A Netherlandish portrait painter, much in demand by the courts of Europe. He has also been referred to as Antoon, Anthonius, Anthonis or Mor van Dashorst, and as Antonio Moro, António Mouro, Anthony More, etc., but signed most of his portraits as Anthonis Mor
George Nuttall was born in San Francisco, California, and was the second son of Robert Kennedy Nuttall MD, from Tittour, co. Wicklow, and his wife, Magdalena. In 1865 the family returned to Europe, and the children were educated in England, France, Germany, and Switzerland and as a result Nuttall could speak several languages. He returned to America in 1878 and entered the University of California, where he proceeded MD in 1884. Between 1886 and 1891 he studied botany and zoology in Germany. He spent further time studying in America and Germany before giving a course of lectures on bacteriology in Cambridge in 1899.
In 1901 was appointed University Lecturer in bacteriology and preventive medicine and in the same year founded the Journal of Hygiene which he edited up to the time of his death. In 1908 he founded Parasitology, which he edited until 1933.
In 1906 he was elected the first Quick Professor of Biology at Cambridge (1906 - 1931). In 1907 he became a professorial Fellow at Magdalene in succession to Alfred Newton.
He was the founder of the Molteno Institute for Research in Parasitology (later known as the Molteno Institute of Biology and Parasitology), which was formally opened in 1921.
Nuttall resigned the Quick Professorship in 1931 and became Emeritus Professor of Biology.
In 1895 he had married Paula and they had two sons and a daughter. His hobby was heraldry. He died suddenly on 16 December 1937.
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Further Reading: College Magazine, Vol. X, No. 9, December 1938 'George Henry Falkiner Nuttall' by A. S. Ramsey and David Keilin
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Anglo-Hungarian painter known particularly for his portraits of royal and aristocratic personages. In 1900, he married Lucy Guinness of Stillorgan, County Dublin, and he became a British subject in 1914
Sister of Lord Howard de Walden, the first Lord Braybrooke, married the Revd Dr William Parker DD, FRS (1714 -1802), Rector of St James’s, Westminster, and curate of Catharine Cree Church, eminent preacher, royal chaplain and chaplain to the Bishop of London . Mary succeeded to the family estates on the death of her brother in 1797, so she and her husband had a life interest in Audley End, and as ‘owners’ under the old Statutes (an arrangement which lasted until 1926, when the right was vested in the Braybrooke family, not the ownership of Audley End), they jointly signed the patent for the presentation of William Gretton to the mastership in 1797; however, they did not reside at Audley End.
Matriculated in 1865. He was sent down for the remainder of term on 26 May 1869 after a fight near the railway station. He failed to return to College.
Leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party, 1880-1890.
Captain William O’Shea, MP, brought a divorce case against his wife who was Parnell’s long-term mistress and this destroyed Parnell’s political career.
The College has an annual Parnell Visiting Fellowship.
Further reading about Parnell's time in Cambridge please see Ged Martin's articles on his website: https://www.gedmartin.net/martinalia-mainmenu-3?task=blogcategory&id=3
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College Magazine, No. 6, (1961-62), pp. 13-16.
Irish artist, painter and designer. He was born in Dublin and studied architecture at the Bolton Street College of Technology. His painting style was strongly influenced by pop art. He is particularly well known for his hyperrealistic renderings of well known Irish literary, historical or establishment figures.
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.'
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Master of Magdalene College, 1781-1797
Educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford in the late 1730s where he was a young tearaway, repeatedly in trouble for being drunk, even during divine service, which he often skipped. A major transformation in his character must later have taken place, perhaps due to his service as an Army Chaplain.
He lost his left arm 'when very young' the result of 'the unexpected going off of his companion's gun'. He was skilful in concealing the injury.
Married Martha Ferrar in 1755.
Vice-Chancellor, 1784-1785.
Dean of Peterborough, 1792-1797.
