William Rodolph Cornish (Bill) was born on 9 August 1937
Educated St Peter's College, Adelaide, University of Adelaide, and Wadham College, Oxford
Assistant Lecturer in Law, London School of Economics, 1962-68
Reader in Law, Queen Mary College, London, 1969-70
Professor of English Law, London School of Economics, 1970-90
Professor of Law (1973), Cambridge, 1990-95
Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Cambridge, 1995-2004
Honorary Fellow, London School of Economics, 1997
Bencher of Gray's Inn, 1998
Hon LLD, University of Edinburgh, 2004
University of Adelaide 2018
Hon Dr. Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, 2018
Fellow 1990-2004
Life Fellow, 2004-2022
President 1998-2001
Married Lovedy Moule 1964. Two daughters, one son
Died 8 January 2022, aged 84
Obituary by Neil Jones College Magazine, No. 66 (2021-22), pp. 13-19
Guy Walter Otter was born on 1 November 1905 at Slinfold, Horsham, Sussex. He matriculated on 22 October 1924 having been admitted to Magdalene College. He studied Geology, Botany and Zoology and Comparative Anatomy for Part I of the Natural Sciences Tripos, as the honours BA is known, and was awarded a third class pass in the examinations in Easter term 1927. He graduated BA on 21 June 1927 and MA on 18 November 1932. He was admitted as a Research Student in Michaelmas term 1934 and approved for the MSc degree on 25 February 1939 for a thesis entitled 'A study of the morphology of four species of Cecidomyid larvae - Diptera'. He graduated MSc on 25 February 1939 (source: UA Graduati 12, Exam.L.41).
In 1936 he married Peggy Leslie Dawson Waugh (1908-2004) in Westminster, London. Their daughter was Caroline Margaret Otter (1941-1993).
E. F. Benson Frederic was born at Wellington College. He was the third son of Edward White Benson (1829–1896), headmaster of Wellington College and subsequently archbishop of Canterbury, and his wife, Mary Sidgwick (1841–1918). He was a younger brother of A. C. Benson (Master of Magdalene College, 1915-1925), Mary Eleanor Benson (1863–1890), and Margaret Benson (1865–1916), and an elder brother of Robert Hugh Benson (1871–1914). He was educated at Temple Grove School, Sheen, at Marlborough College, and at King's College, Cambridge, where he was exhibitioner (1888) and scholar (1890), and secured first classes in both parts of the classical tripos (1890, 1891).
Worked in Athens for the British School of Archaeology (1892–5) and in Egypt for the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies (1895). His first novel, Dodo, was published in 1893. From 1895 to 1918 he lived in London and devoted himself to writing. From 1918 he lived for the greater part of each year at Lamb House, Rye, Sussex, which had been the home of Henry James.
He published at least ninety-three books, excluding collaborations. His writings fall into three groups: novels of social satire, reminiscences, and horror stories.
Benson never married and lived alone in Rye. He was mayor of Rye from 1934 to 1937 and a JP. He was elected an honorary fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, in 1938 and was appointed OBE. He died in University College Hospital, London, on 29 February 1940, and was buried in the Rye cemetery after a funeral conducted by the bishop of Chichester.
The E. F. Benson Society was founded in London in 1984.
Walter Henry Whitear was a tea merchant, a writer for the Chiswick Times, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Honorary Secretary of the Hogarth House Preservation Committee.
Edwin Chappell, B.Sc., A.C.G.I., Assoc.M.Inst.C.E., was a naval instructor in the Royal Navy and a lecturer in engineering science at the City and Guilds’ (Engineering) College and Imperial College. Chappell was also a maritime historian and scholar of Samuel Pepys, and edited several works concerning the diarist.
Granson of Nicholas Spierinck (c. 1470 - 1546) from the Netherlands. He left prior to 1500 and went first to Lille in France before arriving in Cambridge c. 1501. He was a book binder / stationer and also a beer brewer. He left the Cross Keys Inn to his grandon Nicholas in his will.
In 1534 Henry VIII granted the University the right to nominate three printers and sellers of books to print books approved by the Chancellor and to sell them in the University and elsewhere. Nicholas, along with Garrett Godfrey and Segar Nicholson, became one of the first three printers of what later became the Cambridge University Press.
Dr Hoyle studied history and theology at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. BA 1980 and MA 1983. He completed his PhD reseach at Magdalene College in 1991.
He was ordained as a deacon in 1986 and as a priest in 1987. He was a Fellow and Chaplain (later Dean) of Magdalene College.
In 2010 he became Dean of Bristol and in 2020 he was awarded an MBE for service to the community whilst Dean of Bristol.
In 2019 he was made Dean of Westminster. He officiated at the State Funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and at the Coronation of Their Majesties The King and Queen.