Showing 1207 results

Robert Painter worked with his son Robert Painter Junior. Need more evidence to work out their dates and which is submitting the bill. This could be worked out by a closer inspection of handwriting.

College cook. Was succeeded by William Winder. The exact date is unknown but was between 1782-84.

Buttery Book starting in 1743 [MCAD/14/2/1/19] is the first in which John Palmer's name appears.

Born on 11 July 1777, the 4th sone of William Bird of Hereford

Admitted a pensioner aged 16 Magdalene College 9 July 1794
Scholar 1794
BA 1799
MA 1802

Ordained priest Bristol, Litt. dim . from Hereford 1801
Rector of Dinedor, Herefordshire, 1801-54
Rector of Mordiford, Herefordshire, 1803-54
Rural Dean of Ross, Herefordshire

The son of Henry Beynon, merchant of Winchester Place, Winchester, Pentonville, Middlesex

Admitted as a pensioner at Magdalene College aged 16 on 31 October 1793:10:31 as Batley, E. T.

Matriculated in Michaelmas term 1794
Scholar 1797
BA 1798
MA 1801
Fellow, as Batley, E. T
In Holy Orders

Assumed the surname of Beynon in lieu of Batley on his marriage with Martha Beynon daughter of Edward Beynon of Carshalton, Surrey , 1 November 1805

Died aged 65 Carshalton, Surrey, 1842

Supplied lamps, candles, oil, and sand to the College.

Born in Willenhall, Staffordshire and was the son of an engineer.
Educated at West Bridgford Grammar School and Nottingham University.

In 1936 he moved to Cambridge where he taught for the University Correspondence College. He produced a number of editions for the University Tutorial Press.

In 1956, a chance meeting with John Stevens (Director of Studies at Magdalene) secured an invitation to supervise for the College.
1965 - became a Lecturer in English
1980 - he retired and was made a Fellow-Commoner

He met his first wife, Nell, at local meetings of young socialists during the 1930s. They married in 1936 and had two sons.
After her death in 1989 he married Penny Moffett.

He died in Girton in 2000.

Obituary in the College Magazine, 1999-2000, pp. 14-15

Son of a Belfast solicitor, educated at Malvern School and University College Oxford
Achieved Firsts in Mods & Greats and English
Fellow and Tutor of Magdalen College, Oxford, 1925-1954
Appointed the first Professor of Medieval & Renaissance English at Cambridge, and was a Professorial Fellow of Magdalene College, 1954-1963
Made an Honorary Fellow in 1963.

College Magazine
Obituary - College Magazine, vol. 8 (1963-64) pp.13-14

Book review of The Discarded Image, College Magazine, vol. 8 (1963-64) pp.17-21

Article - 'C.S. Lewis: from Magdalen to Magdalene (1954)', by John Constable, College Magazine, vol. 32 (1987-88) pp. 42-46

Article - 'Celebrating C. S. Lewis', by Simon Barrington-Ward, College Magazine, vol. 43 (1998-99) pp. 31-33

Memorial slate in Chapel

Edward Fenton was an undergraduate at Magdalene College (admitted 1977).

He has worked as a writer, publisher and editor. He started out as a music journalist for NME, before getting his first job in publishing. His novel Scorched Earth won the Sinclair Prize for Fiction.

He has written and/or researched over twenty radio documentaries, broadcast on BBC Radios 1, 3 and 4, including a documentary on Samuel Pepys’s love of music. He has a particular interest in diaries, and in 1998 he set up an independent publishing company, Day Books.

Frederick was born in Cambridge and was the third son of solicitor Stephen Adcock (1803-1867) and his wife Johanna (née Poland) (1805-1883).

He went to the Perse School, Cambridge and then to Jesus College Cambridge. He studied Law and obtained his L.L.B in 1866 and his L.L.M in 1869. He did not go to Jesus College until 1862 and was already working as a solicitor before entering University life.

He married widow Fanny Hardwicke at St George’s Church, Hannover Square in London on 31 January 1859. They had at least three children: Laura Belle (1861-1922), Emma Robinson (1862-1875) and Richard Robinson (1865-1905). He practised at 7 Regent Terrace (1861) and was widowed in 1867 when he was 32 years old.

He married for a second time to Mary Moseley at St Mark’s Church, Tollington Park, London on 3 May 1870, and was widowed for a second time in 1875. He died at his home at 30 Regent Street aged 47 years old.

Augustine was born to Joseph Brimley and Jane Gutteridge and baptised at the Baptist church in Blunham Bedfordshire.

He married Hannah Gotobed (1789–1825) on 11 March 1819. They had at least four children: George (1819), Harriet (1821-1822) and Caroline (1823). Hannah died in 1825 at the age of 35. Augustine went on to marry her sister Harriet (1795-1833) on the 24 June 1827 at St Georges Church, Hanover Square, London. They had 2 children Harriett (1829) and Fanny (1831). Harriett died in 1933 after a long illness, aged 39.

Mayor A.G. Brimley from Mayors of Cambridge:
Augustine was a grocer, wholesale grocer, hop and provision merchant, a Deacon at St Andrew’s Baptist church and an Alderman of the borough, serving on many committees. From 1853 to 1854 he served at Mayor and on one occasion he met Prince Albert.

In 1841 Augustine and George were living at 4 Hills Road, Cambridge. In 1851 he was living at 13 Park Terrace, Cambridge with 2 unmarried daughters. Harriet who married William Henry Farthing Johnson and Caroline who married Alexander Macmillan, and two sisters in law.