The first Anglican sermons against the slave trade were preached by Peckard in the College Chapel, leading to courageous and galvanic sermons in Great St Mary’s in 1783 and 1784, and to the prize essay which inspired Thomas Clarkson's campaign. Peckard was also a notable benefactor to the College.
Memorial brass in the Old Library.
College Mgazine:
Article: 'Peter Peckard', College Magazine, No. 1, 1956-57, pp.15-23
Article: 'The Peckard Bicentenary', College Magazine, vol. 42, 1997-98, pp. 29-31
Martha Peckard was a published poet in her day. Her Ode to Spring and Ode to Cynthia were featured in the periodicals The Gentleman's Magazine and The Weekly Magazine, or Edinburgh Amusement. She was the eldest daughter of Edward Ferrar, a lawyer in Huntingdonshire, and she married Peter Peckard in 1755. She ensured the safe transfer of the Ferrar Papers and Peckard's personal library to Magdalene College upon Peckard's death.
Matriculated at Magdalene College in 1890. One of the first men to take the Mechanical Sciences Tripos. After working on Parsons steam turbines, and teaching at the Leys School, he returned to the Engineering Department in 1898, where he continued to lecture until 1937, on mechanics and thermodynamics.
Made a Fellow at Magdalene in 1909; Steward, 1912-1913, 1942-1945; Bursar, 1913-1937, 1943-1947. He was brought out of retirement to fill the gap left by the departure of his successor.
'Talbot Peel was an Engineer and was noted for bringing inaccurate Classical phrases into ordinary conversation; for instance he would speak of 'hoi populoi', 'Reminiscences Magdalene, 1923-1927 by A.M Ramsey, College Magazine, No. 30 (1985-86)
Further reading:
Article: 'Mr Talbot Peel, 1872-1954', College Magazine, No. 85 (1954) pp. 21-23
Matriculated from Magdalene College in 1839. He was directly descended through his mother from Archbishop Thomas Cranmer’s sister.
Rowed in the Blue Boat, 1840, 1841, 1842.
‘Architect, archaeologist and astronomer’, surveyor of the fabric of St Paul’s Cathedral (1852-1897), he is chiefly remembered as an architectural historian. His famous work Principles of Athenian Architecture (1851, 1888, 1973) demonstrated that there were no straight lines in the Parthenon (entasis of the columns).
One of the first Honorary Fellows, 1885.
President of the RIBA, 1894-1896, and first director of the British School at Athens.
For Magdalene he undertook the restoration of the Street Front and laid out River Court (he designed the gates); part of the Chapel Court in St John’s is also his work.
Further reading:
Article: 'Unbuilt Magdalene I Penrose's Plan for Second Court (1872-73)', College Magazine, No. 30, (1985-86), pp. 21-24 (R. Hyam)
Great uncle of Samuel Pepys, and patriarch of the family.
Talbot Pepys was the youngest son of John Pepys of Cottenham, Cambridgeshire and his wife Edith Talbot. He was baptised at Impington on 2 April 1583. He inherited the site of his father's mansion at Impington when he was six years old in 1589.
He matriculated from King's College, Cambridge in 1595 and became a scholar of Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 1601. He was admitted at Middle Temple on 13 May 1605 and was called to the bar in 1613. Between 1624 and 1660 he served as Recorder of Cambridge.
In 1625 he was elected Member of Parliament for Cambridge. He was Reader of Middle Temple in 1631 and Treasurer in 1640. He was often visited by his great nephew Samuel Pepys.
Pepys married firstly, Beatrice Castell, daughter of John Castell of Raveningham, Norfolk on 3 August 1617. They had five children. After Beatrice's death he married Paulina, who died in 1626. He married his third wife Mary Tesmond not long after Paulina's death. His last wife was Mary Barker.
Talbot Pepys died at the age of 82 at Impington.
Mary Skinner became Pepys' mistress after the death of his wife and remained with him until the end of his life, accepted by his friends and his family as his partner.
