Magdalene College Cambridge Notable Old Members Quote

The College's most famous son is Samuel Pepys, whose papers and books were donated to the College upon his death, and are now housed in the Pepys Library, the most beautiful building within the College. Magdalene is both famous and notorious for its 'traditional' style, boasting both a well-regarded formal hall (held every evening) and the unfortunate distinction of having been the last previously all-male College in Oxford or Cambridge to admit women in 1988 ( Oriel College was the last in Oxford, opening its doors to equality in 1984).

Aesthetically Magdalene's old College buildings are beautiful if representative of the College's ramshackle growth from a monks' foundation into a centre of education. It's also distinctive in that most of the old buildings are in brick rather than stone (save for the frontage of the Pepys Library).

Magdalene remains, despite expansion in the twentieth century, one of the smaller colleges within the University, at last count numbering over 300 undergraduates and an expanding postgraduate community.

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Samuel Pepys (diarist)
Sir Michael Redgrave (actor)
George Mallory(mountaineer)
John Simpson (journalist)
Bamber GascoigneBamber Gascoigne (born January 24, 1935) is a British television presenter and author. Gascoigne was born in London, England, and has aristocratic connections. He studied English literature at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and came to fame as the presente (TV presenter, University ChallengeUniversity Challenge is a long-running British television quiz show. The format is based on quiz bowl or College Bowl and is licensed and produced by Granada Television. At its inception in 1962 it was hosted by Bamber Gascoigne. When audience figures beg)
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Charles Stewart ParnellCharles Stewart Parnell ( June 27 1846 October 6 1891) was an Irish political leader and one of the most important figures in nineteenth century Ireland and the United Kingdom. William Ewart Gladstone thought him the most remarkable person he had ever met (Irish nationalist)
Sir Anthony Jay (author, Yes, Minister)
C.S. Lewis (author and theologian)
Henry Dunster (first President of Harvard University).
A C Benson (librettist of Land of Hope and Glory)
Patrick Blackett ( Nobel Prize winning physicist)
Charles Kingsley (author of The Water Babies and Regius Professor of Modern History)
Thomas Cranmer (Archbishop of Canterbury and graduate of Jesus College; Fellow of Magdalene)

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"Magdalene to go co-ed: State school pupils to be admitted" - headline in student newspaper Stop Press (previously known as Varsity) in the mid-1980s at the time of dispute over admission of women.

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