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Matriculated in 1919 after war service. Was made a Bye-Fellow in 1921.
Fellow of King’s College, 1923-1933.
Professor of Physics (Birkbeck/Manchester/Imperial College), 1933-1974.
Fellow Royal Society, 1933 (Royal Medal, 1940; Copley Medal, 1956; President, 1965-1970).
Nobel Prize for Physics, 1948.
Made an Honorary Fellow in 1948. CH, 1965; OM, 1967; Life peer, 1969.
Awarded some twenty honorary degrees.
Scientific adviser to the British Government (from 1964), and to the Government of India (1947; he was a noted internationalist and humanitarian).
‘A man who had achieved distinction in three separate fields of fundamental research, who made invaluable contributions to the war effort, and who exerted a powerful political influence’ (Bernard Lovell).

‘… that mysterious, intense and haunted visage, which later made Epstein count this Nobel Prizewinner’s bust among his greatest challenges. The tragic mask, however, was highly mobile, alive indeed with intelligence, modesty and friendliness’ (I.A. Richards).

Article 'Professor Blackett', College Magazine, No. 80 May 1949, pp. 7--8

Born 1 June 1889 at Rossall, Fleetwood, son of Charles Burdell Ogden and Fanny Hart. Educated at Rossall School.

Admitted to Magdalene in 1908 as a subsizar. Tutor: A. G. Peskett.

Originated Basic English, a simplified system of the English language intended as a uniform, standardised means of international communication.

Educated at Rugby School and Trinity College where he took Honours in History.

He held the Curacies of St Mary's, Bryanston Square, and Great St Mary's, Cambridge.
During the First World War he held a Mastership at Rossall.

Joined the College in 1919 as a Chaplain and lecturer in History and was elected as a Fellow in 1925.
As a Chaplain he was noted for his quiet and beautiful reading and excellent sermons.
Dean from 1924; intermitted during war (1940 -1946).

Tributes from three friends in the College Magazine, vol. XII, No. 84, pp.25-26

Born in Rochester and educated at Repton School and Magdalene College, Cambridge

During World War II he was an assistant adjutant in the Rifle Brigade. After the war he worked for the Ford Motor Company

1952-55 Secretary to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
1955 joined the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
1960-70 assistant general administrator
1960-80 general administrator until 1980, when it was renamed general director
1988 retired

College Plumber, 1988-2011.

Attended Bristol Grammar School
Trained in Chinese at Cambridge (1967), and at New Asia Research Institute, Hong Kong (1963)
1965-85 University Lecturer in Modern Chinese, at the University of Oxford
1985-89 Professor of Chinese at Cambridge
1989-2000 Shaw Professor of Chinese

Taught Chinese literature at Yale University, UC Berkeley, Beijing Normal University, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong
He was an Honorary Academy Member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (1996)
He served as president of the European Association for Chinese Studies from 1998 to 2002
He was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 1984

Educated at Stowe School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Scholar 1940, Class I in Mechanical Sciences Tripos 1942).
War-time service in industry.

1946-48 Research in Cambridge
1948-57 Engineer in industry
1958-60 University Lecturer in Civil Engineering, Birmingham University
1960-73 University Lecturer in Engineering, Cambridge University
1973-84 Reader in Structural Engineering

1962-88 Official Fellow, Magdalene College
1962-84 Director of Studies in Engineering
1984-88 College Lecturer in Engineering

Obituary - College Magazine, No. 61, 2016-17, pp.17-20

College chef for 40 years.

Born in Minehead, Somerset son of Major A. L. Hunt.

School - Downside School
Admitted to Magdalene College.

1946 - joined the Civil Service

1973-1979 - Cabinet Secretary, being the first Roman Catholic to hold this post since its creation in 1916.

Educated at Wesley College, Perth and University of Western Australia.
He was admitted to Magdalene in 1987 as a candidate for the PhD degree which was awarded in 1992.
1992 - appointed College Organist.
1995 - elected to a Fellow-Commonership and as Precentor of Magdalene in 1995.

Obituary - College Magazine, 2001-2002, pp. 23-26

Born in Cheshire the son of John Wesley Lloyd (dental surgeon and Methodist lay preacher) and Mary Rachel Warhurst. He had three sisters.

School - Leas School and as a boy was particularly interested in military history to which he later attributed his successful military career.
In 1918 (age 13) he won a scholarship to Fettes College.

October 1923 - admitted as a scholar to Magdalene College. There he was a friend of the future Archbishop of Canterbury Michael Ramsey. He played rugby and was disappointed not to get a Blue.
He was an active Liberal and in March 1925 he entertained H.H. Asquith at Magdalene after a Liberal Party meeting at the Cambridge Guildhall. He became President of the Cambridge University Liberal Club and was an active debater in the Cambridge Union Society.
He lost his scholarship in June 1925, after obtaining a Second in Classics. He then switched to study History, in which he also obtained a Second. He finally graduated with a third-class in Part II of the Law Tripos in June 1928.

He practised as a barrister and served on Hoylake Urban District Council, by which time he had become a Conservative Party sympathiser. During the Second World War he rose to be Deputy Chief of Staff of Second Army, playing an important role in planning sea transport to the Normandy beachhead and reaching the acting rank of brigadier.

1945-1976 - he was the Member of Parliament for Wirral.
1954-64 - held various ministerial positions under Prime Ministers Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, Harold Macmillan and Alec Douglas-Home, including Foreign Secretary (1955-60) and Chancellor of the Exchequor (1960-62).
1971-76 - Speaker of the House of Commons
1976 - he retired

He was made an Honorary Fellow of Magdalene College

Born in c. 1762, the son of Christopher, of Holland, Lancs. (apothecary, of Liverpool and Upholland)
School - Halifax

Admitted pensioner at Magdalene on 1May 1779
Matriculated at Lent, 1780
B.A. (2nd Wrangler) 1783
M.A. 1786
Fellow

28 September 1802 he was replaced as Bursar and Steward by Rev Thomas Paley was appointed Bursar and Rev Samuel Lowe was appointed Steward [MCGB/4/2/1]

Ordained Deacon at Ely on 10 May 1789
Ordained Priest on 20 December 1789
Rector of Fletton, Hunts., 1798-1828
P.C. of St Catherine Cree, London, 1803-14
Vicar of Yaxley, Hunts., 1806-28 (resigned). Succeeded his brother-in-law, John Hull, at Agecroft Hall, near Manchester, in 1813.

Married Margaret, daughter of Richard Hull, of Agecroft Hall.
Died Aug. 28, 1845, aged 84, at Blackpool.
Father of John (1834) and of Robert (1829).

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