Elizabeth de St Michel was born at Bideford, Devon, on 23 October 1640. She was the daughter of Alexandre le Marchant de St Michel and Dorothea Fleetwood. The family lived in Devon, where Dorothea had inherited land. They later lost this property and subsequently travelled between Germany, Flanders, and Ireland. Dorothea, along with Elizabeth and her brother Balthasar, fled to Paris after their fortunes had been undermined by Alexandre's increasingly determined religious views. Her mother intended that Elizabeth should become a nun, and she was briefly placed in the city's Ursuline convent before she and Balty were removed to London by their father.
It was in London that Elizabeth met Samuel Pepys, then in the employ of Edward Mountagu, later first earl of Sandwich. Details of the circumstances of their meeting remain unknown, though it is evident, given that neither party stood to gain financially from the union, that theirs was a love match. The couple were married at a civil service at St Margaret's, Westminster, on 1 December 1655, when Elizabeth, described as being of St Martin-in-the-Fields, was aged fifteen and Samuel twenty-two. By the time of this service the couple had apparently already 'married' in an unrecorded religious ceremony which took place on 10 October, the date Pepys identified as their anniversary during his years of diary keeping.
The early months of their marriage were characterised by antagonism and argument. The cramped conditions of his attic apartment at Whitehall Palace exacerbated both Elizabeth's irritation at the prosaic nature of married life and Samuel's jealousy and sexual frustration which derived, in part, from his own and his wife's recurrent ill health. Within a year of their marriage Elizabeth left her husband to stay with her family at Charing Cross returning to Whitehall in December 1657. In August of the following year the couple left for a house in Axe Yard, Westminster, where they stayed until July 1660 before moving to the Navy Office at Seething Lane.
By this date Pepys had begun a diary, which he maintained daily until six months before his wife's death. Pepys never named her in his journal but referred to 'his wife'.
Elizabeth gained additional leisure time as her husband's career, and salary, improved over the decade. She also enjoyed more freedom than many women of her status on account of the marriage remaining childless.
In June 1669 Elizabeth accompanied her husband and brother on a tour of northern France and the Netherlands. Here she contracted the fever, probably typhoid, which developed during their return journey and from which, aged twenty-nine, she died at Seething Lane on 10 November.
Percy Farrar was born in 1857 in Chatteris, Cambridgeshire. He was President of the Alpine Club between 1917-1919 and was an original member of the Mount Everest Committee (a joint body composed of Alpine Club and Royal Geographical Society members that was set up to co-ordinate the reconnaissance of the approaches to and possible routes up Mount Everest in 1921). He had been party to the discussions that led to this body's formation and proposing the mountain as an achievable mountaineering objective Farrar's role was, amongst other things, to raise funds for the expedition. He was the one who successfully proposed that George Mallory, to whom he had been introduced at one of Geoffrey Winthrop Young's parties at Pen-y-Pass in 1909, should go on the initial 1921 expedition.
Samuel Pepys was admitted as a Sizar to Magdalene College in October 1650, and was subsequently a benefactor to the College. His most notable appointments to which he was appointed are as follows: Secretary to the Admiralty, 1673-1679, 1684-1689; MP for Castle Rising, 1673-1679, and Harwich 1679, 1685; Deputy Lieutenant for Huntingdonshire, 1685-1689; President of the Royal Society, 1684-1686. Pepys kept his celebrated diary ran from January 1660 to May 1669.
