Possibly Head Porter.
Robert Cripps is a passionate art collector and generous benefactor and supporter of Magdalene College. He was made an Honorary Fellow in 2005 and the art gallery in the new student library was named in his honour.
Admitted as a pensioner at Magdalene College in October 1876.
Was a D.L. (Deputy Lieutenant) and J.P. (Justice of the Peace).
He died at Bronsil, Eastnor, Ledbury aged 70.
Educated at Eton College and Westcott House. Matriculated from Magdalene in 1950 (Scholar).
1956 - 1960 Chaplain
1963 - 1969 Fellow and Dean of Chapel
1975 - 1985 General Secretary of the Church Missionary Society
1985 - 1997 Bishop of Coventry
1987 - 1991 Chairman, Partnership for World Mission
1986 - 1996 International Affairs Committee, Board for Social Responsibility of General Synod
1987 made an Honorary Fellow 1987
1997 (resident) Honorary Assistant Chaplain
1989 made a Prelate of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG 2001).
College Magazine
Article vol. 32 (1987–88) p. 17
Obituary by Ronald Hyam, College Magazine, No. 64 (2019-20), pp. 11-17
Matriculated in 1927 and achieved a first class in all parts of the Mathematical Tripos.
Chief Cryptographer at Bletchley Park, during the Second World War, where ‘the outstanding skill and inventiveness of Dennis Babbage and his team’ is now acknowledged (D. Taunt), together with his legendary skill at billiards (Michael Smith, Station X: the code-breakers of Bletchley Park (2000) p 41).
Bye-Fellow, 1931 - 1933
Fellow, 1933 - 1991
Director of Studies in Mathematics, 1934 - 1977
Tutor, 1946
Senior Tutor, 1964 - 1973
President 1973 - 1979 (Acting Master, Michaelmas, 1978)
University Lecturer, 1936 - 1976
Senior Proctor, 1953 - 1954
In March 1962 he married Stephana Gaselee, daughter of Lady Gaselee and the late Sir Stephen Gaselee (Fellow of Magdalene, 1908 - 1943).
He was a distant relative of the 19th century mathematician Charles Babbage but was not a descendant.
Matriculated at Magdalene College, February 1697/98. Elected as a Fellow in 1700.
Was a benefactor of Magdalene College and his gift met the costs of installing the Pepys Library in 1724 and an annual commemoration.
Tory MP for Cambridge University, 1702, 1705, 1708-10.
Succeeded as 5th Earl of Anglesey and 6th Viscount Valentia in 1710.
Served as the High Steward of the University, 1722-37.
Served as Lord Lieutenant of County Wexford in 1727.
Educated at Downside. Matriculated in 1957. Assistant Registrar in the Old Schools. Made a Fellow on 10 August 1977. Bursar, 1 October 1977–2001 (and Steward to 1997); Tutor, 1997–2003; Development Director, 1997–2003; Honorary Fellow, 2005. A keen golfer and an enthusiast for all things Italian.
Article, 'A personal view: from the Bursar' by D.J.H. Murphy College Magazine, No. 3, 1985-86, pp. 25-26
Chimney sweep for Magdalene College. Marries Ann (nee Standley) and had a son Robert.
John Deighton was a bookseller who founded Deighton, Bell & Company in 1778 in Cambridge. The company enjoyed a long and close association with the University of Cambridge.
The company's premies were located in "narrow, early eighteenth-century premises" at the corner of Green and Trinity Streets.
John Deighton became a major publisher for Cambridge University and a binder for the University Library. He also gained a reputation as a book retailer with a "remarkable ability to supply foreign books, even in time of war".
In the years 1813-1827 the firm was operated as a partnership between the founder and his two sons, John Deighton the younger (1791-1854) and Joseph Jonathan Deighton (1792-1848), trading as John Deighton & Sons. Following the elder John Deighton's retirement in 1827, the firm traded as J. & J. J. Deighton. Beginning in 1848, following Joseph's death, the firm traded as J. Deighton.
In 1854 the firm was acquired by the educational publisher George Bell of George Bell & Sons, following which it became known as Deighton, Bell, and Company.
In 1876 it was publishing, jointly with George Bell & Sons and Whittaker & Co., a number of textbook series. During the twentieth century the firm concentrated mainly on bookselling of both new and secondhand books. While its publishing activities had mostly ceased, in 1932 the firm published and distributed F. R. Leavis's literary quarterly Scrutiny. From 1967 the firm devoted itself exclusively to antiquarian bookselling. In 1987 Deighton, Bell, and Co. was acquired by Heffers, which was in turn taken over by Blackwell's.
Educated at the Liverpool Institute High School and at Clare College (1952-1955) taking the Mathematical Tripos.
1955-58 - Assistant in Research in Cambridge
1958-62 - Systems Development Engineer at BIC
1963-68 - Principal Scientific Officer British Rail
1968-69 - Assistant Director of Research, Cambridge University
1973 Fellow of Magdalene
1973-1975 Dean
1973-2000 College lecturer in Engineering
2001 Emeritus Fellow
1984-2001 - treasurer of C.U. Musical Society
1983-86 - Director of CADCAM Association (Chairman, 1984)
1974 President of the CU Engineering Society
Obituary, College Magazine, No. 45, pp. 19-20
Born in Rawdon, near Leeds, the son of Thomas Marsden
School - Kingston-on-Hull
Apprenticed as a blacksmith before being admitted as a sizar (age 25) at Magdalene on 24 June 1790
Matriculated Michaelmas 1790
17 March 1793 - Ordained deacon (Bristol); priest (Litt. dim. from Canterbury), 1793
Second chaplain (C.M.S.) in New South Wales
Lived at Parramatta where (and at Sydney and Hawkesbury) he had charge of the religious instruction of convicts
Returned to England to report, and to solicit further financial assistance. Obtained an audience of King George III, who presented him with five of his own Spanish sheep, which became the progenitors of extensive fine-woolled flocks in Australia.
