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George Charlewood Turner was a pupil, Housemaster, and eventually Master at Marlborough College, Wiltshire. George won the top Foundation Scholarship at Marlborough College. He went from being Master at Marlborough, from 1926 - 1939, to being the Principal of Makerere College, Uganda, from 1939-1946, where he taught President Nyerere. He eventually became Headmaster of Charterhouse for five years, serving afterwards as Chairman of the Governing Body.

Older brother of Francis McDougall Charlewood Turner.

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.

Father of Francis Turner.

Charles Henry Turner married Edith Emma McDougall in 1877 - they lived in London, and he was eventually appointed Bishop of Islington. He died after a long illness in 1923.

Bertha Turner studied to become a doctor, and wrote 'What I mean by the Personal Doctor', an essay that won the Butterworth Prize in 1964.

Arthur Charlewood Turner became a Fellow and Junior Dean at Trinity. He was Secretary of the Anglican Fellowship from 1913- 1916. He signed up to serve in the First World War, and was killed in action on 16 January 1918, aged 37.

Mother of Francis McDougall Charlewood Turner.

She was the daughter of Francis McDougall, the first Bishop of Sarawak. They eventually moved from Sarawak to Godmanchester, where her future husband, Charles Henry Turner, was her father's curate. She married Charles Henry Turner in 1877.

They lived in London. Charles Henry Turner was made Bishop of Islington. Edith visited and gave speeches at many parishes.

After Charles Henry Turner's death in 1923, Edith moved back to Godmanchester, aged 67. Subsequently, her son George Turner, who had become headmaster of Marlborough School, invited her and Ruth Turner (her daughter) to live with him at Marlborough.

After George Turner became Principal of Makerere College in Uganda, Edith and Ruth moved to live with Ralph Turner (her eldest son) in at Westbury Vicarage. From there, the eventually moved to Potterne in Wiltshire.

She died in the spring of 1949.

For a drawing of her see MCPP/FT/2/2/6

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

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.

Born in Rochester and educated at Repton School and Magdalene College, Cambridge

During World War II he was an assistant adjutant in the Rifle Brigade. After the war he worked for the Ford Motor Company

1952-55 Secretary to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
1955 joined the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
1960-70 assistant general administrator
1960-80 general administrator until 1980, when it was renamed general director
1988 retired

He studied Fine Arts at the Westminster School of Art. During World War II, he was commissioned in the Intelligence Corps and joined the diplomatic service as an Attaché de Presse in the British embassies of Baghdad and Cairo. He resigned in 1948 to become a full-time portrait painter and in 1949 had his first one-man show in London and exhibited at the Royal Academy. A period of global travelling was followed by ten years painting in the United States (New York and Washington D.C.) His exhibition at the Washington gallery was opened by the then British Ambassador, the Earl of Cromer, formerly Governor of the Bank of England. In the early 1960s, he spent time in Cambridge doing portraits of college luminaries and also for local families. After he returned to England in 1976, Robert Tollast divided his time among Switzerland, France (Paris) and Italy (Milan and Florence) and Austria (Vienna) with occasional visits to Germany. During long visits to South Africa, he painted three generations of the Oppenheimer family, among other prominent figures in industry. The list of Tollast's most interesting portrait commissions includes clients internationally prominent in the arts, sciences, industry and politics, of which one of the most notable is that of Sir Winston Churchill. This was the last official portrait, of which the sitter — notoriously difficult over portraits of himself — went on record to express his approval.
Robert Tollast's most recent important commission was to paint, in oil, all the partners of the partners of the Geneva private bank Lombard Odier & Cie. He also works in water-colour and pastel and is a notably successful painter of children. At the time of his death, Tollast was royal court painter to the Habsburg family of Austria.

Born on in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State.

In December 1910 he won an exhibition to Exeter College, Oxford and went up to the University in 1911 to read Classics. In 1913 he achieved a Second and changed to study English. He achieved a First in his finals in 1915.

He served in France during the war including at the Battle of the Somme. In October 1916 he got Trench Fever and returned to England where he remained for the rest of the war.

1920 – appointed reader in English language at the University of Leeds.
1925 – 1945 held the Rawlinson and Bosworth chair of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University and was a Fellow of Pembroke College.
1945 – 1959 was the Merton Professor of English Language and Literature and Fellow of Merton College.

Tolkien was a close friend of C. S. Lewis, a co-member of the informal literary discussion group The Inklings.

He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II on 28 March 1972.

Amongst his work are The Silmarillion, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

A British artist. He was a member of the Royal Academy and well known as a portrait painter in the 1920s and 1930s. Todd was born in Helston in Cornwall. His father, Ralph Todd was a successful artist who taught at the Central School of Arts & Crafts in London. The younger Todd received art tuition from Stanhope Forbes in Newlyn before attending the Central School as a student. Todd served in the British Army during the First World War as a driver with the Army Service Corps. After the War, Todd had a picture exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1918. He enrolled at the Slade School of Fine Art and was there throughout 1920 and 1921. When he left the Slade, Todd travelled throughout France, Holland and Italy. Returning to Britain, Todd established himself as a successful artist becoming known for his portraits and his pastel and etching works.

British engraver.

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

Born at 19 Waverley Road, Liverpool. Attended Liverpool High School from the age of 13 to 16. In 1896 she entered Froebel College in Birmingham run by Miss Bishop and Miss Last for Kindergarden training. In 1898 she and her family spent the summer holidays at Ballaigner in the Jura Mountains and met Lady Burne-Jones (Aunt of Rudyard Kipling). She was later asked by Lady Burne-Jones to spend a fortnight with her at North End House, Rottindean looking after Angela and Denis who were staying with her whilst their parents were away.

She met Mrs Kipling whilst staying with Lady Burne-Jones. Mrs Carrie Kipling asked her to look after her children, Elsie and John (aged 5 and 3) whilst their nurse as on holiday for a month. She was then asked to accompany the family to South Africa in December 1900.

After their return she worked partly for herself (embroidery) and travelled in the United States and Canada. She then spent 10 years working for Mr (later Sir) Robert Hudson and his daughter Dorothy in Westminster. This ended once Dorothy turned 21. Sylvia moved to the house she had bought in Hampstead Garden Suburbs. She lived on money she earned embroidering children's clothes, an annuity left by Sir Robert, and an allowance from her mother.

In 1916 she acted as Matron of a rest home for retired Army sisters and nurses near Monte Carlo.

An old friend of George Mallory's, whom he had known since the climbing days at Pen y Pass in Wales.

Mistress of Lord Byron, writing her own biographical accounts of him.