George Charlewood Turner was a pupil, Housemaster, and eventually Master at Marlborough College, Wiltshire. George won the top Foundation Scholarship at Marlborough College. He went from being Master at Marlborough, from 1926 - 1939, to being the Principal of Makerere College, Uganda, from 1939-1946, where he taught President Nyerere. He eventually became Headmaster of Charterhouse for five years, serving afterwards as Chairman of the Governing Body.
Older brother of Francis McDougall Charlewood Turner.
Matriculated pensioner from Magdalene College 1631
Probably the son of Robert Huddleston of St Benedict's, Lincoln
B.A. 1634/5
M.A. 1638
Fellow of Magdalene College
Ordained priest 10 March 1638/9
Rector of Wadingham, Lincolnshire
Prebend of Lincoln, 1675-85
Died 1685
Probably father of George Huddleston who was admitted to Magdalene in 1663
Educated at Downside. Matriculated in 1957.
Assistant Registrar in the Old Schools.
Fellow - 10 August 1977
Bursar, 1 October 1977–2001
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
Arthur Charlewood Turner became a Fellow and Junior Dean at Trinity. He was Secretary of the Anglican Fellowship from 1913- 1916. He signed up to serve in the First World War, and was killed in action on 16 January 1918, aged 37.
Father of Francis Turner.
Charles Henry Turner married Edith Emma McDougall in 1877 - they lived in London, and he was eventually appointed Bishop of Islington. He died after a long illness in 1923.
Mother of Francis McDougall Charlewood Turner.
She was the daughter of Francis McDougall, the first Bishop of Sarawak. They eventually moved from Sarawak to Godmanchester, where her future husband, Charles Henry Turner, was her father's curate. She married Charles Henry Turner in 1877.
They lived in London. Charles Henry Turner was made Bishop of Islington. Edith visited and gave speeches at many parishes.
After Charles Henry Turner's death in 1923, Edith moved back to Godmanchester, aged 67. Subsequently, her son George Turner, who had become headmaster of Marlborough School, invited her and Ruth Turner (her daughter) to live with him at Marlborough.
After George Turner became Principal of Makerere College in Uganda, Edith and Ruth moved to live with Ralph Turner (her eldest son) in at Westbury Vicarage. From there, the eventually moved to Potterne in Wiltshire.
She died in the spring of 1949.
For a drawing of her see MCPP/FT/2/2/6
Harry Otto Becker (born Henry Becker) was an English painter, draughtsman and printmaker from East Anglia. Born in Colchester, Essex on 17 October 1865, he was the youngest son of Dr Charles Otto Gustavus Becker (1827- 1910), a surgeon, and his wife Henrietta Margaret Schwalb von Schuler (1835-1903). Both his parents were born in Germany and naturalised English after moving to Colchester in the mid-19th century. As Hendrick Becker he enrolled in the 3-year course at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp when he was just 14 years old and in 1884 finished his training in the Paris studio of Charles Auguste Émile Durand (1837-1917), a portrait painter. He then returned to a studio at Valley Farm, East Bergholt, Suffolk and from 1886 until 1894, Becker lived with his parents in Colchester. He then moved to Kensington in London, where he had a studio until 1913, during which time he made various trips to East Anglia, Kent and Holland and was a member of the Ipswich Fine Art Club 1890-1928. Becker’s love affair with the Dutch matured his work and inspired a series of lithographs and a cluster of successful exhibitions and appearances at the Royal Academy summer exhibition. He completed a series of lithographs depicting Dutch farming scenes in 1908 and 1909 and exhibited them that same year. At the end of the year Becker held another exhibition in his studio titled ‘Field labour in Holland’ and comprised of 33 watercolours which were greeted with acclaim by the Illustrated London News. He married Georgina Maria Waddington in 1902 and from 1913 they lived in rented accommodation in Wenhaston, Suffolk. They were in poor circumstances, relying on Georgina’s small income from her position teaching art at a local school. Around 1926 Becker and his family moved to the highly named Hinton Lodge, a remote farm cottage at Darsham, Suffolk where he remained until his death. Harry produced a series of posters for London Underground and his work was obsessive, producing thousands of drawings in pencil, charcoal, red chalk, or pen & ink. Harry Otto Becker died at Ipswich Hospital on 10 September 1928, aged 62.