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Further reading:
Latham, R. C. & Matthews, W. eds, The Diary (11 vols, 1970-1983)
Cunich, P., Hoyle, D., Duffy, E., Hyam, R., A History of Magdalene College Cambridge, 1428-1988 pp. 129-130
Article: ‘Pepys and Pascal’ College Magazine, vol. 86 (1955), pp. 5-8 (R. W. Ladborough)
Article: 'The Religion of Pepys' College Magazine, vol. 27 (1982-83) pp. 52-59 (E. Duffy and J. E. Stevens)
Article: 'Pepys and the Law', vol. 30 (1985-86) pp. (R. W. M. Dias)
Article: 'Pepys's Health Problems', vol. 42 (1997-98) pp. 40-45 (M. Keynes)
Among the biographies:
Ollard, R. Pepys: A Biography (1974)
Tomalin, C. Samuel Pepys: the Unequalled Self (2002)
An English portrait painter, a pupil of Peter Lely, who approached his teacher in artistic excellence, but whose life was cut short by a dissolute lifestyle.
The leading portrait painter in England during the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and was court painter to English and British monarchs from Charles II to George I.
Alice Gaselee (née Frost) was the mother of Sir Stephen Gaselee, Pepys Librarian.
Dr Tom Longstaff was a member of the 1922 British Mount Everest Expedition, serving as medical officer.
Tom Longstaff was the first person to climb a summit of over 7,000 metres in elevation, Trisul, in the India/Pakistan Himalayas in 1907. He also made important explorations and climbs in Tibet, Nepal, the Karakoram, Spitsbergen, Greenland, and Baffin Island. He was president of the (British) Alpine Club from 1947 to 1949 and a founding member of The Alpine Ski Club in 1908. He was the chief medical officer and naturalist on the 1922 British Mount Everest expedition.
Marcellus Laroon the elder was a Dutch-born painter and engraver. He came to England when he was young and spent several years in Yorkshire. By 1674 he had settled in London where he was a member of the Painter-Stainers Company. He was frequently employed to paint draperies for Sir Godfrey Kneller, and was well known as a copyist.
He provided the drawings for the popular series of prints "The Cries of London".
He married the daughter of Jeremiah Keene, a builder, of Little Sutton, near Chiswick, by whom he had a large family, including three sons, who were brought up in his profession.
He died of consumption at Richmond, Surrey on 11 March 1702.
Matriculated in 1870. Senior Classic, 1875, Chancellor’s Medalist. Made a Fellow in 1875.
Tutor, 1896-1912
President, 1896-1912.
Peskett was the first married Fellow (1882)
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Obituary: College Magazine vol. 68 (1932) pp. 29-31
University Serena Professor of Italian (1929-1933), and formerly Professor of English at Naples. A stylish scholar, translator and poet, who died aged 46 from tuberculosis.
Made a Fellow in 1929.
‘Piccoli had it in him to be one of the dominant men of intellectual Europe – perhaps to bring English thought and feeling into that living touch with Europe (not Paris) we have so long needed’ (College Magazine vol. 70 (1933) pp.65-67).
‘By temperament he was a Neapolitan and he liked to explain his bold almost mask-like features – out of which the prominent mobile eyes piercingly, kindly, ironically, pensively, but always livingly, glanced – as proof of the survival of the ancient Numidian Mediterranean race, the race of Hannibal and Augustine’(College Magazine vol. 70 (1933) pp.65-67).
Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi was an Italian mountaineer and explorer known for his Arctic explorations and for his mountaineering expeditions, particularly to Mount Saint Elias (Alaska–Yukon) and K2 (Pakistan–China). In 1906 he led an expedition to the Ruwenzori Range (5,125 m), in Uganda. He scaled sixteen summits in the range, including the six principal peaks. One of them, Mount Luigi di Savoia, bears his name. The highest peak was reached on 18 June 1906.
In 1909 he aimed to climb K2 in Karakoram and he and his team reached a height of 6,250 m. The standard route up the mountain (formerly known as K2's East Ridge) climbs today on the Abruzzi Spur.
In an attempt on Chogolisa he and his companions again failed to reach the summit, but set a world altitude record, a height of approximately 7,500 m (24,600 ft) before turning around just 150 m below the summit due to bad weather.
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 grandson, 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.
An English portrait painter. Hudson was most prolific between 1740 and 1760 and, from 1745 until 1755 was the most successful London portraitist.