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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.

Was a member of Magdalene from 1919 - 1922. He went on to become the Chairman of Shell-Mex and BP and for a brief period was Chairman of Governors at Sedburgh School. He was a close personla friend of Fairfax Scott, Frank Salter, and Owen Morshead. HIs son Michael and five other members of his family have attended Magdalene.

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)

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

Born in 1933 the son of an Australian father and a Canadian mother, who separated when he was a child, as a result of which he was made a ward of court.

He was educated at Eton College and Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he graduated with first-class honours in law in 1956. He specialised in commercial law.

He served as a Recorder in the Crown Court before being appointed to the High Court of Justice in 1981.
1987 - 1997 served in the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.
2005 - 2006, he served as President of the Court of Appeal of Gibraltar.

Fellow-Commoner, 1993-2014
Cambridge University Press, 1976-2013
Managing Director, Academic & Professional Publishing, 2012-2013

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.

The Very Revd Professor Henry Chadwick was an undergraduate at Magdalene College on a music scholarship.

A leading historian of the early church, he was appointed Regius Professor at both the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. He was a noted supporter of improved relations with the Catholic Church, and a leading member of the Anglican–Roman Catholic International Commission. An accomplished musician, having studied music to degree level, he took a leading part in the revision and updating of hymnals widely used within Anglicanism, chairing the board of the publisher Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd. for 20 years.

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 at Mount Eden, Auckland, New Zealand, the eldest son of Ernest Bennett, a foreman for a shoe manufacturer, and Alexandra, née Corrall, both born in Leicester, England.

School - Mount Albert Grammar School in Auckland, New Zealand. He notably wrote the Mount Albert Grammar School hymn, which is sung at school assemblies to this day.

Studied at the University of Auckland before going on to Merton College, Oxford.

Part of a loose kit group of extraordinarily gifted young men from New Zealand who studied at Oxford University before the Second World War. The link between them was to endure for the rest of their lives.

During the Second World War he worked with the British Information Service in America.

He became best known as a scholar of Middle English literature. He was editor of the journal Medium Aevum from 1957 to 1981 and was a colleague of C. S. Lewis at Magdalen College, Oxford.

1964 - he succeeded Lewis as Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge University.

He was one of the Inklings, an informal literary group that included C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien.

He was made a Fellow of Magdalene College Cambridge.

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).

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

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.