, 1690
Vicar of Kensington, 1700-28
Prebend of St Paul's, 1703-28
Rector of Stoke Newington, Middlesex, 1705-28

In 1724 set up a trust to be presided over by Daniel Waterland and his successors, for two closed scholarships for boys from several Shrewsbury schools. He also provided for the establishment of a fellowship after the lapse of 40 years, to be funded by the proceeds from the sale of the timber from a newly planted woodland.

Millington’s brother, James was a successful draper in Shrewsbury, and he held a life interest in the properties which would generate the income of the scholarships, so the first scholars did not arrive until after his death in 1734.

Died on 25 March 1728

Born in 1679 in Norwich, the son of John.

Admitted sizar at Magdalene on 14 October 1695
Matriculated in 1696
B.A. 1699/1700

Vicar of Childerditch, Essex, 1709
Chaplain to Robert, Earl of Holderness
Author
Benefactor of Magdalene College

Married Mary Moor at Gray's Inn Chapel, on 28 June 1712

Died on 31 July 1760

Born in 1652 the son of John, clerk, of Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire

Admitted as a pensioner at Magdalene on 12 May 1669
Matriculated in 1672
B.A. 1672/3
M.A. 1676
Fellow, 1674 - mid 1680s

Ordained deacon (London) 11 March 1676/7; priest, 10 June 1677
Perhaps Vicar of Heversham, Westmorland, 1678-86

Rector of Bexhill, Sussex, 1686-1722

Major benefactor of the College. In 1722 he left £1,000 for three closed scholarships for boys from Halifax, Leeds, or Heversham in Westmoreland. His sister-in-law had a life interest in the capital, and so the College did not benefit from the benefaction until 1736 when she died, having herself augmented the original bequest so as to provide four scholarships.

Died 1722

Benefactor to Magdalene College

School - Charterhouse
Admitted to Magdalene in October 1928

November 1933 - Joined the India Civil Service and became a Judge in the Punjab until partition in 1947.

Moved to Canada where he owned a fruit farm in British Columbia before becoming a schoolmaster.

Moved to become a schoolmaster at Kings School, Wimbledon.

Joined the War Office (later the Ministry of Defence). Posted to East Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Zanzibar), and later Gibraltar.

Born in 1870 the son of Thomas Johnson, of Windermere House, Windermere
School - Heversham

Admitted pensioner at Magdalene on 16 July 1887
Matriculated Michaelmas 1887; Scholar
B.A. (28th Wrangler) 1890; M.A. 1897

Assistant Master at Bath College, 1891
Assistant Master at St Mark's, Windsor, 1895
Assistant Master at St Paul's School, London, 1902-32
Head Mathematical Master, 1924-32

Died on 26 February 1942

1912 - Jack French died at a dinner of the Conservative Club. He had served the College for fifty years, since the age of 17 or 18, first employed as a servant in 1862, before rising to Under-porter, Porter, Butler, Kitchen Manager, and sometime caterer.

College Magazine, No. 12 March 1913
“The other loss was a very severe one. The newly-appointed President [AC Benson] had signalised his accession to his office by a supper to the College servants, and the Butler, Jack French, presided at it with his accustomed tact and good humour. He was forced to leave it rather early, in order to keep an engagement, and walked down to the Conservative Club, where he was a very familiar figure; he spoke to a couple of friends, and in a moment rolled over from his chair, dead: the cause was afterwards found to be valvular disease of the heart. He was buried on the 27th and the first part of the service took place in the College Chapel, the Master officiating; besides the family and private friends, including the Mayor, were present.
Man and boy, Jack French had been a devoted servant and friend to the College for fifty years. His father was once Head Porter, and he too, started at the gate, but was comparatively soon transferred to the buttery, where he spent the rest of his life, rising finally to be Butler and Kitchen Manager. He had many interests outside the College, such as politics, and a share in a catering business, which very successfully supplied the Royal Show for some years, but his heart was above all things in the welfare of Magdalene, and it is certain that nobody rejoiced more at its latter-day prosperity than Jack French. A neat brass to his memory has been placed in the Ante-Chapel by the President.

See MCCA/MCPH/3/1 32a for a photograph

Daughter of James Griffin, 2nd Baron Griffin of Braybrooke, sister and co-heir of Edward, 3rd Baron Griffin of Braybrooke. She was a direct descendant of Lord Audley.
Her first marriage was to her cousin Henry Neville/Grey; her second in 1741 to John Wallop, MP (1690-1762), governor of the Isle of Wight, 1st Earl of Portsmouth (his second wife).
She secured the Mastership for her husband’s grandon, Barton Wallop; and meanwhile placed George Sandby in office under bond to resign when Barton Wallop was of age – the resignation duly took place in 1774.
Died without issue; the visitorship then passed to her nephew, Sir John Griffin Whitwell, later 1st Baron Braybrooke.

Appointed College Porter in 1872 (with a salary of £100 pa, plus grass fines and half the gate fines, and increased by £10 pa in 1876), though he had already been employed by the College for many years, as he was given a gratuity of £15 in 1869, in consideration of long service (B/441, pp 221, 228, 232, 240). Fleet probably died in office in 1885, when James Stearn was appointed Head Porter.