Made seven voyages from New South Wales to New Zealand between 1814 and 1837 to superintend the work of the Church Missionary Society.
Was a great admirer of the Maoris and in April 1830 conducted the first inter-racial marriage between a European and a Maori bride.
Married, 1793, Ellen Tristan, and had issue.
Author of pamphlets.
Died on 12 May 1838, at Windsor, N.S.W. Buried at Parramatta.
Article 'The Pioneer Missionaries' by R. Hyam, College Magazine, No. 32, 1987-88
Fellow of Magdalene College, 1953-1983
Professor of Veterinary Clinical Studies, 1951-1963
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.
Born at Clapton on 17 May 1856 the son of John, head of the firm of Charrington, Sells, Dale and Co. which firm he entered in 1880; subsequently chairman.
School - Haileybury (of which he later became a governor)
Admitted pensioner at Trinity on 25 May 1875
Matriculated Michaelmas 1875; B.A. 1879; M.A. 1885
Honorary Fellow of Magdalene, 1936
As a young man became interested in prints, and expert in the investigation of early examples.
In 1910 became the first Honorary Keeper of the Prints at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, where he undertook the examination of the whole collection of prints. In 1923 he published a catalogue of the 'Mezzotints after, or said to be after, Rembrandt'.
Undertook exhaustive researches in connection with the Pepys Library at Magdalene and in 1936 published a 'Catalogue of the engraved portraits in the library of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S., now belonging to Magdalene College.' Few other people, if any, could have accomplished the Pepys Library catalogue, involving, as it did, the identification of hundreds of portraits without any title.
In 1933 he presented to the Fitzwilliam Museum a great collection of engraved portraits, now housed in the new print Room built at his cost.
Made many important gifts of early printed books to Cambridge University Library.
Was always proud to be known as 'A great lover of Cambridge.'
Died on 24 February 1939, aged 82, at Shenley
4th son of James Stephen, Barrister of London
School - Little Shelford, Cambridgeshire
Admitted pensioner at Magdalene on 9 October 1812
Admitted Solicitor, c. 1819.
Admitted at Gray's Inn, 11 January 1831
Called to the Bar, 1849
Practised in Liverpool
Collected evidence abroad during the trial of Queen Caroline
Originator of an organisation which played an important part in the anti-slavery agitation
Solicitor (unpaid) for the relief of pauper prisoners for debt
Knighted, in recognition of his services in the cause of negro emancipation, 14 February 1838, the first person to be knighted by Queen Victoria
Went to Melbourne, Australia in 1855
Commissioner of Insolvent Estates at Geelong
In 1821 married Henrietta, eldest daughter of W. Ravenscroft
Author of various works including Adventures of a Gentleman in search of a Horse (which had great popularity) and Adventures of an Attorney in Search of a Practice; and Anti-Slavery Recollections
Died on 20 June 1879 in Melbourne
Born on 14 June 1950 in Swansea. Only child of Aneurin Williams and his wife Nancy Delphine
School – Dynevor School, Swansea
Undergraduate at Christ’s College and admitted to Wadham College, Oxford. He graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1975
1975-1977 - lectured and trained for ordination at the College of the Resurrection in Mirfield, West Yorkshire
In 1977 he returned to Cambridge to teach theology as a tutor (as well as chaplain and Director of Studies) at Westcott House and was made a deacon in the chapel
While there, he was ordained a priest
1980 – made curate at St George's, Chesterton, Cambridge
1983 - appointed as university lecturer in divinity at Cambridge
1984 – appointed dean and chaplain of Clare College
1986 - appointed to the Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Oxford, a position which brought with it appointment to a residentiary canonry of Christ Church Cathedral
1989 - received the degree of Doctor of Divinity (DD)
1990 - elected a Fellow of the British Academy
1991 - elected Bishop of Monmouth
1992 - consecrated a bishop at St Asaph Cathedral and enthroned at Newport Cathedral
He continued to serve as Bishop of Monmouth after he was elected to also be the Archbishop of Wales in December 1999
2003 - he was enthroned at Canterbury Cathedral and served until 2012
On 17 January 2013, Williams was admitted as the 35th Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge and served until September 2020
On 4 July 1981, Williams married Jane, a writer and lecturer in theology. They have two children.
He speaks or reads eleven languages: English, Welsh, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Biblical Hebrew, Syriac, Latin, and both Ancient (koine) and Modern Greek. He is also a poet and translator of poetry.
Master of Magdalene College, 1797 - 1813
Educated at Peterhouse. Successor Dr Peter Peckard as Master. He was 'a man of no particular distinction who, as vicar of Saffron Walden, archdeacon of essex and a justice of the peace, was known at Audley End' [ie. known to the Visitor who had the power to appoint the Master. At this time the position of Visitor was held jointly by the Revd Dr and Mrs Parker].
He was not greatly interested in academic distinction and had no time for Evangelicas [who dominated Magdalene at this time]. His Mastership marked the start of a downward spiral from which it took a century to emerge.
He served as Vice-Chancellor, 1800-1801.
Most exceptionally, he was buried in the College Ante-Chapel, under a diamond-shaped slab.