Educated at Royal Liberty School Romford. Matric 1954 (Scholar); PhD 1962, ScD 1995; Bye-Fellow, 1958–1960; Fellow, 1960 (Emeritus 2002); Tutor, 1963–1974; joint Director of Studies in Natural Sciences (Biological), 1980–1996; President, 1991–1996 (Acting Master , Michaelmas Term 1994). University Lecturer in Botany, 1964-1992; Reader, 1992-2000; Professor of Investigative Plant Ecology, 2000 (Emeritus 2002). President of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 1990-1991; Editor, Journal of Ecology, 1972-1977; President of the British Ecological Society, 1990-1991 (first Award for outstanding service to the Society, 2003).
Entry on the College website:
Professor Peter Grub is an Emeritus Fellow at Magdalene.
Professor Peter John Grubb is a British ecologist and Emeritus Professor of Botany at the University of Cambridge. He spent much of his academic career at Magdalene College, where he was a longstanding member of the Fellowship before retiring in 2001.
Professor Grubb’s early academic development was shaped by the guidance of E. J. H. Corner and, in particular, A. S. Watt, whose influence he credited in later reflections on his path to becoming a plant ecologist. His research spanned a wide range of botanical and ecological subjects, from plant physiology to global biomes, and from chalk grassland to tropical rainforest ecosystems.
He is especially known for developing the concept of the regeneration niche, which has had a lasting impact on plant ecology. His editorial and leadership contributions include serving as co-editor of the Journal of Ecology from 1972 to 1977 and as President of the British Ecological Society in 1992. He is now an Honorary Member of the Society.
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Having won an Hertfordshire Major Scholarship at Queen Elizabeth's, Barnet and having completed his National Service with the Royal Artillery, Dr Kolbert went up to St Catharine's College to read Law with R. N. Gooderson. He was awarded a Harold Samuel Research Scholarship to work with Professor D. R. Denman and completed his PhD in 1962. In 1964, he was elected the first Law Fellow at St Peter's College, Oxford, but on St Mary Magdalene's Day 1967 he was elected as Magdalene's second Law Fellow, to enjoy the privilege of working with the great teacher R.W.M. Dias.
At Magdalene, he has been variously Tutor (for twenty years), Director of Studies in Law and in Land Economy, Deputy Bursar (twice) and Deputy Precentor. He took an active interest in College sport (see the Rugby Club plaques in the Porters' Lodge) and was Senior Treasurer of the Boat Club. He was a Trustee of the University Rugby Club and managed a highly successful tour of the USA in 1984.
Dr Kolbert has been a Visiting Professor in the universities of Lagos, Ife, and Emegu, and a governor of numerous schools. He commanded the Artillery Wing of the CUOTC (1970-75) and was a member of Cambridge City Council (1970-74), and was Master of the Worshipful Company of Wax Chandlers (2009-10). A lifelong violinist (since the age of five), he still wrestles with the unaccompanied sonatas of J. S. Bach.
Educated King's School Worcester
Matriculated in 1964 (Scholar)
PhD 1975
Fellow 1968
Tutor 1984–1993
University Lecturer 1974
Reader 1993–2000
Professor of German Literature & Intellectual History 2000
Schröder Professor of German 2006
W. Heinemann Prize, RSL, 1992
Goethe Medal 2000
Gundolf Prize 2009
Corresponding Fellow, Göttingen Academy of Sciences, 2010
Recreation: 'enjoying other people's gardens'.