Portrait of George Fleet MCWA/A/50

Appointed as cook in 1875 [MCGB/4/2/1] and was the last of the cooks to run the kitchens as an independent business. On his retirement in 1901 the College took the kitchens in-house (being the last College to do so). This decision as guided by the then Steward A.S. Ramsey. He purchased the cooking utensils and crockery owned by Swannell which was valued at £700.

1841 Census – his father, George Swannell’s occupation is listed as ’Cook’ and the family were living in King St

1851 Census - his father, George Swannell’s occupation is listed as ’Cook’ and the family were living in Fitzroy St

His father was George (aged 48), his mother was Mary Ann (aged 33)
William was 14 and listed as an errand boy
John (aged 13), Elizabeth Sarah (aged 11), Thomas (aged 7)
Rachel Hayles - servant

1861 Census – William’s occupation is listed as ‘Cook’ and he was married to Hannah and living on Histon Rd

1871 Census – same as the 1861 census but with the addition of children:
William G (aged 9), Elizabeth (aged 4)
William Hewson (nephew aged 18)
John A.W. Culpin (boarder aged 18)

1881 Census – Now living at 74 Castle St with his wife Hannah, his daughter Elizabeth and their domestic servant Emma Smith (aged 15)

1891 Census – Had moved to Huntingdon Road
Servant was now Eliza Beldam

1901 Census – Living at 6 Huntingdon Rd
Listed as ‘widow’
Occupation ‘Head College Cook’
Living on his own and two servants - Lucy Baker (aged 50) and Annie Adams (aged 23)

William died on 16 September 1902 at Carnarvonshire. He left to Elizabeth Hannah Sarah Robinson (his daughter and the wife of the Revd Henry Edwin Robinson) effects worth £14865 5s 4d

Born in Histon, near Cambridge, in 1855, son of William, an agricultural labourer, and Louisa.

In 1877 he was appointed under-porter [MCGB/4/2/1] and rose to Head Porter serving the College for 43 years before his retirement in 1918.

1881 census – he was living at 30 Albert Street. He was married, to Elizabeth Foreman who was five years older. Their first child, four-month old Sydney James, had been born around the turn of the year.

1891 census - they had moved to number 1 Albert Street. A second son, Ernest had been born in 1883, followed by two daughters, Louisa in 1886 and Laura in 1889.

1911 census - three children were alive and two had died, suggesting there had been a fifth baby that did not survive infancy. Ernest, their second son, was eighteen in 1901, and working as a kitchen porter, although the college that employed him is not known. We might expect him to disappear from the family home as he made his life of his own, but the fact that Sydney's death notice in 1917 describes him as "only son" of James and Elizabeth suggests that Ernest had died before 1911. Louisa and Laura both trained as dressmakers.

Sydney Stearn served in the Royal Navy during the First World War and was killed in 1917.

James Stearn found it hard to cope after the death of his son. He retired, early in 1918, at the age of 63. The Fellows presented their outgoing Head Porter with a clock.

He died on 10 July 1918.

For more information see Ged Martin's article James Stearn: The Head Porter who Died of Grief

https://gedmartin.net/martinalia-mainmenu-3/344-magdalene-college-cambridge-notes-james-stearn

Born 5 May 1796 the third son of Hugh, Earl Fortescue, of Castle Hill, near South Molton, Devon.
School - Eton

Admitted Fellow-Commoner at Magdalene on 14 January 1814
Matriculated Lent, 1814; M.A. 1816
Fellow

Rector of Anderby with Cumberworth, Lincs., 1821-35
Canon Residentiary of Worcester, 1834-69
Rector of Poltimore with Huxham, Devon, 1835-69
Master of St Oswald's Hospital, Worcester, 1847-69

13 April 1842 married Sophia, daughter of Henry Nevile, Rector of Cottesmore, Rutland

Died on 3 January 1869

Born in Liverpool and was the son of the Robert Alexander Bickersteth and Ellen Constance Wilson, of Borwick Lodge, Outgate, Ambleside. Educated at Eton. Admitted as a pensioner at Magdalene College on 7 October 1924. His tutor was A. S. Ramsey. MA 1931.

After leaving Magdalene he trained at Wells Theological College.
1928 deacon
1929 priest

1928-1932 his first curacy was at Christ Church, Waterloo, Liverpool.

22 Nov 1931 he was made curate of Christ Church, Whitehaven with his primary responsibility being St Peters, Kells.

In 1933 he was defrocked for "immoral conduct".

He visited New York with his brother. He is shown, on the electoral register, as living in Paddington in London in the late 1930s.

He died in 1945.

Thomas Riddel was the cook of Magdalene College, 1799-1826.

On his appointment in 1799 (succeeding William Winder) he secured a substantial rise in the cook's wages from £7 to £12 10s 0d along with £5 for coals.

In 1826 he left the College and set up as a beer retailer in Magdalene Street.

