List of alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge
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This is a list of alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge.
- M.H. Abrams, literary theorist and critic
- J.R. Ackerley, writer and poet
- Simon Ambrose, winner of The Apprentice (UK series three)
- Richard Atkinson, Bishop of Bedford
- Giles Baring, cricketer
- Simon Barrington-Ward, Bishop of Coventry, 1985–1997
- Peter Beck, soldier and schoolmaster[1]
- Henry Bellingham, Baron Bellingham, Member of Parliament for North West Norfolk, former junior minister at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
- A. C. Benson, librettist of Land of Hope and Glory
- Michael Binyon, foreign correspondent for The Times, now Leader Writer
- Patrick Blackett, Nobel Prize-winning physicist
- Sir Nicholas Blake, Judge of the High Court of Justice
- Norman Blake, Middle English and Early Modern English language and literature scholar
- Sir John Boardman, archaeologist, Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology
- John Bromley, 17th-century Catholic convert and translator of The Catechism for the Curats, composed by the Decree of the Council of Trent, faithfully translated into English (London 1687)
- Charles Vyner Brooke, last White Rajah of Sarawak
- Sir Simon Bryan, Judge of the High Court of Justice
- Anthony Bull, transport engineer
- David Burghley, Olympic champion, 400m hurdles
- Clemency Burton-Hill, broadcaster, novelist, journalist, and violinist
- Anthony Caesar, English priest and composer[2]
- Sir David Calcutt, former Master and barrister
- Henry Chadwick KBE, former head of Christ Church, Oxford
- Sir John Murray Chadwick, Lord Justice of Appeal
- Hashmatrai Khubchand Chainani, Chief Justice of Bombay High Court
- Greg Clark, Member of Parliament for Tunbridge Wells, former Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and former President of the Board of Trade
- Arthur Cohen, lawyer and Liberal politician; first Jewish graduate of Cambridge University
- Peter Cowie, film historian
- Stella Creasy, Member of Parliament for Walthamstow
- Joe Crowley, TV presenter and broadcast journalist
- Robyn Curnow, South African journalist and news anchor
- Kulada Charan Das Gupta, Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court
- Katie Derham, TV newsreader
- Monty Don, gardener
- William Donaldson, creator of Henry Root
- Henry Dunster, first president of Harvard University
- William Empson, literary critic and poet
- Julian Fellowes, actor and Academy Award-winning screenwriter
- Eric Fernihough, Brooklands and world motorcycle speed record holder
- Peter Fudakowski, Academy Award-winning film producer
- Bamber Gascoigne, TV presenter, University Challenge
- Robin Gibson, former Chief Curator, National Portrait Gallery, art historian & writer
- Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester, member of the British Royal Family
- Prince William of Gloucester, member of the British Royal Family
- Maurice Goldhaber, American physicist
- Siram Govindarajulu, founding vice-chancellor of Sri Venkateswara University
- David Grainger, British venture capitalist
- Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg, British politician and colonial administrator; older brother of Robert
- Sir Robert Grant (MP), British lawyer, politician, and hymnist; younger brother of Charles
- Sir Christopher Greenwood QC, Judge of the International Court of Justice (2009-2018)
- Antony Grey, pioneer gay rights activist
- Loyd Grossman, chef, musician, television presenter, sauce maker
- Karl W. Gruenberg, British mathematician
- Sir Norman Hartnell, couturier and dressmaker to the Queen
- Abdul Khalek Hassouna, Egyptian politician and diplomat, Secretary-General of the Arab League
- Gavin Hastings OBE, rugby international
- Julian Haviland, former Political Editor of ITN and The Times newspaper
- Nick Herbert, Member of Parliament for Arundel and South Downs, former Minister of State for Justice
- Adam Holloway, Member of Parliament for Gravesham
- Sir Antony Jay, author, Yes Minister
- Richard Johnson, first chaplain to Australia
- Igor Judge, Baron Judge, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
- Akhtar Hameed Khan, social scientist
- Charles Kingsley, author of The Water Babies and Regius Professor of Modern History
- R. F. Kuang, award-winning Chinese-American fantasy writer and author of The Poppy War series
