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.
Typed entries with an index.
Typed entries with an index.
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.
Entries are written in Latin.
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.
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 (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.
Steward's copy - admission of Samuel Potter and Martha Potter.
Steward's copy - admission of William Bottony and Johanna (his wife) and Martha (Bottony) on the surrender of Sherwood and his wife.
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.
Steward's copy of an admission of Mary Thompson to two messuages [Copped Hall] in Chesterton Lane.
Steward's copy admission of Richard Rowley as nephew and devisee for life named in the will of Jacob Smith to two messuages (Copped Hall).
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.
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.
Steward's copy of the admission of Ralph Neville as trustee for the Master and Fellows to a messuage occupied as two tenements called Copped Hall on Chesterton Lane.
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.
Administrative file on the arrangements for the celebrations to mark the College's 450th anniversary. Includes information on heraldry, music, a concert, a prize, illuminated addresses, the garden party, guest lists, and correspondence.
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
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.
The Boat Club's accounts with the boat builders F. Pockock, 1910-1919 and with H. C. Banham, 1919-1935.
The Boat Club's accounts with the boat builders Edward Searle, G. F. Winter, and F. Pocock.