The Biographical Reference files contain press cuttings, biographical material, notes re careers, articles, and obituaries relating to former members of Magdalene College and those with a significant connection. Material is arranged alphabetically by surname. Larger collections of original personal material are listed as individual personal papers collections [see: MCPP].
Dates
Bill of costs from Pickering, Smith & Thompson to Magdalene College for a conveyance for land and premises in Chesterton Lane.
Bill to the Revd C.W. Underwood from S & W Peed for charges in respect of the reconveyance of premises in Magdalene Street to Mr David E. Pratt, the purchase of the equity of redemption from Mr C.C. Warren mortgagor and receipt signed by S & W Peed.
Service sheet A Celebration of the Life of Professor Bill Cornish, held in Cripps Court 19 March 1999
Two photographs (electronic)
One black and white photograph of the staircases 'H' and 'J' in the wooden framed buildings in Benson Court [now holding the offices of the master and President's PAs].
Bell Lane is now known as Northampton Street.
BBC 1 Documentary 'Going Up': a personal look at being a new boy in a old University by Sir Antony Jay.
Produced for BBC TV by Ramsay Short.
Shown on BBC 1 on 31 August 1976.
Duration: 49.35 minutes
Footage: 4648 on 35 mm
Accompanying script: 20 pages (the marked portions were for re-transmission in another programme in 1979).
Antony Jay chose Magdalene as the location for his film since he was himself an undergraduate here (Matric. 1948), but unfortunately scenes from the St John's May Ball were misleadingly tagged on to the end.
Apart from the Master, the following Fellows appeared: D.W. Babbage, R.F. Bennett, N. Boyle, T.E.B. Howarth.
The Porter with the lines was Cyril Plumb, towards the end of his 51 years in the job.
The film focussed on three undergraduates 'coming up' as freshmen in October 1975:
M.C. Allen, J.P.C. Rham and N.S.W. Williams, chosen to represent three different types of school: public school (Allen), independent day school (Williams), and comprehensive (Rham); and reading Mathematics, History and Modern Languages respectively.
The Governing Body accepted the film as on the whole a fair representation.
Video copy made in 2000 by Clerk of Works.
Received of the Revd Mr Hodgson Bursar of Magdalene College the sum of two shillings and six pence in full for the Bachelors Commencement 1778
By me John Marshall