Member of staff of the British Museum department of Prints & Drawings. Joined 1914, promoted Higher Clerical Officer in January 1947, and Higher Executive Officer in 1955. MBE 1960, the year of his retirement. In his retirement he worked briefly for Colnaghi, but mainly on compiling the catalogue of the print collection of Samuel Pepys in Magdalene College, Cambridge.

Master of Magdalene College, 1967-1978

Educated at Trinity College, and Fellow of Trinity, 1931-1933, 1946-1950 (University Lecturer in Classics, 1947). Published an extremely successful translation of Plato’s Symposium (1951). Head Master of Westminster School (1950-1957) and of Rugby (1957-1966); chairman of the Headmasters’ Conference. Honorary Fellow , 1978.

‘Not so hearty as Willink, not so pedagogic as Ramsay, not so melancholy as Benson, and not so teetotal as Donaldson’ – Lord Ramsey, on Hamilton’s retirement (College Magazine 22 (1977-78) p 2). What most people remember is his baleful humour.

Further reading:
College Magazine vol. 22 (1977-78) pp. 2-4 (D. W. Babbage)
Obituary College Magazine vol. 32 (1987-88) pp. 11-16 (R. Hyam)
College Magazine vol. 36 (1991-92) pp. 59-61 (review by R. Luckett)

Born at Audley End, the son of 7th Lord Braybrooke and Dorothy Edith Lawson.

Educated at Eton.

Admitted to Magdalene as a Pensioner in October 1937 to study Classics.

Succeeded on the death of his father in 1941 to become 8th Baron Braybrooke and Visitor of Magdalene College.

We served as a Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards during the Second World War and was killed on active service in Tunisia on 23 January 1943. He is buried in the Medjez el Bab Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery.

Succeeded William Murfitt as the College cook. The exact date is unknown but was between 1782-84.

He learned his trade from Richard Wallis Nash, sometime cook at Christ’s College, to whom he was apprenticed in 1768 shortly after his father’s death.
A newspaper report from 1800 suggests he was at least briefly at the Pickerel in Cambridge in 1799 / 1800.
William’s son James Winder remained in Cambridge and was a baker.

He was succeeded in 1799 as College cook by Thomas Riddel.

William Winder’s uncle was Robert Gunnell, a Cambridge-born man who ended up in London as clerk to the House of Commons.
Gunnell’s wife was Ann Rosea whose brother, Jessintour Rosea, was cook to the Duke of Somerset.

John Purchas was a well-established haberdasher and mercer. He sold his business to Joseph Hart in 1784.

He served as Mayor of Cambridge in 1760

Matriculated in 1927.
Fairfax Scott got him involved in the Cambridge University Press, where he learned typography, and from there he studied lettering (very briefly) with Eric Gill. During the war he worked on aerial photographic interpretation, making a major contribution to the war effort. He was a consummate designer of book-plates, but also designed royal arms, and for The Times and the Bank of England. In Magdalene he designed the 1939-1945 War Memorial (cut by his cousin Will Carter). Made an Honorary Fellow in 1978.

Admitted to Magdalene in 1924.

He was a prominent figure in the legal and ecclesiastical fields. He served as Vicar General of the Province of York (1944-1972) and Dean of the Arches Court of Canterbury. He was also a Queen's Counsel (QC) and a leading ecclesiastical lawyer.

His bequest to Magdalene College, Cambridge, helped establish the Wigglesworth Law Library.

Ivor Richards was born at Hillside, Sandbach, Cheshire , and was he son of William Armstrong Richards, a chemical engineer originally from Swansea, and his wife, Mary Anne, daughter of William Haigh, a Yorkshire wool manufacturer. On his father's death in 1902 Richards moved with his mother and brothers to Bristol, where he attended Clifton College from 1905 to 1911. In 1907 he had an attack of tuberculos which kept him away from school for over a year.

In 1911 he matriculated from Magdalene College with an exhibition to study history. Within a few months he switched to moral sciences and studied ethics, logic, and psychology.

In 1922 he became a College Lecturer in English and Moral Sciences.

In 1926, when a separate English faculty was created as part of a general restructuring of the University's teaching arrangements, he was appointed a University Lecturer. In the same year he was made a Fellow. He immediately took a year's leave and travelled to America, Japan, and China. In Honolulu, on 31 December 1926, he married Dorothy Eleanor (1894–1986). The couple had first met on a climbing holiday in Wales in 1917, and they shared a lifelong passion for mountaineering.

In 1944 he became a Professor at Harvard, but returned to Magdalene in his retirement. He became an Honorary Fellow in 1964.

In 1979 he returned to China again for a lecture tour, but was taken seriously ill there and had to be flown back to England. He died in Cambridge on 7 September 1979.

He was a founding father of the English Faculty and originator of ‘practical criticism’. He was a brilliant literary critic and linguistic philosopher, a very good poet, a distinguished mountaineer, a tireless promoter of ‘Basic’ English (on which he collaborated with C. K. Ogden, a Magdalene man slightly his senior), and something of an intellectual guru in the USA.

Commemorative tablet at Wentworth House.

Further reading:
College Magazine, No. 23 (1978-79) pp. 1-7 (Sir William Empson, W. Hamilton)
Book Review, College Magazine, No. 34 (1989-90) pp. 60-63 (R. Luckett and J. E. Stevens)