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Admissions Registers
MCCA/MCAC/1/1 · Subseries
Part of College Archives

Information on the admission of students prior to this series was recorded in Registers I, II and III [see MCGB/4/1/2-4].

There is an index covering the Registers from 1644-1980 available in the search room.

MCCA/MCAC/1/1/2 · Item · July 1894 - April 1945
Part of College Archives

Entries are written in Latin until Lent Term 1899 when it was agreed at a meeting of the Master and Fellows that the entries could be written in English.

There is also a separate typed transcript of Mr Salter's entries for 1927-1945.

Admissions
MCCA/MCAC/1 · Subseries
Part of College Archives

Most records relating to admissions were destroyed by secretarial action in about 1997. Fortunately the Admissions Tutor for 1980 - 1982 kept duplicates of some of the more important files.

MCCA/MCAD/6/7 · Series · 1 April 2022 - 4 July 2025
Part of College Archives

Printed programmes produced by the University of Cambridge for the celebration and conferment of degrees. Sets out the order of proceedings; list of academic dress [the colour of gown to be worn for each discipline); list of students receiving degrees arranged by subject under their college. Programmes for the following ceremonies:

2022
1 Apr, 29 Apr, 20 May, 1 Jul, 22 Jul, 10 Sept

2023
28 Jan, 20 Oct

2024
24 Feb, 19 Jul

2025
1 Mar, 5 Apr, 3 May, 23 May, 4 Jul, 25 Jul

Admission of the Master
MCCA/MCAD/9/1/3/2 · Item · 14 December 1925
Part of College Archives

Admission of the Master (A.B Ramsay) in 1925, Henry Willink in 1948, and Rowan Williams in 2013.

Includes loose in the service book for 1925 a sheet on which is written out the details of the procession of the Visitor, Master, and Fellows from the Library to the Chapel, and the form of words spoken by the President and the reply given by the Master.

MCCA/MCAD/4/1/3/2/9 · Item · 13 December 1831
Part of College Archives

Steward's copy of an admission of the tenants, Pratt Collier and John Angier, surviving trustees named in the will of Jacob Smith to two messuages called Copped Hall in Chesterton Lane.

MCCA/MCAD/4/1/3/2/6 · Item · 15 January 1780
Part of College Archives

Steward's copy of an admission of the tenants Jacob Smith on the surrender of John Dawson and Elizabeth his wife (formerly Elizabeth Watson) to two messuages in Chesterton Lane called Copped Hall.

MCCA/MCAD/4/1/3/2/22 · Item · 28 May 1835
Part of College Archives

Steward's copy of the Admission of Ralph Neville as trustee for the Master and Fellows of Magdalene College to a beer house in Chesterton Lane at the sign of the "Brick Kiln", then in the occupation of Thomas Willett and being part of the Copped Hall Estate.

MCCA/MCAD/4/1/3/2/18 · Item · 21 May 1834
Part of College Archives

Steward's copy of the admission of Ralph Neville as trustee for the Master and Fellows of Magdalene College to the messuage in Chesterton Lane to which Pratt Collier and John Angier were admitted on 13 November 1831.

Acton, Charles
MCPP/CJEA · Series · 1820-1845
Part of College Personal Papers and Biographical Information

The collection is in two parts:

(1) Original material:

  • 19 Letters written while in residence in Magdalene: 17 letters to his mother Lady Acton (in French) and two to his brother Sir Richard Acton (in English), 13 Feb 1820 - 26 Aug 1821

(2) Supporting material:

  • Photocopies of ten letters to his mother (in French) and sister Mrs Elizabeth Throckmorton, Sept 1821 - April 1837
  • Photocopies of two reports on the interviews between Pope Gregory XVI and Czar Nicholas I of Russia, 1845
  • Article on Cardinal Acton from the College Magazine
  • Photographs of portraits of the Acton family
MCCA/MCAD/4/1/19/13 · Item · 1703
Part of College Archives

Copy of an Act of Parliament I Anne for the sale of part of the estates of John Cecil, 6th Earl of Exeter appointing William Cecil, Sir Francis Child, Noah Neale and Peter Walker as trustees.