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William Sindall (1853-1934) was the youngest son of a farmer (who doubled as a maltster & brewer) in Isleham. He started life as a carpenter in Cambridge, but by 1880 he already had his own building business which specialised in quality work for the university. His two elder sons were killed/died of wounds in WW1, but his youngest son carried on the firm.

Founded by William Sindall early in the 20th century, the firm is believed to have started in Mill Road before moving to Newnham Mill. At the end of the 1940s the firm was in Gloucester Street up Castle Hill. They moved in the 1950s to the Cherry Hinton Road site because of a planning scheme that would have seen a new roundabout at the top of Castle Hill with a new road through the old Sindalls site parallel with Magrath Road. This project was eventually aborted.

According to the Cambridge News article of 1964, at that time the firm employed around 1,200 people. The managing directors were the two brothers H D and F A Ridgeon.

Son of the physician who first diagnosed Bright’s disease.

He matriculated from Magdalene College in 1835. Hebraist. The proctors resigned after his defence of an offending undergraduate, and their resignation was accepted by the Senate after a long discussion.
c. 1843 elected Fellow
1851 - 1872 Tutor
1853 - 1873 President of Magdalene College.

From middle-life, his mobility was impaired and he was confined to a sofa. He spent much of his time making a new transcription of the Pepys Diary of which he was the second editor. He was paralysed from 1880, having retired to London in 1873.

His benefaction to the College made possible the erection of Bright’s Building (1909).

Arms in Hall glass, W1.

For a description of his personality see: 'Magdalene in the Sixties', College Magazine, No. 3 March 1910

Born in 1856 the second son of Jeremiah Creswell (Magdalen Hall, Oxford), of 5, Lansdowne Villas, East Down Park, Lee.
School - Blackheath

Admitted pensioner at Magdalene 1 October 1874
Matriculated Easter 1875; Scholar
B.A. (Class. Trip., 1st Class) 1879; M.A. 1882
Fellow and tutor
Steward

Esquire Bedell, 1893-9
According to A.S. Ramsey in Bygone Days at Magdalene his election to Bedell caused much excitement. His opponant was a man from Trinity. Gill won by the votes of a score of old members of the College whom Francis Pattrick had brought up and held in reserve until the last few minutes the poll was open.

Fellow of King's College, London, 1885-99
Author of Life and Poems of Lefroy

HIs health broke down and he was sent to Egypt for the winter of 1897-98 and to the Riviera in the following winter.
He died on 7 December 1899, aged 43, at Lugano, Switzerland.

Matriculated at Magdalene College in 1848. Held a travelling Fellowship from 1854. Made a Foundation Fellow in 1877.
Fellow of the Royal Society, 1870; Royal Medal 1900.

An ornithologist who was the first Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, 1866-1907.
A world leading pioneer in environmental conservation. British Ornithologists’ Union founded in 1858 from Old Lodge. Sponsor of the first sea-bird protection act in 1868.

He walked with two sticks.
Died from dropsy on 7 Jun1 1907 and his funeral was held in St Giles' church, by his wish without music. It would have been held at the University Church had not the funeral service for Dr Routh, the mathemetician, been held there at the same time [A.S. Ramsey Bygone Days at Magdalene]

See A.S. Ramsey Bygone Days at Magdalene pp.30-42 for a description of Newton's life and character.
Ramsey disagrees with Benson's assessment of him.

Martin Nockolds from the firm Martin Nockolds and Sons of Saffron Waldon, land agents and surveyors. They were agents to the Visitor and the College.
Attended the Audit meeting of the College. Managed the college estates.

'The head of the firm was a fine figure of a man, well over six feet tall, with a dignified carriage. He knew his work thoroughly' [A.S. Ramsey Bygone Days at Magdalene]

Matriculated from Magdalene in 1860. 1st class, Classical Tripos, 1864. Made a Fellow in 1865.
Schoolmaster/headmaster at several leading schools, including headmaster of King’s School, Chester, 1875-1888.
Rector of the College living of Great Fransham, Norfolk, 1888-1913.
Classical lecturer at Magdalene, 1899-1900, between the death of W. A. Gill and the election of Vernon Jones.
Author of Greek and Latin poems and translations. His chief recreation was trout-fishing.

