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Master of Magdalene College (1 October 2020 - present)

Sir Christopher Greenwood went to school in Singapore and Northamptonshire before coming up to Magdalene in 1973. He obtained his BA in Law in 1976 and LlB (now LlM) in International Law in 1977. During his undergraduate years he was President of the Cambridge Union Society (Lent Term 1976).

After being called to the Bar by Middle Temple, he became a Fellow of Magdalene in 1978. He served successively as Dean, Director of Studies in Law and Tutor. A Lecturer in the Law Faculty, he taught International Law, the Law of Armed Conflict, European Community Law, Criminal Law and Constitutional Law.

Sir Christopher left Magdalene in1996 to become Professor of International Law at the London School of Economics, specialising in international humanitarian law. During these years he also practised as a barrister, becoming a Queen’s Counsel in 1999. His court appearances included the Pinochet case in the House of Lords, cases about the Lockerbie bombing and the Kosovo conflict in the International Court of Justice and numerous cases before the European Court of Human Rights, the Court of Justice of the European Union and the English courts. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) for services to international law in 2002 and was knighted in 2009.

In 2008 he was elected by the United Nations as a Judge of the International Court of Justice and by Magdalene as an Honorary Fellow. He served on the Court until 2018 and was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) for services to international justice in the same year. The United States appointed him as one of its three appointees on the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in 2018. A Bencher of Middle Temple since 2003, he was Master Reader of the Inn in Lent 2020.

Painter. Born in Wales, his portrait of Seamus Heaney at the National Portrait Gallery led to a one-man show of contemporary poets at the Gallery in 1990. Awarded the BP Portrait Award in 1994 with Portrait of an Artist's Model (Marguerite Kelsey).

Educated at the Perse School, Cambridge and Durham University before serving in the First World War. He was stationed at Magdalene as Officer attached to a Short Course and dined frequently with the Master and Fellows. Due to the respect and affection he inspired he was formally admitted to the College at the end of the war at the age of 27 with the unusual status of Fellow-Commoner which gave him dining rights at High Table. He proceeded to his BA in 1923 by means of the examination allowances made to ex-servicemen. He retained his Fellow Commonorship until 1970 when he was made an Honorary Fellow.

He taught Music and Religious Knowledge at the Perse School and became a Governor on his retirement. He was a Scout Master and lived at Toft Manor.

Walter Gardiner was a botanist. He was a Fellow and Bursar of Clare College.

Michael Keall was born in Putney and was educated as a Chorister at King's College School, 1940-1945, at Culford School, and at King's College, Cambridge (1951-1954) where he took the Historical Tripos and a Certificate in Education.
National Service (2nd Lt, Royal Artillery), 1950-1951.
Assistant Master at King's College School, 1955-1957 and at Bedford School, 1957-1962.
Headmaster at the Junior School, Portsmouth GS, 1962-1969 and at Eastbourne College Preparatory School, 1969-1977.
Headmaster of Westminster Abbey Choir School, 1977-1987.
Junior Bursar of Magdalene College, 1989-1994.
Alumni Secretary, 1999-2012.
Fellow-Commoner, 1989-2019.

Michael took a warm interest in the student body and knew many students personally. He was interested in all student activities but in particular, he took a special interest in College music and sports, compiling the list of College Blues and Half Blues for publication in the College Magazine each year. His memory for and eager interest in every individual he met, his wide range of interests, from rugby to choral music, his unobtrusive but profound kindness, his unruffled enthusiasm and good humour, all this and more made him universally loved.

Obituary: College Magazine, No. 64 (2019-2020), PP. 29-35.

First Master of Magdalene, 1544-1546.

Dean of Bangor Cathedral from 1534. At the time he was made Master he also held two rectories of Llaneingan and Aber in Carnarvonshire and the vicarage of Terrnington St John in Norfolk to which he had been presented by the Bishop of Ely in 1541. Had no connections with Cambridge prior to being made Master.

Matriculated in 1774; Senior Wrangler in 1778 aged 19

Made a Fellow in 1778
Appointed Tutor in 1782
Appointed Professor of Chemistry in 1794
President of the College in 1798
1813-1837 Jacksonian Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy

In 1800 he resigned his Tutorship (but not his University Professorship) and became Vicar of St Giles's parish in Cambridge. He had no previous experience of parochial work. By 1817 he had built two schoolrooms - one for 400 boys and one for 300 girls, and had englarged the church from his private benevolence.
In 1836 he became Rector of Little Stonham in Suffolk where he died on 12 January 1837.