- Charles La Trobe, first lieutenant-governor of Victoria, Australia[3]
- Lewis H. Lapham, American writer, editor of Lapham's Quarterly; former editor of Harper's Magazine
- Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, air vice marshal, Battle of Britain
- Chris Lintott, astrophysicist
- Selwyn Lloyd, former Foreign Secretary, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Speaker of the House of Commons
- Mark Malloch Brown, Baron Malloch-Brown, former United Nations Deputy Secretary-General and Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
- George Mallory, mountaineer who took part in the first three British expeditions to Mount Everest in the early 1920s
- William S. Mann, music critic on The Times, 1948–82
- John Manningham, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century diarist, lawyer; noted for recording details of an original performance of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
- Kingsley Martin, journalist
- Tristan McConnell, journalist
- John McPhee, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer
- Sir Samuel Morland, diplomat, spy, inventor, mathematician
- Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, former president of the International Olympic Committee
- Roger Morris, electrical engineer
- Sir Andrew Morritt, Chancellor of the High Court of Justice
- Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II, current King or Kabaka of Buganda
- Sir Edward Frederick Mutesa II, former King or Kabaka of Buganda and President of Uganda
- Mike Newell, film director whose works include Four Weddings and a Funeral and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Adam Nicolson, historian and author, son of Nigel Nicolson and grandson of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson
- C. K. Ogden, literary critic
- Sir Jonathan Parker, Lord Justice of Appeal
- Charles Stewart Parnell (did not graduate), Irish nationalist
- Samuel Pepys, naval administrator, MP, and diarist
- Allen Dain Percival CBE, musician and composer; Principal of the Guildhall School of Music; executive chairman of Stainer & Bell[4]
- Sir Simon Picken, Judge of the High Court of Justice
- Ardal Powell, maker and player of historical flutes
- Francis Pym, former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
- Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury
- Julian Rathbone, English novelist
- Sir Michael Redgrave, actor
- Jon Ridgeon, former British Olympic athlete and current CEO of World Athletics
- I.A. Richards, literary critic
- Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian
- Warren Sach, United Nations executive
- Sir Frederic Salusbury, editor, Daily Herald
- Rina Sawayama, singer
- Nicholas Shakespeare, novelist
- Charles Shaughnessy, 5th Baron Shaughnessy, British actor
- John Simpson, journalist
- Nicholas Snowman, arts administrator and chairman of the jewellers Wartski[5]
- Sir Christopher Staughton, Lord Justice of Appeal
- John Young Stratton, author, essayist, social reformer and campaigner against rural poverty
- Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder, Marshal of the Royal Air Force, World War II
- John Tedder, 2nd Baron Tedder, Professor of Chemistry, expert in free radical chemistry
- Nanavira Thera, Buddhist monk
- Charit Tingsabadh, Thai economist
- John Treasure, advertising executive
- Philip Vellacott, classical scholar
- Roger Vignoles, concert pianist and accompanist
- Rob Wainwright, rugby international
- Geoffrey Webb, art historian
- Geoffrey Whitney, sixteenth-century poet and emblematist
- Wong Yan-lung, Secretary for Justice of Hong Kong
References
[edit]- ^ "PETER BECK Headmaster who caned Prince Charles – twice" (obituary) in The Times dated 4 June 2002, p. 27, from The Times Digital Archive, accessed 16 September 2013
- ^ Maggie Humphreys and Robert Evans (1997). Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland. p. 54. ISBN 9781441137968.
- ^ 'La Trobe enrolled at Magdalene College at Cambridge but it is doubtful whether he ever attended a lecture'. C J La Trobe Society, 'Early Life', The C J La Trobe Society [website], accessed 7 Jan. 2015
- ^ Maggie Humphreys and Robert Evans (1997). Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland. p. 262. ISBN 9781441137968.
- ^ Cummings, David, ed. (2000). International who's who in music and musicians' directory : (in the classical and light classical fields); 2000/2001 (17th ed.). Cambridge: Melrose Press. p. 604. ISBN 978-0948875533.