For more information see A.S. Ramsey Bygone Days at Magdalene

Master of Magdalene College, 1853-1904

Educated at Eton.
Matriculated at Magdalene in 1845 otaining a second in the Classical Tripos in 1849
Made a Bye-Fellow in 1849
Rector of Heydon, 1851-1902, Rural Dean of Saffron Walden, 1873-1879
Master of Magdalene, 1853-1904, sometimes with office of Bursar or Dean
Vice-Chancellor, 1859-1861 (during the residence of the Prince of Wales)

'As Master he performed his duties conscientiously, for a long time combining them with the tasks of Bursar, and occasionally acting as Dean. Although he was quite a good cricketer and enjoyed shooting he was neither a hunting nor a rowing man'. He was sufficiently popular with the undergraduates for a new boat to be named after him in 1877. He was not feared as a strict disciplinarian. His 50 year Mastership though oversaw the decline in the standards of the College leaving it on the brink of ruin.

A. C. Benson described him as 'a dear old man' and thought his wife was 'the evil genius of the place'. Her view was that 'the College was a disagreeable sort of incumbrance on the Mastership'.

A.S. Ramsey Bygone Days at Magdalene: 'The old Master was very short sighted and wore spectacles with rather thick lenses which usually looked so much in need of cleaning that I wondered how much he was able to see distinctly. When out walking, if a lady bowed to him, he just smiled nd bowed in return but did not raise his hat. This suggested a doubt as to whether he objected to raising his hat or whether he failed to recognise whether it was a man or a woman who saluted him. He always wore a tall silk hat'.

In 1902 he became 6th Baron Braybrooke (following the deaths of his elder 3 brothers). This meant that for a short time he was Visitor and Master.

Master of Magdalene College, 1904 - 1915.

Born in Sydney, Australia, son of Sir Stuart Donaldson, the first premier of New South Wales.

He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge (matriculated in 1873). He graduated with first class honours in Classics in 1877.
From 1878 to 1904 he served as a master at Eton. He was ordained as deacon in 1884 and priest in 1885.

In 1904 he was appointed as the Master of Magdalene College.
He was awarded the degrees of Bachelor of Divinity in 1905 and Doctor of Divinity in 1910. He served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge from 1912 to 1913.

Donaldson married Lady Albinia Frederica Hobart-Hampden, granddaughter of Augustus Edward Hobart-Hampden, the 6th Earl of Buckinghamshire in 1900.

He suddenly became ill in the College Chapel on Sunday 24 October and died on 19 October 1915.

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

College Magazine
Obituary: College Magazine, vol. IV, No. 20, December 1915, pp. 1-5

For more information see A.S. Ramsey in Bygone Days at Magdalene:

'He was kindness and good nature personified. At the same time he was the typical 'hearty' school master'.
'He was ready to laugh at everything and laughed even when he missed the point of the story'.
'He came to his work with great zest and, though he called himself a conservative, he was at heart a reformer and very much 'out to change things'.
'It took ome time for him to realise the difference between school and College discipline'.
'As a host Donaldson was magnificent and his gift of ready speech on all occasions was a splendid sset'.
'The Pepys dinner was his idea' he said 'If we are going to make a splash we may as well make a big one'.
He was a strict abstainer from alcohol but there was always wine at the table for his guests.

Son of Rev'd Adam Averell Ramsey of Dewsbury, a Congregational minister, and his wife Hephzibah. He was educated at Batley Grammar School and Magdalene College where he read Mathematics (1886-1889, 6th Wrangler, M.A. 1893). After University he became an Assistant Master at Fettes College between 1890 and 1897.

1897 - made a Fellow of Magdalene College
1900 - Steward
1904-1913 - Bursar
1912-1917 - Tutor
1915-1937 - President
1926-1932 - University Lecturer in Mathematics

He was responsible for improving the financial position ofthe College and adopting a sound admissions policy. During A. C. Benson’s breakdowns he also kept the College running smoothly. He was the author of a successful and series of textbooks in applied mathematics.

In 1902 he married (Mary) Agnes. Mary was academically accomplished, having earned a Class II Honours Certificate in Modern History from St Hugh's College, Oxford. In April 1913, Mary was elected to the Cambridge Board of Guardians in Bridge Ward.

They had two daughters, Bridget and Margaret, and two sons, Frank Plumpton Ramsey (1903–1930), philosopher and mathematician, and Michael Ramsey (1904–1988) who was the Archbishop of Canterbury for thirteen years. Mary Agnes was killed in 1927 in a road traffic accident.

