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Educated at Westminster School, De Havilland Technical College, and Christ Church, Oxford.

Senior Research Officer, 1964; Assistant Director, Department of Applied Economics, University of Cambridge, 1975 - 1989; Official Fellow, Magdalene College, Director of Studies in Economics, 1967 - 1989 (Emeritus Fellow, 1989 - 2010); Tutor, 1974 - 1984; Senior Tutor, 1984 - 1989; Senior Proctor, 1974 - 1974.

A French sculptor best known for his Art Nouveau bronze depictions of historic figures like Mozart and Gaelic warriors, scenes from Greek mythology, rustic peasants in Tunisia, and pedigreed animals. Born in 1865 in France, he studied with his father the famed sculptor Jean Didier Début, who specialized in more traditionally realistic figurative work, as well as under Henri Michel Antoine Chapu, a renowned sculptor of bronze and marble, at the École des Beaux-Arts. Début began exhibiting both as a painter and sculptor at the Salon of 1883 up until the start of World War I, when the Salon was suspended. The artist died in 1933 in France. 

French judge and politician.

Belgian lithographer.

An Italian Renaissance sculptor from Florence. Della Robbia is noted for his colourful, tin-glazed terracotta statuary, a technique which he invented.

Mentioned by George Mallory in a letter to his wife Ruth.

Anton Ivanovich Denikin was a Russian Lieutenant General in the Imperial Russian Army (1916), later served as the Deputy Supreme Ruler of Russia during the Russian Civil War of 1917–1922. He was also a military leader of South Russia (as commander in chief).

Belgian engraver and lithographer.

Belgian liberal politician and industrialist.

Born into one of the leading Singhalese families (from the time of the Kingdom of Kandy onwards) – that of Dias Bandaranaike. ‘Mickey’ was a third-generation Law student at Trinity Hall, where his grandfather, F. R. Dias, was one of the earliest Asians admitted. His father became a High Court Judge in Ceylon.

Dias was elected a Fellow of Magdalene in 1955, when Asian Fellows were still a rarity in Cambridge. For almost half a century he was the presiding genius of Law in the College, and many of his pupils went on to become distinguished members of the bar and bench. He became President for three years in 1988 at the advanced age of 67, without holding any other previous College office except that of Director of Studies, though he served as Senior Proctor (1987-1988). A University Lecturer, his specialities were jurisprudence, Roman law, and the law of tort.

Further Reading:
Article: 'Forty Years On Mr Dias and Law in Magdalene, College Magazine, vol. 40 (1995-96) pp. 42-43

Obituary by R. Hyam, College Magazine, vol. 54, 2009-10, pp. 14-18

Promoter of book collecting among the aristocracy, and promoter of first-hand examination of books in the compilation of bibliographies.

Lowes Cato Dickinson was an English portrait painter and Christian socialist. He taught drawing with John Ruskin and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. He was a founder of the Working Men's College in London.

An English portrait painter, printmaker and caricaturist, he was the founder of a dynasty of artists who followed in his footsteps.

Writer on history and literature.

A British portrait painter, landscape artist and print maker. Dodd was born in Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales, the son of a Wesleyan minister. He trained at the Glasgow School of Art. During World War I, in 1916, he was appointed an official war artist by Charles Masterman, the head of the War Propaganda Bureau, WPB. Serving on the Western Front, he produced more than 30 portraits of senior military figures.