Born in 1856 the second son of Jeremiah Creswell (Magdalen Hall, Oxford), of 5, Lansdowne Villas, East Down Park, Lee.
School - Blackheath

Admitted pensioner at Magdalene 1 October 1874
Matriculated Easter 1875; Scholar
B.A. (Class. Trip., 1st Class) 1879; M.A. 1882
Fellow and tutor
Steward

Esquire Bedell, 1893-9
Fellow of King's College, London, 1885-99.
Author of Life and Poems of Lefroy

Died on 7 December 1899, aged 43, at Lugano, Switzerland

Born in 1837 the second son of Thomas Matthew, of Wisbech, Cambs

Admitted pensioner at Magdalene on 28 June 1856

Matriculated Michaelmas 1856
B.A. (8th Wrangler) 1861; M.A. 1864
Fellow, 1861

Sometime a private tutor in Westmorland.
Assistant Master at Queen Elizabeth's School, Ipswich, 1861-3
Librarian of Magdalene, 1863
Tutor, 1865-96
President, 1876-96
Junior Proctor, 1873

Admitted at Lincoln's Inn, 15 November 1867

Called to the Bar, 17 November 1870, but never practised.

'The tenure of his College tutorship extending over 31 years was marked by a combination of exceptional qualifications, an intuitive aptitude for discernment of character, sound judgment, and a courtesy which invited confidence and rendered difficulties more easy of adjustment. No man ever came to him for guidance without receiving sympathy and help, and his many pupils remember with gratitude the infinite pains he took to adapt his lectures to their needs.'

Married in 1894.

Died 6 October 1896: 'He was taken ill while dining with the Master of Trinity Hall, and expired in a few minutes.'

Arms in Hall glass, W2.

Born in Walesby, Lincs. in 1681. Son of Henry Waterland, Rector of Walesby

Admitted sizar at Clare College on 4 May 1699
Matriculated 1699
B.A. 1702/3; M.A. 1706
D.D. from Magdalene, 1725

Fellow of Clare, 1705-14
Fellow of Magdalene, 1714-24
Brother of Daniel Waterland, Master of Magdalene College who appointed him Bursar and Steward in c. 1718
Senior Proctor, 1721-22

Incorporated at Oxford in 1724
Ordained priest (Ely) 30 May 1708
Vicar of St Peter's, Cambridge, 1711-18
Vicar of St Giles', Cambridge, 1711-20
Vicar of Longstanton All Saints' and Longstanton St Michael's, Cambridgeshire, 1720-64
Minister of St Benetfink, London

Died in Hackney, 18 March 1764

Master of Magdalene College, 1690-1713

Son of Gabriel Quadring of Frisby, Lincolnshire
Probably attended Alford school
Admitted pensioner at Magdalene College aged 17 on 22 May 1657
B.A. 1660/1
M.A. 1664
D.D. 1691 (Lit. Reg.)

Fellow and President
Taxor, 1666
Senior Proctor, 1670-71
Master, 1690-1713
Vice-Chancellor, 1691-92, 1711-2

His Mastership was dominated by fund raising for the new building [now known as the Pepys Building] and he made little or no impact in the university at large
Incorporated at Oxford in 1669.

Ordained priest (Peterborough) on 20 September 1668
Rector of Dry Drayton, Cambridgeshire, 1691

Died in 1713

Born in Helston, Cornwall in 1778, son of Edward
Schools - Helston and Shacklewell

Admitted sizar at Jesus College on 10 July 1794
Matriculated Michaelmas 1795; Scholar, 1796; B.A. 1799; M.A. 1802

Fellow of Magdalene, 1803; Tutor

Vicar of Bishopstone, Wilts., 1816
Vicar of Constantine, Cornwall, 1817-56
Prebendary of Salisbury

He married:
(1) Sophia
(2) 22 Nov, 1821, Catherine Groube, daughter of John Boulderson, of St Mawnan, and had issue

Died at Constantine on 25 Aug 1856

The first Buttery book in which Edward Mills writes his name begins in 1789 [MCAD/14/2/1/28].

It was recorded at a meeting of the Master and Fellows on 7 March 1799 that the College had been defrauded by the late Butler Edward Mills to a very considerable amount and they resolved to use all legal means to recover the amount of that fraud [MCGB/4/2/1 pg. 181].

His name is written in the front of the Buttery Books [MCAD/14/2]. The first time it is written on the inside page is in MCAD/1/4/2/3 which covers 1672-76.

The Buttery Book, 1686-1690 [MCAD/14/2/6] is the first one in which Edward Townsend has written his name.

Educated at Southwell School, Nottinghamshire and Trinity College, Cambridge (admitted pensioner, 3 October 1793).

MA from Magdalene in 1802

He was a Fellow of Magdalene College from 1802-1814, and President from 1805-1810.

In 1802 he was appointed Steward, Librarian, and Registrar (he took on the duties of Bursar when Rev Thomas Paley was ill in 1805). He referred to himself as the Pepys Librarian.

Curate of Long Sutton, Hants
Curate of St Peter's, Duxford, 1806
Curate of St John's, Duxford, 1807
Rector of Darlaston, Staffordshire, 1814-1834

Married Marianne, daughter of Benjamin Maddock of Nottingham