Obituary - College Magazine, vol.86, pp. 41-44 (H U Willink, O F Morshead, D W Babbage)

'He was a kind and caring tutor but he could look fierce in argument, and Benson once said of him that he became 'all eye and moustache'. His reputation as a teacher of Mathematics was high, and his lectures filled the College Hall with students from a number of Colleges', 'Reminiscences Magdalene, 1923-1927 by A.M Ramsey, College Magazine, No. 30 (1985-86)

Matriculated at Magdalene College in 1890. One of the first men to take the Mechanical Sciences Tripos. After working on Parsons steam turbines, and teaching at the Leys School, he returned to the Engineering Department in 1898, where he continued to lecture until 1937, on mechanics and thermodynamics.

Made a Fellow at Magdalene in 1909; Steward, 1912-1913, 1942-1945; Bursar, 1913-1937, 1943-1947. He was brought out of retirement to fill the gap left by the departure of his successor.

'Talbot Peel was an Engineer and was noted for bringing inaccurate Classical phrases into ordinary conversation; for instance he would speak of 'hoi populoi', 'Reminiscences Magdalene, 1923-1927 by A.M Ramsey, College Magazine, No. 30 (1985-86)

Further reading:
Article: 'Mr Talbot Peel, 1872-1954', College Magazine, No. 85 (1954) pp. 21-23

Educated at St Paul's and matriculated from Trinity College in 1905.
He came to Magdalene to teach history (his main field being sixteenth-century economic history) and was elected a Fellow in 1910.
He was a Tutor from 1927 to 1945 and President of the College from 1951 to 1957.
Appointed University Lecturer in History in 1926.

Unsuccessfully contested the Cambridge constituency seat as a Liberal in the 1924 Election. Warden of Madingley Hall, 1954 - 1961.

''He was the liveliest of them all, lively in teaching, lively in friendships, and lively in constantly upholding the cause of political Liberalism', 'Reminiscences Magdalene, 1923-1927 by A.M Ramsey, College Magazine, No. 30 (1985-86)

Obituary: College Magazine, No. 12, 1967-68 pp. 2-6 (F. McD C Turner)

Frank Plumpton Ramsey (/ˈræmzi/; ) was a British philosopher, mathematician, and economist who made major contributions to all three fields before his death at the age of 26. He was a close friend of Ludwig Wittgenstein and, as an undergraduate, translated Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus into English. He was also influential in persuading Wittgenstein to return to philosophy and Cambridge. Like Wittgenstein, he was a member of the Cambridge Apostles, the secret intellectual society, from 1921.

Son of Arthur Stanley Ramsey (a mathematician, Tutor, Bursar and President of Magdalene College) and Mary Agnes Stanley (1875–1927).
He was the eldest of two brothers and two sisters, and his brother Michael Ramsey, later became Archbishop of Canterbury.

Educated at Winchester College and Trinity College, Cambridge where he studied mathematics becoming Senior Wrangler.
Was a student of John Maynard Keynes and an active member in the Apostles.

He was immensely widely read in English literature, enjoyed Classics, and was very interested in politics.
In October 1924, with John Maynard Keynes's support, he became a fellow of King's College, Cambridge.

He married Lettice Baker in August 1925. After Ramsey's death, Lettice Ramsey opened a photography studio in Cambridge with photographer Helen Muspratt.

In 1926 he became a university lecturer in mathematics and later a Director of Studies in Mathematics at King's College.

He developed jaundice after an abdominal operation and died on 19 January 1930 at the age of 26. There is a suspicion that the cause of his death might be an undiagnosed leptospirosis with which Ramsey, an avid swimmer, could have become infected while swimming in the Cam.

Son of Edward Thornton Littlewood and Sylvia Maud (née Ackland)
In 1892, his father accepted the headmastership of a school in Wynberg, Cape Town, in South Africa, taking his family there.

Educated at St Paul's School in London
1903 - admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge
Senior Wrangler bracketed with James Mercer
1908 - elected a Fellow of Trinity College
October 1907 to June 1910 - worked as a Richardson Lecturer in the School of Mathematics at the University of Manchester. He was elected to the membership of Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society on 14 January 1908

He returned to Cambridge in October 1910, where he remained for the rest of his career.
He was appointed Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics in 1928, retiring in 1950.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1916, awarded the Royal Medal in 1929, the Sylvester Medal in 1943, and the Copley Medal in 1958.
He was president of the London Mathematical Society from 1941 to 1943 and was awarded the De Morgan Medal in 1938 and the Senior Berwick Prize in 1960.

