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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.

Educated King's School Worcester

Matriculated in 1964 (Scholar)
PhD 1975
Fellow 1968
Tutor 1984–1993
University Lecturer 1974
Reader 1993–2000
Professor of German Literature & Intellectual History 2000
Schröder Professor of German 2006

W. Heinemann Prize, RSL, 1992
Goethe Medal 2000
Gundolf Prize 2009
Corresponding Fellow, Göttingen Academy of Sciences, 2010

Recreation: 'enjoying other people's gardens'.

Matriculated in 1619 from Magdalene College probably aged about 13. His father was John Bridgman (also Magdalene) who was chaplain to James I and became Bishop of Chester in 1619.

BA in 1623 and elected Fellow in 1624. His father wouldn't let him accept the Fellowship on the grounds that they should be reserved for men of more modest means.
MP for Wigan, 1640; University Counsel, 1642; Kt, 1643, Baronet, 1660.

A lawyer who specialised in conveyancing (a critical concern in the aftermath of the Civil War) and was a prominent Royalist. He presided in the trial of the regicides. Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, 1660; Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, 1667-1672 (in effect Lord Chancellor). In Pepys’s view ‘a mighty able man’ (Diary vol 8, p 421), and probably the College’s most eminent lawyer. Patron of the poet Traherne.

Bridgeman's reports, spanning his time as chief justice of the common pleas, are in the British Library (BL, Hargrave MSS 55–58).
Personal papers - there are notebooks and letters relating to Bridgeman family and public affairs in the Staffordshire Record Office, and some miscellaneous correspondence at Longleat.

Arms in Hall glass, W3.

In the College Magazine
Article: 'Sir Orlando Bridgman: the College's seventeenth century legal star'. by N. G. Jones, College Magazine vol. 40 (1995-96) pp 31-36

An English painter of portraits and historical scenes. Briggs was born at Walworth, County Durham, the son of a post office official. His cousin was Amelia Opie (née Alderson), the wife of artist John Opie (whose portrait was later painted by Briggs). While still at school at Epping he sent two engravings to the Gentleman's Magazine and in 1811 entered as a student at the Royal Academy, London, where he began to exhibit in 1814. From that time onwards until his death he was a constant exhibitor at the annual exhibitions of the Academy, as well as the British Institution, his paintings being for the most part historical in subject. After his election as a Royal Academician (RA) in 1832 he devoted his attention almost exclusively to portraiture. Briggs died, of tuberculosis in London on 18 January 1844, aged 50/51.

Son of the physician who first diagnosed Bright’s disease.

He matriculated from Magdalene College in 1835. Hebraist. The proctors resigned after his defence of an offending undergraduate, and their resignation was accepted by the Senate after a long discussion.
c. 1843 elected Fellow
1851 - 1872 Tutor
1853 - 1873 President of Magdalene College.

From middle-life, his mobility was impaired and he was confined to a sofa. He spent much of his time making a new transcription of the Pepys Diary of which he was the second editor. He was paralysed from 1880, having retired to London in 1873.

His benefaction to the College made possible the erection of Bright’s Building (1909).

Arms in Hall glass, W1.

For a description of his personality see: 'Magdalene in the Sixties', College Magazine, No. 3 March 1910

Augustine was born to Joseph Brimley and Jane Gutteridge and baptised at the Baptist church in Blunham Bedfordshire.

He married Hannah Gotobed (1789–1825) on 11 March 1819. They had at least four children: George (1819), Harriet (1821-1822) and Caroline (1823). Hannah died in 1825 at the age of 35. Augustine went on to marry her sister Harriet (1795-1833) on the 24 June 1827 at St Georges Church, Hanover Square, London. They had 2 children Harriett (1829) and Fanny (1831). Harriett died in 1933 after a long illness, aged 39.

Mayor A.G. Brimley from Mayors of Cambridge:
Augustine was a grocer, wholesale grocer, hop and provision merchant, a Deacon at St Andrew’s Baptist church and an Alderman of the borough, serving on many committees. From 1853 to 1854 he served at Mayor and on one occasion he met Prince Albert.

