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- 18 November 1911 (Creation)
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Black and white photograph of members of Spider Club having dinner.
The men in the photograph are [from left to right]:
George Walker, Prince Filippo Doria Pamphili, Percy 'Bunny' Borrett, Prince Mario Colonna [standing], Arthur Kingsland [standing], Alfred Fabian de Ledesma, Lennox Napier, Colin Methven.
On the wall above the fireplace can be seen a photograph of Ledesma's mother along with her hunting horn and whip.
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This photograph belonged to Alfred Fabian de Ledesma and he has supplied the names of the guests. He matriculated at Magdalene in August 1910. The Archive also holds a menu which can be seen in this photograph and it is dated Saturday 18 November 1911.
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George Walker (1892 - unknown)
Admitted to Magdalene on 15 June 1910. Born 1 November 1892 in Watford. Educated at Wellington College. Parents both deceased.
Filippo Andrea Doria Pamphili (1886-1958)
Admitted to Magdalene on 29 September 1909. Born on 1 March 1886 in Rome. Only surviving son of Prince Alfonso Doria Pamphili and Lady Emily Pelham-Clinton. In 1921 he married Gesine Mary Dykes, a Scottish nurse who had brought him back to health after he had been injured in a sculling accident while at Cambridge. An alternative account says that he had tuberculosis of the spine just before rowing in the Diamond Sculls at Henley an he married his nurse. He was an opponent of the Fascist regime. He became Mayor of Rome in June 1944.
Percy Rygate Borrett (1889 - unknown)
Admitted to Magdalene on 23 July 1908. Born on 18 December 1889 in London. Educated at Eton. Married Anne Mary Chaloner Vanneck. Served with the Scots Guards during WWI.
Mario Colonna (1886-1938)
Admitted to Magdalene on 7 October 1908. Born on 28 February 1886 in Rome. Son of Prospero Colonna, Prince of Sonnino, Senator of the Kingdom of Italy, and Mary Massimo, Princess Colonna. Cousin of Filippo Pamphili.
Arthur Kingsland
Not admitted to Magdalene
Alfred Fabian de Ledesma (1892-1979)
Admitted to Magdalene on 10 August 1910. Born on 25 June 1892 in France. Son of Jose Antonio de Ledesma and Amy Coppin. Educated at Sherbourne School.
Lennox Napier
Not admitted to Magdalene
Colin Methven (1890 - unknown)
Admitted to Magdalene on 14 April 1907. Born on 13 December 1890 in Dundee. Educated at Wellington College. Wounded in Ypres Salient in 1917 at the same time as Ledesma and he "saved me from trouble by having me seconded to the Black Watch as a sharp shooter" [Ledesma]