Born at Crayke, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, the eldest son of William Inge, curate of Crayke, and his wife, Susanna.
He was educated by his parents until he was thirteen and then won a scholarship to Eton College in 1874. There he met A.C. Benson (Master of Magdalene College, 1915-1925), who became a lifelong friend, and with whom he was caned for making an indoor bonfire out of blotting paper.
1879-1883 - undergraduate at King's College, Cambridge. He won the Craven, Bell, and Porson scholarships, took a first in both parts of the classical tripos (1882–3), and was senior-chancellor's medallist. Both Inge and Benson were susceptible to bouts of acute depression, which Inge attributed to overwork.
After graduating he spent four years teaching at Eton but felt he was not suited to the role. In 1889 he became a fellow of Hertford College, Oxford, where he taught classics and developed an interest in philosophy.
1888 - ordained deacon but religious doubts meant that he did not proceed to the priesthood for four years.
1905 - appointed vicar of All Saints', Ennismore Gardens, in central London. The same year he married Mary Catharine (Kitty) Spooner (1880–1949). Her father was archdeacon of Canterbury, her uncle, William Spooner was warden of New College. This marriage was very successful, and Kitty succeeded in alleviating Inge's depression and in helping him to overcome his shyness.
1907-1911 - Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity and Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge.
1911-1934 - Dean of St Paul's. He hated choral music, found the daily services 'dreary and interminable’, and was often seen reading a book in his stall. As a modernist he was often at odds with his Anglo-Catholic canons. He had been appointed in order to revive the literary eminence which St Paul's had previously enjoyed and in this respect he was a great success. His writings attained their widest readership through his weekly columns in the Evening Standard, which ran, with some interruptions, from 1921 to 1946. These articles were on literary, political, and religious themes.
Between the wars - Inge was one of the most vociferous defenders of the rights of the middle classes. One of his most pressing social concerns was the shortage of domestic servants, which he called 'a matter of national importance'. Inge was also concerned that the working classes were breeding too fast and that unless measures were taken to stop them they would overwhelm the middle classes. His interest in eugenic theory had deepened through his friendship with Sir Francis Galton, and he served on the council of the Eugenics Society.
1920s - was a leading spokesman for the modernist wing of the Church of England, becoming president of the Modern Churchmen's Union (1924–34).
He was made CVO in 1918 and KCVO in 1930. He received a BD and DD from Cambridge in 1909, was an honorary fellow of several Oxford and Cambridge colleges and was elected FBA in 1921.
Inge and his wife Kitty had three sons and two daughters. In 1923 his 11 year old daughter, Paula, died of diabetes. HIs youngest son Richard was an undergraduate at Magdalene, 1934-1937 but was killed in an RAF training flight in 1941.
1934 - he retired to Brightwell Manor near Wallingford. He was not a pacifist but did oppose Britain's entry into the Second World War on the grounds that she had no quarrel with Germany. After the outbreak of war he continued to call for a negotiated peace.
26 February 1954 - he died at Brightwell Manor.
Born in Bristol, the son of actress Margaret Scudamore and the silent film actor Roy Redgrave.
Educated at Clifton College in Bristol.
Clifton College Theatre was opened in 1966 by Redgrave as the first purpose-built school theatre in the country. After his death, the building was renamed The Redgrave Theatre in his honour.
Admitted to Magdalene College to study modern languages and English graduating in 1931.
Under the direction of Dadie Rylands, he received great acclaim for his starring roles on the Cambridge stage as Edgar, Prince Hal and Captain Brassbound. Alongside the art historian Anthony Blunt and schoolfriend Robin Fedden, Redgrave also edited an avant-garde literary magazine called The Venture.
He first appeared in the West End in 1937. He made his film debut in Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes in 1938.
He and his contemporaries John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson made up a quartet of male actors who dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century.
Educated at Haileybury College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated in classics and won the Chancellor's Classical Medal in 1914.