In 1841 Augustine and George were living at 4 Hills Road, Cambridge. In 1851 he was living at 13 Park Terrace, Cambridge with 2 unmarried daughters. Harriet who married William Henry Farthing Johnson and Caroline who married Alexander Macmillan, and two sisters in law.

Made an Honorary Fellow in 1965 in succession to T. S. Eliot. This was felt appropriate, not only because of his reputation as a composer, but also because he was a MusD without College affiliation, long associated with the Cambridge University Musical Society. Britten was already in declining health by the time of his election, and the College saw little of him.
Life peer, 1976: Baron Britten of Aldeburgh.

Obituary by J. E. Stevens in the College Magazine vol. 21 (1976-77) pp 7-8

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.

Mary Henrietta Mallory was born in 1885 and was the older sister of George Mallory [there were four siblings - Annie Victoria (known as Avie), Mary, George and Trafford]. Mary married Francis Ralph Russell Brooke on 22 July 1914 who served with the Royal Garrison Artillery in the Great War. They had two children, David and Barbara.

Born in Cheshire the son of John Wesley Lloyd (dental surgeon and Methodist lay preacher) and Mary Rachel Warhurst. He had three sisters.

School - Leas School and as a boy was particularly interested in military history to which he later attributed his successful military career.
In 1918 (age 13) he won a scholarship to Fettes College.

October 1923 - admitted as a scholar to Magdalene College. There he was a friend of the future Archbishop of Canterbury Michael Ramsey. He played rugby and was disappointed not to get a Blue.
He was an active Liberal and in March 1925 he entertained H.H. Asquith at Magdalene after a Liberal Party meeting at the Cambridge Guildhall. He became President of the Cambridge University Liberal Club and was an active debater in the Cambridge Union Society.
He lost his scholarship in June 1925, after obtaining a Second in Classics. He then switched to study History, in which he also obtained a Second. He finally graduated with a third-class in Part II of the Law Tripos in June 1928.

He practised as a barrister and served on Hoylake Urban District Council, by which time he had become a Conservative Party sympathiser. During the Second World War he rose to be Deputy Chief of Staff of Second Army, playing an important role in planning sea transport to the Normandy beachhead and reaching the acting rank of brigadier.

1945-1976 - he was the Member of Parliament for Wirral.
1954-64 - held various ministerial positions under Prime Ministers Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, Harold Macmillan and Alec Douglas-Home, including Foreign Secretary (1955-60) and Chancellor of the Exchequor (1960-62).
1971-76 - Speaker of the House of Commons
1976 - he retired

He was made an Honorary Fellow of Magdalene College

Friend of George Mallory, born in Ireland, wife of Brigadier Walter Headfort Brooke.

Daughter of Clayton de Windt, cousin and wife of the 2nd Rajah of Sarawak whom she married in 1869. Mother of Charles Vyner Brooke.
Once estranged from husband after producing the necessary heirs, she returned to London, where she was at the centre of a social circle that included several of the leading literary talents of the 1890s, such as Oscar Wilde and Henry James.
Her younger brother Harry matriculated from Magdalene in 1875, and was afterwards ADC to the Rajah.
As ‘Ghita’ (her childhood name), the Ranee composed the Sarawak National Anthem (1872).

Article 'Margaret, Lady Brooke, Ranee of Sawawak' by Susannah Roberts, College Magazine No. 63 (2018-19)

Rupert Brooke studied Classics at King's College, Cambridge between 1906 and 1909 where he met and became friends with Hugh Dalton. He became involved in various Cambridge groups, and was widely acknowledged as a handsome and charismatic figure about the university. He was a member of the Fabian Society and the Marlowe Dramatic Society both of which George Mallory was also a member.

Son of Charles Johnson Brooke, 2nd Rajah of Sarawak, and Margaret de Windt. He was educated at Winchester and Magdalene College (matriculated in 1894). He failed to take a degree as his main interest was horse-racing.

He succeeded his father in 1917. His rule ended in 1946 with cession to the Crown.

Arms in Hall glass, W3.

Fellow-Commoner, 1993-2014
Cambridge University Press, 1976-2013
Managing Director, Academic & Professional Publishing, 2012-2013

Obituary: College Magazine No. 58 (2013-14)