Littlewood died on 6 September 1977.

School - Eton
1927 - admitted to Magdalene College

Grenadier Guards VC, 1944
MP (Conservative) for Chelsea, 1944-45
Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Pensions, 1945
Succeeded 1945 as 6th Baron De L'Isle and Dudley
Secretary of State for Air, 1951-55

1955 made an Honorary Fellow
1956 created Viscount De L'Isle

Governor general of Australia, 1961-65

Obituary - College Magazine, No. 35 (1990-1991)

Educated at Lancing College and in 1916 joined the Royal Artillery serving in France during the First World War.
In 1919 he matriculated at Magdalene and studied Classics. He achieved Firsts in both parts of the Tripos and was President of the Boat Club.
In 1923 he was elected a Bye-Fellow and joined the University Press as Assistant Printer.
In 1927 he returned to Magdalene as a Fellow and Tutor and Lecturer in Classics.

WWII - Temporary Administrative Officer, Air Ministry, 1940 - 44.
In 1942 he married Louise May Bywaters and they had two sons and a daughter.

Senior Tutor, 1945 - 1964
Director of Studies in Classics, 1945 - 1969
President, 1962 - 1967
He continued to interview admissions candidates after reaching the age of 70, and died in the middle of one such interview.

Obituary: College Magazine, No.12, 1967-68 (F. McD Turner)
Tribute: College Magazine, No.13, 1968-69

Edward Frederic Benson (known as Fred) was born at Wellington College where his father was the Headmaster.
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).

He worked in Athens for the British School of Archaeology (1892–5) and in Egypt for the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies (1895).

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.

His first novel, Dodo, was published in 1893 and he went on to 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.

Studied graphic design at the Royal Academy in the Hague before joining David Kindersley’s workshop in Cambridge in 1976.
Owner of Cardozo Kindersley Workshop since 1981.
She carves letters in stone and other media, designs typefaces, trains apprentices in letter cutting by hand and writes books on the subject.
Made an Honorary Fellow of Magdalene College in 2014.

Grandson 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 grandson 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.

Louis Emanuel Jean Guy de Savoie-Carignan de Soissons (1890–1962), architect, was professionally known as Louis de Soissons.

The first major commission of the practice he set up (Louis de Soissons Partnership) was the master plan for Welwyn Garden City (1920). Louis de Soissons was appointed architect for the town in 1920 and the practice was significantly involved in its development over the next 60 years.

After the Second World War the firm expanded to Plymouth and Exeter to carry out a wide variety of architectural work.
Nearly 50 war cemeteries were designed for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in Greece and Italy.
Later the practice's buildings included a number of important buildings, such as the Wellcome Foundation, The Leathersellers Company (a reconstruction in 1948 after wartime bombing), the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in Regent's Park and the International Wool Secretariat in Carlton Terrace, London. He also designed the Hobbs' Gates at The Oval cricket ground, in memory of Sir Jack Hobbs, and a statue of George VI.

The Crown Estates Commissioners retained the firm to restore Cumberland and Chester Terraces, by John Nash.
Work was carried out on seating for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).
Work for academic institutions included Eton College, and Exeter and Cambridge Universities.

The firm changed tack in the 1960s, and commercial work such as the Brighton Marina shows a greater deference to modernism. The firm's headquarters are now in Luton, Bedfordshire.

Master of Magdalene College, 1995-2002

Educated at Christ Church Oxford. University of Cambridge, John Henry Plummer Professor of Cell Biology, 1983-2001; Fellow of Churchill College until taking up the Mastership; Honorary Fellow, 2002. Chairman of The Wellcome Trust & Cancer Research UK Institute of Cancer & Developmental Biology, 1991, which was renamed The Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute in 2003 in recognition of his inaugural directorship. Japanese Academy’s Emperor Hirohito Prize for Biology, 1987; Israel’s Wolf Prize for Medicine, 1989; Copley Medal, 2003; Hon ScD 2007; Nobel Prize for Medicine 2012.

Further Reading:
Article 'Appointment to the Mastership' by Peter Grubb, College Magazine vol. 38 (1993-94) pp. 8-9
Article, 'Hail and Farewell' by Eamon Duffy, College Magazine, vol. 46 (2001-02) pp. 9-11