List of alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge

This is a list of alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge.

Charles Kingsley

Michael Redgrave

• M. H. Abrams – literary theorist and critic
• J. R. Ackerley – writer and poet
• Simon Ambrose – winner of The Apprentice (Season 3)
• 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 – gold medalist of the 1928 Olympic Games in 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 Chadwick – Lord Justice of Appeal
• H. K. 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
• Simon Doggart – Cambridge cricketer and a co-abuser in the Church of England John Smyth abuse of young men scandal
• 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 Warwick Gibson – former Chief Curator of National Portrait Gallery, London; 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 – 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 in gay rights activism
• 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 – international rugby sportsperson
• Julian Haviland – former Political Editor of ITN and The Times
• 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 – co-screenwriter of Yes Minister
• Richard Johnson – first chaplain to Australia
• Igor Judge, Baron Judge – Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales (2008–2013)
• Akhtar Hameed Khan – social scientist
• Charles Kingsley – author of The Water Babies and Regius Professor of Modern History
• R. F. Kuang – author; Hugo Award-winning Chinese American fantasy writer of Babel and The Poppy War ; known also for Yellowface
• 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 at the 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 – 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 Mann – music critic on The Times (1948–1982)
• 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 Kabaka of Buganda
• Sir Edward Frederick Mutesa II – former Kabaka of Buganda and President of Uganda
• Mike Newell – film director of 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
• Charles Kay 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 and Booker Prize-shortlisted author
• Sir Michael Redgrave – actor
• Jon Ridgeon – former British Olympic athlete and current CEO of World Athletics (2018–present)
• I. A. Richards – literary critic
• Alan Rusbridger – editor of The Guardian
• Warren Sach – United Nations executive
• Sir Frederic Salusbury – editor of the 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 – international rugby player
• Geoffrey Webb – art historian
• Geoffrey Whitney – sixteenth-century poet and emblematist
• Wong Yan-lung – Secretary for Justice of Hong Kong

References

1. "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
2. Maggie Humphreys and Robert Evans (1997). Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland. p. 54. ISBN   9781441137968.
3. '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
4. Maggie Humphreys and Robert Evans (1997). Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland. p. 262. ISBN   9781441137968.
5. 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.