A skilled engineering model-maker, he foresaw the time when steam would be the main power for travel by land and sea, and he predicted that the technology would one day be found to travel through the air. He was also an influential pioneer and agitator against the slave trade and played a leading part in the related inauguration of the Protestant missionary movement. Marsden, Brown, Robert Grant and Lord Glenelg were among his protégés.

Articles in the College Magazine:
Article: 'William Farish, 1759-1837', by Charles Smyth, College Magazine, No. 76, December 1937
Article, ''William Farish, 1759-1837', by Dr K. R. Webb, College Magazine, No. 86, Michaelmas 1955

Master of Magdalene College, 1813 - 1853

Third son of 2nd Baron Braybrooke, he assumed the name of Grenville in recognition of a legacy from a maternal uncle. Educated at Trinity College.

He was appointed Master by his father at the controversial age of 24. This made him ineligible on two accounts as the Master should be 30 years of age 'or thereabouts' and in Holy Orders. The first was ignored and the second was resolved when he was hastily ordained deacon and priest on the same day in Trinity College Chapel.

As a Master of a College he valued good breeding and gentlemanly behaviour and was addicted to genealogy and noble pedigrees. Academic activity was low on his list of priorities.

To provide more undergraduate rooms he moved out of First Court and into a separate new Lodge in 1835.
He was also responsible for starting a project to transcribe and publish Samuel Pepys' diary which had lain unread and virtually unknown in the library [see Cunich, P., Hoyle, D., Duffy, E., Hyam, R., A History of Magdalene College Cambridge, 1428-1988 pp. 195-199 and Latham, R. C. Pepys and his Editors (Occasional Paper no 6, 1992, p. 2) for further details]

Vice-Chancellor, 1818-1819
Dean of Windsor, 1846

Arms in Hall glass, E3. Memorial brass in Chapel.

Born in Willesden, north London, on 25 July 1897. Attended University College School in Hampstead in 1912.

In December 1915 he won a scholarship in history to Peterhouse, Cambridge but war service intervened and he was commissioned into the West Yorkshire regiment. He saw active service on the western front, chiefly as his battalion's signals officer. He was wounded and captured in the German offensive of March 1918 and spent the rest of the war as a prisoner.

Willey went up to Peterhouse in January 1919, and took the second part of the historical tripos in the summer of 1920, obtaining a First. He then switched to the newly established English tripos, taking a First in 1921. He won the Le Bas prize in 1922. He began to lecture (as a freelancer) for the English course in 1923.

Following the reorganisation of the University in 1926, he held one of the new probationary faculty lectureships at Cambridge for five years.
In 1934 he was appointed to a permanent lectureship, becoming a Fellow of Pembroke College in 1935.

On 20 July 1923 he married Zélie Murlis Ricks with whom he was to have two sons and two daughters. Following his marriage he and his family lived at 282 Hills Road, but in 1938 he commissioned an architectural colleague to design a much larger house on land at 18 Adams Road, where apart from two extended periods as a visiting professor in the USA, he lived until his death.

Willey's life coincided with, and was profoundly shaped by, the heyday of the Cambridge English tripos, which had been taught for the first time in 1919.

In 1946 he was elected Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch's successor as the King Edward VII Professor at Cambridge, and he held the chair until retirement in 1964.

He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1947.
Subsequent honours included Fellowship of the Royal Society of Literature, an honorary DLitt from Manchester University, and an honorary fellowship at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was for twelve years chair of the Dove Cottage Trustees, and from 1958 to 1964 he served as president (vice-master) of his college.
He gave the Hibbert lectures in 1959.

Lord Thomas Audley’s son-in-law and successor, in virtue of his second marriage in 1558 to Margaret Audley, Thomas Audley’s daughter. A courtier and diplomat, who became probably the richest man in England, and who (fatally) planned to marry (as his fourth wife) Mary Queen of Scots. He was a benefactor to the College, though not to the extent promised (1564) in terms of funds and endowment, owing to imprisonment in 1568 and subsequent execution for treason. He made no appointment to the Mastership.

The tenth child of George III and Queen Charlotte.

Ninth child of George III and Queen Charlotte.

Renowned for his amorous escapades and as the founder in 1819 of the ‘four-in-hand club’ and leader of the Badminton and Windsor hunts.

Founder of the Royal Academy of Music, London in 1823.